Quick Confidence
Remember the storms
In 17th century Holland, Dutch artists developed a tradition of painting ships battling violent storms. These weren’t just decorative paintings – they had a deeper purpose. The Dutch, whose livelihood depended on maritime trade, created these dramatic seascapes to remember their ability to weather nature’s fury.
What’s interesting is how differently these paintings were viewed. To the inexperienced, they evoked fear and catastrophe. But to Dutch merchants and sailors? Confidence. An experienced sailor views a storm through an entirely different lens than a novice does.
What visual reminders have you placed in your workspace that serve a similar purpose – that remind you of the design ‘storms’ you’ve successfully navigated? Having tangible reminders of your resilience might just be the confidence boost you need next time a ‘storm’ hits.
Design beyond defaults
It’s easy to fall into comfortable patterns when designing websites – similar navbar layouts, the usual footer structures, predictable hero sections.
Here’s a collection of galleries that focus on specific sections of a website to inspire you to break out of your defaults:
- Navbars: Navbar Gallery
- Footers: Footer Design
- Call-to-actions: CTA Gallery
- Hero sections: Supahero
- Various section types: Sections WTF
- Shop storefronts: Storefront Design
🛠️ You can find all of these in my Brand Designer’s Toolkit under ‘Inspiration: Web Design’.
Font Finding Supercharged in Illustrator
If you’ve used Logo Package’s other tools (Swatch and Express), you might be interested in the latest release: Logo Package Forge.
This new tool is designed to revolutionise how we search for, organise and use fonts in Adobe Illustrator during the logo design process. My favourite feature so far is the ability to organise fonts in more intuitive ways – by client, project, or whatever system makes sense to the workflow.
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