Are you design-stuck?
Try some of these ideas to help you through your design rut.
- make it bigger
- try it smaller
- repeat it
- make it black and white
- screen the type
- screen the background
- shadow it
- re-crop it
- outline it
- change the type style
- put it away and look at it later
- look at it in a mirror
- make it elegant
- make it bold and tough
- rough it up
- fill it up
- open it out
- use more white space
- use some rules
- use some borders
- bleed it
- reverse it
- emphasize it
- extend it
- condense it
- rubber stamp it
- flip it
- do it in warms & cools
- smear it
- do it in caps
- do it in lowercase
- use a drawing
- use a photo
- use a symbol
- emphasize the type
- cut it up and rearrange it
- try it flat
- try it 3-D
- try it in a texture
- interpret it in pixels
- try a pattern
- connect them
- space them
- make it tight
- make it sharp
- do it freehand
- do it loose
- try the one they won’t like
- redo the one they want
- be conservative
- be outrageous
- be formal
- be wild
- be humorous
- be serious
- overlap it
- animate it
- emphasize it
- change the color
- turn them
- zoom in on it
- take a coffee break