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Business Card & Letterhead Designs - Samples of some really cool business car and letterhead designs for inspiration
Create a Basic Identity System - First Impressions in Print - Who are you? How do you look on paper? Despite the surge in email use, professionally designed printed stationery packages are crucial to making a good first impression. The purpose of letterhead and related items is to express an identity, beyond the actual words used in the message.
Create your own letterhead - If you use a letterhead for business or personal correspondence, you're probably familiar with the cumbersome drill of sheet-feeding single pages of preprinted letterhead into your printer. Or maybe you take the approach of placing just the right number of letterhead sheets into your printer's paper hopper and hoping you don't miscount, misfeed, or make a mistake.
Create a Letterhead with OpenOffice.org - This article describes how to create and use a letterhead with OpenOffice.org. Along the way you'll learn how to use a wizard, templates, styles, and even a field or two. The principles described apply to many other documents as well, so even if you don't need a letterhead, you should find this exercise useful.
Designing a Business Card and Letterhead that Make a Great Impression - With your letterhead and business card, you first begin to build relationships with the people who will make your business a success. With a little creativity, you can turn these run of the mill materials into the kind of marketing tools that keep the mill running.
Desktop Publishing and Design Tips : Make newsletters and letterhead look better - f you've got your own business, you know that attracting new customers can be tough. You need high-quality marketing materials to compete with the big businesses.
Designing Stationery - A guide to designing business stationery
Design Tips - Do It Yourself Letterhead Design - Letterhead is one of the key elements to your corporate identity. It is ground zero from a design standpoint. The layout, typestyles, and colors you establish here dictate the design of all the pieces that follow — from your business cards and envelopes to your website brochure.
Just the FAX - Study the differences between designing for faxing and designing for print in this article from About Graphic Design Guide Judy Litt.
Letterhead Planning and Design - The letterhead that you use for your business will affect the image that others form about your company. It is sometimes the first opportunity that you have to present your company to someone. It is important that the design you create for your letterhead reflects the image you want conveyed. Your letterhead will not only provide the customer with your name and address, it will also create an image about the quality of your products or services.
Letters, Labels, and Envelopes Design (PDF) - Like Forms, Browses, and Reports, Letters, Labels, and Envelopes are layouts. Theyfollow many of the same design principles, but the default layout for each is specificfor its type. In Letters, Labels, and Envelopes, you use Rich Text Objects for most oftheir design. Alpha Five Genies help you get set up easily and quickly with all threelayouts.
Letterhead Design and Printing Tips - There area few useful tips here for letterhead design.
Look Good in Print : Seven ways to improve your bulletins, newsletters, and other paper communication - What kind of image does your church project in its newsletters, bulletins, and other paper communication? Is your graphic statement tried-and-true traditional or just plain old and out-of-touch? A tasteful blend of old and new or a hodgepodge of make-do and can't-do-without? What about the copy—is it easy and fun to read or a formidable mass of gray type?
Microsofft Office : Creating Your Own Letterhead - A lot of people want to know how to create letterhead in Word. So in this article I'll show you how to do it. But what's more, next month I'll take this article one step further and show you how to add a little automation to allow your users to click a button and switch between letterhead and plain paper. This will allow them to decide whether they want their letter to have the company logo printed or removed so they can print directly on preprinted stationery.
Print Guidelines for Letterhead - General specifications for the design of letterhead, business cards and envelopes are provided in this section. New items should closely adhere to these standards
Stationery Designs - Tips to creating the right letterhead for your new business.
Stationery Design Tips & Business Cards Design Tips - Get some useful stationary design tips out of this article.
Stationery and Letterhead Design Tips - Are you looking for business cards ? Business cards are an essential part of a marketer's arsenal. When you hand someone your business card, they will form an opinion about your company.
