Graphic Design and Print

Photoshop image manipulation

I was away on holiday a few weeks ago, and as much as it was cold, wet, rainy, windy (traditional British weather of course) I did manage to take what I considered to be reasonable photographs. This was fine until I got them off the camera and looked at them in full res. [...]

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An interview with Caroline Murphy

Last week I was asked to participate in a group interview project organised by a handful of blogger-designers on the Estetica Design Forum. With my lifelong ambition for a Friday evening chat show at the forefront of my mind, I eagerly agreed.

I was asked to interview 24 year old graphic designer and self confessed geek-girl [...]

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Everyone’s a winner in Just Creative Design group writing project

January and February? I can’t believe they’re gone already. I was out of the country for a week towards the end of February and consequently failed to pick up on a great graphic design competition being run by Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design, and therefore missed out on a chance to win some freebies.

Jacob [...]

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How do you style URLs for print?

One of the problems I come across over and over again with all of the publications and printed materials I work with and produce, is how to style URLs.

You see, the problem is most of the time URLs are just too long, especially if you are trying to insert them in a narrow column of [...]

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See my personal business card design

Just over a month ago I designed and printed personal business cards for my graduation exhibition. In fact, I ended up printing a few more cards than I needed, but that’s another story altogether.

The design uses the coloured circular elements from my personal logo design, and the branding is consistent with my business website, printed [...]

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Designing on the cheap with open source software

So, you wanna be a designer, huh? Well, first things first - go out and spend a few grand on a Mac Pro, then splash another couple of grand on Adobe CS3. Once you’re set up, then you can start thinking about being a designer.

Unfortunately, we don’t all have endless reserves of cash to [...]

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