Getting Outside of Your Comfort Zone as a Designer As a designer (and I'm pretty sure this applies in all fields — I could write a similar treatise about being a musician), there are certain techniques and approaches that will come naturally to you, and certain genres and styles with which you will become intimately [...]
Image by juliejordanscott via Flickr “What can I write about?” That’s usually the first question a client asks when we talk about starting a company blog. It's likely to be your first question too. (Hey, it’s the first question I asked when our company decided to start a blog!) Despite the fact that [...]
Sometimes you need a perfect circle in your design; sometimes you need an absolutely equilateral triangle; sometimes you need a spiral drawn with mathematical precision. In the days of yore, one needed compasses, protractors, and other medieval instruments in order to approach perfect geometries in design. Thankfully for the contemporary designer, computers are very good [...]
What do you do when the page is blank? As I look outside my window and see the mountains of surrounding, deep, clean, crisp, clear white snow banks — I think about how many things I love that are white. New clean white sheets on a freshly made bed, fluffy white mashed potatoes, white jeans, [...]
While there are many resources available on how to select a marketing agency, (aka advertising agency, creative shop or PR firm), there is very little information on how to make the relationship work effectively once you have made your decision. After many years on both the client and the agency side of such relationships, I've [...]
Share your work! We have several articles here about using other people's content on your website, depending on what licenses they've used, but we haven't touched on the idea of how you should go about licensing your own content for use on the web. In this post, I've gathered some resources regarding intellectual property licensing, [...]
I love words. Short words. Long words. Word jumbles. Words that rhyme. Words that sound like what they mean, and words that don’t. Words can shape the way we think and feel. Powerful, well-written words can change the world. I know I am not by any means alone in this love of words, so I’ve gathered three treats here for my fellow wordies.
