While taking cues from trends can help your designs to feel fresh, modern, and appealing, it’s important to note that you don’t need to follow trends that don’t seem like a good fit for your purpose, audience, or brand. Take stock of the trends that are predicted to be most popular in 2025 and curate which ones will suit your brand best.
What trends did we predict last year? Check out our graphic design trends for 2024.
10 graphic design trends for 2025
1. AI-powered design
More and more designers are integrating AI into their design workflows as a personal assistant to help with inspiration and ideation, as well as to add finishing touches to designs. In the right hands, AI can be an incredibly powerful tool for creating designs both unique and extraordinary. However, AI is not here to replace the need for all designers. While AI image-generation is amazing for non-designers to capture the vision they don’t have the skills to create, AI is best used by designers when it’s to amplify their existing skills.
Further reading: Seven ways to make a statement with Firefly AI text effects
2. Bold minimalism
Minimalism is coming into 2025 with a much stronger and bolder impact. Look out for designs with few elements, but with heavy emphasis on the ones that are featured. Bold typography and color palettes across stripped-back, simple designs are something we expect to see more of this coming year.