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By Douglas Bonneville on February 2, 2010
Pre-flighting your print-ready digital design files for a printing press run is as much an art as it is a science. The science of printing from digital files is the part that never changes. However, the art of pre-flighting is getting yourself to remember to check for all the things that could delay, or at [...]
Posted in Graphic Design, Print Design |
By Douglas Bonneville on November 27, 2009
Part of the fun of running a graphic design blog is getting to see how people find the site through Google. I recently took a look at my analytics, and found some crazy typos and hilarious search strings! While most of my traffic comes from other designers through Twitter and other graphic design related sites, [...]
Posted in Graphic Design, Print Design, Typography, WordPress Blogging | Tagged Graphic Design, monitor resolution, printing press, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on October 6, 2009
In early 2008, a great question was posed on a midwest Adobe User’s Group list I belong to: “A question just came up at the happy hour, and none of us know the answer. Standard resolutions in the web and print world are 72, 300 and 600. None of these are natural squares, which assuming [...]
Posted in Print Design | Tagged monitor resolution, Print Design, printing press |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 24, 2009
A quick way to give customers fast complete access to a printable version of your business or products is to get a PDF version of your brochure on your website. Smart move! But you don’t want to put just any PDF brochure design on the web. If you want to communicate your services or products [...]
Posted in Brochures, Corporate Identity, Freelance Graphic Design, Graphic Design, Page Layout, Print Design, Typography | Tagged Corporate Identity, Print Design, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 11, 2009
Here are 100 of the most popular books on graphic design. Some are old and some are really old. The great thing about the fundamentals of graphic design is that they never change. How many of these books are in your personal libray? Enjoy! 100 of the most popular books on graphic design Thinking with [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on September 3, 2009
Ever had a print job come back only to see blurry small type but nice and crisp images? When you are designing for 4-color process (CMYK), you have to obey a few rules or you’ll end up with poor results off the press. One mistake that very common to new designers is the flippant applying [...]
Posted in Print Design, Typography | Tagged prepress, Print Design, Typography |
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