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I've hated our so-called trade policy for decades. This goes back to the 1970's when companies were sacking American workers to export the manufacturing to Japan. We allowed them and then other countries (cough: China) to dump product into our market at prices below the cost it took to...

This is just my opinion, but unless the sign project is worth a lot of money and the design of the sign is unusual in some kind of sculptural way, it's going to be a big waste of time and effort creating a model of a building on which the sign is installed in full-blown 3D. Just about all the...

I jump between CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator, depending the nature of the sign project and client art involved. Some work gets done using Photoshop. Astute Graphics' plugins are a great add-on for Illustrator. I have a copy of Affinity Designer 2 but only use it on rare occasions. I mainly...

The QR codes from Adobe Express aren't much better than the ones generated by InDesign.

At first glance it looked like Teko. But the upper part of the "R" takes up too much letter height.

I like the QR code creator built into CorelDRAW (the barcode creator in the app is also pretty good). The resulting QR codes in CorelDRAW are vector based. You can place logos or other symbols in the center of the code and validate the results. The QR Code can be created with some different...

Even back "in the good old days" some companies were famous for going after people who used their IP without permission. All they had to do was find out about it. Disney, Warner Bros. and Harley-Davidson were well known for it. Some things fall under fair comment. Using a company's logo for...

No.

The Internet has made it a LOT easier for companies to go after people or small businesses who infringe on their trademarks and other IP. Automated scripts can be run to sniff through image search engines, social media, etc. Some infringing work will appear very easily in a manual Google image...

No, he's going to post images of the not-compliant artwork all over social media and let the imagery be accessible to search engines. In that respect it's worse than merely driving it around the local neighborhood. Image search engines are a pretty good way trademark violators get caught.

I'm trying to match a couple of fonts from some existing customer art. The image of script lettering is part of their existing door graphics. I've seen that script typeface before, but can't find the match. The serif lettering in the other image isn't bringing back any matches. Abril is about as...

"Dirt cheap" is based on your own personal perspective. Casual/hobbyist users and office workers who have to dabble in graphic design tasks have a different point of view. Price comparisons with perpetual license software in the past is also a bit of an apples to oranges thing as well. Many...

It does not happen anywhere nearly as often as it does with Canva-generated art. Most people who are using Canva are using the free version of it. The no-cost price combined with the strange popularity of the "application" translates to a lot of people with zero clue at all of what they're doing...

The problem with Canva is when you're having to mess with "art" created in that applications you're at the mercy of the choices made by the "designer" using the app. Next to none of those amateurs understand the differences between pixels and vectors (and they're not interested in knowing...

Just from quickly skimming through this older thread I couldn't immediately see if anyone asked/answered this question. But was the customer expecting to have the same image displayed on both sides or two different images sandwiched together? Either way it raises all sorts of problems. Sunlight...

The original version is Ondine.

Yeah, any raster-based images that are embedded into an Adobe Illustrator AI file will be stored as either uncompressed or lossless compressed data. File sizes get inflated pretty quick. Then if a PDF is saved from that artwork, and Adobe Illustrator editing capability is preserved, the file...

Were the PDF files created in Adobe Illustrator? Usually when I receive PDF files from customers and the file sizes of the PDFs are pretty big the elements inside the PDF are often pixel-based stuff rather than vector-based artwork. They mistakenly think saving a JPEG image inside a PDF...

"Known for being an accessible, beginner-friendly tool compared to graphic design software favourites like Adobe and Figma, the costly increase is a disappointing evolution set to alienate its current users and further deter the professional design community." Uh, Canva isn't exactly the go to...

With logo design, unfortunately, you often just have to give the customer what he wants -even if the idea is just stupid and/or way too complicated to actually qualify as a logo. Paul Rand made real logos. But most small businesses are not really looking for anything clean, direct and...