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Automation Threatens to Make Graphic Designers Obsolete

So what kind of career should you expect to have in future? By Rob Peart  Hey, so you’re a monk. It’s about 1440AD and you’re just chilling out in your quarters, listening to a bit of chanting through the stone walls, practicing your black-letter while you digest your dinner. You’ve got a killer commission coming

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A Strong Crisis Management Plan Can Save Your Firm

You should hope it never happens to your organization, but unfortunately, a crisis can strike any company at any time. But if your business suddenly became embroiled in a crisis, would you be prepared to handle it? If you were putting out fires, or a major conflagration, and you didn’t have a crisis management plan

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5 Social Media Trends to Watch for in 2017

For many business owners, these days, it feels as though social media is a rapidly moving target. And for good reason: Social media is turning out to be one of the fastest-changing industries around. Which means that, if your business is going to be competitive in the months to come, you’ve got to be relevant

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3D Printers: The Latest and Greatest from CES 2017

Just when you thought 3D printing couldn’t get any cooler, earlier this month at CES 2017, several innovative products designed to enable users to capture 3D objects and reproduce them with unprecedented ease made their debut. Front and center among these was Shining 3D’s Einscan Pro+, a hand-held 3D scanner, and its companion, the Einstart

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Prepare for ACA Reporting or Suffer Possible Fines

EVEN THOUGH there are clouds of uncertainty hanging over the Affordable Care Act, applicable large employers are still required to adhere to the IRS filing and reporting regulations or risk financial penalties. While most of the reporting deadlines will be the same for 2017, the deadlines for distributing forms to employees have changed. All employers

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Prepare for ACA Reporting or Suffer Possible Fines

EVEN THOUGH there are clouds of uncertainty hanging over the Affordable Care Act, applicable large employers are still required to adhere to the IRS filing and reporting regulations or risk financial penalties. While most of the reporting deadlines will be the same for 2017, the deadlines for distributing forms to employees have changed. All employers

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Designers Play It Safe With Pharmaceutical Packaging

Melanie Streich “No compromising on product safety” is the overriding principle for companies of the pharmaceutical industry and for allied enterprises in the packaging sector. Because of their high responsibility for human health, they are strictly monitored and have to comply with numerous specifications and guidelines. Not a small challenge for the companies. From an

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Minding our elders

by  Chris Gretchko Brands have not actively marketed to seniors for decades. Read on to see how inclusive design could help marketers recapture the attention of this fast-growing demographic. Despite the marketing buzz about millennials and Generation X, neither group has the numbers nor the purchasing power of seniors, sometimes called the baby boomers and

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The Type Snob

And how to turn into one Pablo StanleyFollow Designer at Carbon Health. Writer at The Design Team. Mentor at Sketch Togethe Can you name the typefaces drawn on this gif? The wannabe Back in 2014, I was a graphic designer who had just moved to San Francisco to become a UX designer. Before that, I had worked

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Magazine Covers by Famous Artists: Dali, Picasso, Braque & More

by Steven Brower It’s hard to fathom that almost two decades into the 21st century that there could still be a chasm between the worlds of “fine art” and graphic design. Especially considering that in the early part of the twentieth century these lines were blurred, as evidenced previously with the design work of Henri Matisse

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