WE AND THE COLOR

Summer is the one season that actually gives you permission to read slowly. Not the frantic, bookmark-everything-and-come-back-to-it reading we do the rest of the year. Real reading—the kind where you sit with an idea long enough to let it change how you see something. That’s why this list matters to me personally. These five books on art and design aren’t recommendations...

Many portfolio templates promise flexibility, then lock you into a grid that fights your content at every turn. This one doesn’t. The portfolio layout by Adobe Stock contributor RedGiant is a 12-page InDesign template built specifically for screen presentations—1920×1080 pixels, widescreen, clean, and unapologetically minimal. I tested every page, customi...

Chimango arrived quietly. No big campaign, no flashy launch reel. And yet, the moment you set it at display size, something shifts. The Chimango font family from Sudtipos carries a specific kind of authority—one that feels contemporary but not trendy, expressive but never chaotic. Designe...

Storage used to be the afterthought. The boring spec at the bottom of the gear list. Then 8K RAW happened. Then multi-cam ProRes workflows happened. Then AI-assisted editing with real-time previews happened. Suddenly, the drive sitting in your kit bag is the difference between a smooth shoot day and a meltdown at 2 AM before a client delivery. The best

Most portfolio templates look great in preview screenshots. Then you open them, drop in your actual work, and the whole thing falls apart. Fonts misbehave. Layouts feel cramped. The visual hierarchy you saw in the mockup disappears the moment you touch it. So when I tested this portfolio presentation template by E-Type for Adobe InDesign, I wasn’t just checking whether it...