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Intellectual Property, Copyright & Theft
Well I was going through my Google Analytics early this morning as I do weekly and I noticed I was getting a bit of traffic from a certain address. Now it wasn’t really the amount of traffic more like how many different pages (this very website) Digital Deceptions was getting from a particular domain name which does happen from time to time but this was different. I clicked on the link suspecting
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Website 101 – Why You Need a Web Site
Why does your company need a website? We could quote statistics that show the Internet has become the main method people use to find information on products, services and companies they do business with. The truth of the matter is that without a web site potential clients question your professionalism, commitment to customer service, and long-term stability of your company. The Internet is the Search
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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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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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You want to be a Designer, what next?
So you have decided that you want to be a graphic or web designer, what should you start doing? I think that being a serious designer is something that you grow to be as opposed to just wanting to be one. I know from my experience growing up that I knew what inspiration was quite early on and I gravitated towards those things that inspired me. I use to love going to the grocery store with my parents
