Archive for March, 2009

Save some trees by going green with your marketing materials.

I like to bring some eco-friendly print news to light from time to time. It might seem like a waste, so I thought I’d share some statistics to help put things

I was driving down the main street here in town yesterday, and I noticed a trend in the signs in the stores. They all referred to the recession as a joke. Not that the loss of jobs are a joke,

Do graphic designers need a union?  Perhaps, if you're not charging enough.  Weigh in on this one!

Do graphic designers need a union? Perhaps, if you're not charging enough. Weigh in on this one!

The online scramble to grab online graphic design jobs has escalated with the diminished economy — fewer companies are paying for design, more designers

Years ago, before Adobe InDesign existed, I used QuarkXPress. At the time, my job required me to transform my readers’ spread designs into printer spreads when going to press. Unless you are used to turning multiple-page documents into printer spreads

Knowing the size at which the cost of postage goes up on a postcard can make you a hero with your clients.

For a postcard to mail under the postcard rate (currently $.27 as of February 2009) it has to measure

Whether you are doing the proofing or making edits to a project, a graphic designer has to know what proofreaders’ marks mean.

It’s a very good idea to have someone else proof a project that you are working on. Usually, because