Designing

Design matters. You could print a million business cards, posters, stickers or postcards, but if they don’t have a strong design then they won’t work to promote your business, product, service or event. A poor design speaks poorly of you, and we here at PsPrint Blog don’t like anyone speaking poorly of you. Below you will find helpful blog posts covering all aspects of design, so whether you are designing for business or for pleasure, we’ve got a blog post that can help you.

October 25, 2011

Roy Lichtenstein's "Go for Baroque," 1979, in The Jeffrey H. Loria Collection, New York.

  Ben-Day pattern Named after its creator, Benjamin Day, the Ben-Day Dot pattern...

October 17, 2011

[caption id="attachment_22160" align="aligncenter" width="594" caption="It's important to keep track of these things. (Image via Joe Stone.)"][/caption] I'm what you might like to call a "visual...

September 12, 2011

The key to faking screen printing is to be imperfect. As you can tell from the above poster (which was created digitally) someone went to a lot of trouble to make everything a little off-kilter....

September 12, 2011

[caption id="attachment_21181" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Alonzo Felix for the band Thrice Beggars"][/caption] Let's talk about elaborate type. There seems to be a groundswell of...

September 8, 2011

[caption id="attachment_21212" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="This nice color wheel is from www.beading-design-jewelry.com They also have a good section of different kinds of color...

August 30, 2011

[caption id="attachment_21061" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="From Vincent Laforet"][/caption]

You know you've seen them. Photographs of crowded plazas taken from a great height...

August 30, 2011

[caption id="attachment_21090" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A Friday evening Off the Grid event at Fort Mason in San Francisco."][/caption]

Lately there’s been a real zeitgeist...

August 30, 2011

[caption id="attachment_21039" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A great collection of vintage radios from Mark Amsterdam in The Collection Collective Group on Flickr."][/caption]...

August 30, 2011

[caption id="attachment_21020" align="aligncenter" width="525" caption="A nice illustrated cover by Renee Castro."][/caption] One of the great things about living in the Bay Area is the endless...

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What is the PsPrint Blog??

The PsPrint Blog is a resource for graphic designers, freelancers, small business owners and fans of print marketing. You'll find helpful techniques on printing everything there is to print, including business cards, postcards, brochures, stickers, invitations, greeting cards, door hangers, magnets and more. The PsPrint Blog shares creative ways to improve your design and layout skills, and useful tips for marketing your business in any medium. We also like to have a little fun, sharing design inspiration and spotlighting some our favorite customers' printed pieces in our "Hot Off the Press" series.