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You’ll spend half of your time as a designer impressing clients – or trying to, at least. To achieve that, you can show a portfolio containing your best work. But why not take it up a notch? Why not create a fancy and unique resume? If getting noticed is the objective, then you should aim to excite employers right from the get-go. I know gimmicky resumes might not sit well with some of

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The other day I did a piece on the three best freelance designer decisions you can make. Now, I’m following it up with the three worst freelance designer decisions you can make. Keep in mind that I’m leaving obvious items off the list, such as copyright infringement and jumping off a cliff if a client complains, but including poor decisions freelance graphic designers make every day that

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Social Graphic Designer (Photo credit: Filimonas) Every freelance graphic designer operates their business differently, but in most cases follows the same general process as below. The information provided herein is based on my own experience as a freelance graphic designer, and can be used to set the basis for your own operations or to give clients a better insight into your typical

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In honor of excellent branding design (which we are a huge fan of) we decided to collect some of the freshest and hottest branding we have seen in a while. Good Branding can be so incredibly epic, my favorite type of branding is when they brand all the little things that you never really expect to be branded. The Print aspects of branding are usually expected, flyers, brochures, business

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The design on any product is what gives your potential customer the first impression of it. That is why it is very important that you break the customary rules and make your product stand out from the rest. A beautifully designed packaging will have huge appeal to your target market and it can influence the buyer’s decision. In today’s post, we have collected around 45 effective and

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In business design brochures and booklets are a standard tool for promotion and advertising. As we all know that catalogue and brochures take part important role in printing field.  If you are in printing field and you need to design brochures & catalogue then here we have a luminous collection of “30 Beautiful Examples Of Cool Catalogue & Brochure Design”. We hope you will

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This is a question that some people never think twice about, and others completely over think. In both instances you can end up with something that doesn’t do your brand justice, or that is so “unique” that it is actually detrimental. Sometimes the Clever Thing is to Not Be too Clever Most will agree the sole purpose of a business card is to provide your contact information in a manner

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In today’s world advertisement plays very important role for a product or company to be successful the advertisement must deliver powerful message which attracts the consumer’s attention. Humorous advertisement is one of the best way to grab more consumer’s attention. In this roundup I have showcase some of the best humorous print ad which makes you laugh. Enjoy! More

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Offering out a conventional business card to potential clients, is only as impressive as handing out a boring circular. Be creative to make a lasting impression with some fun element. Designing funny business cards is a matter of pun-filled creativity. If you could manage to bring a smile on your prospective visitors with your business card, it’s like half battle won. An amusing design

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The letterhead provides an important addition to a brand’s image, with a simple and careful placement of it’s logo and corporate design. It’s importance must not be underestimated when working on a company’s identity and stationery. Finding letterhead designs for your inspiration is pretty hard, especially when you need something top notch to see in order to have some guidelines for

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Bad news, kids: your logo isn't your brand. This weekend I attended AIGA Y Conference (Y17).  One of the first speakers, a name you probably recognize, Karim Rachid, immediately launched into logo vs. brand.  He pointed out how so many companies start with logo, and that this is a misplaced focus (my words, not his, although I agree) because your brand isn't just what your logo

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In From up North's inspiration galleries we present the latest of our findings from the wonderful world of design. Amazing high quality artworks in various categories from great designers all over the globe. More

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Good Typography is beautiful and that's a fact. But how can you define good typography? There are millions of different typefaces on the internet and most of them are offered for free which makes it very difficult for designers to choose the appropriate fonts for logos, websites, posters etc. Today we showcase a fresh collection of the latest typefaces available to help you out a bit

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A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide. Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.” Although

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Whether it happens in a corporate conference room or in a startup client’s office (read: Starbucks), at some point in your career, someone is going to ignore your sketches and ideas and say, “Here’s a site I like. I want one designed just like this!” A bruised ego is bad enough, but knowing where to draw the line between inspiration and theft is even tougher. There are times we

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Alberto Seveso is a graphic designer and illustrator from Italy who has simply created a fantastic style by mixing colourful vectors with black and white photos known as “sperm shaping”. It’s very hard to look at his work and not say WOW. Can you tell us  how you started and discovered that you wanted be a designer? I was born in Milan 30 years ago, but I have lived for more than 20

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Also known as International Style, the Swiss Style does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. This style in art, architecture and culture became an ‘international’ style after 1950’s and it was produced by artists all

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I actually wanted to name the title "5 Steps to the Birth of a Brand", but unfortunately people still don't know the difference and that's why I'm writing today's post. You may be thinking it's time to invest in your brand and have a designer create your logo. Or perhaps you have a logo, but want to give it a good face lift. Well, I'm going to take you through the steps of such a process

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Clients come in many varieties. Some are thoughtful, professional, cooperative and ALWAYS pay on time. Then there are the other ones. When a client goes beyond “difficult,” to being such a burden on your resources that your other clients suffer, then you may have no choice but to cut the cord. There are many legitimate reasons to end a client relationship, including non-payment, poor

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Around the world, only a few hundred people make a living as fulltime typeface designers. Two of them happen to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, population 167,000, where they've embarked on an ambitious project to distill the city's artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity

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I’ve always wanted to have a stamp with my logo on it and use it for client work. Even if it’s the ‘paid’ invoice stamp. For some reason I don’t mind using old technology in 2012. Having a stamp gives people a personalized feeling. The thought of you having to literally use the stamp, means you carefully worked on the project and overlooked everything. Today we decided to showcase some

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It’s been a really long time since we did our series of typography inspiration. Believe in or not,  it was all the way back in January 2011. Today we are happy to bring it back, to feature some outstanding typography designs. We selected all of the following work based on quality, thus giving you the best of the best. All of the image are credited their original creators. We do

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If you’re crazy about typography, the new Scrabble edition will not fail to entice you. The popular boardgame company has just released the limited edition Scrabble Typography. The new version features a beautiful storage case with a drawer, a matching six-panel magnetized gameboard as well as tiles that carry different and exciting fonts—all of which are made of solid walnut.

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What a better way to end the work week than with a healthy dose of inspiration. And as we’ve mentioned before there’s nothing wrong with looking at other mediums to get inspired. So today we’re showing you some fantastic examples of package design, where beauty and functionality are both equally important. In this collection you will find beautiful typography, color schemes, textures and

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Pioneering American designer in modernist graphic design, Lester Beall believed that designer’s creativity should be present at every step of the process. Beall said, “the designer’s role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.” Born in Kansas, Missouri at the beginning of the 20th century, Lester Beall

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