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Stay on top of the latest design trends. Use these articles to get inspiration, deepen your understanding, and create designs that are both trendy and timeless.

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  1. Create a Relaxing, Vibrant, Fantasy Lake Scene With Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Relaxing, Vibrant, Fantasy Lake Scene With Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a colorful fantasy scene using a range of photo manipulation techniques. First we'll create a lake scene from two...

  2. How to Create a Set of Food Icons in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Set of Food Icons in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Hey, everyone! Less is more, right? In this tutorial you will learn how to create three food-related icons in a unique style, using simple shapes, shadows...

  3. Create a Flat-Style Vegetable Poster in Affinity Designer

    Create a Flat-Style Vegetable Poster in Affinity Designer

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Being healthy and active means eating healthy food. Greens and veggies are our best friends! Let’s motivate ourselves and create a beautiful poster in a...

  4. Create Vector Whiskey on the Rocks Using Adobe Illustrator CS5

    Create Vector Whiskey on the Rocks Using Adobe Illustrator CS5

    Tutorial Advanced

    In this project we will learn how to create a complex vector image step by step and study a lot of techniques, such as the Gradient Mesh, Dynamic Blend,...

  5. How to Create a Children's Colorful Bicycle in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Children's Colorful Bicycle in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Summer is a great season to uncover your bike and go cycling down the road! There is still a whole summer month ahead, so let’s take a ride through the...

  6. Make an Establishing Shot Using the Perspective Grid Tool in Adobe Illustrator

    Make an Establishing Shot Using the Perspective Grid Tool in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Beginner

    How to create a setting in a comic by starting off with an establishing shot. After learning the basics of perspective drawing, we draw our own cityscape,...

  7. How to Create Isometric Gambling Assets in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create Isometric Gambling Assets in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Isometric art is a very trendy style that has become widespread and is used by designers for advertisements, web design, games and in many other fields. In...

  8. How to Create a Set of Ice Cream Icons in Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Set of Ice Cream Icons in Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In today’s tutorial we will get to create something really sweet—yes, you guessed it, ice cream! OK, so it’s not real ice cream, but we will be making some...

  9. How to Create a Cute Illustration of the Janus House Using Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Cute Illustration of the Janus House Using Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Hello there fellow readers, in today’s tutorial you will learn how to create a San Fran inspired house using some of Illustrator’s basic tools such as the...

  10. dGeometric Design: Two Variations on an Islamic Tiling Pattern

    dGeometric Design: Two Variations on an Islamic Tiling Pattern

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Today we construct an impressive, classic Islamic pattern with great creative potential, using first a square then a rectangular grid.

  11. How to Create a Flat, Minimalist Rock Card Using Adobe Illustrator

    How to Create a Flat, Minimalist Rock Card Using Adobe Illustrator

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Today I’m going to show you how we can create a flat minimalist rock card using some of Illustrator’s basic tools such as the Ellipse Tool and Rectangle...

  12. Geometric Design: Knots and Weaves

    Geometric Design: Knots and Weaves

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial you'll learn how to give an interlaced appearance to motifs and patterns created on paper, a method that can also be used to turn separating...