What Do These File Types Mean!?
It may not bea glamorous topic, but knowledge of file types and uses is inherently necessary in the design industry. So how does this effect you?…
Category: Branding & Design
Personal Branding – #HappyHourMakeover
#Team834 had the opportunity to host and participate in a Twitter Chat with Posh on Pennies, Ungenita Provost and Catherine Cassidy. The topic being one…
Building a Brand
As consumers, we often associate industry-leading brands with an iconic symbol (logo) or unforgettable catch phrase. While both of these elements can have a heavy…
Websites, Do You Need More Beauty or Brains?
Websites don’t have to be pretty to be powerful. There is a lot of talk about user-friendly design and design thinking. Websites need to be…
West Michigan Design Week – The Power of Color
Here in West Michigan we are surrounded by a thriving art and design culture. The West Side is host to multiple art museums, art-focused organizations…
Design & Branding | Less is More
‘Less is more’ is a little cliché, but for the sake of argument, we aren’t going to reinvent the wheel. It’s a concept that applies…
Type Combinations for the Busy Designer
Typography is absolutely essential to every project a designer creates: layout, composition, brand identity, etc., because type can convey almost any message to your audience.…
Design Thinking on the Rocks
Today we are taking things in a different direction. Today we are talking about design thinking. Since I am currently the most dissatisfied airline passenger there…
"Print is dead"? Not so fast.
We live in a digital age. We are constantly consumed by so much digital messaging that we have to actively turn off those receptors to…