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    Upskilling to become a visual Designer

    Thanks GA. Had a look at the links supplied, there are some good courses there. I suppose it makes more sense for me to just concentrate on UI/UX skills as I have already got experience in graphic design and branding. Its just that there seems to be many more job titles around that it gets...
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    Upskilling to become a visual Designer

    Hi, I have a background in Graphic Design and have worked mainly as an in-house designer for various companies for over 10 years. I feel its time for me to move on and have seen the buzz word Visual Designer being mentioned a lot in employment ads. I think it would be a good step up for me as I...
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    Advice with Lego copyright

    Thanks for the replies. Not what I wanted to hear, the mock up I did was looking good!! Ah well back to the drawing board. Suppose the last thing I want on a site that is promoting my skills and services is to have images that are inflicting on copyrights. Not really setting a good example, is...
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    Advice with Lego copyright

    Hi, I am currently building my portfolio site and was wanting to use my own photograph of Lego figures to represent areas of design that I work in, i.e.. a business man figure for corporate work and a DJ figure for creative work. Does anyone know if this would be ok to do or would I be breaking...
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    Indesign - convert Doc A to Doc B style

    Thats good advice about saving as templates, thanks! Last thing I need is to mess up the new files!! So, best way to bring the old content in. Would you just drag the old pages into the new template or would just copy and paste the text/images etc? When i copy and paste the old content in, it...
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    Indesign - convert Doc A to Doc B style

    Hi all, need some help. I have to convert a whole bunch of brochures set up in an old brand style to a new brand style in Indesign. What is the best way to do this? The new InDesign files have been set up with Master pages, guides, Style sheets and colours etc, but I'm not sure of what is the...
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    new digital skills advice for career

    Hi all, as mentioned in my intro post, I've been working with mainly print design within a few in-house marketing firms. The last 4 years its been mainly type setting with very little creative design opportunities. Unfortunately I've been told that ill be loosing my job soon so will be looking...
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