Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

A text without visuals feels like a cracker without cheese – it’s dry and uninviting. But, by adding to a text a nice piece of high-quality visual content, you can create a yummy “sandwich”. Incorporating compelling visual elements into your content is a proven way of increasing audience engagement, making your content more shareable and boosting your success!

We’ve drawn up a list of the most useful free tools that will help you create stunning images or engaging videos quickly and easily, even if you’re not a designer....

I’d go even a step further and say that the fastest and most effective way of learning is to copy what other people have done. It’s the ultimate “standing on the shoulders of giants” — instead of spending years developing a skill, you can gain it by simply following in the footsteps of professional designers. This is why step-by-step tutorials work so well for learning design.

The problem is that as a beginner, you don’t yet know what good design looks like. That’s why I included the top inspiration sites where you can learn to “see” what good design looks like.

Weli, I hope this resource comes in handy. If you need a printable, offline .pdf version of this list to tick off all read materials, download it free here:...

Although many design trends are fleeting, some of them are a natural evolution of the industry. Growing range of devices on which we browse the web, requires developers to continuously adapt its technology to meet the dynamic changes that occur in web design.

To find out what trends will flourish over the next year, I asked the members of the project team Webydo, developers web design platform, so they told us what they believe will be the top 7 main trends in web design for 2015....

You probably know why: Posts with better graphics are easier to read and get more shares....

The good news is that you can learn to create your own blog post graphics fairly quickly. A handful of dollars in stock graphics, a few hours in Photoshop, and you will be on your way to making your blog look better in no time.

In this post, I’ll share with you the exact strategies I use to create visuals for my posts, right from start to finish....

As a designer, we thrive on staying informed on what are the latest and coolest sites to learn trends and take inspiration from. Last year, I shared with you my 2014 picks for the must-bookmark websites for designers. And so far, my most used websites from the list that I find really helpful are 0 to 255 and Adobe Kuler.

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Here I am again giving you my top list which I think every designer or non-designers must bookmark this 2015:...

The apex of this industry lies at the heart of constant churning out of ideas. As this year draws to a close most designers are looking diagonally across the search results and wondering just where to place which brand of design.

There definitely are some worthwhile choices to consider in the nominations, honorable mentions and award winning categories for websites. But we are talking design types that will stand the test of time over the new ushering of technology. Never mind just responsive and customized CMS, we mean concepts that might as well set the tone for a company’s digital presence....

Great fonts (like most excellent things on the Internet) are generally handcrafted by independent designers. Making a font takes an incredible amount of effort, which is usually reflected in the price tag. On rare occasions, though, kind and generous designers will give out a few fonts for free, as a way of advertising the rest of their collection. If you like any of the fonts below, please consider supporting their creators.

I’ve compiled the following list of 25 must-have free fonts for entrepreneurs, designers and anyone else looking to impress. Enjoy!...