Pixelhaze Academy Blog
Combining Canva with Squarespace - Part Four
Welcome to part four of our Combining Canva with Squarespace free course. In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at how we can combine background photo textures with foreground images for a unique effect.
Wild beast of the mountain - Logo hidden stories
As part of our branding-focused Bootcamp Volume One, we explore some well known and international brands that have hidden meanings. One of my favourite examples for this exercise is the logo by Swiss chocolatiers, Toblerone.
Combining Canva with Squarespace - Part Three
Welcome to part three of our free course 'Combining Canva with Squarespace'. In this tutorial chapter, we will be creating detailed splatter frames for our Squarespace images using Canva.
How reMarkable! - Review of the reMarkable 2 Paper Tablet
I love to doodle. One of the main things I find in working at PixelHaze is I've been encouraged to doodle even more throughout my branding and logo designs to the point where we've painted the walls in chalk paint to encourage me to draw on the walls themselves!
Combining Canva with Squarespace - Part Two
Welcome to the first practical part of our Combining Canva with Squarespace mini-course. In this chapter, we're going to be learning how to better frame our hero banner unit on our website. We're going to learn how to blend our hero images using simple linear gradients which is perfect for scenarios where the aspect ratio of the image doesn't match the hero unit container.
New Squarespace Template - Formed by Glaciers
We’ve been working on a new Squarespace template, great for those who sell products online. Ken Rees gives us an overview of this template and why it might be the one for you!
Limited Time Only - Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan Discount
For a limited time only, the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan is currently discounted by up to 16% in the US!
PixelHaze Bootcamp: Volume One
We are deliriously excited to announce that PixelHaze Academy has teamed up with Powys County Council and Welsh Government to assemble a high-octane, two-day creative Bootcamp this February half-term.
Cartoon character creation in Adobe Illustrator for beginners
This February, Ken Rees is going to be helping our local high school, Ysgol Calon Cymru to get up to speed with Adobe Illustrator via our new cartoon character creation challenge.
Three ways to display images in Squarespace 7.1 - Coffee Clips S01E02
In today's Coffee Clip, Elwyn will go through all of the essential steps of setting up your images in Squarespace to create that much sought after 'magazine look'.
Mailchimp v Squarespace Email Campaigns - The match-up.
Squarespace Email Campaigns began its life in 2018 with a great deal of promise. Now it has a few years under its belt, I thought it would be a good time to run through some of the key comparisons between Squarespace Email Campaigns and Mailchimp.
Squarespace Menu Plugins
At PixelHaze, we are always working on developing features to simplify the process of creating a polished Squarespace website design. Recently, we've expanded our range of Squarespace plugins to allow you to develop a fully customisable and bespoke website.
Squarespace plugins galore, and now templates, on our PixelHaze Store
Browse our polished and professional Squarespace templates, ready for your content. Crafted with over 20 years of web design expertise.
Squarespace... Squarespace always changes.
Due to fundamental and mostly positive changes to Squarespace 7.1, we have needed to focus on building the new and updated modules which we are delighted to announce, are now complete.
PixelHaze delivers brief to University of South Wales students
It was a pleasure to visit the University of South Wales in Cardiff, to deliver our Bootcamp brief for the third-year graphic communication students. Coming in on week three of the Boot Camp module, we set a design brief based on branding and web design.
Three simple membership plans, including a student plan!
We have been working hard over the past 12 months to expand our series of Squarespace courses, Canva courses and online lectures to ensure our students can stay at the sharp edge of the design industry.
The PixelHaze Principles of Design
What are the PixelHaze Principles of Design all about? Elwyn Davies explains all you need to know about why these design principles are important and how to tap into your potential as an art worker or designer.
Now you can add animated and gradient backgrounds to your Squarespace website
The new animated background design feature is already set up in Squarespace, where you can now find an additional series of options available in the current admin system for each panel that you add in any text page.
New chapters available in the Canva Box of Tricks series
Elwyn Davies, PixelHaze director and founder, shares an exciting update about the Canva Box of Tricks online course series. Perfect for Canva beginners and established designers to improve their design and digital marketing skills. Find out about the new chapters here!
Delivering a pitch or presentation? Here's a preflight checklist to help you on your way
To coincide with the launch of our new course, Please don’t go to sleep! - here are some of our top tips to get you in the swing of preparing for your presentation.