Find hundreds of helpful design articles, tutorials, quick tips, and resources for graphic designers, motion designers, character designers, and other design fields.
In the Design Articles category you can read useful articles to help with your design, development, and mixed media projects. Covering software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Blender, Houdini, and other graphic design and 3D modeling programs.
You can also browse freebies and free files to practice with! View all Photoshop Actions →
Introducing Fockups – F*cked up mockups, created by Wytze Hoogslag. It’s time to display your design in an honest way. Mockups A mockup incorporates a design that is not (yet) produced into a situation that offers viewers a better context of the final product. For example: If a graphic designer wants to present a poster […]
Continue reading
There are so many free fonts to download that it can be hard finding the right one for your project. We’ve gathered a list of just 25 fonts that are great for kids and younger audiences to help grab their attention. 1. Waltograph Disney You can’t go wrong with the classic Walt Disney font. Your […]
Continue reading
On Friday June 17th, 2022, Boston artists Joe Taveras and Matt Moloney officially launched the NEW RENAISSANCE TRIBUNE: a newspaper that is dedicated to sharing the authentic expression happening around the artists in the Greater Boston Area. Using printmaking techniques that Moloney has been refining for years, the artists hand-printed every copy of the first […]
Continue reading
Katie Southworth is an internationally recognized abstract artist and art educator currently based in Boston, MA. Originally from Darien Connecticut, she graduated from Colby College in Waterville Maine with Bachelors degrees in Studio Art and Psychology. She was the recipient of the Charles Hovey Pepper Prize for her body of work featured in the 2016 […]
Continue reading
Joe Taveras is a Boston-based Technologist & Mixed Media Artist merging Art & Technology to tell positive stories of tomorrow. We’re in the process of filming a full interview and documentary with Joe, but in the meantime, we wanted to share some photos and information about him to introduce Joe to the FilterGrade Community. Joe […]
Continue reading
There are many different fonts that can be used for posters. Some fonts are better than others for certain situations. Here are some of the best fonts for posters and why you should use them! Bebas Neue is a clean and modern font that is perfect for posters. It is easy to read and looks […]
Continue reading
‘Neurodiversity’ and ‘brand culture’ are two terms that many people wouldn’t expect to see in the same sentence. They come from two diametrically different fields. One is in the neurological field, whereas the other comes from the marketing world. Professionals in the former field may even dismiss the latter as being ‘airy fairy’ or something […]
Continue reading
Creating content is one of the best ways to reach your audience and create the interactions that you want. But, to create good content you need to have an in-depth understanding of your viewers and users. Without a deep understanding of who the audience is and what content they are looking you might be publishing […]
Continue reading
How your landing page looks is just as important as the actual product or service information you provide on it. After all, humans are incredibly visual beings, and your visitors can be swayed by a certain color or an image. That being said, let’s take a look at seven landing page visual hacks that will […]
Continue reading
Minimalism is a design trend that comes and goes but is never truly out of style. Less is more is a good approach when it comes to drawing user attention to specific features on your website. If you find your site growing cluttered and without a particular purpose for each page, it might be time […]
Continue reading
