Phire Design Blog

Drawing a line between doing what you like and making a profit from it is not at all the objective of this article. It is the extent to which some design sites have interfered with the user experience and the worth of their content by advertising to the point of insanity.

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In the world of “design” there are a thousand different definitions, for a thousand different things. Yet one thing I have never seen being discussed, is the difference between the definitions of what we “designers” do. In my book, there are three different names, and they all have different meanings- yet their definitions do bleed into each other. Opinions are greatly appreciated on this topic.

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In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to easily create a Dry Erase Board in Photoshop. This is a relatively simple tutorial, with which I have provided the stock imagery you’ll need as well as the complete PSD file which you may download.

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Well, it’s been a busy year thus far, and an even busier couple of months. As you can see, the site has been completely redesigned from the ground up. Although this is a personal blog site, this is also a professional portfolio.
In my quest to provide everyone with useful and accurate information, I decided that [...]

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The Futura font family has been around for nearly 100 years, and spawned many of the geometric based sans-serif fonts we see today. I personally love Futura, and this love of the font inspired me to create a fully completed hand drawn version of it, dubbed Futura Hand.

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