Brand New: Miracle Whips new logo

Whipping a Classic Miracle: What do you think? (Full Article Here)



Miracle Whip, the zingy alternative to mayo, has apparently seen better days in terms of mayo-alternative ubiquity and has re-entered the market positioning itself to the 18-to-34-year-old demographic. Which typically means some sort of social application, in their case Zingr, but that’s the least interesting part of this. The new label and logo are remarkably Old School, reversing the order of Before/Afters in consumer packaging by ditching the swirls and overly friendly and loopy typography for an almost disarming simplicity. Apparently all the thrift shopping of vintage stuff by the 18- and 34-year-olds has finally paid off and that oldish look can feel new again. Fingers crossed, this will be the first of many consumer brands to revert back from the crazy scripts and wild backgrounds.

By Armin on Jun.02.2009 in Consumer Products

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How Designers Promote & Brand Themselves

Self promotion is what it is all about....Here is a collection of many examples
Check out all 7 pages....Links are all on this page

by Graham Smith of imjustcreative.com

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Best Ad: Evolution of Logos

This is from the "Best Ad" blog.
I am glad they put this together....





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Thumbnails make a difference!

The Role of Sketching in the Design Process

Great article by Sean Hodge

As a tool or skill, sketching has its role in the design process. That role will vary depending on the end-product being created, the size and scope of the project, the individual designer's style, experience, and workflow, and the client's expectations. Find out more about how sketching is used in the design process within multiple design disciplines.

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Adobe InDesign CS4 Tip

My Client Dislikes Ligatures

Most artists, who love typography, love InDesign. Why? The ability to format beautiful type more quickly and more easily than ever. The automatic insertion of Ligatures for certain letter combinations such as ff, fi, ffi, ffl and more (depending upon the typeface), are an obvious part of that beautiful type formatting. These letter combinations, which can suffer from awful character spacing are replaced by specially designed alternate Glyphs called Ligatures to solve these spacing problems beautifully. While looking over a proof of an ad, one of my clients asked, “Where's the dot over the letter ‘i' in the word ‘figure,' and why is the ‘f' connecting to that ‘l' in the word ‘flab'? I like my type to look like the letters I'm used to.” “Barbarian,” I thought. I tried explaining the beauty of Ligatures to no avail. So I had to get rid of them. I selected, all of the text, and unchecked ‘Ligatures' under the Options menu of the Character panel.

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net

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Halftime!

You got it.....

I am half way through my college education and on my way to a degree in graphic design. This may seem to be a rambling session, however, maybe I am just putting this here for me to put things in retrospect. I look back at some of my design pieces that I made prior to school, I can' believe I would do such things. Comic Sans, are you kidding me? Yes it was me! Embossing everywhere...Yes me also! On a higher note, I recently had 7 pieces of my work selected for an art show, in which 2 of them received honorable mention and have been selected to go onto a bigger show at a local art association. Things are looking good and I am ready for the second half of my journey. Sorry about the babbling......

A Design In Mind

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Distributing Ruler Guides Like Magic

Cool tip from Jeff Witchel, Adobe Certified Trainer

I love it when one of my students comes up with a tip because it means I'm doing my job as a teacher. In a training session the other day, we were discussing the Align panel and how to distribute objects. One student raised her hand and asked, “Can the Align panel be used to Distribute Ruler Guides?” I answered, “I'm sure it can, but I never thought about trying it.” “Let's give it a try,” I told the class. “Turn on your Rulers (Command+R [Control+R on PC]) if they're not already showing, and also Unlock Guides if they're Locked (View>Guides>Lock Guides to uncheck). Now click on the vertical Ruler and drag off five or six Guides. To select these Guides, click and drag across them with the Selection tool (V). Make sure the Spacing amount in the Distribute section of the Align panel is set to Auto, and then press the Distribute Horizontal Space button. All Guides are now distributed evenly across the page. Very cool! You can re-lock the Guides, if you'd like, under the View menu.



Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider.

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