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10 SEO Terms Designers Need to Know
A short list of key SEO terms to help designers to understand the basics and importance of search engine optimization. See more.
Design Tutorial: Transform Hand-Drawn Artwork into Digital Illustrations
Learn how to digitize art with this graphic design course excerpt and add this requisite skill to your resume. Read more.
CSS Basics: Formatting (a video tutorial)
New from HOW Design University is a short video tutorial on how to write CSS. This quick design tutorial is the first of many, so keep an eye out for more HOWU design tutorials by visiting our YouTube channel. This video tutorial features information extracted from the Certificate in Web Development I, which provides...
Meet Ilise Benun: The Marketing-Mentor for Design Entrepreneurs
Marketing-Mentor and educator Ilise Benun talks with us at HOW Design Live about how designers can focus their creative business. Watch here.
The Language of Business and Design Decisions
Douglas Davis believes all creatives can learn the language of business to become key decision-makers in their design meetings. And he has a guide for them.
5 Ways to Make Your Graphic Designer Portfolio Stand Out
How do you make your graphic designer portfolio stand out from the other applicants? Check out these tips on what to include in your design portfolio.
Marketing Gold: HOWU’s Top 10 Marketing Design Tips
Considering the holiday season is near and designers’ to-do lists contain lines of marketing design deadlines, we decided to round up some marketing design tips from HOW Design University. Step back from your project and take a refresher on marketing basics to keep in mind as you brainstorm holiday marketing concepts. These tips will benefit...
DIY: A Photo Studio for Professional Product Shoots
Designers Roberto Blake and Jim Krause are on to something. They both passionately pursue photography as a side to their graphic design projects, and they advocate for other designers to pursue it as well. In fact, in Krause’s online course, Creative Exercises for Designers, he instructs students to experiment with photography as a way to...
Microcontent: The Makings of a Social Media Graphic
Microcontent is the new buzzword in the design and marketing circles. But what exactly is it? For the context of design, it’s short, concise visuals primarily used for social media marketing that delivers a call-to-action or a noteworthy fact. Lemonly, a visual design firm based in South Dakota, creates engaging microcontent all the time...