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120 Innovative Self Promotional Ideas for Graphic Designers & Freelancers - The biggest list of marketing ideas for designers ever.
Getting a Handle on the Creative Process for Graphic Designers - Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.
20 Ways to Avoid Graphic Designers' Block - As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It’s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn’t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.
Green Graphic Design: Why And How to be More Eco-Friendly - We can use our knowledge of self-promotion to help our clients to market themselves in a more eco-friendly manner. Imagine how much paper could be saved if all designers thought this way!
AllGraphicDesign's List of Graphic Design Articles (Or Read Graphic Design Articles Below)
10 Low Budget Design Tips - Sometimes it takes a little ingenuity and creativity to spice up your work on a small budget.
17 best business, practical and technical tips from DTP Success that have stood the test of time - 17 dtp tricks and tips.
ASK ANDY--Desktop Publishing Tips and Tricks - However, this month, in a change to the usual format, it's time to take a brief look at the entire printing process, from first ideas, to computer, to final printing press output.
Cost Considerations in Designing for Reprographic Projects - The least expensive method of reproducing your project is to create the artwork in all black for output to white paper. At progressively higher costs are: colored papers, texturized or coated papers, one or more spot colors, colors with close register (colors touching), trapping, (color that fills a vacant space within another color) or process color work.
Creating Visual Impact - Guest author Patrice Roarke explores the many faces of contrast in design.
Creep and compensating for it- I am new to design. I was hired as an editorial assistant and have found that lately I've been doing a lot of brochures, postcards, etc. I use Quark (PC) and was wondering if there are resources to find out how to setup documents. By "set up" I mean if my page size is 11x17 and will be folded to a 2.75 x 8.5 mailer I know that you have to compensate for the offset fold but don't know how to do it myself. Are there templates available showing this?
Design Tips You Don't Learn in Graphic Design School - You'll learn a lot in design school, but once you graduate, that's when you really start to learn. This tips will help you get off the ground running with your design career.
DTP Preamble - learning preparation, halftones, cmyk, bitmaps, printing
How do I, What does it? - about computers and software
Pixels & Bezier Curves - you must understand the difference
Disk Care! - storing your precious data, a look on the lighter side
DTP and PostScript files - tips and tricks - Software packages such as CorelDRAW!, Adobe Illustrator, PageMaker, Quark Express and Corel Ventura enable you to easily design and layout your own brochures, leaflets and magazines.
DTP Tips - Here, we'll attempt to provide some pointers so that your desktop publishing projects will have the best look possible without spending years in design school.
Desktop publishing - Very basic article.
Desktop Publishing Applications - Desktop Publishers use more than just the page layout program to accomplish all stages in the computer design process. For instance, while photographs and illustrations can be rotated, cropped and tinted within these packages, the images can't be edited.
Desktop Publishing Tips - Desktop publishing brings you into the printing production loop. The following tips can help reduce time, expense, and frustration in outputting electronic files. Please remember: these are generalizations. If you have questions, contact one of our customer service representatives or computer consultants. It's best to discuss a new order as you begin to work on it.
DTP Potpourri - Webgrammar is back with a new series guaranteed to improve your Desktop Publishing skills. Ever wonder what kerning and leading are? Learn some of the basic ANSI character sets and get some advice about printing and art work. She'll teach you how to make your favorite printer happy by preparing ahead of time. Choose the right paper and finishing for your job and sound smart when doing it. What are you waiting for?
Graphic Design Rules - Make sure you know the basic rules of typography, page layout, color and Web design before you break them.
Layout Compositing - The Successful Edge - Tom Arah shows you the secrets of successful compositing in all your publishing work.
Layout Grids - On The Grid - Tom Arah looks at the underlying basis of all design - the grid - and investigates how the two PC-based DTP rivals, Ventura and PageMaker, approach the issue.
Marcelle Design Tips - Several design tips
Avoiding Fuzzy Four-Color Type - Printing small type in more than one color can be a nightmare for printers.
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Resolutions - always related to output;
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understand the difference
What is Interpolation - understand when to resize and when to re-do
What are Layers - make the most of layers in recent painting programs
Using Paths - what are, how, and when do I use paths
Creating Duotones - consider these special EPS files for your design
Page Imposition: Bringing to Book - Tom Arah explores the under-appreciated topic of page imposition for both in-house and commercial print.
Print and Web Apps round up - Tom Arah takes an overview of the worlds of print and Web design software.
Printing on Envelopes - Printing solids or halftones on envelopes can cause problems
Reviewing a Blueline Proof - What should you look for when reviewing the blueline your printer sends you?
Sending Jobs to Press - Other than the printing specifications, what should you send your printer once the final corrections have been made to your print job?
Text in Terms of Layout - It then becomes the responsibility of the designer to make the words aesthetically appealing and easy to understand.
Visual Proofreading - Proofreading is a vital part of any publication, there's another kind of proofreading that can make as much (if not more) difference in the success of your publication
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Logos: What Makes a Good Design? - Part II
The Logo Journey Continues
In our last article, we examined several logo designs that were, by most conventional standards, unsuccessful.
In Part 2 of this series, we'll take a look at concepts that aren't necessarily bad, but have missed hitting the target. We'll investigate these logo designs and see what could have been done to improve them.
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Logos: What Makes a Good Design? - Part I
Logo Design Isn't Always Easy
Designing a logo can sometimes be mystifying, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. At times a logo design just works, even though it may seem rather unremarkable. Other designs should work but they don't.
When Things Go Terribly Wrong
The examples in this article demonstrate what can happen when attention to [...]
Great Ideas for Package Designs - Part II
Package Design: The Two Second Commercial
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The following designs excel in attracting your eye, but also serve a [...]
Great Ideas for Package Designs - Part I
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Designing a package can be quite challenging when trying to think of unique ways to present a product. The following examples show how graphic designers think outside the packaging box by using creative techniques that are novel in approach, and also quite functional by design.
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Graphic Design Education and Your Career
Talent + Education = Graphic Designer
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Publishing houses, graphic design firms and other related businesses need people who are up-to-date in [...]
Camera Tricks for Non-Photographers - Part II
Make Your Own Filters and Special Effects
In our last camera tricks session we covered some basic techniques related to camera operation, lens usage, and camera settings to achieve different image effects without the use of Photoshop.
This time around we will still achieve in-camera effects but with the use of homemade lens filters and accessories that [...]
Really Cool Photoshop Effects Part III
In our hat of magic Photoshop tricks, we've pulled out a few more items that we thought you might be interested in.
These effects and their related tutorials (click on the bold text or the image) are really fun to try out. They incorporate functions of Photoshop such as layering, transparency, blending, and other methods.
It will [...]
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