Pantone Color of the Year 2025: ‘Mocha Mousse’ – Poopy or Perfect?

hex code for the Pantone colour of the year 2025 Mocha Mousse

Every year, the design world holds its collective breath as Pantone unveils its Color of the Year, setting the tone (literally) for trends across industries. For 2025, that tone happens to resemble a rather familiar shade: Mocha Mousse. You might see it as the warm embrace of a luxurious, earthy neutral, while others… well, let’s […]

InDesign Script – Auto rename all paragraph styles

Introduction Managing paragraph styles in Adobe InDesign can be a very tedious task, especially when you’re dealing with lots of different styles and formatting changes. This Paragraph Style Renaming script should help you. This script automatically updates the names of your styles based on their formatting properties -like their font, size, weight, and alignment. It […]

10 Essential Tips for Creating Captivating Surface Pattern Design Collections

Image of a pretty Surface pattern collection design moodboard in peach, cream and sage green colours

Are you  thinking about creating a surface pattern design collection? Whether you’re designing for a client or creating your own designs, I have some tips which will help you create visually striking and cohesive collections.  1. Research and Inspiration: Before you start designing, do some research and gather inspiration. Look at current trends, study color […]

Free Procreate 5 Dynamic Colour Brushes

Free Procreate 5 brushes

Here’s a special new free brush set to celebrate the release of Procreate 5! If you love digital painting as much as me, you’re going to really love the new features – not least of which is the new brush studio, which allows for many more tweaks and adjustments. The new Brush Studio window allows […]