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70+ of the Best Free Fonts for Graphic Designers.- unstage

josephtucker — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:26:53 +0000

70+ of the Best Free Fonts for Graphic Designers.- unstage.

Urban Dinners

josephtucker — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:51:50 +0000

Logo design for Urban Dinners. They provide you with the most delicious fresh homestyle meals, delivered direct to your home.

Dockside Solar

josephtucker — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:42:05 +0000

Logo design/brand for “Dockside Solar”.
A company that specializes in utilizing the sun for a source of power, charging up boats, jet skis and more.

“Convenience of Solar Watercraft Battery Maintenance.”

Surf SUP – Hatteras

josephtucker — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:43:38 +0000

Surf SUP

Logo design created for Surf SUP, the Pinnacle for Surf and Stand Up Paddle Lessons. Cape Hatteras National Seashore – Avon, North Carolina

Surf SUP provides a half or full day surf & stand up paddle surfing experience in Avon, North Carolina just north of Cape Hatteras on the beaches of the Outer Banks.

Puffmud Productions

josephtucker — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:06:30 +0000

A logo design for a production company in South Carolina.

Where Wireframes Are Concerned

josephtucker — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:58:56 +0000

wireframe

The practice of compulsory client presentation of wireframes for all projects is not uncommon in the web design profession. But rather than being based on sound, contextual reasoning, it is more often a thoughtless, vestigial process remnant or the result of careless misinterpretation of someone else’s contextually-specific best practice. Put another way, many designers generate and present wireframes to clients not because they know it’s a good idea in a specific case, but because they’ve seen or heard of others doing so and they therefore think they’re supposed to as well. As always these sorts of assumptions are problematic. An action or choice without context is a step toward failure.

Wireframes bring with them a host of potential communicative problems that must be understood by both the designer and the client where wireframes are used. Taking into account that part of your job as the designer is to win and maintain your clients’ trust, you don’t want to introduce artifacts or documents that might work to erode that trust. Design-communicative problems erode trust.

Joi did it

josephtucker — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:20:28 +0000

joi did it

Joi Did It, LLC is a small yet professional graphic design company specializing in print and online design.

21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without

josephtucker — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:40:00 +0000

URL : Typechart

Description : Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
Browse through all the typography styles and download the CSS of the style you want to use. If like me you love type and fonts you will spend hours browsing all the styles. Excellent tool.

URL : CSS Type Set.
Description : This marvellous tools lets you type in your desired text, and then play about with the hundreds of possible CSS permutations, and when you find the style you like copy and paste the CSS into your stylesheet. Powerful yet simple.

URL : Typetester.
Description : Typetester is an online app for comparing different fonts for the screen, you can test up to three fonts at a time and choose the one you like. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

URL : CSSTXT.
Description : CSSTXT is an online generator for creating CSS clocks of text. Choose from: letter-spacing, word-spacing, font-size, line-height, border, font-size, font-family, align, color…

The Cool Hunter

josephtucker — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:25:00 +0000

Roaming the U.S. & the globe….some of the most amazing architecture in the world.

A Guide to Creating Email Newsletters

josephtucker — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Email newsletters are hotter than ever.

They’re a great extension to your business’ communication toolkit and offer you and your clients an excellent channel by which you can reach potential and existing customers.

In this article, we’ll explore common design patterns of email newsletters and learn which approaches work well, so that you’ll be prepared to create one for yourself and your clients.

We’ve also included a compilation and analysis of different newsletter designs so that you can learn from them as well as tips on what to do and what not to do.

If you know of any other tips, please share them with us in the comments area.

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