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Desktop Publishing Tricks for the Do-it-yourselfer
If you have a small business, you probably cannot afford to hire a professional designer to do all of your promotional materials. While a good designer can really help your materials to be effective, you can do a respectable job yourself if you follow a few simple design tricks. (read more)
7 Tricks in Making Your Own Cards
Business cards are an important part of making a connection with potential clients. Most people can not even remember the name of a person they just met. If you want people to remember you and actually give you a call, you need a business card to hand out. These tricks will help you to create a business card that will make an impression. (read more)
Ways to Create Enviable Business Cards
Do your business cards make your competition green with envy? If they don't, then they should. Here are 4 easy ways to create enviable business cards that will make your business card printing the talk of the town. (read more)
How To Improve Your Business Cards
Almost anyone can design business cards, but do you know how to take your ordinary design and turn it into something that will be remembered? Here are some step by step ideas for recreating your typical business card that will take your card beyond the competitors' designs and turn it into an advertising machine. (read more)
6 Things You Can Do For Interesting Brochures
Creating a brochure takes time and money, so be sure your investment in a brochure printing is well spent by making your brochures as interesting as possible. Brochures are designed to hold a significant amount of information, so you need extra tricks to get people to turn the page and keep reading. (read more)
Brochure Layout Tips and Ideas
Boring brochures abound. It’s easy to see why this happens: we all get in a rut and designing interesting brochures is often the last thing on our minds. But think about how much wasted time and money this kind of thinking can result in. Boring brochures are sure to be thrown away by your customers, probably before even having read them.(read more)
How To Design a Brochure For Your School Event/Program
Printing brochures is a great way to tell people about an event, but you will want to keep a few things in mind when designing a brochure.(read more)
Succeed as a Graphic Designer by Specializing on a Niche
Starting a career in graphic design can be a challenge, especially when you haven't defined your unique niche. Knowing what specific area or areas of graphic design in which you wish to offer services will help you to create a more focused, and therefore, successful business. For instance, if you know that your skills are perfect for booklet printing design, start in this niche. You can always expand later if necessary.(read more)
A Compilation of Useful Online Resources for Graphic Designers
The internet offers a wide variety of tutorials and other helpful websites for graphic designers. Whether you are printing posters or designing websites, there is something out there for you, and there is no reason you shouldn’t take advantage of the wealth of information out there. (read more)
How To Jumpstart a Career in Graphic Design
Graphic design is the perfect career for anyone who is self-motivated and can create original designs for the Web or for print. Whether you are currently in graphic design school or don't even know where to begin, here are the steps you need to take to jumpstart your career in graphic design. (read more)
Content and Design of Newsletters
Newsletters can be used in almost any industry for connecting with customers or club members. Although newsletter printing can take a lot of time, they show recipients that their relationship with you is important. Both the content and the design takes careful consideration to create sales and impress clients, so use the following tips for newsletter printing that promotes loyal customers. (read more)
Choosing the Right Fold for Your Brochure
One of the first decisions to be made when planning your brochure design is the type of fold to use. It is important to keep in mind your purpose and also the limitations associated with each folding option when deciding which one is right for your brochure. Below is a guideline of brochure folds available along with advantages and disadvantages of each. (read more)
Corporate Identity: Design Trends and Printing
Not all corporate identity trends translate well to print. Designing and implementing a corporate identity that is not effective in print can create some serious advertising and marketing problems later. The following are a few corporate identity trends in design and some printing considerations. (read more)
Design Tips for Brochures and Flyers
It’s important that your brochures and flyers are unique, readable, connect with your customers, and include a call to action. It’s not easy to design brochures and flyers that effectively include all of these elements. So keep the following tips and tricks in mind when designing. (read more)
Tips for Halloween Graphic Design
Whether you are a designer looking for ideas for a client or a small business owner who wants to design some marketing materials yourself, Halloween provides lots of opportunities for getting creative. This popular holiday opens up new avenues of design techniques for reaching your customers and beating out the competition. The following are a few tips to raise your creativity from the grave. (read more)
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