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		<title>Useful vs. Valuable as an Employee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Graphic Designer, one is hired because his/her education and skills are useful to company to perform job duties. However with hard economic times, jobs are not as secure which means being not only useful, but a valuable asset can help to prevent your position from reaching the chopping block of layoffs and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Clients Appreciate You</title>
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		<title>Print Designer’s Guide to Web Design</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Bad&#8221; Fonts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Design QR Codes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have seen bitmap-looking matrix patterns pop up in your magazines, on t-shirts, postcards, etc. This new marketing technology, courtesy of a Japanese company called Denso, is called a Quick Response Code or QR Code. QR Codes have actually been around for many years in Japan but only recently have international companies caught on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Reduce the File Size of High Resolution Print Files</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen print files for a brochure or flyer that are 40MBs. This is very cumbersome and unnecessary. Done properly, you can reduce a print file to under 20MBs or more while keeping a high quality print file. I accomplished such a task this week. Here are a few very simple steps to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YDG wants to Hear from YOU!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can go on and on writing about all sorts of topics, but we&#8217;d rather focus on what matters to you the reader. What can we write about that will interest you and help advance your career? TELL US! Click Here to take our VERY Quick Survey &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Tips on Initial Sales Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Adolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first meeting with a client can make or break a potential business relationship, hopefully the beginning of long lasting profitable one. It’s important when testing the waters not only to determine the client’s need, but also communicate your approach to design and business. Sometimes working with a client may not work out, it happens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Reinvent The Wheel, Website Functionality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve  worked on developing several custom dynamic websites, and the lesson I have learned &#8212; sadly, over and over &#8212; is that unless the client has a very unique and specific need that is not solved by a pre-built solution, don&#8217;t take the hard road. Pre-built solutions for content management systems, e-Commerce and others have been developed and improved through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow YDG on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.youngdesignersguide.com/2011/01/26/follow-ydg-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Adolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask me what took so long, but I&#8217;ve finally created a Young Designer&#8217;s Guide Twitter Page: @ydesignersguide follow us for new articles and updates.]]></description>
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