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I'm getting used to it. I didn't like it at first.... on my laptop anyway. I love it on the tablet I have. It's like using my windows phone that I've had for years now. But on the laptop, I find myself spending the majority of the time in desktop mode. Here is what helped for me. First...

Sounds like a good opportunity to sell a logo. Here is a scenario that happens at our shop. Customer: "I need you to put this design on a sign." Us: "Did the designer who created this supply you with a vector version of that art. Perhaps he or she put it on a disk for you." Customer: "No I...

I always assumed Canadians covered their vehicles with beaver pelts before heavy snowfall to protect their vinyl graphics.

And that's just it. It's totally a theory but it's the best guess I have right now. Here is the top of my personal car. The car is less than a year old and the racing stripes were installed late summer. Earlier this winter, after the first snow fall, I attempted to pull my car out of the...

I think Jill might be on to something. Melting snow... freezing... forming ice on the side of the vehicle then slowly migrating down as it slowly melts again. That would cause failure. I've seen it happen before. Perhaps the blue was slightly bad. Not bad enough that it wouldn't normaly go...

We laminate everything, and have found that doing so actually speeds up production because applying laminated prints is so much easier than un-laminated prints which aren't as thick and ridged. That being said, it sounds like we do different types of projects...possibly larger projects where the...

You need to make sure you have the nodes selected using the shape tool, and you have to make sure the nodes you have selected belong to the same "combined" shape or line segment. Select both shapes or lines and press "Ctrl + L"

There are a few options you have. First you need to make sure the lines or groups of lines that you intend to connect are combined. So you need to select them all and combine them or Ctrl + L. Then, when you have the shape tool selected, in your top toolbar once you have selected your nodes...

At that level there is a lot you can teach about graphic design without even touching a computer. A bunch of schools assume teaching graphic design is all about training people how to use software, but the basics and the theory of design is at best touched on, and at worst ignored all together...

OK so Locals Find (and this client) are going to put all their chips on the neighbors of the person who managed to wade through all the content on that company's advertisements and decided to buy their products and services. Now let's say one out of all the neighbors was enticed to buy from...

I disagree. I think the first design was on the right track. Yes it needed some work, but the OP admitted that it was just a first draft. "get's the message across"??? you mean all 30 of them?:Big Laugh I disagree. There is way too much content on the 2nd design and too much to read. All...

I feel for you. I've been trying to master the art of convincing difficult clients that our good design decisions were actually their idea. It works most of the time, but every once in a while you just cannot win.

The truth is there are still a lot of people that are old school and would rather reference a card, so you have to keep them in mind too. But you don't have to use them just for those people and you can use them in unconventional ways. We use ours a lot, but like I said we use them mainly for...

I'm not sure what your relationship is like with leaders in your community. So if I'm preaching to the choir I apologize in advance. We don't have too many issues with our town. I feel like our input on sign related rules or laws is appreciated by the powers that be. In fact we are well...

Here are our cards and just a few others we have done. Sorry the photos aren't the best. When we are done passing out our current ones, I will most likely redesign them. The one thing I don't like about our current cards is that the contact info doesn't have enough contrast. It's passable...

Your brother does some nice work. Do you hire him to make hanging sign brackets too?

For the last 9 or 10 years I've been using a really cool old drafting table as a desk. Now it sits behind me and I can actually put it up at an angle and use it to draw now. The thing is a beast and weighs a ton. I want to resurface the top and possibly give her a new paint job.

We've been inspired by the last few posts about building work tables and what not. It's not the same thing (although it is a table of sorts that I do work on) but we just finished making a new desk. Here it is: It's all oak. My dad, brother and I worked on it a little here and a little there...

Totally calm. I'm not typing in all caps or anything. :wink: I stated: "You do realize that this was going to be an addition of a law, not the removal of one." Your answer was "depends". That response didn't make sense. It would be like saying you do realize our planet has a gravitational...

"Depends"? What do you mean? Depends if you realize it's not the removal of a law? Why would who I'm referring to matter? Anyway, if anything the law was just a waste of time. It wasn't necessary other than for politicians of both sides to use it to make a statement, but the idea that it...