Steve Douglas on April 19th, 2009

I’m kinda old school, and think this belongs in the ‘goes without saying category’ but with the recent flaps about copied and improperly licensed logos still reverberating around the design community, it looks like it may not go ‘without saying’ after all. Accordingly, I thought it might be a good time to take a look [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 23rd, 2008

Your business card is an advertising ‘foot soldier’, presenting your company logo and (more importantly) your contact information to potential clients, customers and networking opportunities. A large percentage of business cards handed out end up in the round file – everyone’s got a card and only a small percentage get kept. How to make yours [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 23rd, 2008

Thought I’d spend a few minutes this morning talking about letterhead design, and something that’s just as important – getting them printed, after the design phase is complete. Many clients and designers will choose to work directly with a local printer, but some might be new to working with offset print shops and some of [...]

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Steve Douglas on May 6th, 2008

After spending some time on naming your new company, registering that matching domain name, we’re now ready to get down to business – the point of this entire series – designing a logo. Before we start scribbling away, we’re going to take a look at some things you’ll need to kick around during our upcoming [...]

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