A great range of advertisements for the Faber Castell pencil range.

Sound typographic advice if your business is more serious than a lemonade stand.

We all know it’s best practice to have a contract in place for graphic design projects, and while there are generic contracts available for download, an ‘off the shelf’ option may not be industry specific to graphic design, may have irrelevant conditions and may be lacking in some required areas.

Without help, it can be tough for budding designers developing their contract to know what to include.

Since I’m on the wrong side of this stereotype, I think it’s ok to have a laugh. Be sure to view the post in full for the entire colour chart.

When discussing a design project with clients, the old saying “under promise, over deliver” is a sound philosophy. Unfortunately, it’s also a widely misunderstood and abused saying, often being thrown around by self proclaimed business “gurus”, without clarification or explanation.

The amazing town of Ramenskoye, in the Ramensky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.

Sometimes the things that aren’t in a logo design say more than the things that are. Shown here are just under 40 logo designs that make excellent use of negative space in their designs.

As if it hadn’t received enough criticism already, the 2012 London Olympics logo design is now being accused of being racist by the national Olympic committee of the Islamic republic.

Having recently painted our house, I can tell you from first hand experience that choosing colours isn’t as exciting as you might think. If only paint came like this…

Just about every WordPress blog theme displays the date a post was published which can be useful to your readers, if the date isn’t relevant to your posts however it can be disruptive to the appearance of your content is Google’s SERPS.

Here’s what you can do to stop Google from showing the post date before your content description.