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We, The Colorful Duo, welcome you to our blog. You may expect within these posts all things that any design-minded appreciator should find interesting. Some that we will be sharing include our design-y adventures through life, personal observations including things we love (and occasionally hate), some interviews with amazing folks, et cetera. We're also very generous, so check back often—we may throw out an occasional freebie. Who doesn't love that?

Lost Cat Poster Design

Posted July 19, 2010 - 10:37am by Jennifer

The following is a hilarious email my friend sent to me that’s been passing around lately.

 

From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Poster

Hi 

I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy it and put it around my suburb this afternoon.

Missing Missy

This is the only photo of her I have she answers to the name Missy and is black and white and about 8 months old. missing on Harper street and my phone number.

Thanks Shan.

Adobe Font Finder

Posted May 31, 2010 - 10:43am by Jennifer

Adobe Font Finder

I found Adobe’s Font Finder online tool while searching the web for fonts today. It has potential to replace it’s book counterparts. It’s not as intuitive as some of the books on the market, Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder for example. However, with a little time and effort it could be well on it’s way. It’s decent in it’s current rendition; I suggest giving it a go on your next project and see what it recommends you to use.

Organize Pantone Colors on your iPhone or iPad

Posted May 29, 2010 - 12:22pm by Jennifer

myPantone

Pantone has released myPantone, an app for iPhone and iPad (shown above). It allows you to organize and choose color sets and push your creates color libraries to Creative Suite.

With the app you get access to all the standard PMS libraries and you can capture colors with the iPhone camera. If you really want to get crazy you can add GPS coordinates to your color palettes.

The app has excellent reviews in the Apple App Store. Check it out for yourself! This could easily be the one reason why you need to get an iPad after all…

Done Any Web Development Lately?

Posted May 13, 2010 - 10:12pm by Jennifer

Web Development Project Estimator

 The folks at Astuteo have a nice little web development estimate creator over in their neck of the woods. It’s a great little tool, especially for anyone just starting out that might be a little confused about how much to charge and how to justify the price.

It’s simple, type in your default hourly rate, or enter the rate in manually for each area and figure up how many hours it will take to finish the project and viola! Instant estimate in a print-ready format. 

Thanks, Astuteo.

Spend More Money on Good Design

Posted March 20, 2010 - 2:38pm by Jennifer

Debit Cards

I’ve dated around when it comes to bank accounts. I never could find the one bank that was good enough to settle down with. In this process I realized one recurring theme—they all had bad debit card design.