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Nov
16
Although Microsoft Publisher has built-in capability to place and manipulate graphic images using a variety of graphics file, Adobe InDesign can work with a wider variety of image files.
For example, you can place native Photoshop files directly into your InDesign publications, i.e., you don’t have to export them to a different file format. You […]
Oct
25
Building profits by pre-qualifying prospects
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Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind blog is always good reading, especially when he highlights a website with numerous lessons to teach, like Chillcasting–a business inspired by Dan’s book, A Whole New Mind.
Note the simplicity of the layout, the offer’s simplicity and value proposition, and the way the offer pre-qualifies those who take advantage […]
Oct
22
Fred Showker’s 12th Annual Fall Fonts Festival
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Fred Showker’s Design & Publishing site is one of my favorites, and I find myself spending increasing time there.
The quality of Fred’s design explorations can be seen in the wide range of resources he profiles in his 2006 Fall Fonts Festival. There are some truly great links, including my favorites, the SchoolFonts site and […]
Oct
22
There are tens of thousands of reasons, i.e. typeface designs, to visit Monotype Imaging’s Fonts.com. You can keep up to date with the latest font releases, search for fonts, enter a contest, ask questions, find out which typefaces are current best sellers, and save money on monthly specials.
There’s also a wealth of articles and book […]
Oct
16
How does your e-mail newsletter measure up?
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Lots of web marketers publish e-mail newsletters, but how many are really effective?
To analyze how your efforts compare to the best, read Larry Chase’s Top 12 Best Practices for Publishing an Email Newsletter from his Web Digest for Marketers site. I also recommend his 13 Essentials for Thought Leadership Marketing.
Subscribe to Larry’s newsletter, and […]
Oct
16
Try before you buy at Font Haus
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Font Haus is one of the most important typographic resources on the web. Not only does Font Haus help you choose from among tens of thousands of typeface designs, you can preview how a name, phrase, or line of type, will look when formatted using the words, typeface, and type size of your choice.
If you […]
Oct
6
Long before Dan Pink, Fast Company, and Business Week, discovered design, the Corporate Design Foundation has been working to improve the quality of life and the effectiveness of organizations through design. Mission statement.
If recent articles about design have piqued your interest in design, you’ll want to spend some time with the Corporate Design Foundation’s @Issue […]
Oct
6
Chuck Frey’s Innovation Weblog is required reading for anyone interested in marketing and design creativity.
Chuck recently published a 13-page free special report summarizing a survey of how readers of his blog use mind mapping software. Definitely worth reading. The only question you’ll have after reading is: “Why don’t I use a program like Mind […]
Oct
5
One of my favorite business and career books is Dan Pink’s recently updated A Whole New Mind. If you were told to “learn a trade,” rather than “indulge yourself” in graphic design when you were young, you’ll love how Dan’s book proves your “advisers” wrong.
You’ll like Dan’s blog even more. Dan’s a voracious reader of […]
Oct
3
While cruising Seth Godin’s blog this morning, I ran across a reference to the Mouse Prints blog. This eye-opening site shows how large corporations use design to camouflage “product downsizing.”
Downsizing is a profit-enhancing technique used when the quantity of a product goes down, but the package remains the same size. Downsizing is an alternative […]