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		<title>Design Tweets of the Week #6</title>
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Every week I take some of the most popular and interesting tweets that I come across and share them with my community. Enjoy!
How to sell the value of design: An email conversation
As a designer it’s not always easy to stand up for yourself… clients often have demanding requests, tight budgets and due to one reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2010/02/design-tweets-of-the-week-6/</link>
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		<title>8 Annoying Things That Clients Say to Graphic Designers &#8211; Part 1</title>
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I am approached by clients on a daily basis for graphic design work. Many are professional, but some are not. Below is a start to a new collection of things clients say, which are frustrating, yet slightly humorous.

CLIENT: &#8220;This project should be pretty easy if you know what your are doing.&#8221;
CLIENT: &#8220;I need a full scale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2010/02/8-annoying-things-that-clients-say-to-graphic-designers-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Converting Clients and Designers: Sustainable Eco-Friendly Print Design</title>
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Let’s face it. Every product that humans create has an impact on the planet. In today’s world our everyday life is driven by cutting-edge technology that makes mass production of manufactured materials easier than ever before. So easy in fact that it has come to jeopardize our society’s future by tainting the environment with products [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2010/02/converting-clients-and-designers-eco-friendly-print-design/</link>
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		<title>Graphic Design Evolving</title>
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Recently, in my writing composition class, I was asked to write a paper using a prompt which questions my field of study. The results were quite interesting after I thought about the question and did some research.
The prompt:

“What is the most important development that has occurred in your field of studies during the last ten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2010/02/graphic-design-evolving/</link>
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		<title>What is Contemporary Art? Keys to Understanding</title>
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Andy Warhol used non-representational color and representational form to convey different sensations. Apply the same idea to the portrait of Marilyn Monroe below, using the controls to adjust the colors. How does the color affect the mood? (source: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html)
Contemporary art is often misconcieved as lackluster or lazy art. Many artists like Pablo Picasso started movements in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2010/01/what-is-contemporary-art-keys-to-understanding/</link>
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		<title>Design Tweets of the Week #5</title>
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Image notes: Chris Hardwick (Nerdist) recently joined forces with Chris Glass and Wire &#38; Twineto create a new series of t-shirts. Their first creation is “Nice Tweets”, in honor of Chris’ Twitter addiction. Borrowed from http://laughingsquid.com.
Every week I take some of the most popular and interesting tweets that I come across and share them with my community. Enjoy!
Here are 40 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2009/12/design-tweets-of-the-week-5/</link>
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		<title>Design Tweets of the Week #4</title>
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Mosaic illustration made by Tsevis Visual Design for an article about Twitter for the Greek best selling computer magazine &#8220;RAM&#8221;. Best viewed large.
Every week I take some of the most popular and interesting tweets that I come across and share them with my community. Enjoy!
Colors can change your logo design fate – 10 careless color contributions!!
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2009/11/design-tweets-of-the-week-4/</link>
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		<title>Design Tweets of the Week #3</title>
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Every week I take some of the most popular and interesting tweets that I come across and share them with my community. Enjoy!
24 Numerical and Punctuation Logos – The Unusual Logo Designs!!
So, here is a collection of 24 numerical and punctuated logo designs showing how creatively designers have played with these ignored features. It will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2009/11/design-tweets-of-the-week-3/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Broken Theme &#124; &#8220;Template is missing.&#8221;</title>
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The other day I had a client come back to me after the WordPress 2.8.5 upgrade came out. I had designed the WordPress theme for his website and after the upgrade had been installed the theme disappeared from his Appearance&#8211;&#62;Themes section in his administration panel. At the very bottom of the theme selection page it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2009/10/wordpress-broken-theme-template-is-missing/</link>
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		<title>Creating a Lightbox Gallery in WordPress &#124; Introducing the Lightbox Plus Plugin</title>
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The answer to your lightbox gallery problems is here.
Last night, I was pressed for time developing a WordPress site for my friend who happens to be an upcoming hip hop artist out of Atlanta, Georgia. Before we get started you can check out the new gallery to see how it functions. (Mr. Floyd County Photo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blakemccreary.com/2009/10/creating-a-lightbox-gallery-in-wordpress-introducing-the-lightbox-plus-plugin/</link>
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