5 Tips For Providing Your Graphic Designer With Helpful Feedback
So you’ve hired a graphic designer, now how do you give them helpful feedback on that new logo? What about a brochure or annual report? Here are five easy ways to provide your graphic designer with helpful feedback and ensure that you get a great end result, every time …
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How Great Graphic Design Can Get More Eyes On Your Annual Report
Getting ready to design an annual report for your organization can be overwhelming. There are so many things to gather and to choose from! How can you showcase a whole year’s worth of highlights into a budget-friendly publication? What should you include, or not include? Once you have …
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Graphic Design is Crucial to Your Business Success
Business owners get busy with everyday tasks of running a business but in order to make their businesses thrive in today’s market, their brand needs to stand strong and their visual language needs to be consistent. Graphic design is an indispensable tool in communicating with other people and it can set your business apart from …
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How to Successfully Rebrand Your Business
Rebranding is the process of changing the look of your business to reflect current changes in design, message or audience. The evolution of every successful business demands a thorough review at the company’s brand from time to time. Here are some of the critical steps to rebranding your business. Why Rebrand? Business Growth or Expansion …
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What Makes Good Design? – (Infographic)
What makes good design? Evaluating design has never been easy. To help with this, we have created a small infographic that will guide through this process and highlight important aspects that should be taken into consideration when judging a design. Enjoy!
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2016 – Will it be Your Best Year?
We think 2016 will be the best year ever for Uptown Studios. Here are a few of the observations from the Uptown Crew on what 2016 will bring… Small business will need to pay more attention to mobile marketing. If your website is not responsive in design (which means it is easy to view on …
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Good design is Invisible
Good design is challenging to define. Bad design is impossible to ignore. Good design is often invisible. Bad design often stands out. As renowned designer, Dieter Rams said: “Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better.” I personally believe this is very well said and applies to all disciplines of design including …
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The Amazing Power of Delegation
Early in my career as a designer and principal of a visual communications firm, I was a “I’ll do it all myself” kind of manager. I thought that if I handled everything myself, it would get done better, on time, every time. I perceived delegation to others as a sign of failure. As you can imagine, …
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Learning and Growing in April
This past week we had the BEST April Fools’ joke. Our lead graphic designer, Anton Weaver, created a 3D model of a special drone that delivered coffee. It is so realistic that when it was dropped into a photo we set up of me reaching for my drone delivered coffee – I could almost smell it.
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