This is a little guide to help design as best as you can for a free or very little money. The details work in any software because they are principles rather than software technique. So, let’s get started! Planning 1: Get a pen (or pencil – I prefer pencil) and some blank, scrap paper. 2: [...]
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Newsletters – Shout it Out or Lose Your Voice
April – May / beginning of June means the end of Spring (well with our weather – who knows?) But anyway, with the end of spring, brings the newsletter season. Actually this time round, I had the opportunity on both newsletters and price lists, as some are shown in the pictures…. 24 page A5 newsletter. Colour [...]
Day out at the Design Museum
Saturday, 15 May. I’ve been looking forward to this day for several weeks… Recently things have got very busy with work and church and volunteer stuff that we (the wife and I) have had to start scheduling days out weeks in advance. She’s clever, and knows that if she can produce a destination that is: [...]
New business cards
New cards in line with a new promotion drive for the coming months. I’m very pleased with how they turned out. Specification: Double-sided colour printing on 380gsm card Matt lamination Spot UV (which produces the text on the back – transparent and shiny) I spend so much time producing and sending out printing for others [...]
We do what we are.
An orange tree isn’t an orange tree because it produces oranges – no – it produces the fruit because it is an orange tree. For a long time, I have had the opinion that some people – artists and designers in particular, were always artists or designers. The career eventually caught up with us – [...]