As part of their monthly Mind Share activity, the design team attended the class, Getting Started with ProCreate, at the Apple Store in Scottsdale. Beginning with a photograph, Apple associates demonstrated how to follow the contours of a portrait with Apple Pencil. The Small Giants’ designers practiced using different digital drawing tools to create a sketch, […]
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The design team recently took a print tour of Prisma Graphic, located in Phoenix. The team’s visit was oriented around the objective of sparking their creativity for the variety of print offerings that exist. On the tour, Small Giants’ designers had the opportunity to see production in action. Kaitlyn Boyd, Junior Graphic Designer and tour organizer
Small Giants, LLC has hired Margaret Kinsey as design and marketing coordinator to support the creative team with graphic design needs for digital and traditional marketing collateral. Margaret will also work with the marketing team to develop compelling proposals for clients. “Margaret’s hands-on industry experience brings a unique blend to the marketing and design teams
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You may be familiar with .JPG and .PDF, but do you understand what designers are talking about when they start referring to other digital file formats such as .EPS or .SVG? A file can be identified by its extension, such as [filename].PDF. Our Small Giants Creative Team wants to ensure you are comfortable talking with
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Brand standards are crucial for every company from small mom and pop shops to large corporations. A guide helps internal personnel, consultants and vendors know how to properly use the company’s logo, colors and style. A brand standards guide can be as simple or elaborate as a company needs. The bare minimum should include the logo and
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Recent requests for logo redesigns are really driving home that branding and marketing materials in the commercial real estate industry are helping firms stay competitive. To remain relevant in the construction, architecture and engineering landscape, firms are opting to modernize and evolve rather than fall behind. Refreshing a logo doesn’t mean losing sight of the
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At Small Giants, our creative team often receives requests from clients for lengthy project brochures for large properties or offering memorandums. Rather than producing a typical pdf, interactive brochures give users the opportunity to easily access key material by clicking through pages that link to other useful information. This might also include page turn buttons,
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Icons have been around since Egyptians used hieroglyphs – they’re prevalence is not astounding because, as many visual learners and studies will tell you, images and illustrations are often the best ways to communicate simple or complex information. When used to replace and enhance messaging, we have found icons to be much more compelling in
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Logos can come in many shapes and sizes and will be chosen for many different reasons: “It’s my favorite color! My mom liked this one best. This is the only thing our committee could come close to agreeing on. It’s so NOW and trendy! This is totally my style.” There are tons of ways to
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