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Job Search Skills - Branding Yourself
Adrienne Thibodeau
As a graphic designer you've got a valuable set of skills, and the greatest asset you can tap into is your problem solving ability. It serves you well in creative endeavors, so let's take a look at how it can assist you in your job search.
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On Creativity
Cheryl Swanson
Inspiration fuels our dreams; it unleashes our imagination so we can create,so we can think differentlyŠ Frankly, all of the practical information in the world is useless unless we're inspired to use it's because inspirationignites creativity.
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Making Money on the Internet
Allen Harkleroad
An article on monetizing your website, from registering a domain to hosting to running advertisements on your website.
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Outsourcing: Ten lessons we've learned and tips for managing the problems
Ralph Welborn, Ph.D., and Vince Kasten
The Truth about Global Outsourcing:
10 Lessons We've Learned about the Difficulties of "Getting It Done"
Outsourcing sounds great in theory, but often falls short in execution. Authors Ralph Welborn and Vince Kasten provide some pithy insights on what goes wrong . . . and why.
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ISSUES: Ethics in Practice
Carl Grivakis
The other day I heard a very disappointing announcement from one of my favorite radio talk shows. This is a national talk show, a very well known talks show, plugged in to culture and politics. This particular show was hosting a logo contest, because for many years they complain, they have been without a logo.
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Alias SurfaceStudio
Even when you work at the cutting-edge of design, it's not everyday that you get the opportunity to apply your talents to a ground breaking 74m motor yacht, and play a pivotal role in bringing such a large project to successful manufacture.
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160-year-old Institution Leads Automotive Design Industry in Innovation
Coventry School of Art and Design continues its tradition of excellence by offering Alias StudioTools technology to faculty and students
Walking onto Coventry’s 30-acre campus, one can’t help but notice the juxtaposition of old and new. Modern architecture and ancient ruins don’t compete with each other, but rather co-exist in an exciting state of tradition and innovation.
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Understanding the Differences Between a Distiller and a PDF Writer
PDF – an abbreviation for Portable Document Format. This is a file type developed by Adobe Systems that enables one to view or print documents without the original program it was created in. These files are created in one of two ways, using a PDF Writer such as Jaws PDF Creator, or using Adobe Acrobat Distiller. Each serves their purpose but you should understand the differences in the two to help you better decide which PDF process to use in your workflow.
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Scrap Booking Online with Word Perfect and Corel Graphics Suite
Making Time Capsules of family history using graphic design and desktop publishing software? Scrap booking newsletters and journals with photos and illustrations online or emailed are becoming popular to send around the world because they weigh nothing.
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Building a Relationship with your Printer
A professor once said to me, "It is extremely important as a Graphic
Designer to form a good relationship with a printer." At that time I didn't
fully understand why it was so important. Of course now I know it's about
respect and teamwork.
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The Business Side of Design
OK so you’ve worked your butt off for two or four years. You’ve worked and studied hard. You’ve become a master at PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign and that hard earned degree hangs framed on the wall. You’re all set to take the world by storm with your cutting edge designs.
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Viral Engineering for Graphic Designers
In 1995 Milton Glaser wrote that graphic designers would need to create a new narrative to restore respect for their existence. And indeed since Mr. Glaser penned that essay there has been no shortage of proposals outlining what that narrative might be.
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Witchdoctors for the Postmodern World
“Graphic design is a folk art whose best practitioners are often anonymous and whose best examples may be deceptively rough or naive.” — Art Chantry: “folk artist for a merchant/technical culture” When I first read Art Chantry’s strange take on graphic design as a modern “folk art” I was perplexed — as much as I loved his work it didn’t register with me at all. Over the years I have come to better understand what I think he was trying to say and in fact today I believe that I agree with Mr. Chantry. However, I think that the analogy should be twisted a bit and taken back to an even more primitive source.
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