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10 Top Graphic Design Trends for 2025

Graphic Design Junction

This trend is about more than just aesthetics; it’s a conscious choice to create designs that reflect environmental values, use sustainable materials, and promote eco-friendly messaging. Designers are opting for earthy color palettes, natural textures, minimalistic layouts, and recycled materials to align with green initiatives.

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Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson on 13 years of running a studio and where they believe design is heading next

Creative Boom

Our design aesthetic is complimentary, yet we each bring different perspectives to the conversation. She has a brilliant eye for textures and creating spaces and brands that feel layered and nuanced. How has the design industry changed in 13 years? Amy can combine unrelated things in a way that feels evocative.

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10 Packaging Design Strategies for Unwrapping Success

Inkbot Design

10 Packaging Design Strategies for Unwrapping Success You're just walking down the aisle in the supermarket, surrounded by a sea of products screaming for your attention. That's the power of great packaging design. Let's dive into some of the best packaging design strategies currently on the go. Intriguing.

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Where to Learn Design for Free Right Now

Creative Market

Once you've understood the fundamentals of brand design in the Coursera specialization, this course really gets into the nitty-gritty of logo creation including topics like texture, beveled edges, transparency, and negative space. UI / UX Design Specialization. Introduction to User Experience Design.

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10 Best FREE Graphic Design Courses Online

Just Creative

Led by Michael Worthington, a member of the faculty at the California Institute of Arts, the course will teach you how to implement visual, rhythm, and pattern in design, techniques of image making and how to create your own series of images as well as how to use scale, direction, texture, weight, and space in your project.

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Vancouver’s First Mass-Timber School Offers Lessons in Sustainable Design

Azure Magazine

The project was also part of a Vancouver School Board pilot project to assess the possibilities of mass timber construction for future school designs, so the architects opted to construct the building using prefab CLT panels (making it the first school of its kind in the city). It’s a departure from the dark, insular schools of the past.

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Welcome to the World of Modern Web Design

Inkbot Design

Brutalist Designs On the opposite end of minimalism, Brutalist web design purposely breaks conventions for dramatic effect. Websites feature bold textures, vivid colours, asymmetric layouts, and maximalist touches. The antidote is asymmetric design—purposefully unbalanced compositions that feel dynamic.