How to choose a professional graphic designer

You’ve come across a few names, now what? Choosing the right designer is an important business decision—the right graphic designer has the ability to create a positive perception of your business, influence your existing and potential market, and ultimately increase your revenue.

How to find a professional graphic designer

Finding a professional graphic designer can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack, especially if you don’t know where to look. Just when you think you’ve hit the mother lode you’re faced with an equally daunting task—sifting through the multitude of people laying claim to the title Graphic Designer.

Twitter Favorites

I’m a twit, I’ll admit it. Most tweets that come across my desktop are boring, industry-related or the typical narcissistic shout-out. Few have the ability to tickle and delight. Some are profane. Some are insensitive and controversial. Some are just plain stupid. These are the ones that get flagged as my favorite.

Design Means Business / Business Means Design

With The Ignite Series¹ “Snuff your competition with style” workshop, less than a month away, I find myself deeply engrossed in exploring the exciting and evolving relationship between design and the economy.

Luis von Ahn is my new hero

Luis von Ahn is an assistant computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Together with a team from Carnegie Mellon University, Luis is largely responsible for CAPTCHA1 programs as we know them today.

What is graphic design?

If you’ve spent any amount of time in the graphic design industry you’ve most likely been asked this common question: What is graphic design? So it came as no surprise to me when I discovered that it is the number one question people type into search engines containing the keyword “graphic design”.

The $850,000 question: Is this a good idea?

Last week FresnoBee.com News Blog writer, Mark Grossi, asked readers to weigh-in on their opinion of the San Joaquin Valley Air District’s $850k advertising budget. The wording of his question was somewhat skewed and leading. This antic may have worked on one reader but the rest of us didn’t fall for it.

This week’s design blog favorites

Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now! Smashing Editorial, Smashing Magazine | April 2, 2009 The main idea was to provide the web design community with a handy tool that would let designers enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard easier and quicker. If you already tried to enter such words like naïve or résumé [...]

Serif vs Sans Serif

A client of mine insists on using a sans serif font for all his business communications. Why does this rub me the wrong way? Because I was taught that serif fonts are easier to read and more legible particularly for large bodies of copy.

Twitter speaks volumes

Now more than ever, be careful what you say. As reported by TechCrunch, Twitter recently updated it’s profile title tags to play nice with Google.