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How to design logo

Logo design is probably most simple and at the same times most difficult area of design. While a quality logo design combining with a good brand strategy could boost companies’ business the bad one could ruin it. A logo does not sell, it identifies. Many

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Get design review with ReviewBasics

ReviewBasics is a nice online service from SharpStyle Labs, that provides free and amazingly easy way to have your design work reviewed. It could be a website, a photo, flash video or a document. Built-in conersion utilities allows to import a bunch of file formats

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Make magazine cover with your photo

If you were always dreaming of being on a cover of the Time magazine, now after many years of trying to hit the stars you can fulfill your dream. MagMyPic.com is a fun application that let you create your own custom magazine covers featuring your

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Why CorelDraw X4 sucks

Corel Corporation recently released a new version of its flagship product CorelDraw X4 (frankly speaking, other parts of Corel Graphics Suite have almost no value) which still have thousands of users around the world. Most Corel admirers like it partly because of mythic easier learning

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Adjust monitor settings with Screen Check

Adjust your monitor for right brightness, contrast and saturation with web site Screen Check. This site displays two bars, one grey for adjusting brightness and contrast and the other for adjusting color. Though it isn’t professional calibration which is required to have image look the

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Google Logo designer Ruth Kedar

Ruth Kedar is an artist and designer who designed Google’s Official Logo and Registered US Trademark which became later famous around the world. Since Google didn’t have money to pay a designer at first, the first version was created in 1998 by Sergey Brin using

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43 signs that you are cool designer

You nearly crashed a car in front of you identifying unknown font on the billboard. You feel bad if just downloaded free Photoshop brush has size less than 1000 px. You are looking at weird picture on your girlfriend/boyfriend T-shirt instead of listening to her/him.

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Blog downtime caused by Bad Behavior plugin

My apologies to all readers and visitors of Graphic design for life! While I was too busy last days, hosting company blocked my account for ‘suspicious background activity’ which was caused by Bad Behavior WordPress plugin (Bad Behavior should protect your site from spambots). I