9 Things to Avoid in Your Website Design

Website Design Best Practices

Life’s Too Short for Bad Web Design Most of us spend hours each day online and this number continues to grow. This can mean visits to literally hundreds of websites per week. Unfortunately, this also means each of us is probably visiting a lot of really bad websites. We don’t mean they’re evil or dedicated […]

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Best Famous Logo Designs Using Numbers

We put together a post a while back featuring an alphabet of famous letter logo designs and it became one of our most popular posts so we thought we’d take a look at famous logos featuring numbers. Surprisingly, it was pretty hard to find good, famous logos featuring numbers as a primary component of the […]

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Logo Make-Over: Top 10 Vector Design Tutorials

Your Logo is the Face of Your Company In business, logos are a must to have your own stand in the industry. The logo design should be impressive as well — logos are emblems or graphic symbols that represent your company. In this age, ideograms and symbols are deemed more effective as marketing tools than […]

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Creating Effective Print Ads [Video]

Great Print Advertising There is a great deal more to creating effective print advertising than just choosing a pretty image and adding your logo and copy. The effectiveness of your print ads is heavily dependent on colors, layout, type and number of words and a variety of other factors. Following is our short video introduction […]

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Best Logo Designs For Each Letter of Alphabet

We love looking at cool logos and, like many designers, use other people’s excellent work to inspire us. A while back we posted some of our sample logo designs using letter shapes and I got to thinking we should do a whole alphabet of cool logos by others. That’s how I came up with this […]

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Logo Design Inspiration: Animals

For Inspiration One of the most popular services we provide is custom logo design. Following are a few simple logo designs for businesses using animal shapes and drawings as their base. All of these designs are originals and some are currently in use. Others are just samples and we are happy to do custom designs […]

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Logo Design Inspiration: Letter Shapes

For Inspiration One of the most popular services we provide is custom logo design. Following are a few simple logo design samples for businesses using letter shapes as their base. These are just samples and we are happy to do custom designs for any type of logo for brands, companies or products. The Letter B […]

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5 Steps to Designing Great Logos

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Step One: Do Your Homework This step is where you should spend most of your time but it will save you a lot of time later. Like any type of design work, you are much more likely to satisfy the customer’s desires by understanding them. This will help you define your style parameters from the […]

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For Print Media, Size Does Matter

Illustration of How Size Matters with Attractive Woman

Did the title get your attention? Isn’t it amazing what some people will do to get you to read what they write? All kidding aside, in the design world size really does matter. Today we’ll focus on how you can use size to improve use and readership of your printed communications. Bigger Isn’t Always Better […]

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