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Design Inspiration Series #1: Pressure as Inspiration

May 16, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

I don’t find passion in graphic design, but I’m very interested in it, even after 20 years in the field. It’s always more interesting to do something purely artistic, where solving client problems isn’t a factor. I’m passionate about Fine Art, yet only very interested in Design, enough to keep doing it with a measure of delight after 20 years. It’s much more fun to write a song or sketch a painting concept than it is to analyze a client’s competitor and his branding. But as a designer, I must deliver work with a certain measure of inspiration or else I’ll cease to get work in this field. Right?

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Filed Under: Creativity, Graphic Design Books

10 ways to make your graphic design blog irrelevant in 12 months

May 15, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

I’ve done the homework for you so that you don’t have to! Let’s take your blog from bad to worse, like a slow train wreck, over the next 12 months. All you have to do is follow these 10 steps:

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Filed Under: Graphic Design

Typography Primer: all you need to know in one PDF

May 13, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

I came across this excellent PDF from Adobe that succinctly covers all the basic terms about typography. Download without delay and refresh your memory. It’s beautifully designed and easy to read with wonderful graphics. … [Read More]

Filed Under: Font Combinations, Typography

Best Rosary App for the iPhone!

May 11, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

One of our new iPhone apps is called “Rosary Gems” (the direct link to the app in the iTunes store) and is a functional rosary for the iPhone. We tried to break out of the “bead” paradigm and design something novel around the UI constraints of an iPhone. We used Blender, Photoshop and Fireworks. Let’s take a look at the production art for this rosary app. … [Read More]

Filed Under: Graphic Design, iPhone

Alt Key Combinations with PDF cheat sheet

May 11, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

There are a handful of keyboard shortcuts for special characters I routinely need but can never quite remember when I’m working on a PC. Because I split time between Mac and PC, I tend to confuse “alt” and “option” key shortcuts. I put together this cheat sheet of the characters I need the most, plus some other popular international characters.

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Filed Under: Font Combinations, Typography, Web Design

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