Make Your Own Jigsaw Puzzle – Medium Pieces
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Make Your Own Jigsaw Puzzle – Big Pieces
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Make Your Own Jigsaw Puzzle! – Crazy Curves
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Make Your Own Jigsaw Puzzle! – Tricky Triangles
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Christmas in July..or October…
I’m one of those people who refuses to decorate for Christmas until Thanksgiving has passed. One holiday at a time for me please… But there is one exception. When it comes to holiday promotions, and corporate Thank You Gifts, I start talking Christmas as early as July. Such an early time frame stems from my days designing…
Building Your Brand, Part 1 – The Basics and Your Logo
Branding is one of those funny subjects that most people have an idea of what it is, but few truly understand how it works. In short, your brand is the pattern that establishes your company’s identity. So it’s more than a logo. Brand is more than a color palette. It’s more than a tag line.…
Building Your Brand, Part 2 – Building from the inside out.
Picture an onion. Or, if you prefer space to produce, think of a solar system. Your logo is in the center, and everything else spins off of it. In fact, at least for the first couple of layers, everything should also be inspired by your logo. Center: Logo Ring 1: Colors and Primary Fonts Ring…
Building Your Brand, Part 3 – Pen to Paper and Implement!
So you’ve mapped out your company’s solar system… or brought to tears with the onion model. Either way, you’ve more or less defined the elements of your brand. What Now? Now it’s time to write it all down in an brand standards manual. It can be a simple as a couple of pages of “this…
Building Your Brand, Part 4 – Your Library
So your logo is settled, your solar system (or onion) is constructed, your manual is in place. What now? Now you need to think about collecting your resources and building your library. So where to build it? There are a couple of good options. For one, you can place it on a backed up server…
Multi-Touch Promotions
We’ve all been exposed. The charming British lizard, perky customer service insurance reps, hamburger clowns, pink-clad cell phone hotties… we see them everywhere, hear them on the phone, in the tv and even on Facebook. This is because of a standard marketing approach that tries to reach you in as many different ways and as…