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This post, “Utilizing Time Management,” is in response to tip #8 in our post, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.”
Use your time wisely
You only have so many seconds, minutes and hours in a day. Use them wisely. Make sure you make your customers’ time just as valuable.
Set aside time in the day for brainstorming, [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 4:37 pm
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This post is a continuation of graphic design tip #7 in our article “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.“
Lost your keys lately?
Artistic types are not typically known for their organization skills. We have a tendency to go with the flow, let our desks get a little jumbled and put our keys in odd places. [...]
Posted by admin on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Filed under Business, Educational · Tagged with basic organizational aid, basic organizational skills, graphic design, graphic design organization, graphic design tip, graphic designer, how to get organized, organization skills, organize graphic design, organized
This post is in reference to our article “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.” We chose to separate “Get an education” from this graphic design tip, “Read Beyond” because we feel that on top of reading books, which are for instruction on graphic design, it is also important to read books that have to [...]
Posted by admin on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Filed under Educational · Tagged with art of distraction, arty chantry, beat generation, book cover design, book cover designer, chip kidd, creative process, feed your imagination, freelance graphic designer, graphic design books, graphic design instruction, graphic design literature, graphic design tips, iconic poster design, inspiration from reading, inspiring literature, jack kerouac, poster design
This post is an expansion of tip #5 in our post 101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success.
School might not be for everyone, but education is!
Education is no doubt a topic that isn’t new to you. You have weighed your options carefully and realized that there are many, many, choices. The combination of degrees, schools, [...]
This blog post was created in reference to item #4 in our post, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success”
Are you a prepared Graphic Designer?
Preparation is everything. If you have ever gone fishing you know that you will not get very far without tackle. Design tackle consists of everything that makes up design, be it [...]
Posted by admin on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 2:23 am
Filed under Business, Educational · Tagged with 101 Graphic Design, adobe font folio, adobe garamond, basic system fonts, be prepared, design tackle, design tools, fonts, graphic design, graphic design software, graphic design tips, graphic designer, helvetica, logo design, metal ruler, self-healing cutting matt, sketch pad, spray mount
There are a lot of sites offering free icons with the Christmas holiday theme and we wanted to spotlight some of our favorite ones. These sites are either offering their own, or doing a roundup of sites that offer freebie icons, which is what we’re doing If you have any more sites to [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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This blog post was created in reference to item #3 in our post, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success” Be sure to subscribe to our feed by clicking the “News Feed” link at the top of this page.
The Struggle
It’s happened again. It’s 3:00 p.m., arsenic hour, you’ve officially flat lined. The creative juices stopped [...]
Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Filed under Business, Educational · Tagged with 101 Graphic Design, artistic block, creative concept, creative juices, design inspiration, freelance graphic designer, graphic design, graphic design tips, graphic designer, logo, logo design, logos
Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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This blog post was created in reference to item #2 in our post, “101 Graphic Design Tips for Business Success“
The Fundamental Difference
Keeping an open mind as a Designer is a lesson you need to learn early on. There is a fundamental difference between Artists and Designers. Artists create art for the sake of art. Designers [...]
Posted by admin on Monday, December 7, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Filed under Business, Educational · Tagged with 101 Graphic Design, brand, business brand, company brand, freelance graphic designer, graphic design, graphic design client, graphic designer, logo, logo design, open minded
Thank you! I’m really glad to be able to answer your questions, especially since the TPD team made such a great logo design contest here.
’m from the country, Indonesia, where I grew up in an ordinary family, never went to school in the world of design, and my talent is only obtained from the [...]
Posted by admin on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 3:26 am
Filed under Designer Spotlight · Tagged with freelance graphic designer, graphic design, graphic design tips, graphic designer, graphic designer spotlight, logo contest, logo design, logo design contest, logo designer