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Accessibility in Social Media: 10 Tips for Inclusive Content

Learn 10 practical tips to create inclusive, accessible social media content for all users. Improve engagement and reach a wider audience.

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Freelancers: Stop Wasting Time on Designing - Create Them 5X Faster

Looking to speed up your design process? Learn how freelancers can create designs 5X faster with these time-saving tips!

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The Complete Guide to Social Media Image Sizes & Formats for 2024

This guide is a comprehensive resource that provides up-to-date recommendations for optimizing image sizes on popular social media platforms.

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From Concept to Campaign: How AI Streamlines Design Workflows

Learn how to leverage AI to simplify every step of your design workflow – from research, to conceptualization and creation.

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WeTransfer’s Branding Places the Creative Community at Center Stage.

WeTransfer deepens its connections with its audience of creative professionals by shining a spotlight on their work.

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How Dropbox Inspires by Leading with Imagination.

See how Dropbox has made a functional product connect with creatives by building a dynamic experience for their users.

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The Psychology of Design: How It Influences Consumer Behavior

Effective design helps businesses to influence customers and drive sales. Here's our insights into how brands do it.

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The Power of Visual Branding: How Design Can Boost Your Business Identity

Your visual identity is how you express who you are to customers. Learn why it's essential for small business success.

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Open AI’s Rebrand is a Lesson in How to Humanize Tech.

Open AI have crafted a fresh brand identity, designed to place humanity at the centre of the digital experience.

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How art director Isabel Moranta relies on instinct and emotion to create her best work

We met Isabel Moranta, an educator-turned-art director while collaborating on The Books of Design. We caught up with her recently at the Locomotive office.

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The Benefits of Branding for Internal Culture

Branding isn’t just about how a business is seen from the outside. It’s key to connecting to customers, and employees – our most important customers.

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How Nico Tiotuico Illustrated our Latest Style, Friendly

We spoke to Nico, creator of the original sketches in the Friendly scenes, about the creative process behind his illustrations for the Friendly style.

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Cool Drawing Ideas to Get Fresh Inspiration for Your Designs

Learn why drawing is vital to a graphic designer, how you can hone your drawing skills, find cool drawing ideas to jumpstart your creative design.

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Easily Animate Your Mockups With These Tools

With the help of animation tools, you have an infinite way to creatively present your stories! Here are 10 tools to animate your mockups.

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What Is A Design System?

Get to know how design systems can transform your business – from providing better customer experiences to helping maintain a consistent brand.

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Choosing The Right Marketing Agency

Marketing agencies can propel your business forward – find out what to look for to ensure you pick the one that suits your needs best.

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Designers: Learning To Code Is Easier Than You Think

Designers, coding is becoming more important than ever. Learn how to start coding easily and create interactive prototypes with HTML/CSS/Javascript.

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5 Must-have Design Books Every Designer Should Own

Illustrations make big difference! If you want to become a really good designer, and you want to have this list of books on your shelf.

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Typography 101: The Basics & Some of Our Favorite Fonts

In this guide, you'll learn how to make any design look irresistible using proper typography. As a bonus, we share a few our our favorite fonts.

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Design 101 For Startups

Just like engineering, marketing, sales and finance, design holds a vital spot as part of a startups founding journey. Learn why.

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