More Print Ads that Feature Great Typography

Print Advertising is alive and well in most corners of  the globe and in this follow up post to our original “Print Ads that Feature Great Typography” We bring you all sorts of good stuff. Make sure to scroll all the way down to the Westpac Brivate Bank ads, they are a real treat. And...

6 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps for Inspiration

Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to design a powerful application filled with bells and wisterias, piled sky high. But, oh, just one thing, it has to fit within 320 by 480 pixels. While this scenario sounds funny this is what most of us app designers are tasked with on a daily basis. And to put...

31 More Private Label Brand Examples

This is a follow up to one of our most popular posts: 33 Examples of Private Label Brands. Since our original post we have been collecting more examples of how private label brands use design to sell more, and in this post, by popular demand, we bring you 31 more examples of private label...

7 Fabulous and Free Black Textures

Did you ever notice how everything is “the new Black”? Why is this, why can’t something be the new, say, red? Well, it’s very clear, black is black and in the world of design it carries a special meaning. So if you would like to use the color Black in your next design but are also...

7 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Everyday Work and Production

Here at thestockwell.com we don’t devote as much time as we should to the amazing tool that is Adobe Illustrator.  So, in order to change that, here are 5 great tutorials that give you hands on, solid tricks, that come in hand for many of the things we do in Illustrator on a daily basis. As you read...

One Day’s Worth of Inspiration

In order to be a good designer you need to have inspiration. Creativity, which is driven by that all elusive “inspiration” mentioned above, is often something we need to chase, we usually do not wake-up with it in the morning. It is not “built in”, it needs to be...