Archive for the ‘graphic design’ Category

Spec Work: the Fine Line

The other day I was sitting in a restaurant with my colleagues, happy to put my teeth onto some Italian gnocchi with tomato and basilico (basil.) We just had a meeting, but there were questions I couldn’t ask in that meeting as they were not pertinent.
I thought—let’s see what these other designers think about spec [...]

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NO!SPEC Launches

Saying NO! to speculative creative project requests

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Creativity Wanted

For an Italy based initiative with international scope, aimed at giving exposure to new designers

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An Interesting Podcast on Spec Work

Brought to you by Be a Design Group and AIGA Nebraska President Drew Davies

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Why Your Clients Ask You to Work on Spec

Maybe you’ll find the answer in this question: Why do you buy the train ticket?

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Tip O’ the Day: Collect Design Samples

Find inspiration or just keep a record what you don’t like

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Working With A Designer

You have this brilliant promotional idea and you want to materialize it in a printed booklet. Or you need a logo, a flyer, a borchure and you need a designer to design it for you, but you don’t know where to begin. You are not totally sure that you understand what the designer is saying, [...]

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Colour Perception

Choosing colours is influenced by many things. Certain colours elicit certain emotional responses, or they represent different things in different locations around the world. Colours also communicate visual depths, certai ncolour combinations will make objects appear near or far.
Colours however are not absolute to the human eye. For example yellow doesn’t always look yellow. [...]

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