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What is a Brand Style Guide and Why is it Important?
A brand style guide is essentially the guidelines to ensure your business’s brand is consistent in feel and look. This allows employees and independent contractors alike understand how to represent your brand to the world. Why Do You Need One? There are a few reasons to establish and follow a brand style guide. First […]
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 · Foliosofy
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Why Branding Is Important
While it is a somewhat abstract exercise, branding is important and has concrete outcomes. A particular logo design or icon may come to mind when you think of brands, there is more to a brand than the visual itself. What people really relate to brands are particular experiences they associate with the company’s products. […]
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 · Foliosofy
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What is a VPN? The basics and 4 popular options compared
Want to know how to browse the web from anywhere in the world without travelling? In other words, did you know it’s possible to connect to a network using a secure cloaked connection that can hide your true location? By using a VPN, you can connect to the internet from many other countries apart from […]
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 · Foliosofy
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7 Instagram Hacks to use it like a Pro
Whether you are using Instagram for fun or for business, here are seven of our favourite tips inspired on Hubspot’s list, that you can use straight away to stand out, share content, post more easily and speed up your responses. Got one of your own that you’d like to share? Let us know in […]
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 · Foliosofy
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5 Online Businesses You Can Start From Home
Whether you are looking for ways to generate extra income during these economically difficult times, or want to find a full-time occupation that you can do regardless of a lockdown, we have selected five popular options that you can start from home today, if you so choose. It couldn’t be a better moment to start […]
Monday, November 9, 2020 · Foliosofy
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Evolutionarily Stable Strategies – a visual guide
Evolutionarily Stable Strategy – a concept borrowed from biology which can be surprisingly applicable in your own life. We’re actually adapting at all times, but not always deliberately or fast enough. Here’s a visual guide, inspired by Tai Lopez’ 67 Steps: What better E.S.S. can you come up with for your health, wealth or relationships? […]
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 · Foliosofy
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Book review – Change by design, Tim Brown
Every once in a while you come across a book that completely changes the way you see a specific subject. This was the case for me with Change by Design. One of the biggest takeaways from this book for me as a graphic designer is that design, as a broad concept, is not necessarily related […]
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 · Foliosofy
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Avada vs X Theme Comparison and Review 2020
This is a 2020 review of Avada vs X theme for WordPress, in which I’m going to compare the functionality of these two very popular themes. This review is from my experience, having used them to build all kinds of sites, big and small, from landing pages to e-commerce websites. Avada vs X Theme – […]
Sunday, July 5, 2020 · Foliosofy
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How to draw and paint cartoons on Photoshop (I)
In this brief tutorial we will see how to draw cartoons in the classic American style (looney tunes, animaniacs, etc.). This work process is not suitable for making cartoons, since for this, animation software such as Animate (previously called Flash) is usually used, but it is a suitable foundation to make from unique illustrations to […]
Thursday, October 10, 2019 · Foliosofy
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Modeling and basic rigging of a Clay Fighter-style character
In this tutorial, we are going to elaborate two characters in a scene very similar to that of Clay Fighter, a game that had its origins in Super Nintendo, in the early 90’s. Acclaimed by many, detested by others but remembered by all; a game that we remember today with this scene inspired by him, […]
Monday, February 27, 2017 · Foliosofy