Design


How to Lower Your Company's Energy Bills

How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills  Read story

If The Corporate Image Calls For A Facelift

Three companies find that paying attention to how they look can boost sales as well as egos.  Read story

Book Review: Web Bloopers

Web Bloopers by Jeff Johnson Morgan Kaufmann 329 pages $49.95 How To Avoid Common Web Design Mi...  Read story

Choosing a Web Designer

So you need a website, or want to redesign your current site. It's time to hire a Web designer. But there are so many designers and design firms out there...  Read story

The Unfit Office

"Office of the 80s: Part 8" (January) could have been more informative in identifying the causes of the problems in today's ergonomic or electronic office...  Read story

Shortsighted

Ms. Julie Brumlick has proved one thing: She's a terrific public relations agent ("Hot Type," Spotlight, September). As a type director for a very l...  Read story

Do-it-yourself Publishing

The new desktop systems can save you time and money. And you control the copy from beginning to end.  Read story

The Next Step

An interior design firm has automated every aspect of its business, including drafting and design.  Read story

Space Centered

Feng shui, restoring balance at an office near you.  Read story

Humbled CEO Seeks Help

When Inc. 500 CEO John Waters, of Waters Design, filed for bankruptcy in 1992, he realized he lacked the business savvy needed to run his company. A...  Read story

The Pentagram Papers

In a time of stifling labor shortages, how can a company get and keep industry superstars? The folks at architectural-design firm Pentagram think they know: ...  Read story

Driven by Design

Modo used to be just another struggling manufacturer in a crowded niche. Now it's virtually untouchable. Its secret: design.  Read story

The Society Gets Down To Business

As if things weren't tough enough in the microcomputer business already, a new set of players may soon be joining the fray trade associations. Such, at an...  Read story

Spotlight: Amir Amirfar, Amir Amirfar and Associates

As told to Jason Del Rey Industry Leader: Construction Three-Year Growth: Read story

Desktop Publishing

Desktop publishing, sometimes abbreviated as DTP, is a technique for preparing and printing professional quality products using microcomputers, software, ...  Read story

Re: Design -- Not Just a Pretty Typeface

Often overlooked as "cosmetic," a company's logo can be one of its hardest-working assets.  Read story

Royalty-Free Design Templates for Macs

Dec. 4, 2006 -- StockLayouts, a Beaverton, Ore.-based graphic-design and production company, has released an online library of royalty-fr...  Read story

Confessions of a Passionate Shopper

Introduction to Inc.'s first annual small company design awards.  Read story

Att: Opportunity Calling

"The AT&T Building in Manhattan" provided a different perspective on a very interesting building. With regard to the section on our company, Chicago E...  Read story

Drop that Desktop Publishing Software and Step Aside

Trendy fonts and cheesy clip art make me grumpy. Thumb through your local paper and note the epidemic usage of the "comic sans" font and those annoying li...  Read story

Intuitive Voice Technology Compatible With Citel VoIP Adapter

The move allows legacy handsets to connect to IVT's Evolution PBX platform.  Read story

HP Unveils New Graphic Arts Products

The new printers are designed to reduce digital printing costs.  Read story

Network

Readers react to articles in Inc. Technology , 1999, #4, including "Cell Wall," by Jeffrey L. Seglin; "Make Way for Duck Links," by Leigh Buchanan; "...  Read story

Who Needs Desks?

Want to cut down on your paperwork? So did Edward E. Elson, chairman of Elson's, headquartered in Atlanta, a $100-million retailer of publications and gif...  Read story

Branding and Cashing Out

When to use stock photos; how to minimize taxes when selling a business.  Read story

A+ for Homework

The secret to meeting client needs is doing your homework, says Craig DeLuca, president of Executive Perspectives (EP), a 40-employee management training ...  Read story

Corporate Logo

A logotype, commonly referred to as a logo, is a graphical symbol created for an individual company or product. It is designed to communicate quickly, and...  Read story

The New Artisans

JAMES LANSING San Francisco Management Group A not unimportant part of the artisan economy involves providing services to other artisans...  Read story

Create Your Banner Ad

Although there are three types of banner ad campaigns, the banner ads that support those campaigns have many similarities. These common elements will driv...  Read story

How I Did It: Cedric J. Franklin Sr. of Harley Stanfield

Can this real estate developer rescue Detroit?  Read story

Scarlet Letters

The letter about Julie Brumlick is way off base. Scarlett Letters is an example for other small companies competing in volatile industries. Brumlick and ...  Read story

Finance;

The cost of going public is coming down, thanks to the advent of desktop publishing, the new technology that allows you to produce camera-ready copy on a ...  Read story

Web Designer as Business Owner

Melody Drew began designing Web pages in 1997 and officially started her Web design business, Melody's Pages , in...  Read story

Inc.com Naming Contest Winner

Inc.com and Alex Frankel choose "Next of Kiln" as the best name for one of our five fictional businesses.  Read story

Marketing;

With the harbingers of recession multiplying, now is the time to be watching your customer mix, lest you get caught with too many eggs in too few baskets ...  Read story

Designing Success

It's not just the iPod and Target toilet brushes. Even small companies with prosaic products are finding that design can be the difference between success an...  Read story

How to Lose Customers

It's easy. Just convince them that they're getting a lousy deal.  Read story

10 Rules For Website Design

As the world becomes increasingly more mobile, a company’s website is often the gateway between a business’s operation and potential future clients. So, ...  Read story

Birth Watch

New business offers mail-order pregnancy calendar full of relevant facts and tips.  Read story

The Price of Ignorance

How much should you pay for a premium Web site? If only there were a simple answer.  Read story