Effective event flyers are designed very carefully to grab your attention. They are often posted in high traffic areas, on telephone poles, message boards, and elsewhere. Competition is high in these areas, so the idea is to make your event flyer stand out from all of the others. You must combine many different elements to create an event flyer that…
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If you are a company or business, you almost certainly have a brand already. If you don’t, I recommend you stop reading this now and go and get one. Remember that having a brand is extremely important, especially when you are trying to distinguish your products and services. And, of course, the centerpiece of any brand is its logo. There are…
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Typography is an integral part of graphic and web design. It’s the art of arranging the type in a beautiful unique way to enhance your designs, strengthen you messaging, and foster strong emotions and connotations within your viewers. You can convey so much with thoughtful, striking typography. I’m not going to discuss the definition of typography here, but I’ll show…
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Every year in the design community, new trends come out of the woodwork — some simply being reworks of old ideas while others are completely new. Among the design trends like infinite scrolling, minimally-designed landing pages, and large photographic backgrounds, there is the design trend of flat design that is currently making the rounds. What is flat design? Flat design is a…
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Mobile mockups are in great demand these days. They are the perfect choice for displaying your mobile websites, designs, and apps. Rather than relying on stock photography, it is best to create your own set of screens in Photoshop. It gives you much flexibility to edit and modify your mockups as needed, and it allows you to keep your designs…
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In this article, I will discuss the power of 960 and show you how to create a 12-column layout (or other size if you want) so you can hit the ground running with grid systems. I have a fully functional CSS and HTML example below, and you can download my Photoshop template to design concepts and quickly cut them up…
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Back in the golden days of the web, we had a little thing called Flash to help us make the web a dynamic, fun, interactive place. But, Flash is being used less and less. Of course, in certain environments it can still be put to amazing use, but in today’s web environment you need CSS to get the job done. One…
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Most of the readers on DesignFestival probably already know which colors to avoid in advertising, so for those of you who fall into this category, this article is simply to give you a bit of humor to brighten your day. However, if you are still new to advertising, or maybe there is a color combo or scheme you absolutely love…
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In this final part of the series on real-time graphs in WordPress, I’m going to get into the nitty-gritty of styling your Flot graphs. I couldn’t stand the idea of handing you an ugly baby! I just didn’t have it in me. So we’re going to look at how to get the most out of the Flot tools and dive into…
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If you get into a daily design routine with all of your projects, chances are that you’ve already developed your own custom workflow. You likely have repetitive tasks that you need to perform each day. It could be website maintenance, adding images, resizing them, adding certain filters or settings to photos, etc. If you are constantly doing the same repetitive…
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