How To Optimize Your Print-Based Portfolio
Print portfolios are not dead. While an online portfolio certainly is extremely important in today’s digital age, a print portfolio is still equally important for showing that you know how to design for a project that will be sent to an online printing company. Many clients know that there is a difference between a web [...]
18 Best Food Print Ads for Poster Inspiration
Poster printing and design for the food industry can present an interesting set of challenges. Not only do you have to connect the brand to the message, but you have to make a connection with the target audience. Whether your goal is to be funny, to make them salivate, or educate your audience, this collection [...]
15 Free Retro Patterns for Eye-Catching Designs
Need to add a retro or psychedelic look to your brochures, postcards, posters, and more? Use one of the amazingly free patterns below as a background in your design, or even to add an interesting touch to a single object in an illustration. Just be sure to check out the designer’s terms of use before [...]
10 Websites For Everything New, Cool & Inspiring
When design gets old, fresh inspiration saves the day. Here are ten sites that can give you that helping hand out of design ennui: New Work (www.ilovenewwork.com) is a straightforward collective-blog-cum-online-portfolio of its members. The new and fresh contents of the site span artistic graphics to furniture design to game concepts and development and everything [...]
Simple Ways to Achieve A Psychedelic Design in Photoshop
Got that psychedelic feeling? While the appeal and the concept behind psychedelic art and design can indeed be inspiring, few are actually artistically inclined enough to pull off psychedelic designs from the top of their head. Luckily, for those of us beginners wanting to jumpstart our own foray into psychedelia, there are some simple Photoshop [...]
Psychedelic Basics: An Overview
What comes to mind when someone mentions psychedelic design? Swirls of color. Puffed-up lettering. The hippie counterculture origins. For modern Netizens the first thing that comes to mind when they hear psychedelic design is its distinct quality of otherworldliness. But how exactly did this style of design come to be? “Personal Mark” A handprint showing [...]
16 Brochures You Don’t See Everyday
Brochures are an excellent marketing media for informing clients of products, services, or company, but they can only do their job when clients are intrigued enough to open the cover. Most designers know the vital importance of capturing attention with a smashing design on the cover and stunning graphics and layout throughout the rest of [...]
Greening Your Graphic Design Practices
Clearly the green trend is becoming a way of life instead of a passing fad. Clients expect us to be aware of how we affect our environment. You will find that making your business practices greener is simple. Not only is it simple, it will very often save you money, leaving more room for business [...]
And Another List of Inspiring Business Card Ideas
How can we ever tire of the creativity possessed by tons of business cards online? Here is a list of newer business cards ranging from letterpressed, stamped, recycled, folded and breathing examples. And yes they all fit in your wallet! Tam Cargo Business Cards Creative Cards Lettercakes by Grace Niu Swink Business Cards by SwinkInc [...]
Lovely Package: Inspiring Packaging Design
Beautiful packaging is as noticeable as beautiful clothing or fine jewelry. The outer display of items within can be arguably just as important as the actual item itself, since many will first reach for the most appealing package on the shelf before handling all the rest. Lovely Package is a website which displays the most [...]
Act Fast! Last Chance to Win a Free Apple iPad
Time is running out for submitting a poster to the PrintPlace.com’s Poster Design Contest! Designers have been continuing to submit designs during the open time for entries, but this is the last week that designs can be entered before the October 22, 2010 deadline. Hurry and send in your own poster for a chance to [...]
22 Fantastic Door Hangers
You would probably agree that among other marketing media, door hangers are usually underestimated, neglected and thought of as insignificant when it comes to the benefits they can bring to your brand. But wait until you go through this list we’ve put together. Door hangers are proving to be evolving with the creative designs of [...]
22 Creative Ads You May Not Have Seen Before
I love it when I see an ad that’s so creative I wish I would have thought of it. That’s what I’ve found from these 25 ads. Many ads are posted over and over again on blogs, but hopefully this is the first time you’ve seen most of these ads. Many of these make innovative [...]
