Questions tagged [design-principles]

Questions about conventions of graphic design. Sometimes theoretical, sometimes tangible, sometimes metaphysical.

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How to display long, text-only lists of information

I am designing a page for a client, and they want to have a list of all the members in their organization. However, they only provide names for each member, and so there aren't any images, emails, or ...
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Create equal spacing inside font/object for my son's LED strip

Good Morning, I am wanting to make a LED sign that uses a 6mm wide led strip with the text "Mi Frijolito", that looks like this, which is 1.5m long and 0.5m wide. . So the main issue I am ...
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Color Theory Math

While I understand the basic concept of the 12-step color wheel, I've noticed that in many color palettes, the saturation (S) and brightness (B) values of the colors often do not remain constant, even ...
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What methods can I use to create balance and consistency between a group of differing logos?

A regular challenge that I face is balancing two (or more) logos. Whether they need to be equal or one needs to be given priority. Some logos however might be squares, others rectangles, circles, etc.....
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I'm looking for theoretical materials about the design and history of bilingual books

I plan to make a bilingual book (Polish/English, Polish/Russian) for my thesis, so I'm looking for theoretical materials (books, articles, textbooks), where it is written about the design and layout ...
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How do you present your design portfolio / CV so that it gets more reach?

I am recently updating my portfolio content to explore new design job positions, but I feel like doing 20+ pages of my work in a .pdf will probably end up not being seen as I have to compete against ...
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How do you validate your design?

Sometimes when you design things, you become blind to the fact that your graphical design does not actually work all that well. It can happen that you fail to account for some corner case, or you can ...
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How to optimize a website design?

If you have a working website, is there a way to tell if parts of it are bad or good? For example, I have created a cryptocurrency platform which I develop as a hobby project whenever I have spare ...
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Designing a banner advertisement

I have to create a 728*90 pixels banner advertisement for a website that has a product image and text. The product image I have is a 5mb .tiff file. What program should I use to create the advert? I ...
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Why do most of the color palette generating websites generate specifically 5 swatches in a color scheme?

I have used several websites to generate color schemes including Adobe color, coolors.co, etc. All of them generate only 5 swatches per scheme. I want to know exactly, why is the number 5?
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Why is the design of haulage companies so “special”?

Background Passing one of Germany’s largest cargo stations on a daily basis, I noticed that the design of lorries is quite different from most regular design. To be frank, it usually strikes me as ...
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Typesetting two spaces after the period

The nuns enforced it with a ruler: two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. I, along with many others do this instinctively. Why is this considered incorrect/improper in printed materials ...
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Need feedback and guidance on logo design for an animation studio

I'm a junior graphic designer, in the middle of my last year as a student. I came here for some feedback and constructive criticism, because honesty I'm lost. To give you a little background, I took ...
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Logo design choices

I'm struggling to create a new logo for a tech startup -- trying to capture a few concepts in the image: 1) "Agile" methods, feeding back upon each other for improvement, 2) evoke a "...
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Difference between corporate design and brand design?

Hi guys I need your help! For a study project I have to change the appearance of a real company. Now it looks like the company A want to implement a new project. This should not adopt the design of ...
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What could I do to make these flyers less amateur and more professional? [closed]

here are some flyers I've designed in the past that we've used for functions. I know they are all amateur but I would like to get better and am welcome to suggestions on what I could do better. I ...
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Combining Images in GIMP loses resolution

I am relatively new to GIMP. My apologies in advance if my query is too naïve. I have to create a web advert of 300x250px and max 50kb. I have three images that I want to add to this advert: A png ...
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How to develop separate visual identities for different educational programs on the same website

I have been asked to work on a visual identity project. The company is an academy (parent company) which has a single website. However, the academy separates its programs into 4 fields of music ...
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Full Bleed Design - Strategy

I'm designing a book for a collection of 2d collage/design pieces. I'd like the images to come up to the trim line. I've read a lot about designing full bleed layouts and have experimented with ...
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Make the content stronger and more confident

I'm preparing an important pitch tech. The previous designer made the following design. I'm fine with the overall-style. However, for the slides "Business Development", I would like the ...
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How do you decide the text direction when written in vertical direction?

Every other design for social media, I face this problem. I discussed this in room also. I came to know that different countries have different views. They also gave examples about book spine. Which I ...
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What is Nolan in Icons8?

I found this to be interesting Icons8 - Nolan Is it any new design principle? Is there any website that is based on this?
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how to add one smart object in multiple files in photoshop?

I know I can do multiple iterations of the same Smart Object within the SAME document and have it change all instances, but what about Smart Objects placed across DIFFERENT documents? That would be ...
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How do designers choose shapes in a design?

A lot of times, while browsing through sites like Dribbble, one comes across sites that use shapes. For example, this one: Sorry for being naive, but is there a reason behind choosing a particular ...
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Simple design for a list of two items with subcategories

I am scientist and I want to create a graphic/chart to display a list of two different star types with some subcategories (some subcategories also have subcategories). Is there some sort of design ...
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I made this logo for our college batch named "Gallants". But it looks really off how do I improve it?

