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Top Ways To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Whether you consider yourself to be a creative genius or you know you haven’t a single creative bone in your body having more creativity can help you in your professional life and help you get ahead in your career. It can help you improve your professional work life by finding creative solutions to your problems. As a graphic designer I have found some creative tips that will help you to be more creative and find inspiration that motivates your mind.

Learn something every day

Creativity often involves taking on a moment of inspiration and gathering new ideas to make it your own. Continually exposing yourself to new ideas will keep your creative juice running and keep it fresh. Always

July 24th, 2012|Branding and Identity|

Top Inspirational Websites for Graphic Design

All great ideas start by a moment of inspiration. And if you think that great inspiration isn’t easy to come by, than think again. There are a lot of creatively designed websites that you can find inspiration. Anything from layout ideas to logos to websites; you can find it on the web. Here are 5 of the top best inspiring websites.

1) The Design Inspiration

The Design Inspiration is created by a group of designers who are seeking various design inspiration every day. To make every designer’s life easier, they decided to feature the best logos, illustrations, websites, photos and patterns from the most talented designers from all around the world. And we would like to make sure that

May 30th, 2012|Branding and Identity|

WHY CAN’T I USE AN IMAGE FROM THE WEB FOR PRINT?

Have you ever downloaded a picture off the Internet and printed it only to find it blurry and pixilated. Although using pictures found on the internet is easy and free, many people aren’t aware that it will not only result in poor quality but most of the time it is also illegal to download most images.

The main reason the images look so blurry is due to the low resolution (level of detail). In print projects, resolution is key. If the image that you use doesn’t have high enough resolution, they will appear fuzzy or blurry. Most professional printers require a minimum of 300 dpi for all images at the final print size. DPI, which stands for “Dots

March 6th, 2012|Graphic Design|

Why WordPress Websites Will Work For You

There is a new buzz going around the world wide web and it’s all due to WordPress. WordPress is an “Open Source” software which allows it to be completely free for you to use. It can be used for any kind of personal or business website without have to pay a single cent to use it since it is built on PHP/MySQL and licensed under GPL. But not having to pay for it isn’t the only perk! Here are some great reasons to consider building your next website using WordPress!

User Friendly- You don’t really have to be an expert website programmer to use WordPress. It has a one-click easy installation and most hosting companies can provide the

January 24th, 2012|Branding and Identity|

Top New Year Resolutions for Graphic Designers!

As a new year approaches many people take time to look back on the previous year and reflect on what they would do differently this coming year. Well as a graphic designer one of the things I always say I’m going to do better is taking my design skills to the next level by expanding my overall knowledge and growing my clientele. But why stop with just the one resolution. Why not go for as many as you can! Here is a list of the top New Years resolutions for graphic designers to consider for 2012!

Expand your Design Skills:

In order for a graphic designer to grow their businesses and stay on top of their competition you need

December 20th, 2011|Branding and Identity|

Graphic Design Services You Can’t Be Without

When it comes to your companies marketing needs you want to work with a company that has all the best services to help grow your business. The top graphic design agencies can offer you more than just a few items to get you going. You want someone who can give you a professional, standout new look to help drive customers and revenue. At Moonstruck Marketing Group we offer a wide variety of graphic design and advertising services. We also provide website design, corporate identity packages, and printing services for all your marketing needs.

Corporate Identity and Logo Design

Corporate Identity and logo design target to deliver your business message through an image, symbol or mark. The corporate identity creates

December 15th, 2011|Branding and Identity, Moonstruck Marketing|

Top Reasons Why Graphic Designers Should Blog

Graphic design blogs are popping up everywhere and it’s becoming more of the norm to blog about what you do best. And for all the graphic designer who aren’t blogging, you may be missing out on some of the greater values in blogging besides sharing your thoughts. There are a lot of reasons that designers should blog but here are just some of the top reasons why blogging can be extremely beneficial to your business.

-Blogging Helps Designers Boost Their SEO Rank

Adding a blog to any site gives your clients the opportunity to add new content whenever they want. Blogs also increase the size of the website over time and this can provide a major SEO benefits in the

October 18th, 2011|Branding and Identity, Moonstruck Marketing|

Top Magazines for Graphic Designers

Keeping up to date on all the new technology, trends, and new software is key for success in the graphic design industry. One way for graphic designers to advance themselves in the design community is by checking out what’s new in the top magazines. These leading articles can inspire you, inform you, and help build your skills and talents beyond your imagination. They are filled with intriguing interviews, designer headlines, graphic design news, current events, prizes and contests and everything else a graphic designer would want.

Here are some of the top magazines to checkout with a variety of features to take your career to the next level.

Layers Magazine: Layers magazine offers in-depth tutorials, cutting-edge techniques, photoshop secrets, professional

October 11th, 2011|Branding and Identity, Graphic Design, Moonstruck Marketing|

Low Resolution?

Has your printer ever told you that your file is too low of a resolution to print? We can help! You need a designer that knows the difference of designing for print and web. We do! Print and web design are two completely different mediums. If you are spending the money to have something printed with your name on it wouldn’t you want it to print as clean and clear as it should? Insuring a high quality print job is as simple as making sure all the photos and images in your digital files are all high resolution.

D.P.I. (Dots Per Inch) is the measurement used

November 22nd, 2010|Graphic Design|