Choose Your Size

There are several sizes to choose from. If you’re designing and printing a booklet, brochure or magazine, the best size options are either A4 or A5. However, many online booklet printing services will allow you to choose a custom size.

Choose Your Paper Type

First, you need to choose your booklet paper type: silk, gloss, uncoated or recycled paper. Each paper type has its benefits and drawbacks:

– Silk
Silk coated paper has a luxurious feel, providing great ink to paper contrast. Silk paper is the ideal option if you’re printing a booklet, brochure or magazine that includes equal amounts of text and imagery.

– Gloss
Gloss paper is shiny, meaning images stand out more than they would on silk paper. As a result, gloss paper is an excellent option if you’re printing booklets, brochures or magazines containing many large photos or graphics.

– Uncoated
Uncoated paper lacks the shiny finish that gloss and silk have. However, the lack of shine means large amounts of text are easy to read. It has high absorbency, meaning it is ideal for printed materials that are created to be written on. However, colours may look duller than they would on silk and gloss paper.

– Recycled
If your business is working to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, you might consider printing a booklet, brochure or magazine on recycled paper. However, it is not as aesthetically pleasing as other paper types, such as silk and gloss.

If you’re struggling to decide on a paper type, choose silk paper as it consistently offers a beautiful finish regardless of the content in your printed marketing materials.

Choose Your Paper Weight

Next, you need to decide on the best paper weight for your printed marketing materials. Paper weight is measured in grams per square metre, commonly referred to as gsm. Standard office paper is 80 to 100gsm, posters, leaflets and book pages are commonly 110 or 120gsm and brochure covers are somewhere between 170 and 200 gsm. The paper weight you choose will depend on how many pages are inside your booklet, brochure or magazine, and how durable you would like the copies to be. To ensure your printed materials last, you should choose a thickness between 130 and 170gsm.

Choose Your Binding

After you’ve determined the type of paper you’d like your booklet, brochure, or magazine to be created with, you need to choose how you’d like your copies to be bound. There are several options to choose from:

– Staple Bound
Staple binding involves putting two staples through the middle of a booklet, brochure or magazine to hold it together, sometimes known as saddle stitching.

– Wiro Bound
Wiro binding involves putting wire rings through holes punched into the gathered paper.

– Perfect Bound
Perfect binding involves glueing pages to a spine.

If you’re finding it difficult to decide which binding option to pick, choosing staple binding is the safest option. Staple binding is a great way to create a durable booklet, brochure, or magazine. It is cost-effective and provides an excellent finish.

Prepare Your Booklet For Printing

Once you have picked your booklet, brochure or magazine’s size, paper type, thickness and binding, you should ensure that your design file is ready for printing. You must take the following into consideration when designing your booklet:

– Trim Line
The trim line is where your design will be trimmed during the cutting process. So if your booklet is A4, the trim line will match the height and width of an A4 page. However, the cutting blade is not always 100 percent accurate.

– Bleed Area
Because the cutting blade is not always completely accurate, you must include a bleed area on your design. The bleed area must extend 3mm outside of the trim lines on every side of the design, regardless of the size of your document.

– Quiet Area
The quiet area is all content within 5mm of the trim line. It is recommended that you do not place any important text, imagery or graphics within the 5mm quiet area, as they may be removed during the cutting process, which is not always 100 percent accurate. Including content within the 5mm quiet area will make your design look cluttered.

By choosing the right size, binding, paper type and thickness and following design best practices, you can create a compelling booklet, brochure or magazine that appeals to your target audience.

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It is absolutely normal. Every profession has its terms and jargon. You would not get upset if you do not understand biologists so why become frustrated with yourself when you do not recognize the designer’s language on the spot?

If you are a beginner who wants to understand their classes better or a client who tries to understand why a designer will not accept the changes, here is the ultimate dictionary. You have 65 terms to discover from various aspects of graphic design:

– Basic Terms
– Colors Terms
– Typography Terms
– Images Terms
– File Formats Terms
– Logotypes And Branding Terms
– Creation Process Terms
– Techniques Terms

Basic Terms

Composition
A design consists of many elements and the way these elements are arranged is called composition. Great composition with smart hierarchy guides viewers through the design: for example, they see the header before they discover the description, and they look for details and key points at the end.

Alignment
Text or images can be left, right, or in the center. This positioning is called alignment.

Balance
Balance is about evenly distributing the elements of the design. The terms of symmetry, asymmetry, and radiality are also important here. Draw a central line: if elements on both sides are equal, it is symmetrical, if they are not, it is asymmetrical. In radial design, there is no central line but a central point and its branches, radiuses.

