When building web pages, designers usually focus on the things that you can see in the design, what they perceive as active elements: fonts, colors, images, text, menus and so on. Unfortunately, white space is not usually perceived as one of these elements. And that’s really a shame, because white space is one of the most useful weapons you have in your web design arsenal.

Being a graphic designer is a full time job. You never know when inspiration strikes and it’s important to be able to capture the right image at the right time as well as edit it. That’s why mobile apps are so important. With iPhone and Android, you can get a lot done on the go, on a simple, portable device. That’s why we’ve put together this list of our top 25 favorite mobile graphic design apps for both Android and iPhone.

In order to have a great design, you need to have great typography. That is a fact. Different fonts say different things about the copy that they’re showcasing: imagine reading an obituary written in Comic Sans MS – that’s just flat out ridiculous and kind of sad (but, unfortunately, not the kind of sad the text was going for). Of course, Comic Sans is kind of a joke in the design industry by now, but the point remains the same: the font you choose can add to the impact of your copy, but it can also subtract from it.