Blogs are, in my opinion, the easiest and best way to get stuff on the web. With a blog you can publish constantly updated information about yourself, your company or your interests to the world. And what makes it even better is that this information is chronologically ordered and categorized for search engines almost automatically. [...]
Designing title pages
Designing the title slide, front cover or homepage is almost always the most important part of any job. And this particular area will rightly be where you and your client spend the most head-scratching time. There was a good reason your mother always told you to tuck your shirt in, first impressions count. It’s impossible [...]
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Doing eye-catching designs in Illustrator

I’m always on the look out for simple eye-catching ways to communicate a message. I think this is a great example of a visually appealing background that could be used when there are no images, graphics or other ways to improve the typography. This is especially useful in direct marketing (email or mail shot). How [...]
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Six questions to a graphic designer

When and how did you get your start in the industry? I was working as a picture researcher for magazines and a night picture editor for newspapers in London when in 1992 I saw Photoshop for the first time and it was love at first sight. I then lied a lot to get my first [...]
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Simple design idea for corporate marketing

I was asked to come up with a visual to portray a corporate bank’s image. This was one of the largest banks in the world, one that prided itself on coming up with intelligent solutions and, whilst it wanted to evoke reliability and gravity, it also wanted to be known as innovative. The tag line [...]
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