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Bogdan Sandu is a seasoned designer who has been designing websites since 2008. Renowned for his expertise in logo design and visual branding, Bogdan has developed a multitude of logos for various clients. His skills extend to creating posters, vector illustrations, business cards, and brochures. Additionally, Bogdan's UI kits were featured on marketplaces like Visual Hierarchy and UI8. He also wrote in the past years on sites like Design Your Way, WebDesignerDepot, WPDean, Designmodo, Speckyboy, Slider Revolution, and more.
Your portfolio gets 50 milliseconds to make an impression. The colors you choose determine whether potential clients see professional expertise or amateur hour. Portfolio color…
Your prints keep coming out wrong, and your monitor looks fine. That is the problem. Screen color and printed color follow completely different rules. Without…
You designed it in RGB, approved it on screen, and sent it to print. Then the colors came back wrong. That gap between screen and…
Most designers play it safe with neutrals and muted tones. Then they wonder why their work gets scrolled past in three seconds. Fun color palettes…
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A color that looks perfect on screen can fail completely on press. That gap is exactly what color proofing for print exists to close. Before…
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A sneaker that has barely changed since 1917 has almost nothing new to say about itself. Converse ads solved that problem a century ago by handing the…
Your design looks perfect on screen. Then the printed version comes back, and the colors are completely different. This happens because screens use RGB and…
Your brand feels warm when it should feel calm. That’s the temperature problem most designers face when building cool color palettes. Blues, greens, purples, and…
One tagline has carried Vans ads since 1976, and nobody has redrawn it since. The archive runs from photocopied skate magazine pages to global brand films, through…
Your design looks perfect on screen. Then the print arrives and the black looks flat, almost gray. That gap between what you see and what…
Muted color palettes are having a moment, and it’s not hard to see why. These desaturated hues bring sophistication without the noise, perfect for brands…
Pick the wrong binding and your entire print project fights you from the first page. Understanding binding types in print design is one of those…
Greige has overtaken gray as the most searched paint color for three years running, but most people still can’t tell you what makes a neutral…
Generic stock photo alternatives kill your brand’s personality before visitors even scroll. When you use original images in your web designs, you create unique visuals…
Pick the wrong binding method and your print job either falls apart or costs twice what it should. The saddle stitch vs perfect bound decision…
Most design problems aren’t color problems – they’re too-many-colors problems. Three is the number that works. A single dominant tone, one supporting hue, and a…
A poorly bound presentation undermines good work before anyone reads a word. Spiral binding for presentations is one of the most practical document finishing methods…
Every decade leaves behind a visual fingerprint, and retro color palettes capture those moments perfectly. From the pastel optimism of 1950s diners to the neon…
One missed boundary in your print file and the logo you spent hours perfecting gets sliced off at the press. The safe zone in print…
Orange and black might be the obvious choice, but Halloween color palettes stretch far beyond jack-o’-lantern basics. From neon nightmares to pastel spooks, the right…
Sending a file to print and getting it back wrong is an expensive lesson most designers only need once. Knowing how to set up a…
Teal sits perfectly between blue and green on the color wheel, offering designers a versatile foundation that feels both calming and energizing. Teal color palettes…
Web designers play a critical role in shaping user experiences across websites and web applications. While design, usability, and performance have traditionally dominated the focus…
White borders on a finished print job are one of those problems that feel small until you are holding 500 business cards with a thin…
Successful digital goods production requires excellent UX design. Prototyping is an invaluable instrument used by designers to evaluate how users might interact with a product…
Winter transforms your design palette the same way frost transforms a window. Sharp, deliberate, unmistakable. Winter color palettes deliver what other seasonal schemes can’t: the…
Your stylus pen glides across the graphics tablet surface. Colors appear instantly on screen. No paint tubes, no cleanup, no waiting for layers to dry.…
Ever noticed how books, magazines, and brochures come in specific dimensions? That’s trim size at work. In print design, trim size refers to the final…
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