DTG Newsletter ~ Vol. 26, #11 ~ November
Welcome to November, and the opening of Fall! The holidays are coming, and once again we'll be awarding prizes for your favorite holiday promotion ideas, cards, graphics, and gifts. If you're designing a holiday promo for your client, we'd like to look over your shoulder. You can win some pretty swell prizes, just for participating...
- Designing the Holidays
- Free coloring pages from classic, modern, vintage, holiday and Christmas Coloring Books
- Free Adult coloring pages for the holidays and Christmas plus bonus for the kids!
- Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper grades and more!
- Creative Tidbits #219: street art, white space, art nouveau, lessons in design and more!
- Web Design Update: SEO, Linkbuilding, Responsive design, Google, UX Design and more
- Publishers Warehouse Loading Dock :
- Here come the holidays...
Free coloring pages from classic, modern, vintage, holiday and Christmas Coloring Books
Any or all of these special coloring books would not only make great gifts, but will amuse everyone for hours while teaching some valuable skills! Most of these are printed on single side, heavy paper, and perforated for easy removal from the book. Have a great time coloring these free pages, and have a wonderful holiday season! Serious adult coloring books!
* Vintage Christmas Greetings Coloring Book
* Snowflake Designs Coloring Book
* ChristmasScapes Coloring Book
* Winter Scenes Coloring Book
* Vintage Christmas Greetings
* WinterScapes Coloring Book
Free coloring pages from classic, modern, vintage, holiday and Christmas Coloring Books
Free Adult coloring pages for the holidays and Christmas plus bonus for the kids!
Following up on our post earlier today, here is another collection of our favorite adult coloring books for the season, along with a whole pile of free coloring pages! This time we also include a cheerful and creative activities book the kids will love ... try some of these tomorrow and you won't need a baby sitter! If you really make some killer pages, snap a quick photo and send it in! Here are our titles :
* Giant Christmas Coloring and Activity Book
* An Old-Fashioned Christmas Coloring Book
* Merry Christmas Designs Coloring Book
* Deluxe Four Seasons Coloring Book
* Christmas Trees Coloring Book Free Adult coloring pages for the holidays and Christmas plus bonus for the kids!
Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper grades and more!
Well into the holiday season, here are some select holiday goodies, and some other interesting items including those Black Friday infographics! Creative inspiration is where you find it... finding cool stuff over the holidays? Give us a tip!
* Follow These Three Tips for Designing the Perfect Podcast Icon
* Do You Know Your (Paper) ABCs? Grade, Basis Weight, and Finish
* 100 Free Flat Christmas Icons
* Black Friday Infographic(s) Creative Tidbits #218: Icons, infographics, Black Friday, Podcasts, paper grades and more!
Creative Tidbits #219: street art, white space, art nouveau, lessons in design and more!
It's always rewarding to read a young upstart revealing the lessons I've taught in my seminars and workshops for well over two and a half decades. In 2006 Alex White, that famous type and design expert wrote DT&G to explain "white space", now those lessons show up in our Creative Tidbits 219! But there's more and we hope you have a great time . . .
* Using White Space: How Emptiness Can Give So Much to Design
* A collection of Art Nouveau doors from around the world
* The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)
* Understanding the Power of Visual Advertising
* Digging the Street Art of RubÈn S·nchez Creative Tidbits #219: street art, white space, art nouveau, lessons in design and more!
Web Design Update: SEO, Linkbuilding, Responsive design, Google, UX Design and more
Actually it's been quite a time since our last update, and we've got a bunch of pent-up articles to get out here before the end of the year! So there will be three updates pretty fast in a row. If you're a web designer, not just a template jockey, let us know!
* 5 Web Design Techniques to Make Your Website Search Engine Friendly
* Three simple resolutions on how to do better SEO in 2016
* 9 responsive design mistakes you don't want to make
* 6 Advanced Google Analytics Tricks You Should Know
* 8 responsive web design trends that defined 2015
* How to Do Unintentional Link Building
* How to be a Problem Solving SEO Web Design Update: SEO, Linkbuilding, Responsive design, Google, UX Design and more
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Here come the holidays...
As we move toward the holidays and the end of 2016, think about all the cool stuff you've discovered and learned during the year.
* November is brought to you by the letter "N"
* November is brought to you by the color "Brown, which is a very good color for Thanksgiving.
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And, as for this month, well, you've already wasted a perfectly good hour reading the DTG newsletter. Hopefully all is not wasted and you've gained at least one helpful tidbit of info.
Thanks for reading... go forth and be creative!
+FredShowker, Editor / Publisher @Showker
Parting words for November as we enter the fall...
"Human history becomes more and more a
race between education and catastrophe."
H.G. Wells
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