February has started, and we kick it off with the election primary on Super Tuesday, February 5th. This year I was excited to help my friend Sean Garballey by designing several of his mail and collateral pieces. Sean had a great message to send out, and using PowderKeg Graphic Design, he knew he’d have a […]

I recently put together two new articles that were published online at Designer Today. Following my own stated purpose of giving assistance to those starting out in the field I provide some ideas and guidelines for building your portfolio and stretching out using your network.See them online…
Portfolio: Making Your Best Presentation
Networking for Dummies (Me)
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Every humble designer that I know goes through a period of time in which they question their talent and ability in the field of graphic design. In this designers are true artists, simply because of our feelings of inadequacy we aim to do better at our weaknesses. Unlike the financial services field we can’t apply […]

A new Illustrator CS2 tutorial, written by Carl Grivakis, has been placed online at Designer Today. The new tutorial shows how to create a text shaped mask for more unique text effects. The tutorial can be found here.