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Interview with Graphic Designer Kathryn Loveday

This morning we bring to you a recent interview with talented and ambitious creative in the form of Kat Loveday. Having graduated from Salford University, she returned to the classroom shortly after to...

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How to Recruit Talented Designers: 5 Qualities that Stand Out

Creative design can often make the difference between the success and failure of products and marketing efforts in today’s highly competitive marketplace. The modern consumer has a discerning eye and...

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3 Steps for Respecting other Designers

In this article we will be focusing on Photoshop and Illustrator file organizing and saving practices. The following are pretty basic guidelines on how to save files properly, and how to organize and...

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The Decline in Respect for Student Designers

Through from school to college and later university it has become clear to me how the respect for student designers is on a decline. I find that the harder students work to become the best the harder...

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Cultivating the Cultured Designer

In our careers as Graphic Designers, in whatever subcategory we find ourselves, we are in a constant struggle with the industry that allows a large amount of amateur activity within its ranks.

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Advice on Keeping Your Branding Consistent

Design for printed collateral should therefore be very carefully thought out before investing a dime in printing.

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Designing For Social Media

An almost essential, yet somewhat counter-intuitive, argument about social media is its very nature requires a degree of homogenization.

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How to Use Layer Styles in Photoshop

In order to create your own images that people might consider artwork, you have to learn how to use the layer styles allowing you to alter each layer of a photo to make them belong together.

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Kickstarting Creativity in your Final Semester

I’ve just started my final semester of university. This is it. Everything I’ve been working for over the last three years all comes down to these few months. Not only the heaviest grade weighting but...

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Print Handbook: Preparing your Pixels for Print

The Print Handbook has been designed to be a handbook full of printed experiments, examples, and a whole load of handy reference material.

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