by jamesgeorge | Jul 11, 2010 | Illustrator, Tutorials
This tip is to save time when creating a group of squares or any type of grid in Illustrator. This is a good trick for making easy grids in Illustrator. For our purposes, I am creating a 300px by 300px square and it is filled with purple. You can make yours any color...
by jamesgeorge | Jul 10, 2010 | Indesign, Tutorials
This tutorial will definitely come in handy for someone that has to create dozens, hundreds, or more of names badges, ID cards, business cards, or anything else that would have the same graphics, but different information on each one. I had a project where a company...
by jamesgeorge | Jul 8, 2010 | Articles
I wanted to open the floor to fellow designers to request tutorials and how-to’s. I post my own articles each day, but if any designers have any burning questions or would like to know how to do something in particular, how to approach a design, how to create a...
by jamesgeorge | Jul 7, 2010 | Articles, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Quark, Tutorials
A reader adamantly requested that I create this tutorial, so I am going to run through the basics of creating your own business card. First, you need to gather all of the information that you need for your card. You will need your company logo, your name, your...
by jamesgeorge | Jul 6, 2010 | Articles, Typography
X-height refers to the height of a lowercase letter in a typeface or the top of the midpoint of lowercase letter such as d, p, q and so on. Some typefaces have a tall x-height, some medium, and some have a short x-height. This drastically changes the look of the text...
