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How to Set up Your Wacom for Awesome Results

Friday, August 22, 2008

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A lot of you have asked about how to set up your Wacom for awesome results like this. In this post we’ll cover the basics of getting your Wacom working, some finer details of getting it to work well, and finally some tips for getting better at drawing with [...]

How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is what’s going to do the job. Apparel designs are [...]

Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Part Five of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Catch up on the first four rules here First, let me apologize for the long hiatus I took from this particular series of articles. It’s been really busy around here. I have to squeeze these articles into my [...]

122 Raster & Vector Wings

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Lately I’ve been reading a lot about lucid dreaming, keeping a dream journal, watching Waking Life, and generally trying everything I can to take control of my dreams. The first thing I’m going to do in a dream – FLY! Us ground dwelling humans seem to be pretty consumed [...]

I Am Liz Hunt — Designers, Unite!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: When Jeff Finley first approached me to work as an information designer for Go Media, my inner monologue went something like this: “Go Media? Who are THESE guys? What’s this ‘Arsenal: Professional Design Weaponry’ stuff? Vector Packs? Skulls and Heraldry and — Hooladanders? What the hell is a Hooladander?! [...]

Adobe Bridge is iTunes for Designers

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Really? Think about it: What if every time you wanted to jam to your Summer 2001 Playlist you had to re-construct it from your mess of mp3s in a folder called “downloads”? Well, you don’t, because iTunes doesn’t organize your tunes by folder, it organizes them by metadata: artist, [...]

13 ways to trick your client into happiness

Monday, June 2, 2008

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13 ways to trick your client into happiness

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The art of making your customers love the designs you create. In an ideal world our clients would think like designers. In an ideal world our clients have a good knowledge of marketing. In an ideal world they think logically and communicate clearly. Well folks, this is not an [...]

How to print giant designs onto shirts

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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I thought this was pretty cool. For those of you who wonder how this kind of printing is done, here is a good example. Just get a machine like this! Demonstration video of the 12 color Workhorse Falcon E Duplex Automatic Textile Printer. Oversized 47″x40″ honeycomb pallets from Action Engineering (approx. $695 per pallet) are [...]

The Dreaded Design Lull – 9 Ways to Get Out of a Slump

Friday, April 18, 2008

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The Dreaded Design Lull – 9 Ways to Get Out of a Slump

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Recognizing and reacting to a slowdown in design work. I can remember clearly when it was just me alone in my apartment running this design firm. It was easy to stay busily and happily working on a non-stop string of client projects for months on end. Then unexpectedly one [...]