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500 Free Die Cut Business Card Giveaway from UPrinting

31-01-2010 Brian 83 Comments

It’s giveaway time on TDC and this time the fine folks at UPrinting have offered to give 500 free die cut business cards each to three readers of The Design Cubicle. Now’s your chance to “dress to impress” for free!
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Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #31

16-01-2010 Brian 7 Comments

Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week – because having resources and staying up-to-date is important in growth and development.
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Designing with content in mind

06-12-2009 Brian 20 Comments

Last week I read an article titled “If Content is Really King, Then What Is Design?” Not only did this article inspire a ‘Self-Expression Fridays‘ poster design, but it also had me thinking: If content is king, what can the design do to compliment the “king,” or in this articles case, the content?

If what you have to say on your website is so important, then what can we do to make it a more enjoyable experience and better compliment the content with the way we design for it?
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Letterpress: Where, How and Inspiration!

05-08-2009 Brian 46 Comments

Recently I have been on the hunt for online letterpress printers for a current branding project I am working on and sent out a Tweet which resulted in many great links (thanks everyone!) and also others interested in discovering the same thing; the best places to get it done.

For those unfamiliar with letterpress printing it is in short “a term for the relief printing of text and image using a press with a “type-high bed” printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image.”

My shorter definition of the above: “Just plain beautiful!” :)

Below are a few online letterpress studios for you to get your next letterpress jobs printed, information about how to set up files for letterpress and 25+ images of beautiful letterpress inspiration.
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