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Have a nice day?
1 04 2010While leaving the local grocery store,
The girl behind the counter asked “have a nice day”?
Now why not ask me that before,
I finished my shopping and already pay.
I am upset with the earlier days that I had,
So you know what I would probably do.
Since my last few days were all very bad,
I wouldn’t just have a nice day. I would buy two.
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Going Mobile
1 04 2010Mobile phones are the new computer and as much as you want your companies website to be seen on the internet you need it to be seen on a mobile phone.
Mobile phones do have a weakness. They are small and their networks and speed are limited. So your website with all its bells and whistles may be to much to view quickly and easily on a mobile phone or view at all.
But you want to have a mobile pressence.
Mobile sites need to be basic coding in a small little package. Her are a few sure things to guarantee a clean fast basic mobile site.
• Use basic HTML Format. (back to old school here)
• Use CSS stylesheets to design the layout. DO NOT use “tables” or “frames”
• NO Java Script
• No attributes in body tag <body>
• No <span> ‘s
• Alt tag all images
CSS Style sheet notes
• Do not use width or height adjustments or use “%” or “em”. ( width=”100%” or height=”1.4em”)
• Remember mobile phones come in all sizes and have a variety of screen sizes and resolutions.
• For best results content type needs to be “utf-8″ ()
• Best to use XML Validation at top of HTML ( )
• Do not use rules referencing position ( position:relative, position: absolute )
• Avoid Top: and Bottom: references
Below are a some samples in progress.
http://www.ArmelGolfSolutions.com/Mobile
We will be adding more samples as we find them.
Here is a great Link to test your Mobile Site
http://waxler.w3.org/mobileok/index.html
GOmobile and have fun with it.
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Tags: Designing, How to, Mobile site design, Mobile websites, Tips, Tricks, Web sites
Categories : Website Design
Evolution of the T-Shirt Design
26 10 2009There used to a time when a good t-shirt design had 8 neon colors on a hot pink garment with a bullet proof bottom white base. Man those were the days. Now I know that makes me appear old but honestly that wasn’t that long ago. Trends, techniques, colors and styles change rapidly in the fashion world. As a designer you need to evolve quickly or get left behind as what I commonly refer to as a dinosaur.
You just might be a dinosaur…
• if you find yourself saying ” Those darn kids today…”
• if you miss Rubylith Masking Film
• if “alternative placement” is where you lay your xacto knife to keep it from rolling off your light table.
• if you find the computer an irritating unnecessary tool.
As the design needs and wants evolve so must the designers. One season the color trend might be brown and orange, the next it is grey and pink. Today the popular trend is grunge, scrolls, skulls, shields, patching and alternative placement. Next year it could be clean lines and sharp graphics.
It is not only the artworks that needs to evolve. The techniques for screen printing is in a constant motion as well. When designing a t-shirt today you need to not only be able to design a great print but know how you want it to print. Specialty inks, treatments, discharge inks, garment distressing, the untailored look and all over printing is becoming common place in most print shops.
Don’t become a Dinosaur! Get involved. Stay motivated by the ever-changing world around you. Listen to the youth, they are your customers today and your clients tomorrow. T-shirt designs have been and always will be a much-needed commodity. They are the perfect form of self-expression and advertising all at the same time. On average, Americans own more than 10 t-shirts each, making that over one and a half billion tees! From celebrity opinions to sports teams to just making a statement or protest, t-shirts have proven to be a powerful tool.
To get a feel for current and future trends check out some of the links below.
MAGIC “Men’s Apparel Guild in California”.
Surf Expo
Fashion Trend Setter
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Categories : T-shirt Design and Separations
Shame on the Frame
8 10 2009Avoid the frame. When is a square not a square? When you go outside the square. Because you may be designing for lets say a magazine ad you see a big rectangle or square, you think you have to put something inside this square. STOP! That is not a square. That is just the only part you can see of a larger image area.
- Break the square. Create the illusion that the square does not exist.
- Having elements continue past the square. Help the eye to continue past the square by have elements run off the page. Partial elements and words give the illusion that the design is still going on back there.
- Unless the client has asked for a frame or the design requires a frame…Don’t Do it.
Good Luck.
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Welcome to GOdzyn Box
8 10 2009GOdzyn Box is my destination to let some of our Uncontrollable Creative Design tips , ideas and tricks literally out of the box. We invite aspiring designers and pros alike to ask questions and share a few tid-bits to help keep this world a creative place.
My Name is Wayne Winegardner. Through my 21 Years in the design industry I have been a typesetter, a printer, an artist, an Art Director, a Creative Director and now an Owner of my own design house. Through it all I have always been one thing, no matter how much I learned or knew or accomplished I was and still consider myself a student. I belive no one can ever know everything there is to know in their field. One has to always be willing to learn and evolve.
So I open the box to share and learn alike.
Thank You.
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Tags: Design Tips, Graphics, Ideas, learn, Logos, share, Tricks
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