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Designing: Everything you dream of and perhaps more!

March 21, 2009

When you first decided to become a designer, illustrator, or writer, you probably had visions of communicating with your creative muse, producing art that would inspire generations to come.  At some point, however, reality intrudes and you realize that the purer the art you produce, the more difficult it may become to make a living.  If you’re like most of us, the pressure of food, clothing, material desire, and family can propel your career in a far different and far more commercial direction than you have imaged.

Today Security is what you make it!

Creative individuals have never been particularly security conscious.  After all, we have always lived in a world that rewards talent more than seniority, and working for agencies has meant frequent job changes.  Nonetheless, many of us appreciated what little security agencies offered, and some of us looked enviously at the stability that seemed to be a part of working for large manufacturing or services organizations.  If the opportunity presented itself, some of us even opted to join organizations with more job security, although if often meant personal and creative trade-offs.  Well, today security should be of much, much less importance in evaluating the relative merits of working for you versus working for an agency or corporations. 

If you search your conscience, you’ll probably find that you are happiest when you were working freely.  That’s because you were able to proceed at your own pace, in your own way, without the intervention of someone else’s arbitrary procedures and rules.  As an entrepreneur you’ll continue to work under arbitrary rules and procedures, but you’ll be the arbiter!

Take advantage of the opportunities

It’s a natural reaction given all the scary economic headlines to second guess launching out on your own!  But, slowdowns don’t have to be barriers to starting new enterprises, experts say. After all, Bill Gates and Paul Allen didn’t wait for the recession to pass before launching Microsoft in 1975. And plenty of would-be entrepreneurs aren’t waiting for today’s economy to improve either: Of the approximately 3,000 job seekers—mostly managers and executives—surveyed by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 7.2 percent said they were starting their own business in the first quarter of 2008. Last year’s annual average was 8.1 percent. “The bottom line is anytime is the right time [to launch a venture] if the opportunity is correct and if you as the entrepreneur have correctly assessed and shaped the opportunity,” says Dennis Ceru, who teaches graduate courses in entrepreneurship and business strategy at Boston University and Babson College.

According to Career Planner.com, “designers are expected to grow 10 percent, about as fast as average for all occupations from 2006 to 2016, as demand for graphic design continues to increase from advertisers, publishers, and computer design firms. Some of this increase is expected to stem from the expansion of the video entertainment market, including television, movies, video, and made-for-Internet outlets.

Moreover, designers with Web site design and animation experience will especially be needed as demand increases for design projects for interactive media—Web sites, video games, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, and other technology. Demand for graphic designers also will increase as advertising firms create print and Web marketing and promotional materials for a growing number of products and services.

 In addition, Technical writing, blogging, and other writing for interactive media that provide readers with nearly real-time information will provide opportunities for writers. Print magazines and other periodicals increasingly are developing market niches, appealing to readers with special interests, and making Internet-only content available on their websites. Businesses and organizations are developing newsletters and websites, and more companies are publishing materials directly for the Internet. Online publications and services are growing in number and sophistication, spurring the demand for writers and editors, especially those with Web experience.”

Everything you dream of and perhaps more!

As a Designer/Freelancer you are in an excellent position to take advantage of the above trends.  You are in the right place at the right time in history!! 

Wishing you much success!

 Ms. E
CEO
enDesign Studios, LLC
http://www.endesignstudios.com

Notes
[2002]Cameron S. Foote, The Business Side of Creativity, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

The Legit Magazine

January 6, 2010

The Legit Magazine was founded by Christopher Mungin in 2009, who wanted to provide quality content at no cost to the readers. The idea is to give back to the community that supports us to the best of our ability. Here at The Legit Magazine, we believe that our materials and distribution plan fit the requirements to attract countless clientele to your business. We look forward to developing a solution standard which establishes the foundation for a long-term partnership and success for your business.

