Brandon Kavulla, you can come home now.Health and fitness publisher Rodale is bringing back Best Life, the high-end men’s lifestyle magazine that it folded in 2009, Adweek has learned.With well-rounded editorial and big-name contributors like David Mamet and Jay McInerney,…

Our post today comes from the founder and CEO of Mom Corps, Allison O’Kelly. Mom Corps is a national flexible staffing firm dedicated to connecting progressive employers with professionals seeking flexible work options. Allison founded the company in 2005 after…

If you often find yourself juggling files from different versions of applications like InDesign, Illustrator, and Quark XPress, Rorohiko’s Soxy could be a very useful addition to your workflow. Soxy has been updated to version 1.6.2, which supports Adobe Creative…

Our dear photographer Glenn just finished shooting at Cipriani’s. Stay tuned for the whole set after the holiday weekend!…

I often share short news snippets on Twitter & Facebook however this news doesn’t often make its way to my blog so here is a quick run down of some recent news.

New Work
I’ve posted some new work to…

Summer vacation is a lot different for my kids than it was for me. Aside from regular swimming lessons and a weekly trip to the library, my childhood summers were mostly unstructured, spent playing outside with the neighbors’ kids, watching…

Recently, I designed some graphics for a 10m length of white and blue bunting.… I had never designed for any vinyl bunting before, but the process was quite simple. After receiving the brief from the client, I found a supplier

Neil Tasker is not only a brilliant graphic designer, he is a master of typography and lettering. His style boasts creativity and his custom lettering is one of a kind. He creates typography that flows together in an old fashioned…

I love, love, love signing books. I’m used to people saying, “I wish I could draw,” but there have been a surprising number of folks on this tour who remark on my handwriting. Sometimes people just like it, and sometimes…

I was recently in a lunch meeting with an entrepreneur who lives near me. We had become acquainted through some random business opportunity and, both being, internet marketers, we started to hit it off immediately.
He launched his own business…

In certain scenarios, a DIY approach can be draining and/or destructive. How a better support structure can benefit your business and your well-being.…

Welcome to SPD’s Cover of the Day, a portfolio of brilliant magazine and newspaper cover design from around the world.Talouselämä, May 25,2012Design Director: Teemu LehtosaloArt Director: Laura KorkalainenIllustrator: Vesa Sammalisto[Special issue similar to Fortune 500, listing 500 biggest companies in…

Welcome to SPD’s…

May 21, 2012 may not go down in cover history the same way as the week Time and Newsweek both featured a young Bruce Springsteen on their covers — but it could be noted both pubs continued a recent trend…

Creative Director, Cybele Grandjean, has been working on this redesign since December.…

For those of you who, like me, used to work for someone else, you know what it’s like to beg for updated software, hardware, printer ink, and design-specific supplies. At the thought of turning freelance, my heart went pitter-patter at…

Welcome to SPD’s…

The design event dominated the whole city of Milan! The areas of design extends more and more. The world’s largest international trade fair of furniture and design, Milan Salone 2012 was held in Mila……

If you’ve been using Photoshop for some time, then you’ve used layers. Layers are the workhorse of your workflow. With them you do everything from silhouetting images, applying tonal adjustments, making comps, adding fills, and so on and so on.…