Category: Design
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The Ultimate Guide to Creating an Award Winning Book Cover
Here at YMB Properties we create graphics design software. It’s a cool job and to be successful we do a lot of research. When we decided to enter the self publishing niche, creating a piece of software to design front covers, we analysed 200 bestsellers across the four most popular niches (Horror, Science Fiction and…
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The Use of Shape in Design and The Messages They Convey
Are you a designer? I bet you must be working with shapes all the time, right? As one of the elements of design, shapes play a powerful role in communication. You can mix them, match them and combine them to create eye catching designs. Besides shape, there are 6 other components of design, which are:…
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7 of The Best Free Image Sources for Your Content
If you are managing a website, then there is a big chance that you need beautiful images. Either for articles on the website, social media (you know that in some cases that social media posts with pictures catch more attention, right?) and many other things besides. There are so many stock image sources that have…
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Logo Design: The Balance of Font, Shape and Color
Paying for a professional logo designer is extremely expensive. It’s understandable, their work is freaking difficult. If you want to save your money though, I’m here to help. I’ll share some tips on how to design your own logo (you can even use these tips when designing a logo for your clients!). Define clearly the…
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Why Youtube Stars Care About their Channel Art
Keep this in mind. You should have a clear, interesting and yet beautiful Youtube channel page. The appearance of your Youtube channel is just as important as the appearance of the homepage on your website / blog. There is no doubt that the people who love your videos will judge your Youtube channel page too.…
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Graphics Giveaway: St. Patricks Day
What are three things that you instantly remember when people talk about St. Patricks Day? Irish dancing? Shamrock? The “Kiss me I’m irish” slogan? Anything else? As for me, these three things come top of the list in my mind: shamrock, Leprechauns and Guiness. St. Patricks day will be celebrated on March 17tt. Of course…
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7 Original Ways to Use Your Twitter Cover for Better Marketing Results
Twitter is one of the largest social media channels in the world with 288 million users generating 500 million tweets a day. For marketers and webmasters this is a huge opportunity to tap into a global audience, 80% of who are using mobile and on the move. This article will be covering a lot of…
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Your Guide to Trendy Facebook Cover Designs
There are several components that you can worked on if you would like to have a better Facebook page for your business. One of them is the Facebook Cover (and I consider that element as the numbero uno one, the most important one). Why? Trust me, people who accidently go to your Facebook Page will…
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7 Essential Lessons from the Best Graphics Artists of Our Generation
‘Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.’ — Brandon Mull HA! It’s for this reason that I am creating this post. We can all learn something from the great people around us, even learning about how to avoid making the same mistakes. Ok, speaking…
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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Business Card
Much like designing a logo, you need to be clear about exactly what you want your business card to look like. Unfortunately this isn’t as easy as it sounds. For some people (I should say for a lot of people), it is hard to know exactly what you want from your design. I hope this article can…