Welcome, Designer!
This space will soon be filled with free worksheets and workbooks that have been created to help you incorporate more strategic thinking into your projects—whether for your own business, or your clients’—as well as resources I have personally used to further my own knowledge and skills.
Each bit of material is designed with you in mind, and pulls from my 5+ years of professional design experience working both as a freelance and a corporate in-house designer.
If you have any questions, please reach out to me at hello@ashbaughman.design and I will endeavor to respond as best I can.
Enjoy!
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Worksheets
Books
How Brands Grow by Byron Sharp
The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier
The Brand Flip by Marty Neumeier
Branding in Five and a Half Steps by Michael Johnson
Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton
Improving Performance by Geary A. Rummler and Alan P. Brache
Software
All software listed below are free and open source alternatives to popular design products.
Inkscape [download ↗] — alternative to Adobe Illustrator
Scribus [download ↗] — alternative to Adobe InDesign
Gimp [download ↗] — alternative to Adobe Photoshop
LibreOffice [download ↗] — alternative to Microsoft Office