Archive for the ‘Tip Of The Day’ Category

Smashing Magazine – Crank Up Your Design Radar

I now resigned to the fact that I simply cannot read magazines. As much as I try, I always wind up looking at their design, at the ads, at their layout… Same for flyers, I might look at them when I wouldn’t normally consider them, I might not even care for the content, but I [...]

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Tip O’ The Day: Simple Is Best

Today I was messing around with a page for a monthly magazine I design. It was supposed to be a quick thing—just a bunch of boxes with ads—but in my quest to make the page interesting, I got lost and I just couldn’t achieve a satisfying result, with my headache as accessory.
I kept changing things [...]

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Tip O’ the Day: How to Modify Illustrator Symbols

Question: I have used a symbol from the Illustrator Symbols Library and want to change its colour, but I am unable to do it; what am I missing?

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Tip O’ the Day: Know Your Stuff, Answer Client’s Questions

You won’t believe how jobs can drag on and on simply because you didn’t tell the client something he needed to know

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Tip O’ the Day: Open Type Fonts Are Cross Platform

Macs don’t have the monopoly of the graphic design market anymore, so how do you work with a designer who doesn’t use your same OS?

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Tip O’ the Day: Choose the Right Printer for the Job

The type, size, colour, number of copies of your printed item influences your choice of what printer to use

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Tip O’ the Day: Create an Idea Book

Ideas strike you at any time and then they leave you just as fast

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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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Tip O’ the Day: Use RGB Images for Desktop Printers

RGB is for screen, CMYK is for print. Right? Wrong!

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Tip O’ the Day: Use Contracts

Reach an agreement and make sure it is respected

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