tips and tricks Brevity Is the Key To Winning Marketing Communication When you're marketing your product to your audience, it's a common instinct to overshare. It's easy to understand why—you've spent forever working on making your product great, right, and you want to
PowerPoint Tips Powerpoint Design Basics Presentations are crucial in the world of marketing. You need to be able to sell your idea or convey complex data in a meaningful way, uphold the brand standards, keep everyone interested, and
Stock Photography 6 Things to Think About When Choosing Stock Photography Finding the right stock photo can be difficult—and it can make or break your project. Back in the day—before stock photography was commonplace—photographers worked closely with marketing teams to capture
Feedback Understanding Customer Feedback for Designers Design is for people. It is because of those four words that I have learned to embrace a step in the design process that a lot of us dread: feedback. This step can
Projects Ghost Social Homepage One of the best ways to promote your company is through your website's homepage. It provides a site visitor with a quick look into who you are and what your all about. It
tips and tricks Learn Graphic Design: Five Great Books A few weeks ago we ran this image as a joke on Facebook: Between these two books, we've learned the entire sum of all design knowledge. To our surprise, our readers started asking
Projects eMeals Product Illustration eMeals' three-step service helps you plan weekly meals, create your shopping list and budget, and prepare each meal using healthy recipes for the whole family. We made custom illustrations for eMeals' website to
Stock Photography The Right way to get Started with Stock Photography Stock photography, along with coffee, is a staple in today’s marketing design—especially if you’re a growing brand without the budget or time to hire someone to shoot custom photography. But
Projects WaffleBot Mascot Illustration Waffle.io makes project management painless for engineers by allowing them to create Kanban boards on top of Github Issues and Pull Requests. The charming robot behind the scenes is the WaffleBot—and
Why Not use a Freelance Designer? Any reader of trade publications or, really, the news in general knows that we’re living in a freelance economy, full of self-employed design and copy wizards who make their own hours and
Projects Flexport Thank You Cards Flexport is one of our favorite customers, and as they've grown over the last year we've helped them with a ton of fun projects—custom illustration for everything from t-shirts to wall murals
Projects Monumetric Product Icons If you've ever clicked through page after page of stock icons trying to find the perfect one—and ended up frustrated—you're not alone. Stock icons are cost-effective but rarely match the vision
Projects Ghost Social Illustrations Meet Frank, the face of Ghost Social and inspiration for the illustrations we created while designing their new homepage. Each image represents their social media marketing services and play a major role in
Projects Strategy First Header Our customer, a financial advisor, came to us with an idea for a header image that represented strategy and investment. We started our process by gathering inspiration images to better understand his vision
Projects Autodesk Sabermetrics Illustrations We collaborated with Brandon, Redshift's art director, on illustrating an article about big data transforming modern architecture—just as Sabermetrics transformed baseball. Brandon wanted to use vintage baseball cards for the art direction—
Projects PlusThis Illustrations We worked closely with the PlusThis team to create custom illustrations for their homepage to give them a more distinctive look than stock photography. The illustrations support their featured services and provide an
Projects Autodesk: Redshift Custom Illustration When you post articles as often as Autodesk's Redshift, stock photography can become stale and difficult to align with your message. The quick and easy route would be to look for stock illustrations
How to Find a Great Freelance Designer Hiring contractors is a cost-effective way to grow your business without the headache and overhead that go with hiring full-time employees. But freelancers are hired guns, and they might not be as gung-ho
Projects Autodesk eBook We worked with the great folks at Autodesk's Redshift blog to design and illustrate an eleven page eBook about sustainability. Read it here. Our creative services manager, Devin, and one of our designers,
PowerPoint Tips Mac PowerPoint Font Fixes Having trouble with custom fonts in PowerPoint in Office 2011? If you haven't already cracked your laptop into pieces out of frustration, here's the fix. Two main problems: Install the font in "
tips and tricks Understanding Your Sales Presentation Audience Presentations are an effective way to reach a large number of people at once—whether in-person or online. But in order to make a good impression, you need to know who's in the
Decoding Marcomm Jargon It’s easy to feel lost when everyone uses a different term to describe what sounds like a newfangled idea. It seems like the tools available for marketing communications (abbreviated “marcomm” or “marcom”
