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Giveaway: Win 1,000 Free Business Cards from InkChaser.com (x2)

Hello everyone! Today, we’ve got yet another giveaway for you guys. Our friends at Ink Chaser have been generous enough to give away 1,000 business cards to 2 lucky Colorburned readers. Ink Chaser is a Read the rest of this entry »

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Win 500 Premium Business Cards and an iNotePad From SonicPrint.com

Do you need some new business cards? Looking for a hand-held device that will never crash? Well, we may have the perfect giveaway for you. Today, our friends at SonicPrint.com are giving away 500 free business cards to 2 Colorburned readers and an iNotePad to everyone who Read the rest of this entry »

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Create a Print Ready Business Card Design in Illustrator

Illustrator has fantastic tools available for creating small print designs such as business cards. Follow this walkthrough on how to create a fun business card design complete with illustrated character. We’ll start by creating our sketchy figure from a profile shot with hand-drawn linework, then lay out the design with background pattern and textual information in a print ready template with margins and bleed areas.

Business card mockup

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Giveaway Announcement: 10 Colorburned Readers Win 500 Free Business Cards From UPrinting

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Giveaway: Win 500 Business Cards From UPrinting (x10)

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Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design

There’s nothing more unique to your creative talent than a series of your own doodles and sketches. Let’s use the good old doodle to represent our design services by combining quick and fun doodles with a print ready business card design. We’ll be drawing our doodles directly in Illustrator, and using the application’s print abilities to set up our business card document with the correct margins and bleed to build a complete print-ready PDF document.

Doodle business card design

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How to Find Awesome Clients

Thousands of service buyers complain of poor quality work from freelancers and design agencies every year; often to the point that reputations are ruined and the design industry as a whole suffers. From disappearing service providers to fly-by-night scam artists, the online world is packed with opportunities for things to go wrong, and it’s really not surprising that so many online and offline entrepreneurs have a bad impression of freelancers and one-off designers.

Of course, there’s another side to that coin.

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How to Make Yourself Stand Out as a Freelancer

 How to Make Yourself Stand Out as a Freelancer

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