How-To: Pricing Your Design Service

I’ve noticed quite a few people asking about pricing their design services. For many freelancers just starting out, it’s aRead More…

Quick guide to your first website

I often get asked what is needed to make a new website and it seems like every time I startRead More…

Current Reads, Resources and Inspiration

  I was asked via Facebook for suggestions on reading and listening material. As I started collecting links and thingsRead More…

Working With Color

Today we’ll be talking a bit about the deep subject of color and color schemes. The office is done …Read More…

Great Design Starts with Great Imagery

I love photography. I’ve enjoyed taking photographs since probably around High School/College time. I took a course at UVU (ThenRead More…

The 5 Elements of Great Graphic Design

It’s been a while since I have posted, as the holiday season grows nearer other priorities keep getting in theRead More…

Isolating photos, the right way

Today I wanted to write about a common topic that many artists, designers and photographers seem to struggle with …Read More…

Advertising techniques – A quick guide to creating effective advertisements

The past few weeks I’ve seen a varying degree of advertising failure to success. I’ve already written a brief readRead More…

Have fun with borders

I was looking through last weeks advertisement designs today and noticed a theme, each one has the main graphic or headlineRead More…

Create your own vector rope brush in Adobe Illustrator

This brush makes handy “western” style text, borders and other things (it’s actually quite versatile). I always forget to saveRead More…