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Archive for January, 2010

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Friday, January 29th, 2010

Quick Tip: How To Create Diagonal Guides In Illustrator

It’s super easy to make diagonal or custom guides in Illustrator! Just grab the line tool or pen tool, draw the line and then go to view guides make guides. If you are into keyboard shortcuts its apple+5 on mac or control+5 on PC. Walla! Have a suggestion for a quick tip? Wondering how to [...]

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Thursday, January 28th, 2010

My Thoughts On The Apple iPad

Yesterday afternoon I tuned in with the thousands of fanbois and girls to listen to God, (I mean Steve Jobs) introduce Apples newest creation: The iPad. After my initial non-amusement with the name and product features I couldn’t stop thinking that this product was not made for me – a power user. The iPad is [...]

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Quality Not Quantity

Photo by Thomas Hawk In this fast paced world of design how do we keep our focus on quality and not quantity? For the past month I’ve taken some time to evaluate, rethink and regroup. I’m going to try to do a few things differently in order to bring this quality back into my design [...]

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