Archives for the ‘Design and Layout’ Category

Quark 8 - A new Leaf

By David Wildish • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout

In my past I have used a mixed bag of Indesign and Quark layout software and until recently I have always struggled to argue that Quark is the better of the two.
Sure Quark is and always has been a strong contender for Book layout, but the added features that Indesign provided where really hard to [...]



Adobe Labs CS4 Beta Downloads

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout, Lead Story, Software, Web Design, Web Development

Adobe has released it’s betas for the newest line of Adobe CS4 software at http://labs.adobe.com/
As a Graphic/Web Designer/Web Developer this opportunity is a great turnout. I would encourage you to get this while you can.
Dreamweaver is a web development software that allows you to create amazing websites either by hand or using one of it’s [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



Layout Design a Must know

By David Wildish • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout

Today design is within reach of most people with current Mac’s and PC having the power to accomplish complicated task and the software to do do what only professionals could accomplish only a few short years ago. Many people are blessed with a gift of creative flair and equipped with there mac (or PC) charge [...]



GDFC magazine cover

By Adrian Rodriguez • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout

I thought of a cool project a couple of months ago.
It’s not a contest, but I wanted the members of the forum to design a magazine cover for GDFC Forums.
They were allowed to use any images and design they wanted, but It had to relate to the forum.
The topic was a bit forgotten, but here [...]



The Little little books

By Adrian Rodriguez • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout, Features, Print

David Wildish is an amazing designer who works for a publishing company in the UK…..