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Bite Sized Summary of Me

Here’s my life in 2 sentences. Computer gamer since age of 5, had my own BBS, started my design training with Ascii and ANSI graphics, jumped online when it arrived and I’ve been connected since. I went on to do Marketing, Advertising and all types of design. Right now I am constantly thinking up business [...]

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How to Look Within for Design Inspiration

Aside from looking at other people’s work for inspiration, there are other ways to bring out that creativity within yourself. When the creative juice is running low, the natural instinct would be to reach for those expensive design books you bought just for this occasion. In them, you will see from the eyes of the [...]

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How to Spot Bad Logos

With so many people telling you different things about logos, it can get confusing. That’s why I took all that info and summarized it into 5 major points. Whether you’re planning to design it yourself or going to hire a designer, memorize these rules. That way, you’ll at least be able to tell the good [...]

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A Bad Logo is Business Suicide

It is business suicide to have a bad logo. A logo design has the distilled meaning of your company, the face or first impression if you will. If you don’t look exactly like what the consumer is looking for, it is all too easy to find another place. In the global market we live in, [...]

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3 Absolutely Essential Color Tools for Any Designer

Ever been stuck picking colors, need some inspiration or just want your design to look really slick? If so, these free tools are going to rock your world. Design with the latest color trends and have a workflow that will save you lots of time and money. Sometimes a good set of colors will make [...]

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Creativeherb.com Rebranding In the Works

Creativeherb.com Rebranding 2009 is now in the works. The direction of this site has been debated over many months as I expanded into new areas of expertise. I came from a design background with many years of focus on offline media such as print, outdoor, direct mail, corp collateral etc. Lately, I’ve kept myself extremely [...]

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Design of WarhammerBlogs.com

weeee Warhammerblogs.com launched. Lots of bug delays, lots of arguing over features VS launch dates, lots of scrambling to get everything coordinated. But it’s done, finally. Well, at least for version 1. Of course, I already have Version 2 fully drafted in my head and hopefully one day soon, I will be able to get to [...]

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How I narrowly avoided making a crappy logo

Let me tell you the story of how I narrowly managed to avoid making a crappy logo. I am doing a logo design for a gaming website, and I instantly thought of all the cool texturing and gimmicky things that I could do with it. I think it is a fairly common situation to be [...]

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Using too many fonts is bad, real bad.

Now, I don’t mean how many fonts you have available in your Photoshop font list, I’m talking about using 5-6 different font styles crammed in a single layout. It’s like plucking beautiful doves from the sky and messing up their feathers on purpose. Before anyone jumps the gun and tell me about all the super designy [...]

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What is Creativity Catch 22?

When you are stressed, doing something creative is a great way to relieve your stress. On the other hand, when you are stressed, trying to be creative is far from being easy. And for anyone working in the creative field, that can spell Doom. With a bolded D. Many things contribute to stress, such as lack [...]

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