Jun

13

Blogs: Mad About Design offers graphic designers hundreds of inspiring ideas for your blog, or your client’s blog

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Designers looking for hundreds of creative and inspiring blog design ideas in one place should visit Blogs: Mad About Design, just published by Spain’s Maomao Publications. You’ll find page after page of creative and inspiring blog design ideas, from conservative to the cutting edge, each professionally executed created by designers around the world. 

Blogs: Mad […]

Dec

21

Have you considered posters as marketing tools?

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It’s a snowy day in NH, and I was checking out recent tweets on Twitter.com, when I discovered a Guy Kawasaki reference to “great  typography,” which turned out to be Henry Jones’s 33 Amazing Typography Posters and Illustrations. I highly recommend a visit.
Seeing these examples reminded me of one of my first examples of poster […]

Jan

6

Graphic design tips interview with Jan V. White, author of “Editing by Design”

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Like many other designers around the world, my interest in graphic design and writing was crystallized by Jan V. White’s Editing by Design. In a single book, Jan managed to synthesize writing and graphic design in a way that no one has been able to equal in over 30 years.
Editing by Design is […]

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 […]

Nov

29

Creative Briefs help you get the most from your graphic designs–and your graphic designers

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Most graphic designers are capable of great work. That’s a given. But, competence does not necessarily result in great design. All too often, clients are frustrated by the what their designer provides them. All too often, important ideas are buried, inappropriate colors are used, costs skyrocket, and deadlines are missed.
Creative briefs can solve these, and […]

Mar

6

Discover the power of website follow-up

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Find out why many firms are spinning their wheels, constantly paying to attract website visitors who nevr return–and can’t be re-contacted.
Discover 3 simple tools that makethe difference between websites that generate high costs and few results, and a web presence that generate sales and sustain profitable long-term customer relationships. read and download now or […]