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Hidden in the closet
Something hides in the closet. Below the button down shirts and dress slacks for work, behind the winter wardrobe of sweaters, vests and jackets, and against the back wall is an old black leather...
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Good design is more than this
(image via Jonathan Trier Brikner) There’s more to being a design genius than this. Truly. Just because you have a computer, laptop or tablet allowing you to download free fonts and free images and use...
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Job title – Creative Director
It is still a bit odd for me when I see the title of “Creative Director” on the labels of mail and packages that are delivered to my office desk. I won’t deny that so many years ago, sitting in …...
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Article 6
Originally posted on Writing for Kids (While Raising Them):Editorial Anonymous provided a great explanation of basic picture book construction a few months ago. At that time, I skimmed the info. Today,...
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Four tools to create a color palette
Wear the blue neck tie to suggest boldness and confidence. Wear the red tie for passion. Or so the conventional wisdom offers those business persons who are presenting themselves for a job interview....
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Dry transfer lettering
From the graphic design archive… Anyone remember doing advertising or editorial mockups using dry transfer lettering? Or the fact that mockups were expected to take days not hours?Filed under: graphic...
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Will the design industry standards and wages slide toward the service industry?
If you have a couple minutes, enjoy this video titled “Don’t tell designers how to do their own job. . .”: http://fast.wistia.net If you have seven minutes, please take the time to read Sacha Greif’s...
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Say something creative
Yes. Someone actually asked me that. The request: “Say something creative in 150 characters or less. Grab my attention.” Here is my on-the-spot 30-second reply: An artist may paint an image of a stop...
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Who doesn’t love the smell of coffee and fonts in the morning?
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Four tools to create a color palette
Originally posted on Coffeehouse Junkie: Color palette based on book cover design for the novel Blue Dollar Wear the blue neck tie to suggest boldness and confidence. Wear the red tie for passion. Or...
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A page from the history of graphic design
There was a time — somewhere around the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods of graphic design — when all pre-press art files were saved to a 250 MB Zip disk, packed into a Fed-Ex overnight envelope...
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Anatomy of print advertising
Very excited about a mentoring opportunity with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee this afternoon. Last October I volunteered and really enjoyed sharing my knowledge and experience of...
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Good design is subtractive
“Design that communicates efficiently is typically more subtractive than additive.” [read more]Filed under: graphic design Tagged: graphic design, quote
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I went to school for graphic design
Sharing this post[1] with you from nikography — plus my own story afterwards. Because graphic design is hard work. i went to school for graphic design, and did not spend my nights getting drunk....
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Step-by-Step Graphics magazine
Young creatives—back in the transitional years of the digital revolution in design—coveted Step-by-Step Graphics magazine. One reason, the price of the publication was expensive for university...
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Dry transfer lettering and the human touch
From the graphic design history archive… Anyone remember doing advertising or editorial mockups using dry transfer lettering? Or the fact that mockups were expected to take several days. Not hours. At...
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What will graphic design look like in twenty years?
Ah, ye ole Zip disk[1][2] circa 1990s. Once the preferred removable storage device for young graphic designers — now, well, . . . these days you will have to scavenge Amazon[3] or eBay to locate a Zip...
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Type catalogs and color guide book circa 1991 and 2004. These artifacts of graphic design history turned up in the garage while I was searching for something else. These catalogs reminded me of a...
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Wrangling pages of copy all day. Setting letters and words into rows and columns. Aligning headline copy and main body copy. Kerning. Leading. Placing an image — photo headshot of a person featured in...
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