Design Corner

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