Outlaw Design Blog

I have always heard that it is good business practice to keep in touch with clients. Not just over the holidays, but year round. They say sending a card here and there or a small gift can go a long way towards keeping your name in the front of a clients head.
Sounds like [...]

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I’m on one of the few dial up lines working in the area. Not much time to type. There has been 9 days of rain, flash floods, bridges taken out, and landslides.
State of Emergency
http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2005_01/daily_01_11_05.htm#story1
http://www.puertoviejosatellite.com/news/2008/11/23/
As a result, you may not see many, if any posts over the next week or so. Please bear [...]

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Black Friday is just around the corner and no doubt Santa and/or your someone special is going out shopping for you. So, what are you hoping Santa picks up for this holiday season?
Personally, I hoping for a pair of 30 inch Apple Cine Displays, but won’t be holding my breath.
I’d be happy with [...]

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Free Grunge Fonts – What’s not to like about them?
The only thing better than a awesome grunge font is a free one. The problem is, not all free grunge fonts are created equal. While there are some really good ones out there, the majority of them are just to poorly made to be [...]

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Wufoo Form Builder Review: Perfect for Designers and Bloggers

Building web forms is no fun, I don’t care who you are. Then finding a way to keep track of all the information from the forms is even more annoying. That is, until you discover the online form builder Wufoo. The Wufoo form [...]

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Sometimes when I’m bored I go check out Deviant Art to see whats new. Call it a case of the Mondays, but this morning i couldn’t get motivated and made my way to Deviant Art. What I found was a ton of cool new icon sets, so I thought I’d share them with [...]

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I tried to think of a fancy way to type up today’s discussion topic, but it is no use. Today’s question is just too simple, so let’s get right down to it.
What is the best piece of advice you have picked up about design and/or business?
Any interesting design rules or tricks that have made [...]

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I just did my first post for Smashing Magazine and wanted to share it with you guys. Im sure many of you are already Smashing magazine readers, but in case you missed it, you can find it here:
50 Must Have Photoshop Brushes
I would really appreciate any Digg and Stumble love on it!

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Mail Chimp Review: Perfect Mail Campaign Service for Designers

Over the years, I have looked into every mail campaign service out there to handle my email campaigns and newsletters to my design clients. Most of the services out there are either more feature rich than I need them to be or to poorly put together [...]

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I’m really big into reading business books, especially marketing books. I always find other people train of thought interesting, especially when it comes to business. I have read some really great ones and some that were terrible, but I always manage to learn something from them.
Not too long ago I finished The 4 [...]

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