Continuing from Part One of this series on designing a free logo, I pick up where we start the design process. The first step in any logo design is finding out what the client wants to accomplish with their company. What are they doing? Who do…
Continue ReadingOver the holidays this year, I decided to do something I’d normally never consider doing: create a logo identity for someone who needed it, for free. While I have never made my opinion very public, I’ve always shied away from free (or spec) work,…
Continue ReadingMy next post is coming the way of a screencast! I go through the steps of fixing multiple lists numbers in InDesign when you’re using numbered lists via the Paragraph Styles. Feel free to leave comments…
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For most of us, programs like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign are irreplaceable programs we take for granted. With the many hours we’ve spent learning (and cursing) at them, we just can’t imagine life with any other program. But for the…
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Ask anyone that I work with: I get poked fun at for identifying typefaces with a good degree of accuracy. I get some interesting reactions from interns who probably find themselves wondering how I caught them using Arial instead of Helvetica across…
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In my stash of RSS feeds and bookmarks, I ran across an interesting article last month that asked, “Is there creativity in design?”, which got me thinking: is there? Auto racing is one of my most favorite pass times, and after getting our…
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New from the Linotype peeps is ITC Chino! This family includes display fonts and text fonts which are great for big, bold headlines or bodies of text and really has a nice brush-like feel (to steal a line from their website). A good combination of…
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