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Designing Print Collateral For An Online Business

Designing Print Collateral For An Online Business

From my perspective working at a printing house, I see more and more web-based companies beginning to invest in print collateral. The challenge for those with a background in web business is to figure out how to create compelling, effective print design to advertise their online presence.
Posted in Print Design | 9 Comments
Top 5 Design Trends for T-Shirts

Top 5 Design Trends for T-Shirts

With the abundance of t-shirt design sites such as Threadless and Design By Humans, it's easy to trendspot themes that are popular. Each site and its community has their own taste and it makes gaming the vote a lot easier. Here is a list of our top 5 design trends that are sure to give you a few extra votes in t-shirt competitions.
Posted in Print Design | 19 Comments
Design Shard Enters WordPress Coolest Blog Competition!

Design Shard Enters WordPress Coolest Blog Competition!

Design Shard has decided to enter the WP Coolest blog competition, you have to be in it to win it ! and theres no harm in trying, design shards slightly cool isnt it?
Posted in General | 23 Comments
Designer Tees! Wear your art on your sleeve

Designer Tees! Wear your art on your sleeve

Who doesn’t like a little Tees action? Personally, original t-shirt designs catch my eye more than most graphic art that I see. Mainly because I can wear it Functional art, oh baby!
Posted in Featured, Inspiration | 15 Comments
Inspiring Grunge Style Big Typography Posters

Inspiring Grunge Style Big Typography Posters

There is something special about those hand picked posters. A certain style that is unique and makes them stand out. Those are big typography posters, with a grunge edge and a retro touch. Typically with big fonts, straight lines, round curves, dark colors and grunge textures.
Posted in Featured, Inspiration | 29 Comments
Design Vocabulary - Color Terms - Week 2

Design Vocabulary - Color Terms - Week 2

Color terminology, you may have seen some of these terms used in some of your graphic applications so now you can learn alittle bit more about what they mean, feel free to contribute a color term in the comments to add to this post.
Posted in Print Design | 8 Comments
Design Vocabulary - Typography Terms - Week 1

Design Vocabulary - Typography Terms - Week 1

Hey everyone, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the terms designers kick around, To kick things off on this inaugural list: Typography Terms!
Posted in Print Design | 11 Comments
Highlight Wordpress Category when on a Single Post: Tutorial

Highlight Wordpress Category when on a Single Post: Tutorial

Using and editing a simple plugin you can highlight your current category even when on the single post page. also learn how to highlight your pages and add a home link to your navigation.
Posted in Video Tutorials | 26 Comments
Tips on Pre-flight before sending to the printers

Tips on Pre-flight before sending to the printers

Tips that should be taken in to consideration before presenting your files to the printer for printing.
Posted in Print Design | 30 Comments
Design Shards October 2008 Calendar On Smashing Magazine

Design Shards October 2008 Calendar On Smashing Magazine

While making my re-design for my site i was also working on an entry for smashing magazines october calendars article.
Posted in Freebies | 18 Comments

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