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Design Tips, Tutorials, and Resources

Tips, tutorials, and resources about design including web design, branding, graphic design, typography, image sharing and any other crafted visual media.

As a working professional designer for over a decade, I try my best to make the world of design accessible and easy to understand for those who haven't been formally educated in the field. The goal is to bridge the gap between professional and non-professional designers to make the internet a much more beautiful place.

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Copyright Free Images: 20+ Resources You Need to Know

—Dustin W. Stout / 12 min read / shared 41.8K times

Looking to find copyright free images to use in your blogs, websites or social media posts? The following sites are the best on the internet. Do you frequently share images online? If so, it’s essential to have a virtual Rolodex of go-to websites to quickly find images. It’s…

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How to: Typography for Visual Content That Doesn’t Suck

—Dustin W. Stout / 7 min read / shared 1.1K times

Choosing the right typography (or fonts) for your visual content can be difficult if you're not a seasoned designer, but it doesn't have to be. The good news is that all you need are a handful of helpful tips to start improving your visual content typography today! In this…

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How to Create Optimized Social Media Images Like A Boss

—Dustin W. Stout / 13 min read / shared 1.1K times

Everyone is doing visual content these days. Follow these image creation tips and leave them in the dust. Smart bloggers, social media stars and marketers alike have caught on to the visual content trend. Have you? It’s clear that visual content allows you to grab more…

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Method to My Madness: Redesign 2016

—Dustin W. Stout / 13 min read / shared 412 times

Instead of an all-out redesign, this year I decided to spend time refining. The results are delightful. Every year since the inception of this blog I’ve done a complete redesign, generally launched at the beginning of the year. Until this year. This year, instead of doing a…

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Method to My Madness: Redesign 2015

—Dustin W. Stout / 11 min read / shared 345 times

Web design is more than making things look good. It’s a series of thoughtful choices that yield a beautiful and functional end result. This is the start of the 4th year that this blog has been in existence. Every year I have done a redesign and every year I grow because of…

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How to Make Visual Content That Doesn’t Suck: 3 Easy Principles

—Dustin W. Stout / 6 min read / shared 4.5K times

Three basic design principles to help you create stunning visual content. So you want to create awesome images that get attention and, more importantly, get shared? You’re not a designer though? Is that right? Well strap in, because you’re going to get a crash course in…

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