Bleed
Bleed is essential for graphic designs that will be printed later. It is difficult to influence the printing: there may be white space, rough edges, crooked edges. So if anything went wrong in printing, designers leave extra space outside of the planned format. It prevents designs from blank spaces or cutting off essential parts of the design. The space outside the planned format is called bleed and it does not contain any essential elements.

Grid
Designers use a grating: parallel vertical and parallel horizontal lines. It assures accurate design placement and balance.

The Rule Of Thirds
The most important parts of the design should be placed on the crossing of lines in the 3×3 grid. If the element is placed in the center, the viewer is less likely to notice other important parts of the design.

Scale
Scale is a size of an object, compared to another object. Scale is used to create a surprising effect when two objects are very different in real life but equal on the image. Designers can also highlight the importance of the object by making it bigger or its shyness by making it smaller.

Aspect Rate
The aspect rate is a ratio between length and height. It is used to fit designs in different screens, social media visuals, or prints.

White (Negative) Space
White space is also called negative space and it refers to blank space between elements. It is not necessarily white and can be a repeated pattern or a colored background. The main point is that viewers do not focus on such space.

White space is as important as any other part of the design. It separates groups, emphasizes important elements, and makes design lighter. Too little white space may result in too crowded design. Too much white space has a luxurious feeling to it.  

Colors Terms

Color Wheel
A color wheel is a visualization of the color spectrum fitted into a circle.

RGB
Red, green, and blue are combined together to create other colors. It is mainly used for screens.

CMYK
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key/Black are combined together to create other colors. It is mainly used for print.

Hex
Every color is assigned a six-digit code, hex, so graphic designers can find it quicker in CSS, HTML, or design software.

Hue, Tint, Tone, And Shade
Hue is a pure color.
Hue + white = tint
Hue + grey = tone
Hue + black = shade

Palette
Palette refers to all the colors that are used in a design. Colors in the palette should look well together if you want to create an aesthetically-pleasing design.

Monochromatic
Tints, tones, and shades of a single color are used in a monochromatic palette.

Grayscale
Tints, tones, and shades of grey are used in a grayscale palette.

Analogous Colors
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

Complementary Colors
Colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel.

Triadic Colors
Three colors are evenly spaced on the color wheel. One color is dominant, and two others are accents.

Gradient
A color gradually turns into another color or becomes transparent.

Opacity
Opacity refers to the level of transparency. 100% opacity means the solid color, 0% opacity is completely transparent, invisible.

Saturation
Saturation refers to the level of intensity of a color. 100% saturation means vibrant colors, 10% saturation represents washed-out colors.

Typography Terms

Serif
In serif fonts, you can find thin lines at the ends of some letters. It is traditional and formal. This font is fitting for any element: logos, titles, main text, print.

Slab serif
In slab serif, you can find thick lines at the end of some letters. It is attention-grabbing and trendy. Designers use slab serif in logos and headlines mostly.

Sans serif
There are no lines at the ends of some letters. It is modern, clean, and simple. You can use it for logos, small text, titles.

Script
Script fonts are close to handwriting. They are elegant and sophisticated but are quite hard to read. The script can be used in logos and titles but is barely applicable to long texts.

Ascender
A part of a lowercase letter that is above the main body of the letter. For example, you can find ascenders in letters “f”, “t”, “d”, “h”, “k”, “l”, etc.

Descender
A part of a lowercase letter that is under the main body of the letter. Descenders can be found in letters “q”, “y”, “p”, “g”, etc.

Kerning
Kerning is the space between letters in one word. Naturally, there is equal spacing between letters. This equal spacing can look actually not equal because letters have different shapes and are meant to work more like puzzles. By kerning the letters we make them work together and create more pleasantly-looking words.

Leading
Leading is a space between two lines. If lines are too near each other, it will be harder to read the text. The same works if lines are too far apart. There is no perfect leading for every font since:

– different fonts have different letter heights
– pieces of content that require different leading. For example, lists and headlines usually have smaller leading
– if the background is not white, it is better to increase leading

Tracking
Tracking is the space between letters and words in the entire text. It is important for all-caps words, for example. The bigger the space between all-caps, the better. It is also harder to read words where letters are too crammed together.

Font Weight
Font weight is the level of sickness. Thin has a low font-weight and bold has a high one, for example.

Hierarchy
Hierarchy Includes headings, subheadings that help readers to navigate through the text.