Http://www.thelegitmag.com

Comp Cards

May 27, 2009

our branding strategists know just how to balance both sides of the scale to create an image that fits snugly between you and your product or services and the desires of your target audience.

We provide composite card (zed card)graphic design services. In addtion, we offer the best service and the highest quality in model and talent printing, which is why models and talent from around the country print their comps with us. We offer the best prices in comp card printing and the fastest service.

If you need a comp card designed, our extremely professional staff will provide you with the best experience. We specialize in color comps (ZED cards) and headshots in black & white or color. All print jobs are prepared using 110 lbs. Matte Cover paper.

contact us today info@endesignstudios.com – our professional staff is always ready to help you with your order!

Web Design/Logo Design

May 27, 2009

PT nyce (Pretty Nyce) enterprise is design to take out the daunting search for new ideas, and offer its clients concepts and innovative’s ideas through their website. As their potential clients browse their website each page offers different innovative and creative ideas!

A successful affiliate marketing program takes time to build, but with a bit of effort it has the ability to increase your Internet sales noticeably. It’s worth the effort and it can become on of the best time and financial investments in your marketing plan.

Creating PT nyce logo

Logos give brand name recognition and add visual appeal to any document or web page. Because their logo is a unique graphic image, their visitors’ eyes will naturally be drawn to it both on the web and on their printed materials.

There are many affiliate program available on the Internet today, so it’s important to make yours stand out and catch the attention of professional affiliate marketers. Once you’ve done that you are well on your way to a successful campaign.

Client Testimonial
“Put in the most simplest terms, you are losing money by not doing business with enDesign Studios. The designers are personable, and have a good old fashion work ethic that is rarely seen today. I’ve hired enDesign Studios to work on several projects for me, and will do so again in the future. I can’t say enough good things about the company and the quality of their work.
Thanks for all your great design work advice for our website launch (especially given such tight timeframes!). It’s been really well received and I look forward to working with you again.”

Gregory AlbeaFounder/CEO

PT nyce enterprise

http://www.ptnyce.com

Logo and Font Design

May 26, 2009

Heru Journey is a blend of student and teacher mixed with some activist and preacher. Whether at a podium addressing an audience of accountants on the history of the US tax code or weaving a message through a song, there is always a message that is insightful or enlightening. http://www.myspace.com/herujourney1

Before designing the logo crest for Heru Journey, we had to understand what the logo represented and what it is supposed to do. The company was looking for a Native American flair with the fonts having an Egyptians’ magic!

A logo is not just a mark – a logo reflects a business’s commercial brand via the use of shape, fonts, colour, and / or images.

Everyone wants his or her company’s logo to be the best but how good is good? How do we define a good logo? Is it necessary to be colorful or an exquisite piece of art? Yes!! A corporate logo is one of the most essential branding elements for your company. It should be instrumental in building your corporate identity and should successfully exude the company’s attitude. The viewers must have some idea about the disposition, character, or fundamental values of your company through your logo. The functionality of a logo does not end here, I have not yet mentioned the most important function of a corporate logo. Your logo should be able to build a positive, strong and long lasting impression on existing and prospective customers. The very moment a person views your logo, even a part of it, he should think of your company.

Just think of some of the all time great logos, McDonalds’, IBM, Nike— the moment you see their logos, even if you see a part of it or may be in Black and White (there comes another important aspect!) are you able to think of anything else than the respective company? The answer is definitely NO! The first thing that comes to your mind is the name of the company. This shows how strong an impression their logo leaves in our mind. Isn’t that, what all of us are looking for?

Our logo design process usually consists of

The Design Brief
Research & Brainstorming
Sketching
Prototyping & Conceptualising
Send To Client For Review
Revise & Add Finishing Touches
Supply Files To Client and Give Customer Service

info@endesignstudios.com

CD Package

May 26, 2009

Located in Bellingham, WA, DJ City emerges on the scene bringing a freash new sound. With his new album dropping in early June, DJ City is ensuring the summer of 2009 is going to be “HOT!

