Your designs are good… but are they award worthy? Taking your design skills to the next level could help you snag that next design award. If you want to be able to add “Award-Winning Graphic Designer” to your website or resume, there are some things...
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Instinctively, most people think of newspapers when they hear this phrase. Newspapers are considered a publication, but publications can include newsletters, journals, fact sheets, reports, summaries, annual reports, and white papers. Publication design applies to a broad range of...
How many business cards have you received in the last week? Month? Year? How many of those cards ended up somewhere other than the trash can? Creating a business card that entices someone to actually keep it can seem like a daunting task, but it’s...
Thelma and Louise. Bert and Ernie. Ross and Rachel. Your Website and You. Do people associate you with your website? Can people recognize the correlation between your company and its online presence? Do you feel that your site represents your business in the best way?...
As mentioned in our weekly Newsletter, Creative Juice’s CEO, Octavia, and Social Media Intern, Brooke, attended a sold-out National Small Business Week event hosted by Facebook and Instagram. The first week of May was National Small Business Week, a week that celebrates America’s entrepreneurs and...
Gradient is working its way back into the design-o-sphere. If you can recall, gradient was a popular 3-D effect in the early-to-mid 2000s, when every brand on the planet was trying to position themselves as “futuristic.” The late 00’s affinity for clean yet bohemian, hand-drawn...
A copyrighted image is an artistic rendering protected from recreation without permission, a way to cover the artist’s rear end, as it were. A trademark specifically protects assets of the brand image. This includes logos, phrases, symbols or any distinctive visual aspect of a brand....
Packaging is something we don’t always notice, but we see on a daily basis. A great eye-catching design has been shown to influence consumer buying decisions. Sometimes packaging is just as important as the product itself. In a world full of products, it is important...
Four months into 2016, and companies are rebranding like crazy. The internet is buzzing with the latest in logo design trends, as the giants in the industry face another series of updates, some not having had a fresh face-lift since the 1990s. The overall trend is...
The 2016 presidential race is an anomaly. Not only having become a spectacle akin to The Voice or American Idol, the 2016 race is buzzing throughout social media, and may be the first major race to directly target Millennials. Millennials, or Generation Y, are the digital...
