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Taking chances, having fun 150 150 TJ Design

Taking chances, having fun

“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”— Patti LaBelle This quote has been particularly relevant for me this past month. Life has been…

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Words as visual art 150 150 TJ Design

Words as visual art

I just love today’s video selection! This video features the Ten Commandments in a typographical and graphically-interesting way. I particularly like how the designer incorporated the actual letterforms of the…

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Picking the right picture 150 150 TJ Design

Picking the right picture

The definition of Graphic Design is: “The art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific…

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Beginning the Website Design Process 150 150 TJ Design

Beginning the Website Design Process

“When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web….Now even my cat has its own page.”— Bill Clinton, 1996 In…

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Perseverance must finish its work… 150 150 TJ Design

Perseverance must finish its work…

“Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” — James 1:4 I love the word “perseverance.” It has such a nice, wordsy…

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Up CLOSE and personal 150 150 TJ Design

Up CLOSE and personal

Last week, I sat on the front row. Now, this doesn’t sound like much, but for me it was. Especially since this was an event where several thousand were in…

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Creative Thinker: Steve Jobs 150 150 TJ Design

Creative Thinker: Steve Jobs

My first knowledge of an Apple computer came as a young, inexperienced college student. As a communication/graphic design student, my adaptation to this strange but wonderful new platform was swift.…

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Designers should be recyclers 150 150 TJ Design

Designers should be recyclers

I’ve always been a saver. For me, saving things has been a part of life…souvenirs from vacations, leftovers from dinner, fabric/paper scraps I might use for a craft project etc.…

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The Design of the Cross 150 150 TJ Design

The Design of the Cross

It’s seen everywhere, especially at this time of year. It’s printed on bookmarks and t-shirts, worn as jewelry and has been painted by famous artisans throughout history. It’s a world-recognized…

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Working as a web design detective 150 150 TJ Design

Working as a web design detective

“ ‘How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know that he did not come…

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Building relationships, growing business 150 150 TJ Design

Building relationships, growing business

“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”—Dale Carnegie What…

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Design simplicity 150 150 TJ Design

Design simplicity

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” —Antoine de Saint Exupéry It might…

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