Best Graphic Design Portfolio books to start your graphic design career
Finding a certain niche within a graphic design career can make many graphic designers barmy.
These books should help you find various topics of graphic design that could help you produce various graphic design projects with plenty of graphic design tips and ideas.
Book Review: Creative Strategy and the Business of Design
Business is not one of my strong suits. Douglas Davis’ Creative Strategy and the Business of Design helped me understand the main key-points that my peers repeatedly had to explain to me.
All-in-all Davis helps graphic designers and creatives to learn how to speak and approach businesses in a way that will help graphic designer’s careers gain a sense of freedom and understanding.
When and how to use Canva design templates for your business
As a graphic designer, I’ve seen Canva pop-up in various spheres in the professional world. From small business start-ups to bigger, established industries.
Canva design templates are great for some things, like social media, but not for everything. Here is some of my graphic design advice to new business start-ups about Canva.
How to make Pinterest pins to increase your blog traffic
When you know how to create Pinterest pins, you have the ability to gain traffic to your blog for free. You can even make money on Pinterest to supplement your income.
But first you need to create great designs for your pins.
7 examples on how to create a unique portfolio design
I spent a lot of time looking at how to create a portfolio before I was able to design my own.
Based on my professional experiences, here are some of the best graphic design portfolio examples.
Pexels: Why it's one of my favorite free stock photography websites
As a graphic designer, I regularly have to rely on free stock photography and have a few free photo sites up my sleeve for projects.
One of my favorite free photo sites is Pexels. Pexels offers a wide array of free stock photography with high resolution images for any of your project needs.
Soft skills are highly desired in today’s professional industries.
Many work environments look for hard and technically learned skill sets but soft skills tend to hold more power over positions. It’s important to know hard skills, like Adobe Creative Suite or book-keeping software, but your soft skills show how you work with others, whether that be a client or a coworker.