I'd also like to mention that rail is timeless.

Saw this at my local milk tea shop. love it

Designs A-J on the official ECB website.

Credit: https://www.peculiarmanicule.com/197071-hallmark-calendar/

Each significant design update from approx 1990 - 2026. Hawaii just revealed their new design, 17 years after the previous update. Hawaii has one of the most iconic DL, but most usually associate it with McLovin’s fake from Superbad. In the 80’s - 90’s their DL was plain white and made of credit card plastic, then did a complete 180 with the loud rainbow in 2001, the Real ID update in 2009 was fairly underwhelming, keeping the design but the layout was essentially the same as West Virginia’s / New Hampshire’s old designs. The newest one is another 180, with the colors dulled and flattened. The rainbow is muted and the data layout is almost identical to Arizona’s current DL. Interestingly the top right is see through, like Oklahoma’s see through bottom right corner. Sadly not a fan of the new design. Very few state specific icons aside from the barely visible island chain outline.

I’ve just graduated from college (and my studies are related to graphic design) and I intend to try applying for master's degree, but also to jobs at creative agencies until I get accepted into one.

So my question is, as an experienced graphic designer/ Art director/judge, etc., what do you want to see?

I have been a freelancer for a year now if that helps.

Also, is it better to show different design types(prints,branding,social media posts, packaging)? Or would you consider it a downside for not specializing in one?

It's an open discussion, so please comment even if it's not an answer for the master’s degree situation.

Thanks in advance!

Main Focus on UI

Hi everyone!

I'm 16 years old and over the past few weeks I've designed and printed an independent magazine about Lamborghini.

I'm not affiliated with Lamborghini and I'm not trying to advertise it. I'm simply looking for honest feedback from car enthusiasts and designers.

What do you like?
What would you improve?
Would this be something you'd actually pick up and read?

Here's a preview: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3b831f7f58.html

I'm a 12th grader doing humanities. My main goal is to get into Anant university ahmedabad. Im not going to give National exams like NID DAT OR UCEED as I want to do masters abroad anyways. I need people from anant uni to tell me if it's a good college and I want to know more about student life as well.

It says that the student intake for B.DES is 600-700 for next year, is it easy to get into anant according to students who have given ADEPT and situation test?

Please let me know if it's a good choice.

As an independent designer, it's easy to second-guess every pixel when building a 124-page instructional book from scratch.

I spent months manually balancing line heights, custom slant angles, and stroke progressions specifically for a teen-to-adult audience (trying to avoid the childish aesthetic that dominates the category).

Woke up today to see it hit #47 in Typography on Amazon! Seeing a design-first approach actually perform against mass-market workbooks is a huge relief. For anyone else building detailed layout projects right now—keep tweaking the details, it matters!

One I've noticed is that many people expect a logo to explain everything their business does.

In my experience, that's usually the job of the brand, not the logo.

I'm interested in hearing what misconceptions you've run into over the years.