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What to Do When You Have too Much Work A Valuable Logo Design Tip – Get Drunk Why Footers Matter Art & Copy Trailer [Video] Why People Love & Hate Me in the Design Community What if Social...

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What to Do When You Have too Much Work A Valuable Logo Design Tip – Get Drunk Why Footers Matter Art & Copy Trailer [Video] Why People Love & Hate Me in the Design Community What if Social...

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A valuable logo design tip– get drunk What to Do When You Have too Much Work A Valuable Logo Design Tip – Get Drunk Why Footers Matter Art & Copy Trailer [Video] Why People Love & Hate Me in...

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11 Reasons Why White Spaces are Good in Graphic Design A valuable logo design tip– get drunk What to Do When You Have too Much Work A Valuable Logo Design Tip – Get Drunk Why Footers Matter Art &...

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5 Things Graphic Designers Can Learn From Computer Hackers! « Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers The Redesign Disease

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Random ads I’ve seen here and there

There’s just something about mid-20th century (40s-60) ads that I just dig… These are hanging up in one of the laundromats in town.

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Shortcuts CAN be a good thing

I’ve been doing quite a bit of photo retouching this past week, and in the process realized that I wasn’t being as efficient in my workflow as i could. I decided to consciously seek out the...

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Boiling things down

I know this is awfully simplistic, but, having been immersed in Photoshop most of the day for the last few days, making digital renders and retouches, the following occurred to me: If I had to boil...

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Brooklyn Nets logo: Can I do better than Jay-Z?

So, the internets is all up in arms with the (now) Brooklyn Nets and the newly-unveiled (previously leaked via Twitter) logo. I like the concept as a whole, although I have my issues with it. So, I...

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Short roundup of packaging that’s caught my eye

Note: I’m using the mobile app for the first time so my apologies if anything looks wonky… A few wine labels that caught my eye recently… This olive oil bottle is a nice change of pace from the...

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Sharing is caring– about who you’re sharing with

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead – Benjamin Franklin This morning, I was asked about some files that I had been asked to placed in Dropbox. I knew I had sent them already, so I told the...

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New Yahoo! logo– thoughts

So, I opened up my browser and this is what I found… The new Yahoo! logo. Now, I’m pretty sure this has been covered elsewhere, so I’m just going to give my initial thoughts. Looks like they...

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Random Thought for Friday, September 27, 2013

In the spirit of full disclosure– Although I’m a fan of Apple, and am both personally and professionally an owner, user and consumer of Apple’s products, I am not— as of this writing, at least— an...

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Random Thought for Tuesday, January 7, 2014

I would rather have to course-correct on a wrong choice made with strong conviction than to be adrift in a spineless ocean of indecisiveness.

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Random Thought for Wednesday, January 15, 2014

On decisions– There’s an old saying– “It’s better to fail trying something than it is to succeed doing nothing. It’s one thing to change a decision once it’s been put into action and its results can be...

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Design tip for Tuesday, February 18, 2014

If you work in the most current version if your software of choice… When creating files that you know will be handled by others outside your organization, presume that they will not have the latest...

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Friday Facepalm– Feb 21, 2014

You know, I kinda like that title. I might have to make it a thing. Lord knows there’s enough material out there for that. So, at work, someone ordered pizza and, after placing the order, had a...

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21-day drawing challenge: Day 1

Yesterday was the beginning of a 21-day drawing challenge course on Lynda.com (you can find out more here). The day’s first challenge was to draw a cat. Frankly, I’ve always felt animals were one of my...

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21-day drawing challenge: Day 2

It’s been a long while since I last did continuous line drawings– day 2’s challenge. Specifically, we were challenged with creating: A smiling face A hand holding a soda bottle a man riding a unicycle...

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21-day drawing challenge: day 3

For day 3, we were give a reference sheet and asked to “draw what we saw”. I ended up seeing, among other things, a couple of dogs, a somewhat angry bird-like creature, some sushi, a funky-looking toe,...

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