Widow And Orphan
Sometimes there are lonely words or short lines at the beginning of the end of the column. They are detached from the rest of the text, grab unwanted attention, and are not aesthetically-pleasing.

Lorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is a filler text that enables graphic designers to work on designs before they have the approved text copy.

Pull Quote
The text can be too long and designers create a pull quote, a short excerpt that highlights main thoughts.

Images Terms

Pixel
An image consists of numerous small squares called pixels. It is the smallest detail of a raster image.

Resolution
We often refer to the resolution as the quality of the image. When there are more pixels, the resolution is higher and an image is considered more high-quality.

Raster Image
A raster image consists of pixels. If you try to make it bigger, you will see every pixel at some point.

Vector Images
The base of vector images is mathematical formulas of geometric figures. Their quality does not suffer when you make it bigger but they are used mostly for line art graphics like logos and fonts because they literally consist of geometric figures and usually have only flat colors.

Stock Photos
If every graphic designer needed a photoshoot to create a visual, the process would be too costly and long. As for now, designers have access to stock photos made by third-party professional photographers. There are free stock photos (their number is very limited) and licensed ones.

File Formats Terms

AI
AI format was developed by Adobe Illustrator for vector images.

EPS
EPS (Encapsulated Post Script) is used for vector images as well. Designs in EPS are very high-quality which makes them perfect for printing logos, brochures, etc.

PDF
PDF (Portable Document Format) can be opened from any computer, tablet, or mobile, unlike file formats we mentioned before. Consequently, graphic designers use it to send previews to customers who do not have costly programs installed.

GIF
GIF or Graphics Interchange Format is used for animated raster images with transparent backgrounds. It supports a limited amount of colors (256) and has small file sizes.

JPEG
JPEG or Joint Photographic Experts Group is the most popular compressed file format for raster images that can be opened from anywhere. They are compressed, load quickly, and can not have a transparent background.

PNG
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a better version of GIF. It can have transparent backgrounds and offer great quality at the same time.

PSD
PSD (Photoshop Document) is a format for uncompressed raster images. Clients who do not have Adobe Photoshop installed will not be able to open this file.

Logotypes And Branding Terms

Abstract Mark
An abstract mark is a logotype type where the brand is represented by abstract images. The idea is conveyed through color and form. For example, Spotify has such a logo.

Emblem
The emblem is a logotype type when the name of the company is inside an icon or symbol. Starbucks’ logo is an example of this type.

Lettermark
In lettermark logotype, stylized letters come together to represent the brand. HBO serves as a famous example of this type.

Pictorial Symbol
The brand is represented by a non-abstract image in this type of logo. Apple uses an easily identifiable apple icon as its pictorial symbol.

Mascot
Some companies have animal mascots or famous representatives/founders that they put in the logo. For example, KFC actively uses Colonel Sanders, its founder, on the logo.

Wordmark
The name of the company is the logo itself, Google being the most well-known example of such a logo.

Style Guide
A brand has to be consistent in its style for better and quicker recognition. It includes the logotype, brand colors, fonts, etc. Guide tells about how to use logos right, includes the hexes of colors, and font names for headings, sub-headings, and main text. They are especially important when you hire UX/UI designers  or hire web designers.

Creation Process Terms

Thumbnail Sketch
It is the first draft of a designer. A thumbnail should be quick and preferably drawn by pencil. It is the stage where you narrow down millions of concepts to a couple of them.

Mock-Up
Mock-up requires more effort and is used to choose one out of a couple of concepts discussed in the thumbnail sketch stage.

Tight Comps
It is the final result, with checked color consistency, typography, etc.

Deliverables
Tight comps are changed to the format that the client can actually open and see on their computers, meaning no AI or PSD files, for example.

Techniques Terms

Color Theory
Color theory is used to create a special mood of the design and evoke a certain emotion. For example, red is a symbol of activity and energy and is widely used in calls-for-action on websites. Blue is a very calm color and yellow symbolizes happiness.

Knolling
Designers arrange different elements so that they have 90-degree angles. It creates the feeling of organization, neatness, and symmetry.

Blur
A blurred image is less clear and less attention-grabbing. If you do not want the text to be lost on the bright high-resolution image, blur the image.  

Skeuomorphism
Skeuomorphism refers to graphic designs that try to imitate real-life objects. Such visuals are as realistic as possible.

Flat
Flat is a minimalistic approach to graphic design, it usually has a lot of white space and bright colors. This approach is not trying to seem realistic at all, actively using two-dimensional images.

