As someone who created a substantial number of CD-R items over the years and spent inordinate amounts of time designing elaborate inserts for his personal audio collection, one trick I learnt is to add inlay cards to act as stiffeners behind ordinary 80g paper. Inlay cards became as regular material components of my CD production line as would colourful cases, and this collected stash of inlays turned up again a few weeks ago. Continue reading read more »
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I thought I would take a moment to advertise my gigs on Fiverr.com. If you are not aware of what Fiverr is then let me explain. Fiverr is a market place full of people who will do small jobs for people for an easy $5. There are some really great people on Fiverr who do awesome work for little pay.I have two Fiverr gigs listed as of right now.The first one is for ebook covers for authors. If you have a completed book but no cover, then no problem. I am here to help. I can design a clean and professional b... read more »
With the recent economic downturn, crafting has once again become as popular as it was for our Grandparents! And popular to entrepreneurs means big business.... There are two ways to cash in on the "new" interest in all things homemade, and lots of money to be made. Method 1: Sell Your Wares: If you can knit, crochet, sew, felt or make candles, jewellery, pottery or even blow glass then get to work. Set up shop on Etsy, Misi, Folksy, Notonthehigstreet, Facebook, Amazon Marketplace or Ebay. Perhaps even ... read more »
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Partiamo subito con delle scuse: eh si, perchè questa settimana è saltata la striscia di JohnVoo e non starò certo qui ad inventarmi di tirare fuori delle scuse sciocche del tipo "è stato difficile trovare il tempo necessario", "durante i periodi di feste comandate ci sono troppi parenti/amici che richiedono la tua partecipazione", "tornano cari amici/fratelli dalla lontana francia e ti farebbe piacere fargli visita" ecc.. ecc.. no.. non racconterò scuse plausibili per giustificare il salto della strisc... read more »
As the volume of information increases, the time we have to assimilate knowledge from any one item decreases. To help counteract this effect, Information Designers have begun to utilize pictographs to more readily convey understanding. These pictographs have been dubbed InfoGraphics. read more »
In The Back of the Napkin Dan Roam explains the four step process of Visual Thinking: Look; See; Imagine; and Show. The Information Design process would appear focused on the Show step, and most design tools are targeted there. However, tools do exist to aid in the other steps. In this article I will be examining one that I use regularly when working with clients as we collectively Imagine their future design. In The Back of the Napkin Dan Roam explains the four step process of Visual Thinking: Look ... read more »
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