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Designing and Producing Creative Business Cards: Techniques and Details

From Lisa Valuyskaya
September 8th, 2010
94 Comments

Plenty of creative business card showcases are available out there. Many of these are beautifully done and well thought out, and they serve as inspiration for those who would like their business card to be more than the standard rectangular piece of paper. Yet little explanation accompanies these examples, and ...

Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

From Julia May
August 9th, 2010
108 Comments

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business cards are one of the most powerful and handiest marketing tools. Not only do they create a link between you ...

Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers

From Louis Lazaris
March 5th, 2010
75 Comments

Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. I believe it’s vital that professionals in different creative fields supplement their online learning and research through well-edited and ...

10 Pre-Press Tips For Perfect Print Publishing

From Marco Kramer
October 27th, 2009
173 Comments

A lot of designers think CMYK is the way to go when designing for print. We will, of course, always use CMYK-based ink, but this does not mean you have to work with CMYK files. You can work with RGB images to perfectly optimize your print colors and save a ...

The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

From Callum Chapman
October 2nd, 2009
76 Comments

The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials (via @smashingmag) - Although web design is everywhere nowadays (even when we’re not at the computer it still manages to squeeze it’s way in to our everyday life), print design is still a huge part of the design industry and is everywhere we look: ...

Creative Print Typography Layouts

From Matt Cronin
April 21st, 2009
85 Comments

In print design, typography is one of the more crucial aspects. Typography is essential the practice of organizing, arranging, and modifying type. The typography techniques uesed in print has a direct impact on how the reader is able to receive the image. In print, typography doesn’t have to be plain ...

Switch From Print To Web: Where To Start?

From Cameron Chapman
April 16th, 2009
70 Comments

Making the switch from print publishing to digital publishing is a big step. But as costs for everything from paper to shipping increase, making the jump to digital is becoming more appealing to publishers of both newspapers and magazines. It’s a complicated process, though, and if not executed effectively, it ...