Bottom Line

Today you discovered 65 terms of graphic design, including definitions for colors, typography, images, file formats, logotypes and branding, creation process, and technique spheres.

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When you consider the budgets of some of these films, in some cases they completely dwarf the cost of the landmarks they destroy, so it could be argued that these projects to destroy them for cinematic effect are as big as the projects for constructing them in the first place. 

Pete Bingham (@peteboomdesign) made these awesome postcards from landmarks destroyed by movie monsters, finished in a retro travel poster style that we really enjoyed and want to share with you today.

The Hollywood Sign – Terminator: Salvation (2009)

An absolute icon in its own right, the Hollywood sign is a cultural symbol and included in countless films and TV shows, as well as having its own spoofs in The Simpsons and Shrek. The Terminator: Salvation film from 2009 has been chosen from a long list of films to destroy the Hollywood Sign. Destroyed by Skynet, the Hollywood Sign cost $21,000 to build. The film will perhaps always be known more infamously for Christian Bale’s on-set rant rather than the film itself.  

The Statue of Liberty – Cloverfield (2008)

A symbol of New York, America and of course, liberty and freedom, The Statue of Liberty was decapitated in Matt Reeves’ Cloverfield. Shot entirely in a first-person ‘recovered footage’ style, Cloverfield set pulses racing and gave us this stunning image of a decapitated Libertas. The Statue of Liberty would cost $1.2 million to build today, whilst Cloverfield had a budget of $25 million. 

The Golden Gate Bridge – Pacific Rim (2013)

Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 film sees the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco, California get completely destroyed in its opening sequence. The bridge would cost $1.5 billion to build today and is one of Hollywood’s favourite constructions to destroy. It has met a grisly end in nine films in the last decade alone.

Potter School House – The Birds (1963)

In this case, the landmark was made famous by the film instead of the other way around. Alfred Hithcock decided to shoot his seminal film, The Birds at Bodega Bay in California, using the schoolhouse as a key location and making it an instantly recognisable icon of horror cinema. People will travel to Bodega Bay to see the famous schoolhouse which still stands there today.

The Millenium Bridge – Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince (2009)

The sixth iteration of the Harry Potter series saw us lose one of our favourite characters, and gave us the high-drama shot of the Dementors laying waste to the Millenium Bridge which was used in lots of the marketing materials and the trailers. Opened in the summer of 2000, the bridge cost £18.2 million to build, whilst the sixth Harry Potter film had a budget of £200 million, so they could have done that shot in real life ten times over if they wanted. The film would have been considerably worse if they did, though…

The Taj Mahal – Mars Attacks (1996)

The Taj Mahal of Agra in India is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that gets destroyed in Tim Burton’s sci-fi satire Mars Attacks. It’s said that 20,000 artisans helped to construct the Taj Mahal and that in today’s money, it would cost $827 million to build. It is one of the many famous landmarks destroyed in the film by Martians in the film including the Palace of Westminster, Mount Rushmore and the Moai at Easter Island.

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Getting married is one of the most beautiful things but, if you are married to your best friend or, someone brings you happiness then, this caricature art makes the perfect descriptor of your married life. The couple is too happy to be married to each other, and they cannot help but, cheer up on each other for the rest of your lives.

Or, if you are someone, who ran away from the idea of getting married for a long time but, you finally found someone that makes you the happiest then, the satirical caricature is the perfect way to encapsulate your happiness to be finally married, despite of your initial incredulousness about marriage and love!

Just a happy couple happy in love, and happily touring at countryside! You can tell that the couple is happy to spend their time with each other, and they want to smile the biggest for the camera, so they could hang the perfect portrait-turned-portrait caricature on their wall.

What image does this caricature evoke in your mind? Well, I see a happy IT expert, who is here to serve its clients. Not to be too stereotypical but, the guy looks like he has the right tricks and tips to assist you with your upcoming project, and he is smiling to build a considerable amount of rapport with its client to win their trust.

If you work in a band then, you need more than your talent to appease your audience; how about you invest in creative and interesting artwork that would compel the people to guess your genre or, pay a visit to your concert? Long gone are the days when music artists relied on basic artwork to appeal to their audience; now, they should put in effort in their label’s artwork. Simply turn your band members into caricature artwork, and it would make a noticeable impact on your band’s success!

Hmm, apparently, it seems like an ex-marine soldier bidding farewell to a submarine—or, could he be bidding farewell to his job? The meaning of this caricature is rather ambiguous and it could have any meaning assigned to it. If it were to you, what meaning would you assign to it?

