Ten Sustainable Packaging Tips
Sustainable packaging is used for environmentally friendly product packaging, influencer marketing, seeding kits and direct mail? Get 10 eco-friendly tips.
Tulip Fold Record Album Sleeve
Fold Factory is a great resource to get ideas for innovative print projects that will make your marketing message stand out from the crowd. Here’s a short video on a project that includes a “tulip fold.” We collaborated with Lizy Gershenzon of Scribble Tone on this record album for her client Marmoset Music. The tulip
Print Design Needs Bleed
Files without proper bleed is a common problem we see when preparing art for print. Bleed is the part of the art that extends beyond the trim edge of the final printed piece. Since there ares slight variations in the printing and trimming processes, if the artwork ends right at the trimmed edge it’s too
Selecting Window Display Materials
What goes in to the creation of a functional and aesthetic window display? Many people assume that itÂ’s a simple as sticking a poster on to a window, however there are several important factors beyond simply knowing the dimensions of the space and performing site surveys. Geographical parameters determine outside and inside application, installation in
Call To Action
We moved into a house last year with a broken outdoor faucet by the driveway. It’s not one of those ordinary hose bibs, it is a hot & cold mixer faucet like you might see on a utility sink. It seems that hot & cold faucets are unusual enough that they donÂ’t have it at
Die Cuts Get Results
Eager to have a client, customer, or friend take a second look at your piece? Perhaps open and close it a few times out of interest? Even take time to assemble it? Die cutting can turn your printed design into a sculpture, a model, or an irresistible urge to see what’s inside. It can add
True White Ink
Indigo Digital Printing White ink is here. Digital printing is rapidly morphing into a quality creative marketing avenue. No longer quick and dirty–expect high-quality reproduction, G7 certified color accuracy and utilize creative substrate and ink options. Short-run, highly targeted and personalized print pulls some of the best marketing returns of all communication channels. High-quality design
Print-Ready PDF/X-1A AND PDF/X-4 Files
PDF/X is a special sub-pdf standard that meets ISO standards. All details and specific information required for print production is embedded into the graphic file. For instance, PDF/X-1A requires all fonts to be embedded and images to be designated as cmyk or spot colors. PDF/X-4 takes it a step further accepting calibrated rgb color and
Pantone+ CMYK Conversion Issue in CS6
Pantone® and Adobe have made a fundamental change in the way color is defined in CS6, resulting in different – and unpredictable – CMYK builds if you start with the default spot colors and change them to process colors. The CS6 default Pantone+ spot colors are now defined as Lab values instead of CMYK builds. PantoneÂ’s thinking is that