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Letterhead Templates - Letterhead Template on this page
Legal Stationary Templates - All templates are in Word
LunarClipse Letterhead Templates - Many letterhead templates to download in Illustrator and Quark
Print 100 Letterhead Templates - Letterhead Templates in Quark, Illustrator, Freehand, and Photoshop
VistaPrint - VistaPrint allows you to upload your customized design...but their templates are on their page and ready to use...so you can use them without using VistaPrint
If you are a Photoshop guru, then you are probably always on the lookout for new free Photoshop stuff. Well, we try to do that legwork for you. On this page you will find a nice roundup of free Photoshop pattern sites. Click through to these sites and download some of those free patterns. Have fun.
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
Best Clever & Unique Billboards and Outdoor Advertising I have found tons of the coolest billboards, outdoor advertising, and transit ads ever. I am listing many of them today but I have found many others (and I am still searching for more) that I will list soon. I am listing them in a gallery [...]
This is part II of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do.
Within this article, I am going to detail the ?six steps? that I took to design the logo for the ?Seventh Congress of Zoos and Aquariums?
I saw some really beautiful logos today so I thought that I would share some with you and then make a series out the idea. This is part I of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do. Either way, enjoy the following list of beautiful / cool logo designs.
This is the 4th part of our Coolest Business Card series. This time, we are including the printer (when we can find out the information) who printed these business cards.
This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
Sep 1Huge Roundup of Typography Blogs, Resources, Articles, Galleries, & Tools
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Website Redesign Offsite Backup Business
I prefer to work with designers located: in NY, NJ, CT or PA. Number of pages (approx): 12 - 15 My Industry: Offsite Backup We have a website that is now out of date and needs a refresh. We will pr? Client is in Hackensack, NJ
Web Design: Print and Product Marketingp
I prefer to work with designers located: chicago area or IL, WI Number of pages (approx): 4 My Industry: Print, Promotional Products We like the 2.0 design and look of wired.com and zazzle.com. We ? Client is in Vernon Hills, IL
Website Redesign: Computer Building
My Industry: Computer Building We need to redo our website. the site will have approximately 6-7 pages and is a custom computer building site. We would like to have flash and E-Commerce. ? Client is in Smithfield, PA
Website Redesign for Radio Station
Number of pages (approx): 5 My Industry: Online Bassline House, UK Garage, 4x4 radio station, Need a new home page, the schedule page, profiles and contact us page done, Ideally the whats playing bo? Client is in Kens,
Website Redesign for Comic
Number of pages (approx):9 My Industry: Entertainment industry Currently, there are 6 pages. I want to eliminate one, and then add 3 to 5 new pages. I don't think I'll need any new graphics, but I'l? Client is in Los Angeles, CA
Logo Design for Artisan Chocolatier
Logo design and packaging design for gourmet chocolate start-up company. High end product calls for logo/packaging that is simple, elegant (without being "stuffy") and appetizing. Customers should ab? Client is in Kings Park, NY
Logo Design for New Website
I am looking for a designer that is very creative and has a flamboyant flair. The right logo will help to distinguish the site and set the tone. I am looking for three concepts that are illustrated in? Client is in Redwood City, CA
Logo Design for Card Processing Company
I prefer to work with designers located in Santa Clarita, CA. Need an artist to finish up our logo, get it camera ready, etc.? Client is in Santa Clarita, CA
Ad Design for Tequila Brand
Looking for someone to design three space ships over Las Vegas Nevada...with the beams touching the ground, my logo in the middle and tag line on top. Ad will be 8.5x11 No printing needed.? Client is in Las Vegas, NV
Mockup Home Page Design for Airline Comp
Number of pages (approx): 1 My Industry: airline home mockup like www.jetblue.com We will provide content to be used for home page. just the mockup of the home page for now. Then if the customer ? Client is in Montevideo,
Template Design For Moodle
I need a moodle template designed to match my current website template. ? Client is in Imperatriz,
Ideas for Vehicle Wrap Design: Christian
Number of pages (approx): My Industry: graphic design ideas for a vehicle wrap or vehicle lettering. No need for actual design. it is for christian dating site. ? Client is in Temple Hills, MD