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Graphic Designer Skills: What Design Students Need To Develop

Inkbot Design

Typography as a Visual Tool Fonts carry emotion. In posters and essays with visual themes, font choice matters as much as the image. Serif fonts feel classic. Sans-serif fonts feel modern. Messy fonts drive people away. Strong font control consistently ranks near the top. These habits build with time.

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Richard Turley gives Air’s identity space to breathe through simplicity and parody

Its Nice That

You know the clichés – the self pride, the pompousness, the faux inspirational “here’s to the dreamers” – and so does Richard Turley, the creative director behind some of the most anarchistic and forward thinking visual identities of the 2010s. From that moment, it felt destined, like something set in motion beyond us,” says Richard.

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Ciaran Birch on crafting custom wordmarks and harbouring a “half-baked” bank of typefaces

Its Nice That

Words Ellis Tree — Date 30 July 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Font Logo Identity Process The London-based designer Ciaran Birch has moved into the freelance life since we last caught up with him way back in 2019. She joined as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design.

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How creatives are surviving the 2025 slowdown

Creative Boom

And it's the self-employed and small creative businesses who feel the impact first and most acutely. So I've been creating my own robust families of fonts to license and sell, in addition to the design services I provide." A confluence of economic pressures and rapid advancements in AI has created the perfect storm.

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Demystifying the reality of a self-taught designer: a day in the life of Rittsu Kogarasuashi

Creative Bloq

Image credit: Rittsu Kogarasuashi) Rittsu Kogarasuashi is a self-taught communication designer whose nontraditional approach to breaking into the industry was shaped by experimentation, fan art and free tools. Image credit: Rittsu Kogarasuashi) How has being a self-taught creative shaped your career? Here’s how it works.

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Humility: An Essential Value

A List Apart

Maybe an icon library is employed with selections that vaguely relate to their respective content. Or, say an icon was part of a larger system grouping (fonts, extensions, control panels)—how did it also maintain cohesion amongst a group? Most importantly: I got back to my core values.

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It’s not you: your UX design job is frustrating and unfulfilling

UX Collective

Alienation is a] psychological or social ill; namely, one involving a problematic separation between a self and other that belong together.”— All these forms of alienation result in a loss of self-determination and the ability to control one's life. Big tech companies employ large numbers of product designers.