Additional resources for finding copyright free images online.

Still more alternatives to bullets and overused clipart in your presentations.

The secret's out: Visuals make for more interesting, memorable presentations. Learn how to find free, high-quality images for your next stack of slides using Flickr and Creative Commons.

Garr Reynolds--the mind behind Presentation Zen, a blog I refer to frequently--has named Dr. John Medina's Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School his favorite book of 2008. Garr has spoken highly in the past of ...

I recently ran into the problem of having people not be able to play a DVD that I had burnt for them. They were using it on their computers and it seemed to be isolated to the PC users and I couldn't figure out for the life of me what ...

"Most people think typography is about fonts. Most designers think typography is about fonts. Typ ogra phy is more than that, it’s expressing language through type. Placement, composition, typechoice." -Mark Boulton

Every now and then, I'm sent a Powerpoint presentation or poster or document and am asked to "clean it up" a bit. One of the things I often end up changing is the color that is used in the document. Color is tricky to deal with because it is hard ...

Don't rely on a sketchy conference room wireless connection to share online video with your audience—save it to your hard drive for posterity.

For many people, knowing when to use a certain type of graphic or image file is a confusing matter. Most of us have heard of “JPEG files” and maybe the “GIF format”, but what about EPS and TIFF? When is it appropriate to use certain file types and not ...

One of the easiest ways to transfer documents from person to person or from your desktop to a printer is through the use of PDF files. From Adobe, the creator of the PDF format: "Invented by Adobe Systems and perfected over 15 years, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) lets you ...

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that we have just created a place for the CRL's visual identities in the CRL Media Archives. Here, we will have a variety of logos associated with the work of the center available for use on various CRL related ...

The Library of Congress harnesses the power of a social network to expand knowledge.

When taking a file to be printed (at either type of printer), you might find yourself trying to understand a different language when asked about what kind of options or "specs" that you'd like. To make the process easier for you and the printer and to help reduce costly mistakes, I've listed a few things below that you need to know before taking a job to a printer.

Hello! This is Dave Gnojek and I'm the Graphic Designer for the KU Center for Research on Learning. I've been talking with Aaron Sumner for a while about getting together so that I can share some of my thoughts on design and how it fits into the work we do here at the CRL. The Stratepedia blog seemed like the perfect venue for this and so, from time to time, I'll be posting about things related to design that everyone can benefit from! For this post, I'd like to start discussing printing and how to understand some of the issues that might arise when you contact a printer.