The Notebook of a Graphic Designer

Creating a professional logo for your business is B.S.
Creating a professional logo is bloody sacred! Did you think of something else? 💩 Logos are an ingredient from the business brand identity system. Their role is to identify a business in its purest form. It’s the first thing customers see when interacting with your...

Bannersnack App Review – Create Stunning Visuals And Animations Faster Than Ever
As a professional designer, you’re often going to need to find faster, easier and more efficient ways to do your day to day job, and here’s where online productivity tools come into play. But there are so many of them that you might find yourself losing precious time...

A Step by Step Guide to Restaurant, Bar and Coffee Shop Branding
This is a guest post from Noblypos.com (source) Want to give your hospitality business its own unique character? Whether you're the owner of a restaurant, bar or coffee shop, with these 5 simple steps you can build a recognizable brand that's loved by your customers....

I found a new passion that I’m willing to destroy
It comes a moment in life when you will channel (almost) all of your energies in achieving a fundamental goal that will dictate how others will perceive YOU and how YOU will perceive the future YOU. For me, it has been a rollercoaster of emotions for the past decade,...

The Brand Identity Design Process – 10 steps walkthrough
Creating brand identities is such a great and rewarding experience. As designers, we strive to create the best brand identities we can, but sometimes things don't go the way we want them too. And for that, we need to adopt a more disciplined process. In this article I...

Imagination, cartoons and brands – creative process breakdown
I started this project in 2013, that’s 5 freaking years ago. One of my goals for this year (2018) was to continue the series and give you guys a sneak peek behind the scenes. In this post, I will be talking about how I created this projects, the ins, and outs, the...

20 logo design tips to get your design skills to the next level
Here’s a list I compiled with few of the most important things a logo/brand designer should take into consideration when designing logos. 01. Use a mind map. Get your ideas out quickly. A mind map is a diagram used to organize your ideas visually. Grab a pen and paper...

My year in review – 10 personal achievements that I celebrate for 2017
To everyone who inspired and encouraged me in 2017, I say, Thank you! Because all of the support I got I was able to do so much more and make some things happen. Here are 10 of them.

The Honest Design Course first edition
The Honest Design Course is helping designers leverage their skills, bring them together as a community, to ask questions and share their experiences.

Todoist App review and how I use it to maximize productivity
Stay organized and get more things done with Todoist, a task management software app. As a designer, you need to stay organized. Period.

Steel Mug Mockup
This is a mug you really need, to show your awesome logo design. You can customize the background color or the mug color using the hue/saturation filter.
![Channel branding template for YouTube 2017 [FREE PSD] [Video]](https://stefanasafti.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cover-youtube2-1080x675.jpg)
Channel branding template for YouTube 2017 [FREE PSD] [Video]
Here is a channel branding template I created to brand my YouTube channel. I am just starting out and I found that branding your channel takes time. Precious time. This is why I took a shortcut and designed this PSD file in Photoshop CC 2017 to ease the pain so I can...
![How to draw the Golden Ratio SUPER FAST in Illustrator CC [Video]](https://stefanasafti.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cover-ratio-1080x675.jpg)
How to draw the Golden Ratio SUPER FAST in Illustrator CC [Video]
Learn how to draw the Golden Ratio SUPER FAST in Illustrator CC. The golden ratio is used in art, whether it's photography, architecture, painting and of course in design. You can apply the golden ratio in your logos, this will ensure balance and good aesthetics. But...
![Convert CMYK and RBG to PANTONE in Illustrator CC [Video]](https://stefanasafti.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cover-pantone-1080x675.jpg)
Convert CMYK and RBG to PANTONE in Illustrator CC [Video]
A quick way to convert RGB and CMYK in Pantone with Illustrator CC.