by Sheri Hall | Feb 21, 2019 | Branding, Fonts, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesDo you want a lightning-fast way to look hip, vintage or home-made with your graphics and branding? 🛁 It’s better than making your own soap & toothpaste!🥜 It’s better than spreading peanut shells on your kitchen...
by Sheri Hall | Jan 25, 2019 | Branding, Fonts, Graphic Design, Resources, Typography
TweetShareSharePin11 SharesDo you want a lightning-fast way to look hip and retro with your graphics and branding? 🕺 It’s better than putting on some bell-bottoms and pointy collars💥 It’s better than putting on your finest ’80s party...
by Sheri Hall | Jan 11, 2019 | Branding, Graphic Design, How to, Logo Design
TweetShareSharePin22 SharesPop the cork and pass the bubbly — your gorgeous new logo design is done … or is it? You’ve designed the perfect logo and exported all the necessary formats, what else do you need to do? The sharp, savvy designer creates a logo style guide...
by Sheri Hall | Dec 19, 2018 | How to, Photography
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesHey y’all — we might have reached the selfie promised land with portrait mode on the iPhone X! Have you tried it yet? You can get a soft-focus background while seeing what you’re shooting! This is also a Pixel 3 phone feature, but my...
by Sheri Hall | Nov 8, 2018 | Fonts, How to, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin33 SharesThere’s a nifty little command hiding in the middle of the type menu in Illustrator. It’s a serious goldmine of usefulness, you guys! It’s been part of Illustrator as far back as I can remember and I’ve been using Illustrator for 28 years...
by Sheri Hall | Oct 25, 2018 | Fonts, How to, Resources, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesThree web apps and a phone app to help you identify fonts you see out and about Do you ever walk around town and play name that typeface? Oh, maybe that’s just me. I love to look at signs, brochures, direct mail, TV ads and see if if I can...
by Sheri Hall | Oct 18, 2018 | Branding, Fonts, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin33 SharesHowdy folks! This is Big Tex. Welcome to the State Fair of Texas! … Ah the familiar words of the iconic statue at the State Fair of Texas. Today we’re taking a look at a very successful brand and learning what we can from its brilliance! We...
by Sheri Hall | Oct 10, 2018 | Design Basics, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesHave you seen any good horror movies lately? I recently saw an instructional video by someone demonstrating how to design a logo in Canva. Holy cats, you guys — it was scary! But I kept watching making a mental list of why this is not at all...
by Sheri Hall | Sep 14, 2018 | Design Basics, Fonts, Graphic Design, Logo Design
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesI was cleaning out some old papers last weekend and ran across some of my old business cards, as in business cards I designed for myself shortly before and after I got out of design school in 1991. Holy cats, what was I thinking?!? Well, it...
by Sheri Hall | Sep 6, 2018 | Fonts, Graphic Design, Terms and Definitions, Web Design
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesIf you’ve dabbled in graphics for your web site and social media accounts, you’ve probably become comfortable dealing with color, typography and graphics for your web design needs. But if you thought all that knowledge would easily carry over...
