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Behind the Font-Face Part 1: The Psychology of Font
There is a relatively new maxim that suggests how important your choice of font is. Now, not a lot of people take the time to personalize their choice of font-face. However, when it comes to print and...
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Behind the Font-Face Part 2: Choosing Fonts for Print
We’ve touched slightly on the psychology and different perspectives on the influence of font-faces. Now we’ll look into the application of this research into print media and marketing. We would focus...
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24 Great Graphics for Labor Day Ads
Whether your marketing efforts for Labor Day sales include postcards, sales letters, emails, or even a simple icon on your website, you are sure to find something from the following graphics. The list...
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Creating Dramatic Type in Illustrator — Tools for Different Situations
Many projects require you to design for mulitple types of mediums: postcards, posters, websites, billboards. You can start with a MASSIVE Photoshop file or instead use Illustrator for your designs....
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Christmas Design Tool Kit for Greeting Cards
There’s still time to get your Christmas greeting cards designed and printed! The key to quick, quality designs is to start with the right resources. Once you have quality stock images and fonts, you...
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How To Optimize Your Print-Based Portfolio
Print portfolios are not dead. While an online portfolio certainly is extremely important in today’s digital age, a print portfolio is still equally important for showing that you know how to design...
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How to Nurture Your Creative Imagination
As a graphic designer, your most important asset is your imagination. Whenever you visualize and guide a concept into fruition, it is your imagination that is at work. It practically fuels your very...
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Web Design and Its Continuous Evolution
These days, almost anyone with a computer and Internet connection can create his or her own website. Web 2.0 has made everything simple and user-friendly. However, this was not always the case. There...
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[Featured Artist] Carlo Cruz: Capturing the Art of Breaking
Once in awhile an artist finds their calling quite by accident. Carlo Cruz has such a story. As a photographer, Carlo works by day in the fields of architecture but by night, Carlo photographs bboys....
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5 Useful Tools for Managing Design Projects
Managing a freelance design business involves many challenges. As a freelance designer, you need to be prepared to manage different projects as well as your finances and other important business...
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A “Do-it-yourself” design concept is deceptive. For outsiders, a DIY project may seem so simple to create yet in reality, a lot of aesthetic consideration is involved behind every design. In producing...
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Jason Hulfish: Bringing Wall Spaces to Life
Muralist Jason Hulfish knows how to make any child’s fantasy come alive. Fairies, dragons, sports, and underwater adventures are just some of the themes of his murals for children’s rooms. He designs...
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Samuel Silva’s Photorealistic Ballpoint Pen Art
Samuel Silva is not your regular artist. Aside from that fact that he is actually a lawyer, he is also a master of using a not-so-ordinary drawing tool – the ballpoint pen. While most of us use...
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EL MAC Covers for No Doubt
Miles “Mac” MacGregor began acrylic painting and doing graffiti in the mid ’90s. His main focus is the life-like rendering of human faces and figures. He has since developed his own unique style of...
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RGB Colorspace Atlas: A Real-Life “Color Picker” in Book Form
A light-based color mode, the RGB color scheme is the visible color spectrum that a computer monitor emits. As such, it is ideal for graphics meant for websites, desktop wallpapers and digital...
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Christmas Design Tool Kit for Greeting Cards
There’s still time to get your Christmas greeting cards designed and printed! The key to quick, quality designs is to start with the right resources. Once you have quality stock images and fonts, you...
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Photoshop for Beginners: The Clone Stamp Tool
One of the single most powerful tools in Photoshop is the Clone Stamp Tool. With this feature you can work magic on photos that need to be touched up or have items removed. In the photo below, the...
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Image Recovery
We truly apologize for the absence of images on most of the posts on the site. We are doing our best to get all images back up and running. Thank you for understanding.
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16 Brochures You Don’t See Everyday
Brochures are an excellent marketing media for informing clients of products, services, or company, but they can only do their job when clients are intrigued enough to open the cover. Most designers...
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3 Standard Principal Elements in Effective Print Design
Companies are scurrying to merge their print and online media to become a unified and effective tool for reaching out to their audience. But a constantly evolving landscape of Web design is making it a...
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