Essays, case studies, and notes from Inky Design Works.

I spent three hours last week cleaning up an SVG that an AI generated in four seconds.The logo looked fine at 100% zoom. The curves seemed smooth. The colors were

You open a design, apply the halftone filter, and the result looks — like a halftone filter. Dots in a gradient. Retro feel. Done.Except: the dots are fighting the type.

The worst thing that happens with Hyper-Bloom isn't that it looks bad. It's that it looks almost right — the florals are big enough, the blur is soft enough, the

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: the most valuable design skill in 2026 is learning to draw a crooked line.Not because AI can't draw straight ones — it

If your font folder looks like final-fonts-v3-really-final, you are already at the point where a font manager pays for itself. The best font manager helps you preview type faster, activate

If you've scrolled through Instagram, browsed a beauty brand's latest packaging, or walked past a hotel lobby in the last eighteen months, you've felt it before you could name it.

Hiring a graphic designer in 2026 isn't the same as it was five years ago. The tools have changed. The expectations have shifted. And yet, the same fundamental mistakes keep

Imagine describing your dream app interface in plain English — "a clean SaaS landing page with a dark hero section, orange CTAs, and a pricing table" — and watching AI