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Marketing yourself, your band, or your business with DVD /CD printing

May 10, 2012

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Marketing yourself, your band, or your business with DVD /CD printing

An article that lists some of the ways to use DVD and CD insert printing to market your band, business, or yourself. See great examples of how other people have created CD’s and DVD’s for their art and business projects.

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5 BIG BUSINESS CARD MISTAKES!

May 8, 2012

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5 BIG BUSINESS CARD MISTAKES!

The business card! That ancient print object that has been hooking-people-up for centuries can be both a thing of simple beauty and a hideous design Medusa that turns all tasteful sensibilities to stone! While I don’t purport to be the world’s greatest design expert, I’ve been in the design and marketing business long enough to know when [...]

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Design Tutorial 2: Avant-Garde Club Flyer Photoshop Tutorial

April 17, 2012

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Design Tutorial 2: Avant-Garde Club Flyer Photoshop Tutorial

Free Photoshop tutorial; create an Avant Garde flyer, incorporating some hand-drawn elements. No complex techniques involved in this PSD design but the overall effect is impressive.

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30 Cool Logo Sticker Promotions

April 3, 2012

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30 Cool Logo Sticker Promotions

30 examples of the sticker as a simple but brilliant promotion! Whether you use it as a portable branding device, a guerrilla marketing tool, or a product label, it has an eye-catching appeal that makes it hard to ignore.

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Design Tutorial 1: Black and White Flyer Design using Vectors and Pixels

March 6, 2012

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Design Tutorial 1: Black and White Flyer Design using Vectors and Pixels

Background I needed to create a different looking club flyer design for a nightclub owner who didn’t want the typical “sexy-girl” look. The club in question played a lot of ambient, jungle, and dub-step stuff – the kind of dance music for the student and musically-sophisticated club crowd in Miami. This is not the version [...]

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65 Club Flyer Vectors

February 21, 2012

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65 Club Flyer Vectors

60 of the best vectors and vector-styles for use in your personal flyer design projects. This is an eclectic mix of designs to suit both alternative and traditional tastes.

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10 Tips for Creating your Brochure

January 31, 2012

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10 Tips for Creating your Brochure

The impact of your brochure has to be immediate if it is going to capture the interest of the customer. You have to offer something valuable to the customer to make them look inside. Here’s 10 tips on creating a better brochure message and design.

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5 Steps to Designing your Business Card

January 24, 2012

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5 Steps to Designing your Business Card

The business card is often one of the first things that non-professionals or design beginners will try to design themselves. Here’s 5 essential rules to consider before designing your business card.

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Design Roundup #50: Top 10 Websites for Designers

October 5, 2011

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Design Roundup #50: Top 10 Websites for Designers

Each month, HOW editors peruse hundreds of websites to find the best of the best—the Top 10 Websites for Designers. In reviewing these websites, the editors are looking for exceptional design as well as functionality.

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Printed Materials Allow Companies and Individuals to Create Their Own Designs

September 12, 2011

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Printed Materials Allow Companies and Individuals to Create Their Own Designs

Groups looking to market themselves in unique ways often turn to printed materials.

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Marketers must be creative and analytical to launch a successful campaign

July 14, 2011

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Marketers must be creative and analytical to launch a successful campaign

To be a successful direct marketing professional requires an analytical, as well as creative, approach to every campaign.

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USPS Direct Mail Solutions

June 21, 2011

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USPS Direct Mail Solutions

The United States Postal Service has launched a new campaign that illustrates the power of catalogs for both online and print transactions.

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40 years later, still recognizable

June 16, 2011

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40 years later, still recognizable

With its 40th anniversary just around the corner, the internationally recognized Nike Swoosh symbol illustrates the potential immortality of inventive marketing.

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Winners of Marketing Innovation Award

June 15, 2011

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Winners of Marketing Innovation Award

Merkle, a customer relationship marketing agency, and Chief Marketing Officer Council, a network of corporate marketing leaders, announced the winners of the first ever Marketing Innovation Awards for their superior customer engagement marketing.

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Biodegradable Print Media Coming to the UK

June 14, 2011

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Biodegradable Print Media Coming to the UK

Biomedia, a print media company, has developed a range of entirely biodegradable and recyclable print media products.

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