If you want to be a graphic designer, your choice of college can have a direct and permanent impact on your lifelong career. While most design schools teach a solid foundation in graphic design, some...
If you’re a freelance graphic designer, writer, marketer or other professional, you know the only two truths in life: taxes and death. But there is a third, practically undeniable truth that you shoul...
3D Printer by Keith Kissel, Creative Commons license via FlickrTrue 3-D printing has finally become a reality, and one that is affordable for most small businesses and many science fiction fans. Unfor...
Staying abreast of contemporary graphic design trends is one way to keep your skill set relevant and marketable in the ever-evolving world of professional graphic design. It’s good to know what your c...
Graphic design is a great job. It offers creative liberties, good pay (at least decent, right?), and isn’t physically demanding. Graphic designers I know tend to be a happy sort, living the life of th...
As I was gathering images for this week’s “Hot Off the Press,” I noticed something similar among the designs: The best printing this week is so colorful! Some designers – and smart marketers – are way...
Google Now has launched to much fanfare, but given the service is still in its infancy (and “learning” about its individual users), it can be somewhat difficult to predict how marketers can best posi...
The vast majority of my clients are outstanding, a fact I’ve been blessed with during my career. However, like all freelancers and small business owners, there have been a few along the way from whom...
Controversy sells. It sells newspapers and products, advertising and services. A “good” controversy commands attention and imagination, which is why so many publicity stunts are predicated on it. In t...