Well the heading says it all. Your font selections are very important in any project. I'll leave this post open for comment of favorite fonts used in the industry and which fonts are suited to which applications.

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Have you ever thought about how you could spice up those boring closet door designs? Apart from the actual wood or metal work, there are lots of things we can do as graphic designers to liven it up.

Closet Door Design | Cabinet Door Design

Well first off you could take a digital pic of your closet or cabinet. Then you can import to Photoshop and start playing lowres. Remember that you'll eventually want to do it high res for print. Vinyl printing should be fine, to be applicated afterwards.

Actually not many designers would probably waste the time to design new closet doors or cabinet doors, but for those that have absolutely nothing else to do, comment on this thread with your url's to JPGs of your designs - we could start a trend!

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When designing graphics or logos for companies, it's important for you take into account what their corporate identity should portray.

• Who's the target market for the company? (5-10, 10-15, 15-25 yrs etc?)


• Is it corporate or does the brand have a more relaxed feel?


• What are the client's colour preferences? etc

"www.graphicslogo.com" - examples of logos online

Graphics and Logo Design (web vs print)

Designing graphics for web requires the designer to export final artwork as 72dpi images. A nice tip is to keep in mind that some site graphics might be used in print at some stage, so make sure you design vector or high resolution initially with detailed diagrams and sketches, even though it will only be used for web at 72dpi.

This is even more applicable when designing logos. So many times we get crap logo designs in low resolution to use on a client's print material which just doesn't cut it, and in the end the client has to foot the bill for re-designing their logo in high resolution to ensure quality printing.

This is why vector design is so powerful. It's easy work with vector graphics due to the small filesize, but powerful in the sense that you can make a vector design any size and you will not lose quality. The problem is when you need to use bitmap and vector design together - more on that later. The high resolution tips apply to bitmap design, since vector designs aren't bound by resolution, except when you start exporting.

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When designing brochures and documents with allot of text, it's best to start with the right applications. Two that immediately comes to mind is Adobe's InDesign and Macromedia Freehand. The power of these two apps (with regards to document layout) in comparison with say Photoshop or Fireworks is that your text layout tools are much stronger, with columns and text flowing from column to column which makes fitting a certain amount of text into limited columns a breeze.

The power of InDesign is that you can edit all graphical elements within Photoshop and have it updated within the InDesign file automatically which saves precious time. Well actually Freehand also has that function, so I guess it's a matter of choice and price in the end.

Then lets not forget QuarkXpress. Also a very strong application for layout design which is used widely. We find that many users tends to stick with a suite of products, that makes interoperability and file compatibility much easier.