Articles About Design
8 Things To Prepare for a Kickoff Meeting
I’ve been a graphic designer for over 10 years – and I’ve worked with clients in professional settings for over five years. During that time, ...
Designer-y Words You’ll Hear at a Kickoff Meeting for Branding Or Other Design Work
Starting a design project can seem like an overwhelming task at the beginning. There are many factors to consider and a lot of jargon flying ...
How Designers Create Design-y Logos & Websites
Designers get very elitist when it comes to the design craft (I’m sorry peeps, it’s true). Full disclosure, I am a designer — so I ...
What We Say: Use a Content-First Approach
The nine10 team was chatting the other day about why we switched to focusing on content first for projects, especially websites. It’s been a couple ...
Finding Inspiration: DesignThinkers Conference 2016
Like any other profession, a marketing team is composed of a variety of individuals. Each of us is skilled at something unique, and when put together with ...
The Difference Between Logos, Visual Identities and Brand Insights
You hear these terms thrown around all the time, yet you aren’t confident how to tell them apart. You’re not even sure that the people ...
How to Take a Photo for a Website Homepage Banner
Website banners pose a unique challenge when it comes to taking (or finding) photos that will work for them. This short guide provides pointers on ...
What’s The Deal with Photo Resolution?
Have you ever been asked to provide photography by a Graphic Designer, only to get a response that the photo isn’t high quality or doesn’t ...
Logo Design: Design it Yourself, Buy it for Five Bucks, or Hire a Professional?
So you need a new logo for your business and you’re not sure where to start. You could design it yourself, find someone online that ...
How to be an Awesome Client and Get the Results You Want
Designers do a lot to make their clients happy, but there are some things that clients can do to make the design process smoother for ...
5 Simple Rules for Choosing Fonts
Using fonts for your business in any print materials (such as newspaper ads, in-store print outs, memos, etc) or for the web, might seem like ...
Five ways to make your designer happy (and end up with a finished product that you love).
On the whole designers are a pretty easy bunch to please, especially if you tell us you like Helvetica or buy us the occasional soy ...