Our company has partner with this inspiring artist/ceo by delivering designs to distinguished him from others of excellent in his field.

Our Process

The process that we adopt to arrive at a brand plan for CITY Promotionz is as follows:

Immersion and brand interrogation:

1. Full briefing session and discussion with the client:

The history of the product/service/company
Understand their difference from competition
Discuss thinking behind the plan prepared
Criteria for success
Competitive pressures
Strategic importance
Time and financial constraints

2. Background desk research, investigate:

Competitive activity
Dynamics of the market vs. other sectors
Consumer usage and trends
In today’s over-communicated and product saturated consumer world, effective positioning can be critical to brand success. ‘Positioning’ may be simply defined in terms of how a brand is positioned in the mind of the consumer.

Testimonials

I was fortunate enough to be referred to endesign studios who not only understands what matters to small business, but has designed a very fresh website using clever navigations.

endesign studios professional ability, coupled with its positive attitude and wry sense of humour, was well known right from the start through the development of my website. I very much value the way in which they kept the website running smoothly and I felt very well looked after. It goes without saying that endesign studios is responsive, an excellent communicator and a problem solver.

I couldn’t be happier with my new site and I’ve had some very good feedback from my clients. I would highly recommend them to my friends. In fact, I already have. With many thanks, DJ CITY.

DJ CITY
http://www.citypromotionz.com

So, If your looking for that right brand that “shout out” who you are contact us today at info@endesignstudios.com!!!!

Flyers

May 26, 2009

Ray Lanvender is poised & on the path to becoming one of music’s brightest stars with his sensual yet hard-edged brand of R&B. Ray Lavender is signed as the first act to Akon’s Kon Live Distribution joint venture with Geffen/Interscope. www.myspace.com/raylavender

Flyer designs have always been one of the most powerful marketing tools available to businesses and organizations. A professional flyer design is an inexpensive way to promote your business, products, services and event.

Here are some of the many professionally designed and effective flyers we can create for you:

Special Promotion Flyer
Product Sales Flyer
Grand Opening Announcement Flyer
Weekend Sales Event Flyer
Concert Flyer
Fund-Raising Flyer
Flyer Designs for Auctions
Flyer Design for New Home Sales
Sales Coupons Flyers
Real Estate Marketing Flyer
Highlight Sheets Flyer
Store Specials and Promotions
Folder Inserts
Selling Boats, Cars, Hang Gliders, etc.

contact endesign studios now for a FREE estimate at info@endesignstudios.com. We look forward to helping you make more money

Painting with a Flair!

May 2, 2009

In this topic we will know all about colors, believe me after reading this topic, in your next you will have a perfect colors match.

A color is never seen alone, but always in a mixture with other colors. Like a music notes, no color seen alone, no color is good or not Rather, it’s a part of a beautiful composition that as a whole is pleasing or not. The color wheel theory helps to understand how colors relate to one another. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS.

Primary colors are the wheel’s main colors, they are the only colors not created from other colors. The primary colors are positioned around the wheel in thirds.

Secondary colors are halfway between the primary colors. Each of them made from equal amounts of the nearest two primary colors.

Tertiary colors fill the remaining gaps in the rest of the places remaining in the wheel. They are made from equal amounts of the adjacent primary and secondary colors.

Color values
Colors also has lightness and darkness, or value . To know value, The colors wheel has more rings, two small wheel inside rings for the light tints and two big wheel out rings for darker shades.

Note that Color wheel have five rings from dark outside to light inside, dark shades are the big rings, light tints are the small rings, and hues are in the middle ring of the colors wheel.

Know Which Color Goes with What

Blue is common to all seven colors, which get less blue as they move out, Green and violet are the secondaries that contain blue.

Yellow is common to all seven colors, which get less yellow as they move out. Green and orange are the secondaries that contain yellow.

Red is common to all seven colors, which get less redas they move out.Orange and violet secondaries that contain red.

