How long has it been since you first used the internet? How much have your habits of information gathering changed since then? If you’re anything like me a myriad of different interests discovered on the internet crowd your mind as well as the exciting new ways you find out about them. The future is on [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, Marketing on July 6th, 2009 1 Comment
I have created an identity for IMG Associates who are a China based contract manufacturer and distributer of fine kitchen and bathroom furniture. This is for business stationery, online catalogues, print material and eventually a website. The company is committed to manufacturing high quality products and strives for design excellence in every facet of its [...]
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Article filed under: Design on July 25th, 2008 35 Comments
Personally, I have noticed other recessions far sooner than this one. It seems like months and months of dreary economic forecasts had passed before I got an inkling that it was going on. Anyway, here’s some ways to defeat the dreaded downturn. Diversify Do something you’re not doing at the moment. Web designers should diversify [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Design, Marketing on July 19th, 2008 16 Comments
I recently got my business cards printed and I was amazed at how much of a baffling array of online print companies there are trying to bag your business. Here and some of my golden rules for business card designing and printing. Don’t do a business card! Everyone does one! Have you got a bit [...]
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Article filed under: Design on February 9th, 2008 9 Comments
I have been working on some CD and DVD packaging for a music creation software company. I love doing stuff to do with music and here I was asked to create some montages to express different musical genres. The montages will eventually go on large sierra boxes (a sierra box is a large cardboard box [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Photoshop on November 15th, 2007 9 Comments
If your client hands you a .PPT from MS PowerPoint or and .DOC Word and says: “The presentation/print deadline is tomorrow, make this look nice”, what are you going to do? The answer is to use other programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, Premiere or Keynote and get creative! Here are a few tips [...]
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Article filed under: Acrobat, Artwork, Design, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Quark on October 28th, 2007 12 Comments
I was asked by a client to present their final figures in a pitch they were doing in the form of a receipt. I thought it was quite a nice little Photoshop trick and a nice idea. Here’s how. Draw the outline of the receipt, or piece of paper, with the Pen Tool (P), and [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on October 3rd, 2007 4 Comments
Many people have asked me this question and, in the absence of a Wikipedia entry, here’s my definition. The term pre-dates desktop publishing when “artwork” or “mechanical art” meant the material (photography, bromide, film, tranparency) or completed, camera-ready pages that could be photographed with a stat camera to make a same-size film that would be [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork on July 22nd, 2007 6 Comments
I very often need freelancers to help me with my jobs. So I am looking for hard-working, honest individuals to contact me and supply me their details. Here are the sort of people I am looking for: print designers, web designers, interior designers, artworkers, photographers, illustrators, copy writers, copy editors, Flash specialists, Photoshop re-touchers, PHP, [...]
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Article filed under: Freelancing on February 21st, 2007 71 Comments
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