So basically the entire premise was to design something around the meaning of the word, i.e., brave/heroic. Hence, I thought of designing it around a shield which are kinda hexagonal, so I went with ...
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Are there considerable differences when designing for men or women?

(I am aware of the simplified dichotomy, a better term would be gender character but it's a bit too vague/specific for the title of this question.) When creating a web project, are there differences ...
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Critique Personal Logo

Heyo guys. I'm looking to get my personal logo critiqued The logo would represent the intersection between engineering and design and set an overarching design language for what I place it on: ...
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What are the three most important things a book cover designer needs to master to excel in their field? [closed]

I'm new in the field of book design. I'm not really sure what I should focus on to excel in this area. What characteristics, experience or requirements would an expert in book cover design have to ...
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Which logo is better and why? Looking for a modern, polished logo and need a good critique

Looking for an open design critique on a few logos. (Sorry, for some reason some of the logos seem blurry.) The concept is software for the auto industry. The brand personality is about wisdom, high-...
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Why padding is needed in icon design?

My dev team need icons without padding, so I want some bullet points so I can convince them of the importance of padding in icon design.
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How would one describe stacked diagonal patterns

What is the best way to describe these type of visual patterns of diagonals stacked on top of each other? Is this a type of style or pattern with a proper name?
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Representation of images (Pictorial/NonPictorial)

In the book Design Elements by Timothy Samara, Mr. Samara depicts a spectrum for the representation of images, ranging from pictorial (literal/concrete) representation to non pictorial (abstract) ...
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How to balance the satuations of the colour used in my design?

Hi there, we've been designing this to present our profiles for a while now. We just felt something might be off with the colour. Please let me know if you got any thoughts on any points to improve🙏🙏...
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Corporate Identity - I feel something is not right [closed]

The brand is for a safebox-custoding company. I think I am close to finish the design. However, I feel like it's still lacking something. I don't know what it is. It's a gut/eye feeling. I wonder if ...
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Dark mode: am I inversing the lightness scale around the midpoint or sliding the scale to preserve sibling elements' lightness relative to each other?

For context, I'm using Tailwind CSS which has a lightness scale for its colors of 100-900, with 100 being the lightest and 900 being the darkest. I also designed my app for dark mode first. Let's take ...
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Critique Request: Improving logo for a Steam Group

Hey folks - can I get some critique, suggestions? I'm looking to rework my logo for the Fixed Camera Appreciation Society group on Steam, aiming to improve clarity/readability, cohesion and overall ...
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Do I need to be Creative and Artistic to be a graphic designer?

I don't like to draw things, and I'm not so creative and artistic. Can I become a graphic/UI, UX designer? Your kind suggestions are highly appreciated.
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Why are these types of Graphics so popular among big corporations?

I am not an artist, just a simple engineer. I noticed in the recent years, some big corporations such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, use these type of design for characters: just to name a few. Why ...
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Is there a term for branding that is adaptive / modular which can be used to create brands and sub-brands?

It has been quite some time since the City of Melbourne rebranding project, which has arguably popularized the concept of branding design that is adaptive and modular enough to be used in a variety of ...
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What exactly makes this logo a design failure such that viewers cannot decipher the company's name?

In a featured Stack Overflow Meta question, there was a logo of a company, which looks like this: (The logo might be copyrighted. It is posted here for discussion purposes only.) I failed to ...
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How can I make the colors less subtle in a design for objects and background?

In this design, the background color is brownish, which I chose to show inside view of a hut. So I couldn't think any other color palette for hut. But because of this, the items in front looks a bit ...
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Why are circles used to draw a logo?

Recently, I started taking interest in logo designs and started replicating some famous logos. Soon, I came across this article about twitter's new logo, released somewhere in june '12 . On this ...
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Would it be considered as rude as full name is not visible?

I want to make two printed photos with text on them, for a marriage gift. Something like this: But both must be placed together to give complete meaning. The couple name is DEVANSHU (male) and AMRIYA ...
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Parabolic curve with straight lines to create a self-contained shape

Honestly I don't know if this is more of a maths question than a design one, but: I have been asked to redraw this shape: ...so that it can be animated. The animation part is no problem, but I'm a ...
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Critique - Is this font too light and small to read?

This is 3.5x2 inches business card. The font size of contact details is 6.5 pt currently. Personally I feel it is a bit small (I tested it after printing on a normal A4 paper in its actual size). It ...
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Critique request: Logo design for anime related products

I'm designing a logo for my small business, Taiyaki studio that will create and sell stickers and apparel - a small Japanese anime inspired company where minimal, cool and modern designs are of ...
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How does the concept of "fresh pair of eyes" work in graphic design? Can it be expedited somehow?

In almost all my design/illustration making process, when I start it and complete the first draft and review it later, maybe after few hours, there's room for improvement. I can even find silly ...
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How to defend layout and design decisions?

I work with people where design is not seemed as a very important part when advertising products or events. I am, as far as I know, the only person with a professional graphic design education. It is ...
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Wordmark logo design principles

Can a wordmark logo type be in gradient color and have an underscore to separate the initial?

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