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Typography tips for graphic design students

Typography

A week or two ago, London-based graphic designer Ben Terrett, of Noisy Decent Graphics, asked his readers this question:

What basic typographic advice would you give a third year graphic design student?

I read the comments with great interest and here I’ve picked out a few of the most useful typography tips.

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Graphic design Edinburgh and keyword search ranking

Pantone color

How highly do you rank in search engines?

It can make all the difference if your company or service is on the first page of Google through keyword searching.

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Cool business card designs

Four Seasons business card

Fancy some business card design inspiration? There’s a nice business card Flickr set from dailypoetics that features (at the time of writing) 584 different designs.

Here I show some of the designs I enjoy most.

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Alexa ranking, what’s it all about?

To be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to my Alexa rank, but some recent posts around the net have prompted a re-think. For those who don’t know, your website’s Alexa rank affects the amount of money that advertisers will pay to be shown on your site. The lower the numerical Alexa rank, the more [...]

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EarnMyDegree.com website critique

Earn My Degree logo

To be honest, I was reluctant to take on this ReviewMe review for EarnMyDegree.com.

The reason being that I don’t place any value in online graphic design degree programs. You can’t take a course in visual communication without social interaction.

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