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Most Popular Graphic Design Trends in 2018

  • March 14, 2018
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Most Popular Graphic Design Trends in 2018

We share today the most popular graphic design trends in 2018 which can help you keep up to the latest design trends.

Trend is basically useful for small business people and entrepreneur when it comes to making their brand appear contemporary and up to date for the costumers and marketplace.

Following the latest design trends is a big factor for your design to stand out from many.

For us designers and creative professionals, it is more important to understand and utilize graphic design trend to be able to provide the best design for their clients.

Here are the list of graphic design trends in 2018. Be inspired with these most used technique in the design world.

1. Bright, Vivid Colors

This is one of the most popular graphic design trends of 2018. Brightness makes design eye-catching. It creates activeness and fresh feel.

Is the website your redesigning dull and boring? Bright colors can be the answer to make it lively and stand out more.

This is great way when business owners target audience when they promote stuff. Vivid and bright colors creates more attraction to users. It changes the mood and makes the elements in the design pop-up.

Graphic Design Trends 2018
Designer Tomatdesign ®
Graphic Design Trends 2018
Designer Rafael Duarte

2. Double Exposure

This trend started few years ago and it will peak in 2018, with many designers in the world using this in their portfolio. It creates artistic look and natural feel. A good way for companies to market the products. We will also see this technique evolve to more artistic way.

Grapic Design Trends 2018
Designer Emi Haze
Graphic Design Trends 2018
Designer Mart Biemans

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3. Vibrant Gradients

It’s been a while when gradients rule the design world. It was decades ago when gradients take over websites, user interfaces and print designs.

We saw gradient colors form website button, banners and headers and everywhere because of its stylish and attractive effect. Then flat design arrive couple of years age which pushes gradient effects aside.

Now it’s making a bold comeback. Gradients with vibrant colors are now being utilized by designers making it very effective in various forms of media.

Grapic Design Trends 2018
Designer Luca Ferrario

4. Typography and Photograph Integration

This trend is very popular and we can see it being applied through different areas of design.It is a technique where you take fonts or number forms and integrate it very closely with a photograph.

The idea of this effect is to make both fonts and photograph seems that they live in the same physical space.There are so many ways show integration. You can be playful and creative to your result very attractive.

Typography and Photo Integration - Graphic Design Trends 2018
Designer JP Teixeira

Modern logos now are evolving because of the different platforms. Just like responsive web design, responsive logos fit to whatever type of display the viewer is using.

This can be an advantage for us designers making new modern logo for clients starting a businesses. As for the social media and apps generation, we can consider making a responsive logo that works in all platforms and at all sizes.

6. Animation

As everything moves towards motion and away from static design, companies are starting to animate their design. We see a lot  of animations from websites, banners, logos and elements in a mobile app.

The energy that it produces adds value to the design. It generates a high level of interest that draws user attention.

Animation - Graphic Design Trends 2018
Designer Rafael Varona

7. Glitch

This is a cool technique where the design is being broken up by some sort of digital interference. We don’t see glitch art effect too much in the past years, but it’s definitely showing this year.

Glitch
Designer Estudio Pum

8. Asymmetrical Grid Layout

Long responsive websites sometimes create a level of boredom as we scroll deep down to its content. Rearranging the grid in an unusual way breaks the dullness feel in the design.

This is a technique where designers overlap or position the grid irregularly creating a mosaic effect. Breaking the grid is now becoming a trend that makes design visually interesting.

Asymmetrical Grid Layout
Designer Johan Adam Horn

Conclusion

These are just few design trends that will take over the design world this year, but definitely the most popular graphic design trends in 2018 that we will see often.

I hope these popular techniques help you in your design. Feel free to ask questions and give suggestions on what you think will be trending in terms of graphic design in 2018. Thanks!


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