It is a fun picture to guess for dog owners! It is just a dog eloping in its owner’s car, and sticking its tongue to show its independence to buy treats and dog food from the store. Or, is it just the dog wanting to get away from its owner?

Well, if you were to interpret the satirical meaning of the image then, you will find that the person meditating is pretending to be a doctor (by wearing the stethoscope), and it believes that meditation is the cure to all ailments. But, isn’t that the truth!

This satirical caricature shows a group of people hanging out, perhaps for a picnic. You can clearly see that the participants of the picnic are happy to “say cheese” for the family picture.

The image shows the enthusiasm of a contractor, maybe an electrician contractor climbing the pole to fix a problem.

The caricature work reflects on a waitress or, a chef boosting her meal proudly!

If you are interested in buying digital caricature artwork, visit www.caricaturemaster.com to look for caricature portrait that would inspire you. Or, you can book an order for custom caricature artwork to turn your portrait picture into artistic picture!

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Just because you aren’t employed as a graphic designer or have any real graphic design skills, it doesn’t mean you can’t dabble in graphic design. Regardless of if you are trying to design invitations for an event or even the graphics for an up-and-coming app, there are some tips you can use.

From scale and pairing to white space and the use of vector format, there are a few tips you can use to harness the simplicity of graphic design and create something amazing. Along the way, be sure to keep the information here in mind.

Limit the Typefaces You Use

When trying to select a font or typeface for body text, subtitles, or headings, make sure you use something that’s easy to read. A person’s eye is going to have a hard time scanning various typefaces, so it is a good idea to choose a very simple collection of different fonts.

Choosing fonts with a simple, yet modern aesthetic will be effective and pleasing to the eye.

Scale is Your Friend

You need to apply scale to the shapes, type, and compositional features needed to make an emphasis. Make sure you also use the right colors to help enhance this technique, all while ensuring that the typefaces you choose look good when you increase their size.

Don’t underestimate the benefits of scale. This can help to make a huge emphasis on your app, invitation, or another item that features any type of graphic design.

Respect the Space of Any Other Elements

You can use letter spacing for several purposes. It can be used for condensing words that take up excessive amounts of space align your text or fill in dead space. However, make sure that you don’t over-reduce your letter spacing to a point where it is unreadable.

On the other hand, make sure you don’t increase it so much that the letters appear detached from one another.

Use Clever Coloring

It’s a good idea to select a color scheme that consists of one to three primary colors, along with one to three secondary colors that complement and contrast each other. Be sure to use varying tones of one color for consistency by changing the brightness for the benefit of contrast.

A finer typeface is going to need a stronger level of distinction against a background that is colored. Consider using a forest green background and aqua offset (or something similar) for readability and clarity.

Clear, Crisp and Clean

There’s another way for you to pump up the visual appeal of your app, or another item that is being designed. You can boost the contrast by changing the overall brightness of your background image so that it better offsets the color of the text.

When you do this, it is going to make the design clearer and much easier to read. This is the perfect opportunity for you to apply black or white text over an image to help create a stronger “cut-out” effect.

If you want to use graphic design, but you don’t consider yourself a professional graphic designer, then make sure to use the tips and information here. By doing so, you can create the looks that you want and need, without having to pay too much to get a professional’s help.

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Even more, labels and stickers are a fantastic way to promote products and show people your company is professional and cares for details. How you do this? Through the perfect design!

Sadly, the design of the label is, in many cases, as mistreated as the label itself. Many companies or organisations don’t even bother to consult a designer – they’ll just use a standard template (which is hideous in many cases) and slap it on the label. This is not impressive and doesn’t say anything about your way of doing business (if else, it says you’re sloppy and lazy). On the other hand, the perfect label design can be your path to success. If you need proof, take a look at some wonderful examples.

But what it takes to make the perfect label design? Well, there are a few pointers to follow and below we listed some of the most important ones.

The Spacing

The real estate available on a label is quite limited so you must make sure all the information fits right in. Of course, the most important information (usually the name) will take the most space as it needs to be visible.

Next, you should find a place for the information that will make the labeled product more appealing to the buyer (‘100% natural’ or ‘gluten-free’). This type of information should be situated close to the name so it’s easy to read it by simply walking your eyes over the label.
The brand name is also important, but it doesn’t have to be bigger than the product name. Most designers recommend placing the brand in the space where the eyes roll up first (the top right corner or the top in general).

