If you didn’t realize by my lack of responding to your emails and comments, I’ve been quite out of touch these last few weeks. First I was on vacation—a wonderful Caribbean cruise—and then I was at my company’s sales convention. I missed so many great articles while I was away, not to mention connecting with […]
Andi “Toon” Creffield is a friend I met on Estetica Design Forum (formerly graphic-design-forum.com). He invited me to join the forum around the beginning of this blog and I have enjoyed being a member and networking with other designers from around the world. Toon has worked in the web and print design industries since 1999, […]
There can be so many impossible questions running through the head of a design student and even those fresh out of college and entering the field. I know I was pretty intimidated about many aspects of design, and the following questions were just a few of the things I wondered about.
I can’t draw at all, so […]
There are so many things to remember when you are a graphic designer; bleed, page dimensions, color spaces… important things can easily slip through the cracks! When you are a new designer, it can be even more overwhelming.
Through my experience—both by committing these mistakes and by receiving files where others have made them—I have compiled the […]
You watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials and then critique the CG and cinematography.
Your friends and family won’t watch movies or TV with you because you make too many comments about the poor lighting or bad composition.
You are pro-Facebook because 95% of the MySpace pages burn your retinas.
You are completely immune to subliminal advertising.
You refuse to purchase products that have poorly designed packaging.
Using other people’s intellectual property is not only ok, it’s necessary in the professional world of graphic design.
WHAT?!
Yes, really.
As much of a purist as I like to be, in the real world I’m finding it’s impossible to design without using other people’s stuff (purchased ligit of course). You simply don’t have the time to stage photo shoots […]
I have seen discussion around the web lately about keeping a design library. Many CSS experts have suggested this before for coding. Having a collection of elements that work can save a lot of time when trying to come up with ideas for elements like page runners, pull quotes and section dividers. I don’t have one of these collections yet (I’m thinking of it as a personal stockpile) but I’ve been looking through my work and at other examples to see how they handle pictures in particular.
Details are important when it comes to a design. Things like the shape of the photos used can make a big impact on the cohesive feeling the piece has.
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