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Interesting story… Last month, I picked up a copy of web designer magazine, issue #149. It has a giant WordPress logo on the cover. What I didn’t know was that this logo was not the actual WordPress logo but a tutorial my friend and coworker Jon Cazier did on his blog, 3nhanced.com. I brought the [...]

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The best retro graphics are the ones you can make yourself. I’ll show you how to make these simple designs quickly and easily. Not only will they be unique and to your liking, when you make them yourself they’re free! I’m using Illustrator CS2-CS3 for this tutorial, but you’ll find these steps to be pretty [...]

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I like this blog post about finding passion in your job. The author mentions “Most of us make the mistake of assuming that our ideal job is ‘out there’ somewhere”. I’m guilty of the “out there somewhere” mentality myself. Always looking at the grass on the other side of the fence. Aside from that, my [...]

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I remember watching an interview with Filmmaker David Lynch where he made a comment about the creative process. He said something to the extent of “out of hundreds of different choices, ten will work”. He was referring to choices made in the creative process in his movies. I like to sometimes tell this advice to [...]

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I used to work at an ad agency where the rule of thumb for text on a billboard was; No more than 7 words. Sometimes you’d get a few more words than that when the client had something they absolutely had to say, 9-10 words, fine. When I came across these billboards on the side [...]

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