So you know your ethics. You know your “foundation.” And hopefully you’ve developed a USP. What Time Is It? Image time. Or imagine time, whichever you prefer. This process is something that we find many designers don’t do, but we can’t figure out why. It’s so useful. Create an Influence
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We’ve mentioned it before, and for the GTD crowd out there, it’s become second nature. But everything you do that’s related to productivity in design needs to be broken down into micro-tasks. Your brain is an excellent tool for organizing and task management, but only if you train yourself to do
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Ah, switching tabs. Talk about time-saving. Unfortunately, it’s not so similar between Macs and PCs this time. So…let’s go ahead and start this week’s keyboard shortcut for designers with the Windows version: Ctrl + Tab Windows kids, you have an easy time with this one. Ctrl + Tab will cycle
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When Adobe stopped offering their CS Subscription Service, we were a little bit disappointed. It was a fantastic way to keep up-to-date on the applications we used the most, and it provided a cost-effective way to use a piece of software on a per-project basis. Is there any good news?
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Welcome to Nascent Studio’s new series of articles! The Keyboard Shortcut (of the) Week. Today we have a classic shortcut that should help immensely with task switching, as that’s what it’s designed to do. Switch tasks… Alt+Tab For Windows designers out there, flip back and forth from Photoshop to Illustrator
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We’ve spoken about corporate identity and brand design, so let’s actually get you started on the path to a great corporate identity and a well-recognized brand. This will be a multi-part series that will guide you step-by-step through the identity creation and design process. By the end of this mini-course,
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Note: This post is a couple of days late, it was saved as a draft and I forgot to schedule it, my mistake. This is an article that I (Josh) have been working on for quite some time. Changes in productivity, systems, and furniture can change the way your day
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Recent (and old) articles around the internet have indicated that multitasking is the devil. Well, maybe not the devil, but a productivity killer, anyway. We support this ideal of no multitasking, and that’s part of the reason why we don’t take on more than 2 projects at a time. Multitasking
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Most people make their New Year’s Resolutions in January – we think this is just bad practice. Many articles recently have pointed out that January is a horrible time to make a new resolution – you’re just setting yourself up for failure. But, as the end of the month approaches,
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Identity design…the art of making a fake driver’s license. Well, not really, but something similar in practice. Where a fake ID has a birthday, a well-designed brand identity has a font. Where a fake ID has a license number, a corporate identity has a color palette. To summarize it using another
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