Welcome to another installment of the Free Friday Design Wallpaper Series! Today it’s all about Garamond: a classic, ultra-legible typeface. This design pays homage to the legibility of the typeface, as well as its timeless nature. 4 different screen sizes below. Enjoy, share, and subscribe to the RSS feed!
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Welcome to From A to Z, where I outline all the steps taken in a specific project. In this particular instance, I’ll outline a band promo photo project I was commissioned for. Keep reading to see how this shot was conceptualized, shot, and edited – and if you enjoy the article, subscribe to the RSS feed here.
Band promo photography can be tough, especially when the budget is small. It would be great if we all had unlimited budgets and could rent out awesome venues to shoot in, hire makeup & hairstylists all the time, and so forth. Unfortunately, with a lot of bands, there isn’t much coin in the bank. I understand this – I play in a band – so the challenge here is to make a photograph for them that represents them, looks cool, and keeps it in the budget (so they’re happy, and so you the photographer doesn’t end up doing a ton of work for peanuts).
The shot above is of a band called Chasing Jones. They’re a local rock/pop band in Edmonton who approached me for band promos – they wanted something that made them look like every day kinda guys. No rock star posturing. That answers the first step in making a band promo, after the jump. Read the whole article >
New graphic designers often worry about their tangible skills. Am I a master of the pen tool? Am I adept enough at HTML & CSS to offer my services? Can I design a print piece to print specifications? Rightfully so, these are areas that all designers should be concerned about (amongst others). However, being a Creative Suite whiz does not guarantee a successful design career. Much can, and should, be made of efficiency, business sense and more; however, in this article I’d like to focus on specific characteristics that a designer must have (or develop) to truly be successful.
Read on for 6 Characteristics of the Successful Designer!
It’s Friday – everyone’s favorite day of the week. It means the last day until the weekend; it also means a new Free Friday Design Wallpaper! Today’s is based on the Swiss monolith of typefaces: Helvetica. Enjoy & share!
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This is an article in a series called “For Our Clients”. The goal of these articles is to be as transparent as we can with our clients so as to help clarify how we think, what we do and how we do it. We also hope that these articles can become a resource for clients – sort of an FAQ in article form – that will help broaden the understanding of why certain projects have the characteristics they do.
As I talked about in our article The Importance of a Quality Website, having a website is a must for your business. However, having just any website isn’t good enough – I mean, you don’t want your site to end up on the list of The World’s Ugliest Websites, do ya? But, if you’re looking to hire a designer to build your website, you probably have some questions – and you will probably have some more questions later on in the design process. So, with that in mind, I’ve written this article to answer a few common questions clients have – and feel free to use this information for your clients too, fellow designers! I’ve tried to keep this article as jargon-free as I can, so that any and everyone looking into getting a website built will be able to understand it.
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