Save Time With These Photoshop Shortcuts
Adobe Photoshop can do more things than most people will ever use or know. We all want to work faster, and keyboard shortcuts offer an easy way to do that.
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Logo Design Basics
So you need a logo. You have your big idea, you have a name, you have a business plan, and you are ready to move forward with what will hopefully be your retirement plan. BUT, there’s a problem, you don’t have awareness. You don’t have a website for anyone to find information about you, and …
The Art of Kerning
Kerning is the often neglected art form of adjusting the space between letters of a word to increase the content’s readability. Learn more about how it came to be, and how you can learn to master kerning.
Understanding the Meaning of Colors
This is an update of an article originally from April 28, 2016. As a graphic designer and Creative Director, I always found it fascinating how something as simple as a single color can communicate so much. Color is a form of non-verbal communication. Every color has meaning and feeling that it evokes. Whether consciously or …
Graphic Design 101: CMYK or RGB Color
Color can affect your mood, what you think of a new brand, and even influence your buying choices. Getting the color right in your designs is crucial if you want to convey the right message. As a designer, it is essential to know when to use RGB or CMYK. You want to make sure your document color mode is set correctly depending on your project or you could spend a lot of time fixing improper color values.
Exercise the Demons: Finding Work/Life Balance
Imagine that you’ve been stuck on the same idea for hours, maybe even days and are going nowhere. The stress of a deadline, anxiety and possibly depression set in. You search online for new ideas, but nothing sparks. Perhaps removing yourself from the situation may be the most beneficial step you can take to solving …
An Inside Look at Travis’ Everyday Carry
Each day presents a new set of creative challenges for us here at C3D. Check out a list of the gear and gadgets that help me get through each day! SNACKS!!!! An absolute must for me. I try to keep all my snacks relatively healthy for fuel and avoiding overly sugary items to avoid crashing throughout the …
Menu Design: Feel the Thunder
Bosselman Enterprises is a multi-state travel, convenience store, mechanical and hospitality company with over 1,400 employees. The company approached Corporate Three Design about creating a menu to help brand their new restaurant concept in Grand Island, NE named Max’s Thunder Road Grill. About Max’s Thunder Road Grill The 400 seat restaurant is an automotive/motorcycle enthusiast’s dream …
Justifying The Value of Custom Web Design
You are looking at your website, the one that has not changed in the last 5 years. The look and feel has gone stale, it has reduced in traffic and, more importantly conversions, and when you pull it up on your phone, you are scrolling up, down, left and right, zooming in and zooming out. …
Why You Should Invest In Great Logo Design
Anyone with 5 minutes and a copy of MS Word can “make” a logo, but then there are the truly good logos; the logos that someone actually took the time and effort to think through meaningfully and design. Those are the logos that stick with people and define a memorable brand. And that’s what we’re …