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by Nancy Haberman
"Sunrise" by Jennifer Simpson
If you are reading this post, you are living in a world driven by technology. Paradoxically, there has been a trend in art and graphic design towards “things handmade,” or anti-technology. Where once a graphic designer strove to make designs and typography more perfect and mechanical, new designers rebelled by distressing type and creating designs that appeared constructed and hand crafted. If you are a reader of any of the Stampington publications, particularly Stamper’s Sampler and Take Ten, you’ll find examples of some of the finest rubber stamped and hand crafted greeting cards that I’ve seen by crafters in the western hemisphere. Complex designs using mixed media have found a home in the greeting card, even if they do use basic elements created by others.
Twenty-first century creative individuals have growing access to Continue reading
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Graphic artists are always looking for images that can be screened back to provide texture for backgrounds or to fill in fonts or other images. Free high-resolution, royalty free images can be hard to come by. Oak Creek Printworks is pleased to announce our new “Image of the Week” feature. To start with, we are posting not one but three images for the first week. Whether you are a customer or just browsing our site, feel free to double-click on the images below, and then right click on the full-sized image to download a high-resolution copy of the photograph. Be sure to check back each week for a new offering. We hope you like this new feature, and would appreciate hearing from you if you have any comments.
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OLMCS - Student art cards for sale in 2010 fundraiser
Our clients have great ideas. The mom’s at Our Lady of Malibu Catholic School decided to sell the children’s artwork as card sets for this year’s fundraiser. They printed up the cards, but were not sure how to package them. Following a little internet research, one of the moms visited us, wanting to see our clear plastic boxes. After trying a few different sizes to fit both the envelopes and cards in the same package, the result was a professional product for sale, worthy of any store or boutique. And economic too! In addition, the clear packaging allowed them to print a page to insert in the bottom of the box, profiling the artist and showing the prints enclosed.
Congratulations to all the budding artists at OLMCS, who now have the distinction of having sold their artwork. They are off to a great start.
Past clients include public and private schools, and Sister Cities International, which features artwork from children around the world. Take a look at some of their artwork. Perhaps it will inspire you. To check out packaging options, see recent blog article “Greeting card sets – a great marketing idea!” by David Heyman.
"Great Harvest" - ©2008, Sister Cities
"Quilt" - Weathersfield School
"Lions" - Montgomery High School
Let’s face it. Some of us are more able to “see” or envision things than others, especially when it comes to 3D environments. Picture this. You are trying to rearrange your living room in your head and you know just where you want everything, but…you can’t get your idea across to your partner. Can you relate?
Whether you want to build a house, set up an apartment, help the kid furnish a dorm 
room, or plan the layout of the new baby’s room, you can do it with the help of the Autodesk Homestyler, an interactive drag and drop program to help you create 2-D and 3-D versions of your business, home, or room. You can do a variety of things from adding entire rooms, walls, doors, and windows to selecting furniture, appliances, plants, and outdoor landscaping.
Want something a little less complex? Give PlanningWiz a try. This designer has built-in rulers, grids, and basic line and color tools that make it so easy that kids can use it. In fact, besides using it to create home/room designs, you could even use it in conjunction with school lessons to teach perspective, shapes, proportion, measuring on a large scale, and loads of other skills. Check both of these design tools out and see what you think.
The Internet is a level playing field
Whether your company is big or small you have equal opportunity on the Internet.
Internet is not cumbersome or bureaucratic
Small businesses without many layers of management actually have an advantage over larger competition by nimbly reacting to changing market conditions via the Internet.
Internet is not expensive
Unlike traditional advertising that can require tens of thousands of dollars to make an impact, you merely invest in good website development and keep it current to make an impact on the Internet.
Prominence on the Internet is based on trust
How your website competes on the Internet (its page rank) is based on history (length of time on the WWW), how many visitors are attracted to your content and how many other “trusted or popular” sites yours is linked with.
The Internet is a democracy.
Visitors vote by clicking on your site. Other sites vote for you by
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Jeanne M. Brown is a writer, publicist, marketing professional, fundraiser and blogger. She develops programs that boost sales and increase product awareness. Visit her at http://www.jeannembrown.blogspot.com/.
by Nancy Haberman
Adobe Photoshop, perhaps best known for its extraordinary photo editing capabilities, can also produce digital paintings that simulate photographic effects.
Struggling to find just the right image of an oak tree led me to begin my exploration of painting in Photoshop. I never use the eraser, but instead, lay down multiple paint strokes in the colors of my chosen palette, building up transparencies and color nuances with each click and drag of the mouse.
Photoshop’s endless brush variations combine with the morphing textures created by overlaying strokes of varying colors and opacities. To read the entire article click here for a pdf version: Photoshop Painting
