"Design for Change" by Virginia-Rae Choquette

Socially Conscious Design

Socially Conscious Design has been one of the most powerful design trends in recent years. This design trend focuses on showing solidarity and support for social, environmental, and justice issues through graphic design. Essentially, it is artists…
Photo of the ceiling at the Audain Art Museum in Black and White.

Less is More: Monochromatic Minimalism

Monochromatic Minimalism has been on the rise in the past few years as one of the top design trends. While this style of graphic design isn’t new, over 60 years in the making, we’re seeing huge growth in its presence today. The increased…
bringing the outside in with natural design

Bring the Outside In with Natural Design

Natural design originally made its way into web design via eco-conscious brands. However, it has made its way into the top trends of 2021 since growing in popularity across different industries. The natural imagery, calming colours, and soothing…
Example of dark mode user interface

Paint It Black With Dark Mode

Dark mode started to take off in 2019 and has grown to be adopted by most operating systems, plugins, apps, some websites and even made its way into print.  But why has it taken the UX and UI worlds by storm? Well besides the inherent cool…