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The Benefits of Social Networking: Creating a Community for your Blog

There is a whole community out there who really cares about each and every word that is typed into WordPress, Blogger or Typepad. This community’s strength is built upon good, solid foundations that...

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Choosing Social Media Icons for your new Website

You’ve just designed your new site and want some great Social Media Icons to go with it. If you Google Social Media Icons you get so many results that it can take hours to trawl through every site to...

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Print Handbook: Preparing your Pixels for Print

The Print Handbook has been designed to be a handbook full of printed experiments, examples, and a whole load of handy reference material.

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How to Recruit Talented Designers: 5 Qualities that Stand Out

Creative design can often make the difference between the success and failure of products and marketing efforts in today’s highly competitive marketplace. The modern consumer has a discerning eye and...

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3 Steps for Respecting other Designers

In this article we will be focusing on Photoshop and Illustrator file organizing and saving practices. The following are pretty basic guidelines on how to save files properly, and how to organize and...

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The Decline in Respect for Student Designers

Through from school to college and later university it has become clear to me how the respect for student designers is on a decline. I find that the harder students work to become the best the harder...

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Cultivating the Cultured Designer

In our careers as Graphic Designers, in whatever subcategory we find ourselves, we are in a constant struggle with the industry that allows a large amount of amateur activity within its ranks.

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Advice on Keeping Your Branding Consistent

Design for printed collateral should therefore be very carefully thought out before investing a dime in printing.

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Kickstarting Creativity in your Final Semester

I’ve just started my final semester of university. This is it. Everything I’ve been working for over the last three years all comes down to these few months. Not only the heaviest grade weighting but...

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How to Choose The Right Color Scheme for Your Website

One of the most important factors in attracting customers is the color; its eye-catching power can convert visitors into regular users or customers.

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