Last week’s post requested all designers and web developers interested to submit their creative business cards for an upcoming post on TDC…. and this week we have the results! 50 beautiful business cards of graphic and web designers. Chris Colhoun Eric | MindFlame Design & Marketing Aaron Irizarry Joanna Klima Indeed Design Victor Konovalov Sergej [...]
Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
Understanding the Value of Design
As a graphic designer, we’ll always appreciate well-educated and executed design. We understand how much time goes into choosing the perfect font or why we went with the color palette we did. We see the value in our work and we take pride in what we do. We understand how design can be integrated into [...]
12 Common Photoshop Mistakes and Malpractice
With the same goal in mind as 10 Common Mistakes Made in Type Design, this article was created to raise awareness and educate new Photoshop users and designers,not to make fun of or mock the one’s who use the below techniques and practices. Below is a list of 12 common mistakes, misuses and various ways new users abuse [...]
50 Brilliant Design Articles of 2008
2008 has not only been an exciting year here at TDC, but around the rest of the design community as well. I have learned so much from reading blogs (more than I had ever imagined), and as a special thanks I present you 50 insightful graphic & web design related post of 2008 organized into [...]
Why Designers Hate Comic Sans
After discussing design details with a client last week, I was asked randomly, “So… What is it exactly that designers hate about Comic Sans? I happen to like it.” While the though of her liking it made it hard to swallow, the question posed a serious thought for me – What exactly do I dislike about Comic Sans? I mean, come [...]
How do you measure good design
What sets the criteria for “good” design? Is there such thing as “good” design or is it in the eye of the designer or viewer? Aesthetic questions are personal to the designer, client and audience — the answers will always be subjective and unclear. So how should your work be evaluated? Instead of focusing on descriptive [...]
