It's time to say Happy New Year again! According to the traditional Chinese calendar, the new year begins on February 14, 2010. Chinese New Year lasts for 15 days and involves lots of celebrating incl...
With Valentine’s Day in two weeks, it’s time to take some of the stress off and kill two lovebirds with one stone – so to speak. The winter holidays aren’t your only opportunity to create a themed pla...
Don't rely on a simple face-to-face pitch, exchange of business cards or an e-mail message to help you make a sale or land a new client. Even if you have a successful business meeting with a client, w...
We write a lot about invitations, when to send them, how to send them, even ideas on how to make them yourself, but we seldom talk about whether printed materials are better than electronic. I think t...
Is there any company that stirs up as much excitement about a new product as Apple? Even before Steve Jobs took the stage in San Francisco on Wednesday, people were speculating about what a game chang...
Valentine’s Day is soon approaching, and e-cards are a great free way to show your love and appreciation to others.There are hundreds of websites that offer free e-cards, many of them with funny singi...
With today's frenzy over the Apple iPad’s debut – formerly known as the Apple Tablet – I started thinking: What is it about Apple that gets designers’ hearts all fluttery? Why is our devotion so rabid...
If you've ever had to lay out pages and pages of text and design for a brochure or a direct-mail campaign, a poster design project may seem simple by comparison. A poster is just one surface with one...
A lot of graphic artists like to draw and sketch and if you’re one of those artists, the pen and the computer don’t have to be unrelated.The foundations of graphic design go back to many drawing princ...