Having a good relationship with a printer is probably one of the more important factors in my job as a graphic artist.About 80 percent of the work that I produce is going to have to be printed in orde...
Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 9, and it's a huge consumer holiday with billions of dollars made in sales. There's still time to tap into this holiday, no matter what kind of business you're in. For...
I’ve had a couple of conversations this week with people on Twitter that led me to suggest die cuts for their projects. Die cutting is a way to customize your print order with a unique shape that make...
What's black and white and red all over? No, it's not an injured zebra or a newspaper, but this sticker: What is the deal with the Obey sticker? If you live near a city, you've probably seen this ima...
A great Mother’s Day card is one that will touch your mother’s heart and make her feel like the card was written just for her. When designing a card that has such an emotional tie, you want to make su...
Happy Earth Day! The purpose of today is to raise awareness of our planet: appreciate it and develop practices to sustain it. There are plenty of things you can do in your everyday life to preserve th...
By now, you’ve probably experienced a client sending you a poor quality picture that they want included in their project.Maybe it was too blurry or too dark. The colors might have been off or it looke...
I love writing these types of posts because, although as artists we need to know how to create eye-catching imagery, as business owners, we have to know how to navigate those tricky situations that ca...
I was racking my brain for something interesting to say about business cards and somehow wound up searching for "business cards" on Youtube.com. I found these three crazy clips that I hope will entert...