Archive Category 'Design'

Email Standards Project

Category: Design
Date October 21st, 2008
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The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
They help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently. This is a community effort to improve the email experience [...]

2008 Email Design Guidelines

Category: Design
Date October 21st, 2008
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As web designers, we’ve grown pretty good at understanding how to create a modern, semantic, accessible website using XHTML and CSS. We understand what makes a good website, and how to make it happen.
When it comes time to design emails though, do all the same rules apply? Are there things we should be doing specifically [...]

Email marketing tips

Category: Design
Date October 21st, 2008
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Articles and tips to make a good email maketing

What is Information Design?

Category: Design
Date May 12th, 2008
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In 1996 a woman named Lindsey Martin asked the following question on a community message board:
“What is the lexigraphical status of the expression ‘information design’? Is it a discipline? A loose commercial designation like ‘desk-top publishing’? A port-manteau word?” (Informationdesign.org, #1)
Four days later, David Barker-Plummer replied with:
“I [...]

10 trends that will define logo design in 2008

Category: Design
Date April 16th, 2008
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Logos are the ultimate mark of distinction and everyone loves them. We see logos everyday - on the highways, on consumer goods, on the Web and in the institutions and organizations we support. Read about the different types of logo designs here and learn what principles and techniques are used to create them. Discover what [...]

Brochure design tips

Category: Design
Date March 3rd, 2008
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Brochure design tips are generally learned the hard way for the novice designer. Stupid mistakes can be expensive mistakes for you and for your customer. The result is wasted paper, bruised egos and lost business. If you learn anything from my brochure design tips page, the best advice I have to offer is to be [...]

The 3 R’s of Branding

Category: Design, Marketing
Date February 26th, 2008
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Everyone has heard of the 3 R’s of education: “Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic”, but have you heard of the 3 R’s of branding? They are Recognition, Reputation and Reaction.
Recognition: We want our products to be recognized. We want the hard work that goes into packaging our products and services, the money we spend on advertising, [...]

The History of Visual Communication

Category: Design
Date February 21st, 2008
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Visual communication is the communication of ideas through the visual display of information. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: art, signs, photography, typography, drawing fundamentals, colour and electronic resources. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically oriented usability. It is part of what a graphic designer does to [...]

Times New Roman History

Category: Design
Date February 13th, 2008
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The Times New Roman appeared for the first time on october 3rd 1932 in the Times. Only fourty years later, while the conditions of printing had completely changed, it was replaced by an other.

Even though it originally was created for the printing of newspapers with stereotype-plates, it became also very fast the leading type for [...]

Minimalist Web Design - Why Less Really Is More

Category: Design
Date January 23rd, 2008
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The saying that less is more has been applied to everything from art to advertising. When it comes to website design, it has never been truer than it is today.
With all the cutting-edge technology and so many fabulous graphics to choose from or create, designers often want to throw everything they can into a website [...]