Design Top Tips
Explore quick tips and advice on design including branding and fonts to social media, book design, publishing and website design
Does perfection really matter?
I was talking to a copywriter client last week about his website, which we are in the process of creating, and he happened to say hard it was writing his own words. I hear this a lot and it’s the same for me with my promotional work and this website. When you go public it’s scary isn’t it?
How to add annotations and comments to a PDF
Using comments and annotations to digitally mark up a PDF helps to reduce miscommunication, typos, errors. It speeds up the revision process. When you mark onto a PDF, I receive an automatically generated checklist of your requested changes to help me keep track of what is required - all in one place! Here’s how to do it plus links to videos.
Demystifying design: print jargon
I was asked if I could write a post explaining some of the terms used in print design. If I’ve missed anything, you can always ask me! I welcome your questions and will do my best to answer or find someone who does!
Tactile, touchy-feely printed delights which are Insta worthy
A blog post on how to use print finishes and effective design to make your customers feel valued with touchy-feely printed delights (I called it this because beautifully crafted keepsakes are and there wasn’t a better word then, or now!)
Fantastic Fonts Video
This video was made for Digital Women and covers 10 key areas of choosing fonts for your next project. I hope you find it useful!
Type and font resources for all
There are lots of sites on the web that offer advice on fonts. Here’s my list of some of the best resources including books, blogs and learning tools. This page will be updated.
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