Rob’s List of Free Design Stuff.

As a designer working in the small business end of the marketplace, I’ve come to realise that most people don’t have a lot of money to spend on marketing. So...

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How to get better cellphone photos for printing

These days everyone has a cellphone on them that can take pretty good photos that you can use for marketing. The trick is not taking “pretty good,” you want to...

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5 Marketing to-do’s for the Summer Holiday

The Christmas / New Year break. The two to four weeks where a lot of businesses shut down completely and relax. Well, if you are a big business that is....

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Explaining Digital Photo Terminology

We have talked about digital photography several times in the blog over the years. While we have done our best to keep the technical terms to a minimum, and explain...

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Just In Time Printing – Doing Smaller Runs More Often

Not so long ago printing was a labour intensive time consuming process. Laying out documents by hand, etching printing plates, print and letting the ink dry on the page, doing...

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Great Places to Find Clip Art for Your Marketing

The old saying ‘That a picture is worth a thousand words’ is very apt for marketing. A lot of the interest and impact from marketing comes from having just the...

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6 Common Issues When Getting Graphics for Printing

Being a printing company that works with a lot of small businesses, we get a lot of work done by people who are not professional designers. This is fair enough...

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Plan for summer NOW!

It’s October. Things are starting to get busy for everyone. Daylight Savings has started so people are spending more time outside while it’s light. The weather is starting to get...

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Fun with folds – How to design for folded marketing material

One of the cool things you can do with printed marketing that will never work on a PDF or website is fold it. It’s more than just greeting cards or...

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The A B C’s of Paper Sizes

Why is A4 smaller than A3 paper? Why is there a still a Foolscap refill pad size for school? Why does the printing company squash my flyer or not print...

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Making your life easy when planning for events

This article is result of the lovely Tracey, the smiling face of Copy Express, getting married this month. Over the last year I’ve watched her plan for every little part...

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Designing to a theme

So you have a big event coming up and you need to design all the stuff for it, from invites to posters, place settings, thank you cards, programmes, seating charts,...

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Paper Terminology – the sequel

Paper, the life blood of the printing industry. Coated and uncoated, matte, silk, gloss, boards, card, translucent, plastics, raw and recycled, digital, off-set, laser; we bandy about these terms while...

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Making your Marketing Memorable by Making it Practical

One of the challenges of marketing in the 21st Century is making it memorable. I’ve talked about this challenge in many of my other marketing articles. Put simply, people have...

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Marketing in Miniature

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. No piece of paper or product should ever leave your business without your details on it. Why? Because you want people...

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