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Understanding Bases and How They Affect Your Pricing
You’re looking at the best / coolest / newest / hottest / most ingenious graphic you’ve ever seen and you want to print it on a shirt. You know, because you’re going to sell thousands of them! It’s so brilliant in its simplicity; you can’t believe it’s only a one-color imprint – a white print on a black tee.
Sorry, mate. It’s not.
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It’s been a crazy couple of months but I have a chance to post a few things to the blog. Here are a couple of recently finished jobs that you’ll soon be able to find out there for all your firefighting buddies.
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Hot off the presses as of…oh…about an hour ago, this is Mesa FD’s Honor Guard’s new design. You can see it at this year’s Fallen Firefighter Memorial as well. I saw one come off the press and they look great! Make sure to grab one to support those fellas if you happen to make it out to the event this year.
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A quick update to show the tee that’s going to be the official shirt at this years Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Colorado Springs. I really wanted to do something cool for the families that have lost their loved ones while on the job so I put a lot of energy into this one. Hope you guys like it.
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It’s been way too long since I posted anything so I thought I’d take the two stinking minutes it takes to do it and not worry about trying to make anything of any importance at the moment. This one’s a simple gig I did just recently for the upcoming IAFF convention in San Diego.
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A design I did while at Design 10 in Phoenix is being featured at M&R’s Direct to Garment Website. It was a job done for Firehouse San Diego earlier this year.
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It’s not often I post images I do for people but I’ve gotten a pretty good response to this and thought it would be cool to share how I get from point A to point B in one of my design jobs.
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Fonts are a definitive part of what we do as Graphic Artists. Unfortunately (as with most other professions), those outside the circle don’t really know how they work…or at least how we work with them, I should say.
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For some people, I guess you could say the technical side of graphics is something of a magic trick. You see it happen right in front of you and then witness the end result. Though you don’t truly know how the trick is done, you have a pretty good idea as to how it was performed…yeah, right.
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Working in the real world as a Graphic Artist consists of many different factors that help you simply survive, let alone push to the front of the crowd…and let’s face it, it’s a big crowd. One of the most important things you can do for yourself to raise your worthiness to any company is to streamline your workflow. Not only does it help you maintain a healthy archive of working files, which is nice when your boss or clients want to go back in time magically, but it allows you to work much quicker and in turn, take more time on the important part – being creative!
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