Stock Images can be expensive, those of us in the non-profit sector, education, and rapidly-shrinking in house design departments are well a...

Photoshop Magazine Mockup When I originally put together my online portfolio and printed leave behind, I took several photographs of my ...

Rule number one for designers of all kinds: use a contract What type of contract do I need? How should I organize the payment structur...

As a developer / designer in higher education, I've seen the climate shift toward electronic media. This means that presenting imagery o...

I'm in Love. . . with this website! Coming from a non-profit, graphic design background, I am well-versed in the economical online i...

Sappi offers booklet/book samples for free to designers and students--they're samples! Highly recommended: Folding and scoring book ...

Like you don't have enough to do, right? I got a lovely surprise in the mail this week. A friend took some of my more memorable looks ...

Are you designing a piece and don't have the time to idly run your ballpoint across some note paper for the right graphics?  Someone els...

 As any lover of type, I revere the look, feel, and technical aspects of letterpress typography. On a recent project, I scoured the internet...

On a recent biz card project, I got to revisit DaFont.com in search of dingbats.  I needed old skool 80s graphics, and I found what I was lo...

Communications Station is in the middle of a newsletter redesign. My advice is always 'work smarter, not harder'. There are templat...

In my Gmail box this morning is the latest monthly Envato Newsletter . While in Grad School, I visited the ThemeForest site to browse t...

A fellow designer called me for advice on a logo project that he’s in the midst of tackling. The event is a film series on women’s health or...

JQuery is functional and fun to look at but—by god—it’s a ton of coding. A metric ton if you’re a graphic designer not well versed in the de...

Undergrad taught me two things:  never stop learning, and design freebies are out there if you simply look for them. Lynda.com isn't e...