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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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10 Ways to Mark Earth Day at Your Company
Celebrate Mother Earth by launching these sustainable initiatives at your company. Read more
Web Design on a Budget - Talk to the Experts!
Last week I spent the afternoon reviewing a client's website. It wasn't long before we surmised that Sue had gone down the path that so many solopreneurs ... Read more
Conan Disses Final Cut Pro X
Customer feedback is brutal on Apple's latest version of its popular editing software...especially from one Conan O'Brien. Read more
How Would You Market Art for Rent?
Four entrepreneurs offer Artsicle their marketing ideas and help the start-up craft a following. Read more
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 more
American Beauties (and Bargains)
Finding a deal in Impressionist art. Read more
Book Review: Web Bloopers
Web Bloopers by Jeff Johnson Morgan Kaufmann 329 pages $49.95 How To Avoid Common Web Design Mi... Read more
Space Centered
Feng shui, restoring balance at an office near you. Read more
Contributors
Blake Taylor For this issue, creative director Blake Taylor led a comprehensive redesign of Inc. , starting with the most basic element: ... Read more
Art for Business's Sake
One way to get a unique benefit out of a charitable contribution is to donate money to an art museum--some have programs that allow companies to borrowart... Read more
Have an Art
Start-up invents a comprehensive way for interior designers and galleries to hunt for artwork. Read more
The Next Step
An interior design firm has automated every aspect of its business, including drafting and design. Read more
How to Lower Your Company's Energy Bills
How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills Read more
Do-it-yourself Publishing
The new desktop systems can save you time and money. And you control the copy from beginning to end. Read more
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
"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 more
The Art Of Management
Ten years ago, the two founders of a New York City-based executive search firm spent their first retainer on three prints from a gallery in Greenwich Vill... Read more
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 more
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 more
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
Packaging's Folk Revival
As folk art grows in popularity, marketers are using folk imagery to sell goods ranging from cookies to CDs. Read more
Business for Sale: Illinois Art Gallery
Description of an Illinois art gallery for sale. Read more
Art for Business's Sake
Enhancing office space with museum-quality art the museums that lend their art. Read more
Spoils: Collecting Inspiration
Stephen and Bo Kline just wanted to collect art. They didn't know it would bring them here. 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
From Russia with Light and Color
Collecting Soviet impressionist art. 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
Cut Ad Costs Without Cutting Quality
When the ski industry began to head downhill, Susan Fabbiano found ways to do effective advertising at a fraction of pre-slump costs. 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
The Buzz Guru
Straddling the worlds of street art and commerce, marketing specialist Shepard Fairey knows how to get alternative culture kids talking about mainstream brands. 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
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