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Entries Tagged as 'Banned Design Elements'

Advertising for Money on Your Website; Usually a Big “No No”

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Image via WikipediaOne of the great parts of the internet is the massive volume of people looking for information and looking to spend money at the same time. Given this environment, it didn’t take too long for people to start incorporating advertising into web pages and emails. This, in turn, brought about a staggering bulk […]

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Tags: Making Money · Banned Design Elements · Branding

Four Questions Before you DIY

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Image via WikipediaScreen printing, CD reproduction, graphic design, recording, photography and all the operating costs of running a music business/band can be overwhelming at times. It’s this very uncomfortable feeling that causes a lot of people to want to go the DIY route when producing valuable media for themselves. DIY is not always a bad […]

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Tags: Banned Design Elements · Branding · Marketing

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November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m placing this under the “Banned Design Elements” because it’s about a font, Akzidenz Grotesk, which is actually quite the opposite of Comic Sans and Papyrus.
Ps. I’m adding “Copperplate Gothic” and all its variants to the status of BANNED!
PPS. As long as we are on the subject of fonts (or at have been with […]

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Tags: Banned Design Elements · Uncategorized

Banned Design Elements

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m starting a “Banned Design Elements” category to argue that there are certain examples out there that prove the need for graphic artists.
I’ll be the first to admit that Graphic Design work is often the hardest thing to spend money on, both because it’s a pretty intangible product (you don’t get a physical thing to […]

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Tags: Banned Design Elements · Branding