Word of caution-designers should use graphic design trends in their work only when appropriate, and keeping branding in mind. The best designers “follow and borrow” heavily from trends-past and present-at times creating something entirely new by combining graphic design trends into something striking and fresh. Daring to be different also has its rewards. Some creative directors and designers may resist design trends because they don’t want to be seen as “followers.” However, using graphic design trends could prove to be an important decision because doing so can help make a designer more contemporary. Still, even though the tools may be easier to come by, let’s not forget that it’s brave creativity and visual innovation that will forge the freshest, most compelling designs.

Luckily, today’s designers have a much wider variety of digital tools with which to create these trendsetting effects than they did in earlier days.

Simple, saturated geometric design patterns have been around for almost a century, and designers are still using them because they’re just as effective as they were 100 years ago. As with fashion, design trends are often recycled from decades past-we see them coming back again and again: Russian constructivism, Bauhaus, screen printing, 1970s… etc.

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