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The (painfully) poorly designed allgraphicdesign.com has links to a lot of great resources, including guides to writing GD business proposals . As with all writing (web and print) consider the value of the advice before applying it to your own work. ... more

I have sat and pondered this question for a while now trying to come up with the reason I choose design. Initially it was because I liked working with computers and being creative. But now that I think about what it is we are doing when we design I realize its more than just liking art. In high school math was my favorite subject, mainly because I was good at it but also because I liked solving problems. This is ironic because essentially design is solving a problem. Whether it is organizing d... more

As graphic designers working with the formatting and creative programs that we use today must be able to use and understand the grid. We use them for ease of reading and handling we use them because it helps make our designs more ordered and helps with hierarchy. Yet as creative people how are we supposed to be regulated by a grid? Now days we have complex grid structures comprising multiple columns, fields, baseline grids, and more. But before we had all of these set grids built into us by o... more

LogoBlog.com  is an pretty nifty site I stumbled upon recently that I thought people might enjoy.   The site is dedicated to logos in general and content ranges from examples of famous logos to favorite logo polls, and even includes a logo glossary of terms related to logo design.  A recent post debated the merits of the major Hollywood Studios’ logos. ( http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/hollywood-studio-logos-poll-result  )  This page tracks the evolution of the IBM log... more