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How to Design the Perfect Business Card

How to Design the Perfect Business Card
In this post, we’ll discuss how a thoughtful, well-designed business card can help your company give a good first impression and send the right message. We’ll look at elements to include in your design and the different approaches to take. We often hear of the importance of first impressions in both our professional and personal lives. In business, the first impression we make on potential clients and other professionals can affect how much business we get. If we fail to dazzle in the first meeting, we might not be attending the follow-up meeting in which we could raise the bar. Also, we tend to forget that first impressions often begin with a business card. Blink Airbrushing Business Card by Katerina Vourgos Business cards convey the potential of all branded professionals-especially designers-and you should remember that when designing them. Personal Identity Package by Jordan Puopolo Now, what does that mean exactly: the “perfect” design? The Professional Elements to Include Colors to Use

30 Aesthetically Beautiful Vintage Textures for your Designs | designerbooster If you are a designer who is working on design projects such as banners or sketch of a website which require vintage touches, the use of design elements that look like they were found in the attic of an old house dating back to the 1920′s, 30′s, or 40′s or vintage looking textures is important to give your design a feeling of authenticity and originality. In today’s post, we gathered some great vintage texures that are extremely useful in decorating your designs to make your viewers feel that they have transported back in time. You will no longer spend much of your time in browsing vintage textures on your local antique shops or on your grandmother’s attic since we have already done this job for you. Here are 30 Examples of Old Yet Aesthetically Beautiful Vintage Textures for your Designs. Vintage Checkered: Texture Pack By: Ciara Panacchia A 30 color combination and vintage-themed checkered pattern set on top of an aged paper background in JPG format. Grungy Vintage Textures Pack

20 Beautiful High Quality Fonts for Your Design Home » Resources » 20 Beautiful High Quality Fonts for Your Design Every designer has its own choices to decide which material he or she has to use in designing. Typography requires good font types and without good font we can’t design any typographic wallpaper or design. There is no need to spend money on high quality fonts , because many font creators are giving their high quality fonts for free. So get started to try all of them and make your project more beautiful, if you like this post don’t forget to comment. Sketchetik Font Mister Jun Font Deibi Font Hattori-Hanzo font Giro Font Quadranta Font Folk font BS-Konstata font Days typeface font Sweat Henry Font Val font Mod Gothic Font Sayitfat font Akashi font Periodica serif Font Lot free Font Rounded Font Gabo Font Paranoid Font Kilogram Font More Fonts from other blogs: 35 Fresh FreeFonts for Designers and Developers 10 Beautiful and free fonts for web designers 30 Professional And Creative Fonts For Free Download

The Evolution of The Logo Advertisement Logo design has been a controversial subject in the design press lately. One branding professional recently claimed that logo design is not that hard to do1 and another said that logos are dead2; some rebutted3 while others concurred4. We live in a Brand Era, where branding is in, and for some, aspiring to the Paul Rand style of logo craftsmanship is about as hip and contemporary as writing your invoices with a quill. Perhaps this clamorous debate is cause for a look at where logo design comes from, what state it’s in currently, and where it’s headed in the future. Symbolism The history of logo design begins with the roots of human expression. Fragment of a vase, third millennium B.C. To communicate effectively with design, it’s important to view the big picture of human communication and mythology. In semiotics (the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation), human communication is discussed in terms of signs and signifiers. Historical Identifying Marks

46 Sample Party Invitations and Announcements by admin | June 2, 2010 | Design As an invited guest, you may have felt that buzz of excitement when you were given a beautifully prepared card invite, or saw a high-impact poster announcing a big bash or event. When it’s your turn to make your intended guests feel that way for your party, you may need to get a lot of inspiration to get the idea that makes your invites click. No need to look far though, because you can get a whole lot of inspiration right here with this large collection of creatively designed party invitations and announcements! Take notes on how these designs work and what elements they use so you can apply those insights when creating your own invite designs. Disclaimer: The images on this page are not owned by UPrinting and are used solely as design examples. If you feel that we’ve missed any excellent examples of party invites or announcements that you know of, please share them with everyone in the comments! Tagged as: party invitations This post was written by admin+

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Creative and Clever Anti-Smoking Ads Here is a selection of creative and clever anti-smoking ads … KellyKAshcraft lucaszoltowski vartcn Smoking kills danielslee Clear Marketing Communications Chi & Partners, London, UK Advertising Agency: BDDP Unlimited, Paris, France Advertising Agency: Neogama BBH, Brazil Advertising Agency: Draftfcb Kobza, Wien, Austria Advertising Agency: CHI&Partners, London, UK Voici une sélection de publicités créatives et intelligentes anti-tabac …

Hold Close by =IngridTan on deviantART Corset-wearing superwomen from the Age of Steam Mixed bag, honestly. Some are just odd, others are dead on as far as in-character goes. Harley is cute, Emma is actually wearing more than usual and probably has an outfit exactly like that stashed for formal occasions. And Catwoman, YES that's so much closer than the crap she wears now. That's something Selina would actually wear, not that riot-grrl thing. Only problem is her eyes are too soft, the key to drawing Selina is she only smiles with her lips. Yeah, I'm all about the Catwoman. Drawing Typography by Eika Dopludo “Life in Alphabet”, and “In Love” are two pretty amazing projects of representing type using organic inspirations. The author is Eika Dopludo illustrator and artist from Russian. > behance.net/EikaDopludo Life in the Alphabet The idea of the project is to represent a letter in a natural form and appearance. I am in Love

20 awesome illustrated typography inspirations 20 stunning examples of illustrated typography from various artists from all over the world. Thea Hamrèn Jarr Geerligs Roel Van Eekelen BiGds Fredrik Oscarsson OcularVision Luke Lucas Giga Kobidze Marta Cerdà Alex Trochut David Nathan Cohen Adolfo Correa Serge Seidlitz, Diego Medina, Open the Door for BBDO Aida Novoa Marco Van Zomeren Sponsored Ads

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