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12 Hacks For Graphic Design Newbs
Imitate Great Designs: But don’t
forget to embed brand’s unique
personality and vision into the
design.
Good designers copy, great designers steal. ~ Pablo Picasso
Practice Bookmarking: Found something interesting?
Liked a color palette? Bookmark it for future
reference or later read.
On Pinterest the
average visitor spends
88.3 minutes
bookmarking per day.
Keep Your Camera Handy: Create your
own library of real life photos.
Did you know that the search for Instagram-esque
imagery hit an overwhelming 661% rise in 2013 and
they are still in vogue.
Rent out a cloud server: Make space for more work, store drafts and
archives on the cloud.
5 Reasons why you should store data on cloud:
1. Access to data in disaster
2. Cost Effective
3. Unlimited Storage
4. Easy to organize
5. Effortless sharing over the Web
Use Keyboard Shortcuts: Learn shortcuts for
graphic design tools and employ them
frequently.
Photoshop shortcuts
Illustrator shortcuts
Limit social media usage: Restrict social media
activities to specific hours (not more than 3).
US users spend more time on social media
than any other major internet activity,
including email.
Average usage times for social media rose
from 1.72 hours per day in 2013 to 1.66 hours
per day in 2014.
The average user logs 1.72 hours per day on
social platforms.
Avoid Procrastination: Devise a daily routine. Define
goals and set deadlines to achieve them.
Approx. 95% of the world population is prone to procrastination.
Better done than perfect: Perfection is a myth. Focus
on sensible and complete design.
The idea of perfection is so imperfect.
Avoid the chicken and egg trap: You can’t edit a blank page.
Don’t wait for the right moment, start now. And don’t let
your doubt sabotage your success.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Manage Stress: Sleep more. Take short naps. Swim, dance and run often.
A study in the journal Frontiers in Human
Neurosciences shows Regular Exercisers do better on
tests of creativity than their more sedentary peers.
Overcome Creative Block:
To get your creative juice
flowing, tap into your
unconscious with mindmap.
“The creative process springs as much from the subconscious as it
does from a conscious thought process. Most often, creative
solutions are not wrestled from your mind through sheer force of
will. Eureka moments tend to occur spontaneously, almost always
when the conscious mind is thinking of something else, or nothing
at all.”
Create a repository of ideas: Create
a dump (Excel or Word File) for
unripe ideas for future reference.
A single idea from the human
mind can build cities. An idea
can transform the world and
rewrite all the rules. ~ Cobb,
Inception
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12 Hacks For Graphic Design Newbs

  • 1. 12 Hacks For Graphic Design Newbs
  • 2. Imitate Great Designs: But don’t forget to embed brand’s unique personality and vision into the design.
  • 3. Good designers copy, great designers steal. ~ Pablo Picasso
  • 4. Practice Bookmarking: Found something interesting? Liked a color palette? Bookmark it for future reference or later read.
  • 5. On Pinterest the average visitor spends 88.3 minutes bookmarking per day.
  • 6. Keep Your Camera Handy: Create your own library of real life photos.
  • 7. Did you know that the search for Instagram-esque imagery hit an overwhelming 661% rise in 2013 and they are still in vogue.
  • 8. Rent out a cloud server: Make space for more work, store drafts and archives on the cloud.
  • 9. 5 Reasons why you should store data on cloud: 1. Access to data in disaster 2. Cost Effective 3. Unlimited Storage 4. Easy to organize 5. Effortless sharing over the Web
  • 10. Use Keyboard Shortcuts: Learn shortcuts for graphic design tools and employ them frequently.
  • 13. Limit social media usage: Restrict social media activities to specific hours (not more than 3).
  • 14. US users spend more time on social media than any other major internet activity, including email. Average usage times for social media rose from 1.72 hours per day in 2013 to 1.66 hours per day in 2014. The average user logs 1.72 hours per day on social platforms.
  • 15. Avoid Procrastination: Devise a daily routine. Define goals and set deadlines to achieve them.
  • 16. Approx. 95% of the world population is prone to procrastination.
  • 17. Better done than perfect: Perfection is a myth. Focus on sensible and complete design.
  • 18. The idea of perfection is so imperfect.
  • 19. Avoid the chicken and egg trap: You can’t edit a blank page. Don’t wait for the right moment, start now. And don’t let your doubt sabotage your success.
  • 20. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
  • 21. Manage Stress: Sleep more. Take short naps. Swim, dance and run often.
  • 22. A study in the journal Frontiers in Human Neurosciences shows Regular Exercisers do better on tests of creativity than their more sedentary peers.
  • 23. Overcome Creative Block: To get your creative juice flowing, tap into your unconscious with mindmap.
  • 24. “The creative process springs as much from the subconscious as it does from a conscious thought process. Most often, creative solutions are not wrestled from your mind through sheer force of will. Eureka moments tend to occur spontaneously, almost always when the conscious mind is thinking of something else, or nothing at all.”
  • 25. Create a repository of ideas: Create a dump (Excel or Word File) for unripe ideas for future reference.
  • 26. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. ~ Cobb, Inception