Innovation is your answer to Recession!

March 26, 2009

NEW YORK (CNN) — Madame Alexander was one of the great innovators in the doll industry.

According to the company that bears her name, she made the first doll with moving eyelids, the first doll based on a licensed character (Scarlett O’Hara from Gone with the Wind), the first doll fashioned after a living person (Queen Elizabeth) and many others.

But what’s most interesting is how and why the company got started.

Beatrice Alexander’s father owned the first doll “hospital” in New York City, where broken porcelain dolls were sent to be repaired. That got her thinking. Maybe porcelain wasn’t the best material for a doll. So she sat around her kitchen table with her four sisters, and they started a business sewing dolls out of cloth.

Theirs were not the only cloth dolls (Raggedy Anne was already popular), but they created a Red Cross doll, a smart choice so soon after World War I. She put all the dolls in a big suitcase and lugged them around to local mom and pop stores where she made small sales.

No bank would lend to her; she was a 20-something woman in the early 1900s, a poor risk. So she scraped together what she could and just started. Eventually, she found someone who was willing to loan her $1,600, which she paid back in half the time she was allotted.

After four years of dragging that suitcase door to door, she got her first big break: a big sale to FAO Schwarz.

Forbes magazine recently profiled the most popular toys of the past 100 years, and Madame Alexander topped the list from the 1920s. It beat the yo-yo.

There’s a lesson here for us. We’ve lost 4.4 million jobs since the economic mess started. And many of those jobs aren’t coming back. John Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia, told The New York Times, “There are going to be fewer stores, fewer factories, fewer financial services operations. Firms are making strategic decisions that they don’t want to be in their businesses.”

At this point, outplacement is just a bad bet. There is no place to be placed. Companies aren’t hiring, they’re firing.

And when eventually they do emerge from this recession, those companies that are still solvent won’t rehire to previous levels. Over the years, companies have gotten leaner as employees have gotten more productive. And they won’t rehire as much when times improve because they’ll want to keep their profit margins high. It’s quite possible that the age of big business tending to thousands of workers is coming to a close.

Looking for a job might make you feel better, but it won’t pay your mortgage. Don’t waste your time looking for a job that isn’t there.

There is another way. It’s the great opportunity of our time. For many people, it’s the only one. And it might actually make you happier than you were at the old job.

Start a business.

Wait, hold on. Before you get all angry at how out of touch I am, hear me out.

In a New York Times article, “Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own,” Ryan Kuder who started a Web design company after unsuccessfully looking for work for months said, “It’s probably easier right now to find a problem, solve it and charge people than it is to find a job.”

Easier doesn’t mean easy or painless. Any way you cut it, these are terrifying times we live in. And starting a company is a risky proposition. But this is one time when looking for a job might be riskier.

A friend of mine, Ben Dubrovsky, recently laid off from his technology job in Boston, Massachusetts, shared with me an idea he’s trying at his local synagogue. He’s pulling a group of people together to brainstorm business ideas that leverage their skills, talents, passions and experience.

“We’re not looking for a trillion dollar return. We’re looking for sustainable employment. Jobs that will give people an ongoing living, not companies as a vehicle for creating empires,” he said to me.

Then they’ll look to their synagogue community for advice, contacts or investment. Perhaps even a synagogue-based micro-finance bank where small loans could help start these businesses — businesses driven by passion.

Brilliant. Ben’s idea can translate to any community where people trust and care for each other. There are an estimated 400,000 churches in the United States.

Imagine if each one could generate 10 jobs; that would be 4,000,000 jobs — roughly the same number that President Obama is looking for out of the stimulus at a fraction of the cost. If you think that’s unrealistic, imagine we got half that. Or even a quarter. Insane? Maybe. But it just might work.

Don’t wait until you come up with the perfect idea.

You’ll be better off if you work out the kinks as you face them. Just get started. And this is the perfect time to start a new business.

