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| View | FREE | Silk Screening Made Easy Have you ever skimmed through a design annual and wondered at the amazing silkscreen artwork? Or maybe you purchased a fantastic poster from your favorite band at their last concert and thought, I can do that! Well, here’s your chance to create your own silkscreen and print that mother! What you do with the finished product is up to you… but don’t rule out selling to friends and family to make a quick buck. Materials aren’t free ya know! |
| View | FREE | Creating Packaging Templates Rachel Wiles explains the basics of dielines and uses a small gum pack to show you how to create packaging templates in Illustrator using a pre-existing package. |
| View | FREE | Typography Crash Course A quick “crash course” in the basics of typography. Perfect for anyone starting out and a great refresher for those of us who are more experienced. Plus there are helpful time saving charts! |
| View | FREE | Design’s Dilemma—Crowdsourcing Designers mostly regard crowdsourcing with dismay. Two respected voices in the industry— Debbie Millman and David C. Baker — offer their contradicting opinions. Don’t miss this lively feature from HOW magazine. |
| View | FREE | Design Resources Access to listings of leading design schools, paper mills and suppliers, print vendors, type foundries and stock image providers is a must for designers. HOW magazine features and updates these lists annually. |
| View | FREE | Sample Business Policies Download Establish rules and policies for your business—in writing—to help you maintain control in your client relationships. This sample policy download will help you get started. |
| View | FREE | Pricing Downloads Access the following pricing worksheets to help you practice profitable pricing.Marketing Mad Libs, Figure Out Your Overhead Worksheet, Find Your Hourly Rate, Pricing Goals Worksheet |
| View | FREE | Color Index, Revised Edition Free Swatch Samples Download 8 color swatch combination from the “Color Index, Revised Edition” book. Then, upload these .ase files into CS2/CS3/CS4 versions of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. |
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| View | $3.99 | Design Salary Survey Read HOW’s full report on salaries, bonuses and benefits and see how your income compares to that of your peers. It’s the condition of curiosity to want to know how your design salary stacks up. |
| View | $3.99 | Generation WOW After evaluating countless portfolios and projects, we’ve tapped a group of 16 highly talented emerging creative professionals who are poised to make a difference in the visual landscape. You saw them here first. |
| View | $3.99 | In-HOWse Design Awards 2012 View award winning work from the 2012 INHOWSE Design Awards in many categories, including Business-to Business, Consumer, Education, Nonprofit, Financial/Legal, Government, Science/Technology and more! HOW’s design competitions recognize amazing design projects. This particular competition spotlights the work of in-house designers. |









