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Public Relations and Moral Lessons for Designers
In my last post “Graphics and Web Design in Durham Region” I mentioned some of the moral issues faced by freelance designers and I have also touched on a few of our obligations in “What a Client Wants vs. What a Client Needs”. It is ethical practices like these that will dictate the longevity of your freelance career, by having principals alone (either right or wrong) creates a structured consistency
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Graphics and Web Design in Durham Region
Well let me digress for a minute as I have to admit that this topic has been eating away at me for quite a few years now and I finally have to say something about it. As we all know most websites we surf worldwide, corporate and local are usually riddled with complications and issues which affect you, the end user. These problems range in size from minor to major and the usual suspects are web standards
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Big Ten Burgers and Sandwiches Logo
The only requirements the client had for the Big Ten Burger logo was that it could not contain an image of a hamburger or flames. How do you create a hamburger design without a burger or fire? Use text only. Instead of using an “i” in the word Big we used the number 1 and combined the “g” with the letter “o” to make it look almost like a zero. This logo contains
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Coffee Blend Logo
I can’t really take the full credit for the Coffee Blend logo because the client had the idea and I just kind of sketched it out, cleaned it up and vectorized it. After researching other coffee brands and logos we noticed that they were all so similar so we agreed to stay away from that type of style but in our research we just happen to see a cigar label and we instantly knew which new direction
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Lower Back Tatti Logo
This logo was tough because I didn’t want it to come off either cheesy or cliché but lets face it the best idea anyone can relate to with a name like LBT is a tattoo on the top of some girls ass. Well I went for the tribal look for obvious reasons (damn I am cliché) and if you really look at the graphic you can see two swans with cobra heads facing each other making the shape of a heart.
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Sandstone Facilities Maintenance Logo
The idea behind the Sandstone Facilities Maintenance Inc logo was simplicity. The client is a real oldschool type who I have known for a very long time and the whole concept of having a logo was quite new so the plan was not to get too fancy.
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Freelance Designer Reality
Nowadays it seems like anyone with a computer and a copy of “Photoshop” can be a designer and a lot of times that is the case, but just because I can cook up a grilled cheese doesn’t make me a chef, now does it? The design world is a wild unregulated place; the difference in the quality, craftsmanship and price from one designer to the next is proof positive of that. So what has brought
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Getting Caught in the Web of Technologies
Well the redesigned site has been up for a week now and I have been looking through and comparing the old site statistics and have been pretty impressed with the amount of unique visitors and the length of time they have been staying on the Free Lance site. The last five Digital Deceptions sites have either been full Flash sites or hybrids (using both Flash and HTML) which as with most technologies
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Photo Repair and Restoration
Photo Repair and Restoration is a service I offer but it seems to be one of those services that never makes it into the portfolio so I am changing my ways and including a few before and after images to get a sense of what is possible. The before images here are of a wedding some years ago which have discoloured and faded. The bride was never really too happy with some of the objects in her photos,
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Offsite Backups on the Cheap
You probably wouldn’t believe me if I told you that you could backup most of your documents and even most of your graphics offsite for free would you? Before I tell you how let me explain to you why it is very important to have offsite backups. We all know it is important to make backups for obvious reasons and that is great if you do but what if your house or office was broken into and all your
