Jason Slater Weblog

A conversation at the weekend threw up an interesting question: Which takes priority: the Art or Design of a piece of work? The example given to me, suggesting that Art should always take priority, was a movie and that the viewer is unlikely to be interested in how the thing was put together as long [...]

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Something that really doesn’t work, at least from what I’ve seen, is design that is created “by committee”. People sit down and try and hammer out what something should look like and invariably will disagree because let’s face it we all have our own ideas about how to go about things. I used to use [...]

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I’m often on the lookout for unique and/or interesting tips and techniques for ads and flyers that I often have to create at short notice.
 One of these tips is how to create an Andy Warhol type effect for images that can often make images stand out and far more noticeable.

This particular trick is located at [...]

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