Marketing costs are way down because of the Internet and less competition. And as I wrote in a recent article about the new economy, small companies are replacing big ones because we trust people more than companies.

Just ask Howie Jacobson, author of “Adwords for Dummies,” who started his Internet marketing business during the last downturn.

He told me the entrepreneurs he knows all seem to be doing pretty well in this economy. They don’t have huge infrastructures to support. They don’t need to sell a million widgets just to stay in business. They’re comfortable with modest profits that sustain their lifestyles.

Madame Alexander had a wise model for finding work. She started a business doing work she loved, with people she loved, solving a problem others were willing to pay money to have solved. It was a small company that took very little investment but gave her and others meaningful, sustainable work.

In other words, start a business in your kitchen with your sisters.

Editor’s note:

Peter Bregman is chief executive of Bregman Partners Inc., a global management consulting firm, and the author of “Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change”. He writes a weekly column, How We Work, for HarvardBusiness.org.

Marketing in an Economic Downturn

March 9, 2009

Regardless of whether your client base is a small Mom & Pop type atmosphere or a larger than life organization, your approaches and strategies must be of the highest caliber. Professionalism is the key!

Often there is a trial and error period in finding the perfect path to follow or the ideal strategy for your particular product or service. Critically important is presenting your product or service in a way that conveys a message of professionalism and credibility.

It has long been a fundamental business principle that if your product is of the highest quality, easy to acquire and less costly to the consumer, that they will “beat a path to your door”. For the most part that may be true but there are a few other considerations that are critical to the success of your business. While there are countless methods and approaches that you can take in reaching your goals, my experience have shown that the very first thing to consider is that all your presentation materials should be of the highest caliber. That doesn’t mean they have to be expensive, but be aware that you represent yourself every time you pass out a business card or write a letter to a potential customer. Therefore, you are always marketing yourself. Be sure that the tools you use are professionally and skillfully prepared.

In extraordinary economic times like these, the natural tendency is to just hunker down, do the work, cut back on expenses and try not to lose the business you have. News flash: That’s exactly the strategy that will probably hang you. Because if you’re not standing up, standing out, and standing for something important, your days may be numbered. Use the strengths of what makes you different to make a difference with your customers.

Opportunities for the growth of your company are enormous but can potentially be expensive. Therefore the following are just a few ways you may consider for marketing your product or service that are the least expensive and often the most effective in reaching your target audience.

1. Prepare a good press release.
While there are no guarantees that an editor will pick up your story, the potential is staggering. All you need is one editor who is interested in your story and you’ve hit the bull’s-eye. Overall, a press release is one of the least expensive methods for promoting your company, product or service.

2. Write articles about your area of expertise;
and the reasons your product will benefit the masses. Make sure the article is useful to those who read it. Every good e-zine is constantly looking for potentially interesting and important articles to feature. Writing articles gives you an opportunity to advertise for free while building credibility.

3. Include a good bio on your web site about you and your company. Write it in the third person. You don’t want your bio to sound autobiographical, but you do want your audience to know something about you. A bio can create trustworthiness.

4. If it means paying a little bit more…
Your want to be sure your web site represents you in a manner that conveys all of the above, namely credibility, trust-worthiness and professionalism.

5. Introduce yourself via e-mail.
I don’t mean writing those tacky letters that are pure promo hype. I mean constructing a very professional letter that targets those who may have an interest in your product. A well-constructed letter is worth its weight in gold.

To encapsulate, it is unmistakable that the marketing approaches and strategies available are extensive but in order that you attract the target market you’re eager to draw to your site, you must maintain a competitive edge by choosing professionalism.  Above all, be sure to provide an enhanced level of customer-oriented service. Nothing draws clients to your business more effectively than providing the most advanced and best possible customer service. If you wish to position yourself in the forefront, the primary key in getting a positive reception to your product or service is through providing flawless customer service.

Much to your success!

Ms. E
CEO/Founder
enDesign Studios, LLC

Http://www.endesignstudios.com