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Avoid dropping the ball after the ball drop: Utilizing graphic design resources to stay on task in the new year

Avoid dropping the ball after the ball drop: Utilizing graphic design resources to stay on task in the new year

January 6, 2012 No Comments

It is on the same day every year. Yet, every year on Christmas day, right when I settle down and begin to relax, it’s as if the new year has masterfully snuck up on me… like a friend jumping out of the bushes to scare me into the new year. So after the initial shock ...

Adobe’s No-Code-Required Website Builder

Adobe’s No-Code-Required Website Builder

October 10, 2011 No Comments

Need a website done now but don’t know HTML, and not enough hire professionals like us? Well you’re in luck. The good people at Adobe have created yet another program to construct websites called Adobe Muse. Muse is the product’s codename, so once it’s fully released the name will probably be changed. If you use ...

How Designers can Help the Construction/Contractor Industry

How Designers can Help the Construction/Contractor Industry

October 6, 2011 No Comments

The success of your business really depends on your company’s image. In my opinion, there are two main aspects that can shape that image. The first is obviously the quality of the services you provide. If people are happy with your construction or contractor work, they are more likely to use your services again and/or spread the word. ...

Use the Environment As Your Canvas

Use the Environment As Your Canvas

September 30, 2011 No Comments

Environmental advertising is one of my favorite ways to advertise. Sometimes you need to liter- ally get in people’s faces to make your point, which is exactly what I love about environmental graphic design. When done well, an environmental advertising project is clever and is supposed to make you stop and think. Projects like the ...

GoMedia/Arsenal

GoMedia/Arsenal

August 5, 2011 No Comments

Being in Multimedia and Graphic Design for the past 5 years, I’m still a newbie in the field, so I am constantly looking for tutorials resources and other things that will help me grow in my field. I’d like to let everyone out there know about Gomediazine.com and the GoMedia arsenal. The first is gomediazine.com, ...

Art & Trash/Green Design: Wrapping Paper

Art & Trash/Green Design: Wrapping Paper

March 12, 2011 No Comments

Its Many Art Forms With spring/summer birthdays and wedding season quickly approaching, there is bound to be plenty of trash we can turn into treasures. Personally, kids’ birthday parties come to mind, when all of that wrapping paper is covering the floor. Well, instead of throwing the wrapping paper away, I have some useful suggestions ...

Green Design: Go Green by Going Black

Green Design: Go Green by Going Black

March 2, 2011 1 Comment

A Technological Tip on How to Save Energy Having designed a few websites, I’ve come to realize that not a lot of people show love when presented with a design for a website with a black background, but the truth is, black=energy conservation. It takes more energy to power a website that is predominantly white/light ...

The Eco.. err I mean Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is considered arguably the most highly anticipated sporting event of the year. Even more so for...

Society6 – You make the art, they do the rest!

  Do you have tons of art that you would love to sell but you have no time or...

Green Logos: Simple Design, Complex Meaning

  Recently, I was working for an eco friendly logo design company. I feel that I have little difficultly...

Client Showcase: JH Exteriors

  Recently we have had the pleasure of working with a new up and coming construction company called JH...

Getting Under the Skin

  There has been talk about future technology and what it will being us: robots, cars driving themselves, phones...

How to Sell Great Creative

  How to sell great creative First off, you have to be able to develop great creative. And what...

Green Diners Unite!

Let it be known to the local restaurants that a challenge has been issued. This challenge is a challenge...

Teefury: Tee Today, Gone Tomorrow

If you’ve surfed the internet at least once in your life, then you’ve probably stumbled across one of the...

Business Department Blog: Finding the Customer Service Balance

Over the past two years it keeps hitting me that life is all about balance–balance of work and play,...

Tips for Working with Web Designers

Having a well-designed website is important for business. A website is one of the most impressive forms of sales...