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So, one of my biggest difficulties as a web designer is typography and dealing with fonts. In the beginning, our website’s CSS was clean, but as time progresses new features and functionality is added by different developers. Eventually, our website was reeked with thirteen different font sizes and six font types. 13 and 6. A [...]
As a graphic designer, I often wonder why the majority of our customers fight design fees. It can often feel like pulling teeth to get a customer to agree to pay for services ranging from editing copy to even creating an entire brochure from scratch. Personally, I have even run into conventional artists that refuse [...]
As soon as we got an invite, our print company opened up a Pinterest account and thankfully so. Pinterest recently became our #10 referrer for web traffic. Likewise, many womens magazine websites and numerous enterprises are reporting Pinterest as a major traffic source larger than Yahoo and Facebook – combined. Don’t get me wrong, traffic [...]
And again, the large chain of department stores, JC Penny, has changed their logo. The Wall Street Journal reports the logo was designed by Brand Advisors of San Francisco, under creative director Tom Suiter and was approved by JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson and president Michael Francis. In early 2011, JCPenney already underwent a rebranding blitz [...]
I was checking out random graphic design blogs and I could not help but notice there is a lot of talk about DC Comics newly revised logo. For those of you that don’t know, DC Comics is a company owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. They are one of, if not the, most [...]
Typography is a topic often discussed, yet often overlooked. Artists will create an eye-catching piece of work in hopes of getting a response out of their audience while putting type design on the backburner. That is where the piece can really hit a roadblock. As a designer and artist, typography is one of my favorite [...]
A couple posts ago I discussed how I intend to start implementing dynamic (I said custom) conversion values in my Google conversion code so that I can better track ROI. I feel not tracking ROI within Google Adwords is a major mistake. Note: If you’re unfamiliar with Google’s conversion codes, just pass this along to [...]
Instagram is a photosharing phenomenon. Basically, you snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, then share or send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. Instagram says their service is easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented. Did we mention the service has millions of users? What I love [...]
Recently, I’ve been investing in Sprint stocks despite the company’s discouraging financials. I have my many reasons, which I intend to share on a future post, but I was astounded that Sprint’s shopping website was incompatible with the Ipad. We’re talking so much flash usage that the website renders completely broken. Why a MOBILE carrier [...]
Adobe announced the first public preview release of Adobe® Edge, a new HTML5 web motion and interaction design tool that allows web designers to bring animation, similar to that created in Flash® Professional, to websites using standards likes HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Because of rapid changes around HTML5 (and surrounding pressures of other tech companies [...]
QR codes have opened up a world of possibilities for any business wishing to collide their print and online marketing efforts. QR codes have been popular in Japan for quite some time and have finally gained traction last year in the U.S. Thanks to a 30% tolerance in readability, businesses can really push some clever [...]
You’re probably familiar with the saying “you are what you eat,” but you are what you tweet? That’s the idea behind the “Printing Dress,” a high-tech frock designed to explore the impact of wearable text on fashion and social identity. Built almost entirely of paper (irony alert!) by Asta Roseway, a senior designer at Microsoft [...]
Photoshop & You experience at 550 Sutter Street in San Francisco. Open to the public through August 6, Photoshop & You is a place for visitors to explore the innovative world of digital imaging with leading photographers, renowned teachers, industry influencers and the Adobe® Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® and Adobe Photoshop Elements teams. “The Photoshop [...]
Don’t worry if you’re in the dark when it comes to typefaces and fonts since this seems to be a common area of confusion with many print professionals. Although, you probably could’ve asked your graphic designer for clarification. So what is a typeface and what is a font? Are they interchangeable terms? The short answer [...]
What is it? With this app, Adobe boasts you can dab, swirl. and mix custom colors and develop color themes to use in Adobe Photoshop CS5. After downloading it myself, this simple app does work pretty fluidly. Adobe Color Lava, a one of the Photoshop Touch apps for Adobe Photoshop CS5 software (version 12.0.4 or [...]
Macy’s is adding a little star power to its mobile channel. The retailer is using text messages and two-dimensional bar code scanning of the Quick Response, or QR, code variety to deliver video content to shoppers from the retailer’s celebrity designers, including Bobbi Brown, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Greg Norman, Rachel Roy, [...]
Adobe has launched the Photoshop Touch SDK, enabling developers to create applications that can interact with the desktop version of Photoshop on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS platforms. Showcasing the possibilities of the new software development kit, Adobe is initially launched three Photoshop CS5 companion apps for the iPad: Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, [...]
Chirply, the crowd-sourced and crowd-curated design community for paper goods, announced that it has closed a $1.1 million series A round of investment. The round was led by a host of top angels and investment firms, including Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Sling Media’s Blake Krikorian, Keith Rabois of Square, Ash Patel of Yahoo, Dave McClure [...]
