A typical company needs to promote itself through its identity and presence in the market place. With the opening up of new media formats distributable via the internet, has printed material become redundant?

Whether a designer, business owner or academic, you may have been asked [or the person doing the asking] about speculative design. How should designers approach this tricky subject and approach their potential clients?

Accountants, love ‘em or hate ‘em, are here to stay and in business you are never far from considering expenditure and income. Here are some ideas for freelancers with small businesses.

Faux pas and shock tactics can be the making of legends in the world of the mass media and internet. It can be a simple planned or unplanned slip of the tongue that sends your video or blog posting viral. Design-Design tries not to slip up and takes a look at a couple of classics.

Print designers take their company’s cashflow into their own hands each time they send off a print job. Knowing print process basics and how to avoid pitfalls from a client and designers perspective is useful.

Deleting files from your main drives can be a risky business unless you have appropriate backups and storage. Many computer users will tell you how they just didn’t quite get round to backup when its just too late.

James Cameron’s new film Avatar was made using tools available from Adobe Software such as Photoshop, Lightroom and Premier Pro. So how did the end result look and why is this film a milestone in new cinema?

Quick Response codes are quite common throughout Japan and many mobile phones have the capability to read them [such as Nokia's E71 business phone]. Why should we be using them and where?

Calibrating screens to represent the colours you will see at the end of the print process can be a difficult job at the best of times but there is help available.