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I found these 5 articles on the web recently and found myself returning to them several times, so I decided to make a post about them. Graphic Elements – 27 Indespensible Resources for Graphic Designers Design Trends and Predictions 2009 – Web Design Trends in 2009 Cheat Sheets – Cheat Sheets for Web Designers Older [...]

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Here’s a blog post that lists 17 people who changed the Internet forever. It’s good to see the photos of the people who are affiliated with these companies. My only problem is that it’s missing the guy from democracydesigns.com. I guess it’s because it hasn’t yet launched so that must be where the problem is. [...]

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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 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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