When it comes to professional book design, there are a lot of factors to consider. Formatting and layout are largely based on typography, hierarchy, whitespace, and image or graphic placement. Often a client will want their document designed in Word. A common reason for this is that they can make changes themselves later if needed. […]

5 Ways InDesign is Better than Word for Book Design

I’m Stretching!
One thing I’ve wanted to do for some time now is to focus on a specific set of graphic design services. I’m fairly well-known in my business networking circles for creating website specific (think headers, banners, ads, etc.) and social media graphics. I’m also known for website design using the WordPress platform. I find that […]

5 Ultimate Graphic Design Mistakes
Things that Graphic Designers Should Avoid at All Costs 1. Using Web Graphics on Printed Material. With many young designers coming from a pre-dominantly web design background the transfer over from web design to design for print can bring with it a multitude of design sins. Images supplied at 72 dpi and crunched down to […]