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There are so many options for using stock imagery this time of year, and so many appealing images available at Bigstock. Lights on houses are pretty hard to resist, as is the promise of a coming feast. Send a postcard, include holiday images in your regular newsletter, or even make a calendar for your customers…

If you’re in Toronto, come see us at Design City where we’re currently exhibiting and giving away discount coupons and some great swag and awesome tote bags. Design City is part of Print World Canada at the Direct Energy Centre @ 100 Princes Boulevard in downtown Toronto. We’ll be here all day today!

Warm and toasty around the fire? Take a break and enjoy our chilling images of winter.

Behind the Mask, Part 1 One of the more beautiful things about being a designer is the seemingly never-ending thirst for knowledge that permeates throughout the industry. I, for one, absolutely love learning new things that can help me creatively, or can help streamline the production process. However, there has been the odd time I’ve…

There are many ways to create seamless patterns in Illustrator, but I‘ve found many of them to be too simple and limiting, or even worse, too complicated. Through practice and experimentation, I‘ve found a method that gives me the creative flexibility I‘m looking for, but is also easy enough to be achieved in minutes instead…

By Karl Rosencrants One thing we all dream about having is porcelain smooth skin. That is, for the models on our design layouts! Here is a great technique for giving any model that “movie star skin” makeover that doesn‘t require hours with the clone stamp and healing brush.