Dec

27

Did you receive any graphic design, web design, or typography books for Christmas?

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What happens when family and friends buy gifts for graphic designers? Do they hit home runs, or expensive disappointments?
More important, how do family and friends know which books to buy? Do they buy at random, do you provide a wish list–or Wish List at Amazon.com–or do you drop frequent hits during the months leading up […]

Dec

14

Branding your MindManager mind maps, Part 1: Borders

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Although most entrepreneurs and marketing managers agree that all of a firm’s print and online communications should project the same image, many mind mapping users fail to use all of the design capabilities built into mind mapping software programs like Mindjet’s MindManager 7.0.
All too often, firms of all sizes never move beyond MindManager’s default […]

Dec

6

Are brochures dead?

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What do you think is the future of marketing using 3-panel and 4-panel brochures–at least, as far as most small, (i.e., 25 and under employee), firms is concerned?
Brochures were once ubiquitous, whether professionally printed in color on glossy paper or prepared on desktop printers using preprinted paper designs, like those available from firms like PaperDirect.
To […]