Since there is limited space and you want people to read the information on the label, it’s best to use contrasting colours, but in a pleasant combination. Overall, the idea is to make use of all the space you have available without crowding the design.

The Message

The piece of paper we call label or sticker must send a message, it must present the buyer with the brand’s identity and has to do so in an elegant manner. We know it sounds like too much to ask from a poor label, but it is more than possible.

Over the years, many brands impressed us with delicious design ideas and cute stickers that allowed us to appreciate the creative genius. So don’t just put the info on the label and hope for the best – make the buyer want to pick your product out of a few dozen more that sell the same thing!

Colours

Just like the words, colours send a message. And when you’re not combining them correctly, the message is not attractive to the possible client. For instance, it was proven that, in the nutritional industry, there is a powerful connection between label colour and purchase.

But in any industry, the colours used to design the label must be appealing to the customer. For instance, a bright colour may make your product easier to notice, but it may also be perceived as too bold. This is why you have to find the correct balance between colours and text without making it boring.
We hope you realised by now that labels and stickers are a lot more than just a piece of paper with some information. They can make the subtle difference a customer needs to purchase your product or pick up the phone and employ your services.

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FotoJet’s online graphic designer gives common users the ability to design their own unique graphic designs with its 600+ professional templates, such as flyers, poster, cards, invitations, social media graphics and banners. What’s more, unlike other software requiring a lot of professional knowledge, FotoJet allows common users without professional knowledge to create their own graphic designs in a matter of seconds.

FotoJet’s photo collage maker is extremely powerful that enables common users to create all kinds of photo collages as long as they can think of, which benefits from FotoJet’s myriad and wonderful templates, covering diverse themes, such as birthday collages, wedding collages, anniversary collages, love collages and so on. By applying these powerful and wonderful templates, common users can make a photo collage with just a few clicks.

FotoJet is not only a powerful graphic designer & photo collage maker online, but also the handiest photo editor online .

It provides some simple and basic image editing options, such as crop, resize, rotate and straighten. In addition, it also provides some advanced tools like sharpen, dehaze, vignette, radial & tilt shift and more. All these features enable users to get unexpected but excellent results. Common users can fix the colors and lights to meet their needs by applying photo effects, such as vintage effects, black and white effects, lomo effects and so on. Meanwhile, users can add text and clipart images to give photos a creative touch. All these can be done with just a few clicks rather than professional technical skills.

In brief, FotoJet is an all-in-one free online tool for graphic design, photo collage and photo editing. With it, you can create whatever you want.

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Though timeless and traditional, the recent surge in popularity for Letterpress has opened several doors for the printing technique, causing it to ascend to new heights and pushing imaginations for what could be coming down the pipeline and what unique business cards are to be created next.

Jukebox has already ascended to some of these new heights with their recent finalization of one of the most complex letterpress designs of all-time, a 15 colour print with tremendously intricate registration.

If you are looking for the thickest business card Letterpress designs can be produced by Jukebox on a wide range of thicknesses, varying from from 20pt to 80pt.

The elegant print process of Letterpress maintains a choice, old-world allure that makes it an epitome of elegance and good taste, commemorating a tradition for fine craftsmanship. Not only this, but Jukebox has combined the specialty print process of Letterpress with their ever-expanding 3D embossing technology, a perfect combination for a splendid, unique business card.

As a pioneer in their field Jukebox is coming up with exciting new products day by day. Check out more business cards on the Jukebox inspiration page and see what it takes to create the best business card possible with maybe the only printer venturesome enough to make it happen for you.

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Your Mission:

Create jaw-dropping, knee-slapping, thirst-inducing can artwork inspired by the new mike’s HARDER seasonal flavor PASSION FRUIT, using your computer, finger paint, mom’s Pomeranian—or whatever other tools you’ve got lying around.

Bonus points for somehow conveying the fruit in your artwork – this could be through colors, imagery or something cool we haven’t seen before.

You can submit a single piece of artwork, several can designs or even make it a trilogy, if you’re into that kind of thing.

After submitting your designs, fan voting will help determine their favorite 10 designs. A judging panel will determine final decisions of up to 3 winning designs.

If chosen, your artwork will be emblazoned on 1 of 3 limited edition cans and distributed throughout the U.S next summer.

Oh, and you’ll split the $30,000 prize with the other winners. That’s potentially a stack of $10,000 in that classy money clip you’ve always wanted.

Click here to read the complete brief and more requirements regarding this project!

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Today’s mobile application CUG is designed by Dominik Pietruszka a graphic designer from Poland.

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