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AuthorKelly Barkhurst

Designer to Fullstack is my place to geek out and share tech solutions from my day-to-day as a graphic designer, programmer, and business owner (portfolio). I also write on Arts and Bricks, a parenting blog and decal shop that embraces my family’s love of Art and LEGO bricks!

Design Critique: Taking the Back of a Cereal Box From 95 Percent to 100 Percent

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A nearly perfect cereal box can be a designer’s best classroom. In this critique, I break down subtle alignment issues on the back of a Quaker Oatmeal Squares box and show how tiny adjustments—hanging punctuation, optical tweaks, centering, and type alignment—can take a layout from 95% to polished and intentional. Video and full transcript included.

Workflow: From PPT Pitch Deck to LinkedIn Carousel to Animated Video

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Ever created a beautiful PowerPoint pitch deck and thought, “This would make a great LinkedIn post”? In this tutorial, I show how I transformed one client deck into a swipeable LinkedIn carousel and an animated social video—using simple tools like PowerPoint, Canva, and a free video upscaler. It’s a fast, creative workflow for repurposing your design content across platforms.

Creating a Logo Inspired by Alan Fletcher’s V&A Design: A Step-by-Step Guide

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In this Illustrator-based tutorial, we’re taking a closer look at an iconic piece of design history: the logo designed by Alan Fletcher for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1989. Not only is this logo visually striking, but it’s also a masterclass in typography, iteration, and creative problem-solving. Today, I’ll show you how to analyze it and even create a “copycat” version to learn...

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