On Tuesday, I gave away 3 free vector decorative frames. In today’s tutorial, I show how I made them! We’ll create a custom vector decorative frame in Adobe

Chances are you’ve come across illusion shadows before..shadows behind photos or elements that give the illusion the image is ‘floating’, bent on the sides, or somehow not lying completely flat. These

This past week, I saw a tweet from an illustrator I admire confessing his frustrations of using InDesign because he uses it so infrequently. He mentioned text threading being one of

Last week I gave away a pack of 3 recycled paper textures for free. In this quick tip tutorial, I’ll show you how I made them! We’ll start

In this week’s tutorial, we’ll create a retro style vector badge in Illustrator from scratch. We’ll set up our print ready document, define a color palette, create the shapes used and

With graduation season fast approaching, I recently added a new item to creative market – a retro style graduation announcement. In this video tutorial, I show how I made

Saving down an Illustrator file is one of my most common habits as a designer. Whether I’m making templates or creating a logo for a client, I always save my Illustrator

I remember being in college, creating corporate identity guidelines and having no idea how to put page numbers on at the end! I tried figuring it out myself before googling and

In this week’s tutorial, I use some simple vector elements to create a basic animated gif in photoshop. We go through the steps of setting up an RGB web artboard in

In this week’s tutorial, I demonstrate the data merge function in InDesign – a great tool for applying variable data in bulk to the same application. In this example, I apply

Last week’s tutorial was how to make a custom concert ticket in Adobe Illustrator. In today’s video tutorial, I’ll show you how to take that same Illustrator file

This week’s tutorial is my first ever video tutorial! It’s a two parter that shows you how to create a retro concert ticket from scratch in Illustrator, with the final file