When someone visits a website you’ve designed, the odds are that they don’t care much about the colors, images or sounds, they’re immediately looking at the text. No matter how many bells and whistles you’ve built into a website, everyone relies on text to accomplish whatever they’re visiting the sitemore

Don’t know your JPEGs from your PNGs? Our guide to image compression explains the fundamental concepts and terminology you need to know. Whether you’re a designer working for print, the web or TV and film, image compression is a necessary tool that you’ll use on a daily basis. Without it,more

What do you believe are the top commercial fonts that every print designer should own? Issue 166 of Computer Arts magazine suggested these ten below and I thought they were a good pick. What about you? In no particular order… Excelsior Excelsior is good for magazines, newspapers, posters and signage. Perpetuamore

I’m always fascinated to see where and how other people work and  I wanted to share my personal set up, focusing on the tools & resources I use every day as a designer. I recently posted part one on hardware I use as a designer and today I am featuring the softwaremore

I’m always fascinated to see where and how other people work and today I wanted to share my personal set up, focusing on the tools & resources I use every day as a designer. Part one will be focused on the hardware and part two, will be the software & appsmore

We freelance designers have it rough sometimes. We’re not only expected to be excellent designers, but we also are required to manage our business, find new clients, control finances, and more. If you ever plan to make it in the world of freelance design, you have got to master yourmore

This is a guest article contributed by Nora Reed*. – In this world of lightening fast development, professionals can find it hard to keep themselves up-to-date with the latest. Similarly, some designers who wish to stay updated, just don’t really know how to go about it. These simple & effectivemore