A Guide to Responsive Breaking Points
A visual guide to media queries and breaking points for responsive design.
Design Tutorials and Tips
Here are some of our design tips, and a few tutorials to help you along the way. We admit that some of these might be a bit on the “geeky” side, so feel free to post a comment with any question you might have.
Educating Clients: a Tricky Process
Educating clients is a hard but often necessary process. We usually start with a conversation.
How I spent my Friday Evening Making License Plates.
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to spend my Friday night making license plates for one of our clients. Read on to find out how you can make one of your own!
Photoshop Template for Facebook Timelines
Download our free Photoshop Template for Facebook Timelines – complete with custom smart object support!
10 Tips for Effective Small Business Web Design
Small business owners often feel compelled to design and build their own websites rather than hire designers, coders, writers and the other professionals and experts who make their livelihoods on the web. Remember, though, a bad website will actively hurt your brand, your company, and your bottom line. DIY websites often have a host of …
Mac vs PC For Graphic Designers
People who preferred PC said: PC is better for graphic design, I’m a graphic designer and know the reasons. PC has a variety of options, specs, quality, prices, and vendors while a Mac has limited options, is much more expensive, repairing a Mac is more expensive and there’s only one vendor. Macs use a subset …
OMG – Kittens!*
For designers, a placeholder (or dummy) image is pretty much what you’d expect from the name: a blank square or rectangle, or generic image placed into a layout or wireframe to indicate where an image will be located before the actual illustration is chosen. Designers use it for images the way they use Lorem Ipsum …
Recipe for Success
You can’t do good creative work without good creative food. And while your mileage may vary regarding what constitutes “good food,” here are a few of the snacks I like to eat to get my creative juices flowing.
5 Factors To Consider When Choosing Fonts For Your Website
Choosing a typeface is one of the most challenging and enjoyable aspects of web design for Denver branding firm founder and all around typegeek Kandra Churchwell. Here are 5 tips to help you choose and effective one for your web design project.
.CR2, .CRW, or Just Plain Annoying
So you just bought a fancy $500 digital camera. After gleefully taking enough pictures to fill up your memory card, you upload them to your computer. Now, of course, you want to take a look at your photographs. But guess what? You computer won’t open the files! They’re all .CR2’s – whatever that means. The …
Photoshop and Illustrator Brushes for Your Holiday Design Projects
25 of our favorite illustrator and photoshop brush sets – hand selected for holiday card design.