By: Amanda Gant | July 30th, 2012 | 1 comment
The Adobe Creative Suite family of products -spanning from CS1 to CS6, the latest incarnation on the market– has been extraordinarily popular amongst graphic designers, website developers and graphics editors of all types. This is with good reason; the products offered are great, extremely diverse and enormously powerful as digital design tools. CS6 has recently [...]
By: Wes McDowell | July 24th, 2012 | 3 comments
How many times have you been asked what you or your design company does? I’m asked on a regular basis, and trust me, it really makes a difference if you have a clear, concise answer that paints a complete picture in seconds. According to Carmine Gallo in this video originally published on Forbes.com, the key [...]
By: Adam Farwell | July 18th, 2012 | 1 comment
While many comic book fans, science fiction aficionados, fantasy artists and some designers appreciate pulp sci-fi/fantasy novel and magazine covers from the 50s, 60s and 70s, it’s a world of genius design and visual art that’s often overlooked. These sleazy, sensational and sometimes shocking covers depict barbarians, astronauts, aliens and robots in ways that use [...]
By: Jake Downs | July 6th, 2012 | 1 comment
When working on a new site, one mistake that often occurs is focusing too much on the art of the web design and not enough on the science. Aesthetics aside, everything from layout to font choice should be guided by user testing to ensure that the website is not only pretty but also functioning at [...]