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By Douglas Bonneville on October 13, 2010
There are a lot of great freelance graphic design resource websites out there today. From Smashing Magazine to Freelance Switch and everything in between. Enough said—these are indispensable web resources for freelancers. But is there too much information? I’d like to address the information-overload aspect of freelance graphic design resources.
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 29, 2010
Is there a consensus on whether or not graphic designers should know how to draw? Should drawing and sketching be a part of the creative design process? And is the answer relative?
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By Douglas Bonneville on March 15, 2010
When you are in transit, at a meeting, or at lunch, having your iPhone with you affords you a chance to get some graphic design work done when away from your computer. These 16 useful apps for graphic designers will help you learn, organize, brainstorm, or research different aspects of your design work. As a [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on December 28, 2009
The world grows smaller everyday, but in no place does it grow more smaller on a daily basis than Rhode Island! With a metro area of just over 1 million people, there are only so many graphic designers and agencies to go ’round. We have rounded up 14 of our favorite graphic design firms in [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on October 27, 2009
Last month I posted an article called 19 top fonts in 19 top combinations which caught the attention of Jacob Cass and Smashing Magazine and quite a few other readers as a result of all the traffic that came in from Twitter. I also got a lot of correspondence over the article with a large [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on October 7, 2009
David Airey has posted a breakthrough logo design tutorial revealing the fastest way to get the best logo design possible. Go take a gander and then wander back here. Since his new logo is on the internet, I have a license to use it on my new limited edition product line in recognition of his [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 17, 2009
Ikea, as many of you know, changed their typeface for all catalog, in-store, and online presence to Verdana. Yes, Verdana. The outrage by graphic designers and others with an intuitive design sense let out an immediate cry of digust. An online petition was started. I just got around to signing it. It’s up to about [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 16, 2009
We scoured the web to find the names of top graphic designers and agencies who also ran blogs. We compared blog comments for mentions of other designers, blog rolls, etc., and came to a general-consensus list of what are considered the most visited blogs by the top graphic designers and graphic design agencies. This list [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 15, 2009
Who is who these days in corporate identity design? We searched out this over the course of a few days, here and there, all over the web, from scratch. We searched for things like “famous graphic designers”, “top graphic design agencies”, etc., etc., and tallied up what many other sites had mentioned as their top [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 9, 2009
Out of the huge number of fonts used by graphic designers, there really is quite a small pool of fonts consistently chosen over and over again by graphic designers as their “most used”. I took some time to search out as many “top fonts for graphic designers” search results (plus variations) that I had time [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 3, 2009
I’m biased towards Mary Bonneville, graphic designer at marybonneville.com because…we’re married! Here’s to 19 years and counting! We’ve worked together as freelance graphic designers in one capacity or another since the early 90′s. She’s now broke out into her own style and direction apart from mine and the work we’ve done together over the years. [...]
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