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    Innovative cover letters

    Screw the letter idea and consider how else you could approach them. Why not create a product or an item that resembles what your offering? Something that stands out more than a letter? What audience are you targeting exactly?
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    Re-design critique of travel magazine please

    Brilliant job mate :) Just one thing to note, and this might just be personal preference, but the little titles that say "updates" "global gourmet" etc, aren't centered vertically. There seems to be more spacing above and to me doesn't look quite right.
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    Define Graphic Design?

    Whether its illustration, fashion etc its still art in the end. That's exactly what graphic design is, art :)
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    Off the shelf design

    I agree with Sunburn. Keep your focus to bespoke sites mate :)
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    Design Journal

    Hey guys, not sure if this is the right place to post this, or whether I'm allowed to anyway but I've just set up a twitter in which I post design finds I see on the web, in magazines etc. I know its not original but as part of my manual design journal I have at home, I thought it would be a...
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    My first go at a logo...

    I didn't pick up on the ink nibs until I read about them. I think it is a very strong logo, its more contemporary than the previous. I just think there still needs to be that tie to the publishing side of things as well as the new media. Also, and I'm not sure why, but the dot on top of the 'i'...
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    Must Have Equipment

    Pencil and paper, a cup of tea and a brain full of ideas. :)
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    Define Graphic Design?

    Fine art with a commercial purpose.
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    Sixth Form or a Job? Starting a career in design

    I'm currently doing my pre-degree foundation at college after 2 years of sixth form. From my own experience, Sixth Form is a way to keep doors open. It gives you more options in case later down the line you change your mind. If your thinking of going uni, then I highly recommend the foundation...
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