It’s been a long day, but I feel the need to share. Today started early (7:30 am) when—after making lunches for the kids and sending them to school—I sat down w/coffee and email. Designer/IT Help Desk One of my Eastern time clients (I’m Pacific) was having trouble accessing his webmail (day 2). The day before, I [...]

There. I said it. May the design gods smite me down where I stand. But really, I can’t take it anymore! Seems everywhere I look there’s another blog espousing the ‘wonders’ of H and other “classic” fonts. The ones they could happily be stranded on a desert island with. Really? As if you wouldn’t be [...]

The State of Oregon is going to rename and refocus the Economic & Community Development Department. New name: Business Oregon. And since they’re going to need a new website, they’ve put out this RFP. Gotta love it! They’ve got a $90,000 budget for this baby. Quite a piece of change! However, read page nine, section [...]

Promised the second part of my eye-opening experience with 2-color (black + spot) fussiness for InDesign job. Here goes… The printer kept having problems with “the foot” (referring to a graphic on the front & back covers showing a runner’s foot). I kept returning to the original AI file, trying to figure out what in [...]

I’ve found that there are common questions posed by clients, many of whom are new to the design process and its terminology. If you’re thinking about hiring a designer, but don’t know where to start or what to expect, check out the FAQs below for some answers. Q. What is the design process? Don’t you [...]