Archive for 'Design' Category

How to Make Clients Appreciate You

I am not saying, even if your try really hard, that all clients will appreciate you. If not then you might want to rethink the business relationship, but if you try then you are more likely to have continued business. Let’s face it, there are hundreds of firms and designers, they don’t have to be [...]

Print Designer’s Guide to Web Design

Web design is very different from print design, working within an environment where programming, Internet Browsers and Search Engine Optimization have requirements.  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has made the ability to design within these restrictions easier.  However, there are still limitations and differences from print design that need to be considered and followed for a [...]

“Bad” Fonts

Recently in conversation, a few of the YDG contributing writers broached the topic of “Bad” fonts. In college, we felt (others may agree) an attitude was fostered that some fonts were inferior to others. The “Classics” such as Futura, Helvetica, Univers and Garamond, to name a few, were considered THE fonts. I agree the aforementioned [...]