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Print Your Own Decals

You can now use your inkjet printer to print your own old-fashioned decals — the kind you soak and slide off their paper backing onto your car window or model airplane. Check out www.decalpaper.com. If you’re a fan of this kind of decal, have a look at Sjef van Eijk’s excellent website: www.members.multimania.nl/motelfan/ addthis_url = [...]

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3M Visual Attention Service Determines Impact of Design

3M Visual Attention Service (VAS) is an online service that allows designers and advertisers to analyze web and print designs for maximum impact. We all know that we only have a few seconds to grab a reader’s attention, but just how is that accomplished? VAS attempts to refine that process by analyzing everything from color [...]

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Inspiring Letterheads at Letterheady.com

Sometimes inspiration for a new design can come from the past. A collection of interesting letterheads that might serve as that inspiration lives at Letterheady.com. The site — which bills itself as “an online homage to offline correspondence” — displays reader-submitted examples of letterheads. Whereas Letterheady’s sister site “Letters of Note” deals with the content [...]

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DeviantART Provides Brushes & Textures

As designers, it can be difficult to remember that we don’t always have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to our tools and our designs. Having a resource for handy things such as Photoshop and Illustrator brushes and elements can save a lot of time: time that can be used for creating a finished [...]

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