FINAT Honors its World Label Award Winners
FINAT, the international association for self-adhesive label industry, takes pride in announcing that FINAT, as every other year, is one of the leading associations with regard to winning World Label Awards. With 27 categories to choose from and with the diverse range of applications available, it is easier to match the FINAT entries to the […]
Sources of Graphic Design Inspiration
Graphic design schools can teach you all the top techniques to create brilliant designs, but if you don’t feel inspired where do you begin? Fortunately, the Internet can prove an excellent source of inspiration for both website and print designs. Here are some of the best sites you should check out: Raster: An Internet website […]
Do Animated eBooks Have a Future?
Recently we’ve been exploring how the book industry is adjusting to electronic books. There are pros and cons to eBooks, but regardless the industry is moving to digital formats fast – even to the point of the Oxford English Dictionary considering not publishing another print edition. Some book publishers aren’t just adjusting to eBooks, they’re […]
Marketers brace for paper cost increase
Direct marketers and catalogers are preparing to face paper cost increases this fall, while also planning for a possible significant postal rate increase in January. Marketers say volatility in the paper market in recent years, due to economic instability, has made it difficult for them to project costs from one year to the next. Many […]
Best Paying Cities for Graphic Designers
Should you relocate to make more money as a graphic designer? Or even look for graphic design colleges in specific cities to improve your employment prospects? Certain cities do pay significantly more than others. If a high salary is your primary goal, then you should know the five highest paying metropolitan areas for graphic designers […]
TED TALKS: The beauty of data visualization
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world. See Video Here Related articles […]
Do We Need a New Definition of Creativity? In Today's Digital World, the Answer Is Yes
There’s an inevitable moment in most ad industry disagreements in which a creative demands, “Let’s see your portfolio.” The translation is often: What have you actually done? I mean, what have you ever made? The divide is between the people who make stuff (aka creatives) and the people who talk about stuff (aka strategists). The […]
How persuasive is your website’s copy? A simple, five-step checklist
As a web designer, you’re probably accustomed to obsessing over the layout and visual appearance of your designs. And if you’re like most, a site’s content is something you’d rather not worry about. But being able to identify weak web copy allows you to offer greater value to your client. By spotting major problems and […]
Millcraft Paper Company: Designers – Meet Your Type
This one’s for all our design friends out there. While, we love paper here at Millcraft, we so appreciate all the elements of beautiful design – and that includes typography. Now, we know out strengths – and typography is not one of them. Luckily the Font Shop has just introduced a great new tool called […]
Neenah Paper Design Contest – Striking Every Time
It’s time to take a closer look at ESSE® and OXFORD® Premium Papers from Neenah Paper (NYSE: NP). The new “Striking Every Time” promotion contains eight unique clock faces and a great contest to inspire designers to create their own one-of-a-kind clock face. The interchangeable clock faces that come with the promotion showcase a range […]
Color-Logic targets designers with video guide
Color-Logic has produced a video to demonstrate how graphic designers can quickly produce metallic special effects using its process metallic colour system. The seven-minute video provides a step-by-step guide to Color-Logic’s design software and was conducted by the company’s chief technology officer Richard Ainge, who developed the original MetalFX process. Mark Geeves, sales and marketing […]
Getting Real Feedback For Your New Design, Usability Testing
Getting feedback is very important in each work, because it really can improve our works, see do others react and understand your design the same way you do and of course to let you understand how your readers,visitors think. There are really many websites by now already helping each other to critique artworks, get suggestions, […]
