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What Does Your Business Card Say About Your Brand?
Business cards are often overlooked or tucked away for later. But when properly done, a business card is the first thing potential clients will look at after meeting you. It will identify your...
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Graphic USA – An alternate guide to 25 US cities
Travel Guides. We’ve all seen them, there’s hundreds to choose from. All with some sort of pitch for the best places to go. But, will the places be good? Will I even like them? I am basing my entire...
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Is Crowdsourcing Ever OK?
Graphic designers for the most part are united in their disapproval of crowdsourcing. I formed this opinion based on Twitter conversations and comments on design blogs – mention crowdsourcing, and...
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The Secrets Behind Successful Design Podcasts
In a time when designers are often too busy to network and seek further education, podcasts have become available to teach so we can learn while we go about our business. I recently “met” Kitty Florido...
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Why I Left the Design World
I haven’t always just written about design. No, back in the day, I designed for magazines and newspapers. The following is my story of why I left the graphic design world. I also chatted with other...
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Starting a T-Shirt Line with No Money
I have to admit right up front that the title of this article is a bit of hyperbole. You might be quick to think that a t-shirt line that can be started without any money cannot possibly be a good...
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How to Create a Wooden Texture in Photoshop CS6
Skeumorphic design has become a popular — and controversial — trend in recent times. People are designing content that looks more and more like a real-life metaphor — take Apple for example. Among many...
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How to Prepare a Business Card for Print in Illustrator
Believe it or not, print isn’t dead! Although much of today’s advertising is going to more electronic means, there are still a vast amount of printing being done every single day. Many freelance...
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How to Use Color Theory to Create Color Schemes
As a designer with an extensive art background, I find it easier to pick color schemes using concepts of color theory that all artists learn and use every single day in their work. The use and practice...
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Tribute to Yuri Galitsyn
The Kiev based Ukrainian illustrator and graphic designer Yuri Galitsyn passed away unexpectedly earlier this month. According to Galitsyn’s LinkedIn profile, he studied book drawing in the early 1980s...
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50 Domestic Animal Logos
The need for unique visual identities has pushed both designers and ventures in capturing inspiration from unusual and common origins. Today, we showcase 50 logos with a slightly common source: logos...
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Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Crowdsources Election T-Shirt Design
Yesterday Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and Minister of Parliament announced the winner of a t-shirt design contest he launched in October. The winner is Studio71, a graphic design...
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50 Mighty Logo Designs to Power Up 2013
As its still early in the year we thought we’d turbo-charge your creativity by featuring a collection of 50 mighty logo designs gathered from well known online logo galleries. All are designs that show...
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Tutorial: How to create a 3D vector using Cinema 4D and Illustrator
3D is a useful and important tool for graphic designers. Not only it is highly useful for prototypes, interior and construction design, it also comes in handy for graphics and logos. While you can have...
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Is Crowdsourcing Crowding the Freelance Graphic Designer?
Over the past few years the demand for crowdsourcing services has skyrocketed. This is particularly true for the design industry where crowdsourcing platforms such as DesignCrowd offer a cost effective...
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