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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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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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Stop the creative genocide

Many people are in the category of the self imposed (un)creative prison. I believe that everyone is essentially creative, but through many years of negative conditioning, you are led to believe that only highly specialized artists can be creative. I’m here to say otherwise. There are many people in various job positions where creativity is frowned [...]

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