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Facebook and Twitter both can help your business. But it all depends on how you use it. You need to advertise your Facebook or Twitter pages in other areas to let people know you can be found there. Such pages need to be updated regularly. I've seen lots of different businesses go the...

The type in the attached example seems inspired by the Latin Wide typeface. But I don't think whoever made the graphic merely customized Latin Wide letters for this. Anyway, any help identifying this is appreciated.

These Mac vs. PC threads would be more interesting if the posts contained more in the way of specifics rather than the usual broadly brushed statements, stereotypes and myths. As great as Apple is doing in terms of its business numbers I think the company deserves some pretty serious criticism...

Good Morning America covered the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablets this morning. The product strikes me as being a more fashionable looking netbook, given the fold out physical keyboard. My own 2¢ on the Microsoft Surface device: I've never felt the need to own a tablet. They're far too...

The lettering is condensed weights of Univers. The lettering is skewed for the italic effect.

Blazing is a knock-off of ITC Blaze. The font sample I provided is different from ITC Blaze.

I'm stumped by this one. It looks like a mix between ITC Blaze and ITC Kick. Can't figure out what it is. TIA for any help!

Yeah, I think Futura Light Condensed is the true source typeface for that lettering. The "designer" simply distorted the crud out of it, and performed a few more alterations on the letters (like the ''N") before ending the font torture. Another element in the artwork I received featured Penumbra...

Many people, both customers and graphics service providers alike, have MANY misconceptions about artwork ownership. I recommend getting a copy of Tad Crawford's Legal Guide to the Visual Artist. Amazon linky. It has a lot of useful information regarding artwork ownership as well as the...

I can't put my finger on it. There are hints of Peignot, Optima and Ocean Sans in it. The "W" is a real puzzler.

I can't seem to figure out the typeface used in the attached sample. It made me thing of some kind of MS Office-bundled sans face or something along those lines. It came by way of some customer provided artwork -with all the lettering distorted (as usual). I'm guessing the proportions in the...

I wish I didn't have to upgrade, but probably will within the next few day or so. Adobe's upgrade policy is the main reason forcing the upgrade. I think that policy absolutely stinks because it would effectively let the company get off Scott free when releasing a version that simply isn't...

Lack of experience and lack of reading any instructions are killers for any newbie being turned loose in Adobe Illustrator. Saving down to a "legacy" format is extremely easy to do. Same goes for converting type to outlines. Whenever I'm asked to send an Illustrator file to someone I always ask...

A QR code with contact information is great to put on a business card. QR codes can be used for more than merely providing a link to a web site or social networking page. You can have fun with the message aspect of it. I see little point in placing QR codes in yellow pages ads or on...

To make matters worse, Adobe has removed File>Open/Import support for Freehand .FH files in Illustrator CS6. CorelDRAW can import Freehand files, but the import quality can be hit or miss at times.

Obviously not every music celebrity who dies does so by way of substance abuse. Adam "MCA" Yauch had been battling cancer for the past 3 years. It started in one of his salivary glands. Movie critic Roger Ebert had something similar; he survived but the cancer took his lower jaw and he has...

Adobe Photoshop CS6 will have auto-save capability, but I don't know if that is also being built into Adobe Illustrator CS6. AI CS6 has been re-written into 64-bit code and also has that Mercury Graphics Engine GPU-assisted thing to make it run faster and more stable. The added stability...

Adobe Creative Suite 6 is now available directly from Adobe. I'm not sure how long it will take for software re-sellers to stock up with the disc-based packages. The Creative Cloud service is supposed to go live on Friday, May 11.

There's a lot of people who can code web sites with Notepad who have no real talent or expertise at graphic design. Yet many pass themselves off as if they're professional graphic designers. Then guys like me get to fix the "art" they generate when the customer needs a sign using some of the...

Some of it depends on how big a target you are for legal action. A fly by night gypsy vinyl cutter/printer dude at a flea market isn't much of a target at all unless the victimized companies have a reliable way of tracking down and dealing with the dude. Our company is pretty big, has been...