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Logo Design Tips and Insight

By Brandy Widner • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout, Illustrator and Vector

Logo Design Tips
Three Steps to Designing Brands (logos):
Shapes:
The brain sees and remembers shapes first. Distinctive shapes imprint faster and better into the memory. Be different and unique nut stay simple in your shapes as well.
Colors:
Colors play a large part in corporate identity. They can trigger emotions and evoke an immediate brand association. Colors must be [...]



Numbers in the Bible …

By Brandy Widner • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Christian Life

No, this is isn’t a cultist, doomsday take on the Word. The Lord uses numbers to illustrate to us how He and His word speaks. This, though, is something that has an ‘oogy-boogy’ feel to it, and most people don’t want to touch the subject, afraid that they will begin to travel down the path [...]



Screen-Printing 101

By Brandy Widner • Mar 31st, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout

While screen-printing may seem like a menial job limited to t-shirts, there are many more things that can be accomplished. T-shirts are the main medium, but bags, pants, shorts, hoodies and tablecloths can also be printed. There really is no limit to what can be screen-printed.
While I was trained in the field of Advertising, my [...]



GDFC Signature

By Brandy Widner • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Typography

This is an optional signature that I created to draw more people to Graphic Designers for Christ. While the signature may or may not be used as a main part of the design for GDFC and all things associated with it, the design is a good way to show how one can expand on an [...]



What is Typography?

By Brandy Widner • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout, Typography

Typography, without going into a technical explination, is designing with either text only, or incorporating text design into a larger piece of art. Designing with text can sometimes be harder than with images, because there is only so much a person can to with lettering before the lettering becomes unrecognizeable. One of the things to [...]