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5 Fab Small Business Logo Designs

Designing your logo is a daunting task. Here's a look at five small companies' logos and how they came to be.

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Matt Mickiewicz, Co-founder of 99designs

Inc.com's 2011 30 Under 30 list: Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of 99designs, provides crowd-sourced design services.

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Feng Shui Tips for the Home Office

This ancient Chinese art is based on the Taoist belief that nature—and our environment—is filled with Chi, or energy, which affects our health and fortune. Here's how to balance those energies to create a harmonious office environment.

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Characteristics of Great Logo Design

What makes a logo design great? Here are four characteristics that distinguish great logos from the legions of the not-so-great.

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Chronicles of a Young Serial Entrepreneur

As Matt Mickiewicz prepares to launch his fifth company, the 27-year-old Vancouver native talks about being a young entrepreneur and the importance of being the first to market.

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Recent Articles about Design

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Web Design on a Budget - Talk to the Experts!

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Conan Disses Final Cut Pro X

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Choosing a Web Designer

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Book Review: Web Bloopers

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Space Centered

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The Next Step

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

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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 more

The Unfit Office

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If The Corporate Image Calls For A Facelift

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Humbled CEO Seeks Help

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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 more

Amid Customer Complaints, an Inc. 500 Company Closes

A web-design company that ranked No. 22 on the Inc. 500 just four years ago shut its doors this week, leaving customers wondering why.  Read more

Spotlight: Amir Amirfar, Amir Amirfar and Associates

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Driven by Design

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

5 Tips to Rock Holiday Sales on Your Etsy Store

Handmade goods are attractive this time of year, but they don't exactly sell themselves. Start moving more product with these tips.  Read more

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 more

Re: Design -- Not Just a Pretty Typeface

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

Hiring a Web Designer

Five things to look for when hiring someone to design your business website.  Read more

Desktop Publishing

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

From Metal Factory to Architectural Innovator

How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects.  View slideshow

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 more

Branding on a Budget

How do you feel when you hand someone your business card? Are you proud of the way it looks, feels, and the message it sends? What about your website? Whe...  Read more

Confessions of a Passionate Shopper

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

How to Use HootSuite for Business

How Lori Highby uses HootSuite to manage her Web design firm's tweets.  Read more

Blogger Logic: Jeffrey Zeldman on the Problem With Self-Promotion

Web designer and blogger Jeffrey Zeldman on how to promote your business, not yourself.  Read more

Att: Opportunity Calling

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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 more

Intuitive Voice Technology Compatible With Citel VoIP Adapter

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

Put Crowdsourcing to Work for You

Crowdsourcing outsources tasks traditionally performed by your staff or a contractor to a community or crowd of people through an open call. Small businesses...  Read more

Small Budget, Big Impression

Does your "professional" email read something like this: Joanneb4u@aol.com? Does your website come from the dark ages? Do you even have a website? How abo...  Read more

HP Unveils New Graphic Arts Products

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

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 more

Branding and Cashing Out

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

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 more

What A Plog Can Do for Business

Want to collaborate on a project, easily and inexpensively, over the Web without the world watching, this tool’s for you.  Read more

Do-it-Yourself Web Design for Small Business

Small businesses can save money on Web design by doing it themselves with a variety of new online applications such as Wix, Sprout, and Weebly.  Read more