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Posts about designing everything from logos to themes and templates. The style of things to come and how we got there. What to look for and what to avoid.

Understanding the Creative Production Process

By |2017-07-15T13:16:49-04:00June 7th, 2012|Best Practices and Tools, Design|

Every business or non-profit needs smooth orderly processes to be successful. Lean manufacturers make a science of refining every process. The big chain businesses work on their processes all the time – training employees to provide consistent and predictable service or to move goods in an efficient, predictable manner. It's widely recognized that the more [...]

Free Font Roundup

By |2017-07-15T13:16:53-04:00December 22nd, 2011|Design|

Every so often I surf over to MyFonts.com and do an advanced search (they have nice search tools on their site!) for free fonts. (The search string winds up being http://new.myfonts.com/search/lowest_price%3A0/fonts/ if you feel like bookmarking it.) And I found some great ones this time around. Some font designers are just flat-out generous and give [...]

On Image Resolution and Quality

By |2017-07-15T13:16:55-04:00October 27th, 2011|Design, Website Design and Development|

Why do you need to know about image resolution if you are not a professional graphic designer? If you are ever going to print something, put a graphic on the web, or create a PowerPoint presentation yourself, you want to know about resolution and why it matters for quality. The jargon First, there are some [...]

Maybe Marketing Is Not So Subjective After All?

By |2017-07-15T13:16:56-04:00September 15th, 2011|Advertising and Media, Design|

While under the proverbial marking and communications gun, I often say (well, whine, actually) “What we do is so subjective...” Usually I utter this phrase while trying to anticipate what a client will or won’t like, or in response to a client’s feedback that I don’t agree with or find surprising. I often think about subjectivity while [...]

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Judging Art: Who Gets a Say?

By |2017-07-15T13:16:57-04:00July 11th, 2011|Creativity, Design|

Pulitzer shmulitzer I recently read two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, in an attempt to shore up my credibility as a semi-literate individual. The first one, Tinkers, is a little book that seemed to be right up my alley, but I couldn't even get through half of it. (Which is extremely rare — I tend to [...]

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