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Creating Professional Digital Documents Without Design Skills

Chaten Parmar — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:38:43 +0000

Creating polished documents has become essential for businesses of all sizes. Whether it’s proposals, reports, or presentations, the quality of your digital paperwork speaks volumes about your brand’s professionalism. Yet not everyone has access to expensive design software or possesses advanced graphic design skills. Many professionals struggle with document creation, often cobbling together information from […]

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Graphic Design Principles – Balance

Chaten Parmar — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:15:44 +0000

Balance is a design principle which could be interpreted in many ways. It could break seen as linear scale: It could be alignment: Or even symmetry: But balance in a design doesn’t need any of that to be balanced. A design could be balanced by being unbalanced! The idea is to arrange or design a […]

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Design Principles – Alignment & Proximity

Chaten Parmar — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:56:59 +0000

As a principle of design, Alignment refers to the position of an object or group of objects within a page or group. Typically we deal with alignments in relation to text display where you can align paragraphs in either “left, centre, right or justify” positions by using their edges to align. This also applies to […]

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African Graphic Design Inspiration and Trends

Chaten Parmar — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:29:59 +0000

When I think of any African design I imagine a host of warm hues, imperfect shapes and textures. I see an artistic approach with African Design rather than clean-cut contemporary graphic design, however, things on the sun-soaked continent have changed. I’ve come across many a great graphic designer from Africa producing beautiful and professional pieces […]

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10 Tips to get hired as a Digital, Web or Graphic Designer.

Chaten Parmar — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:48:49 +0000

Do you want to become a professional graphic, web or designer or digital designer? If so you might be finding it hard to get your foot in the door and start your career. First off let me say that you’re probably not the only one. The lack of education that’s given to aspiring designers about […]

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7 Ways to become a better Graphic, Web or Digital Designer (or any type of designer)

Chaten Parmar — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:32:06 +0000

Graphic designers, digital designers and web designers usually come in two different forms. They’re either self-taught or traditionally trained. However, neither path is a sure-fire route to becoming a great designer. I’ve seen professionally trained designers with heaps of experience working in London based studios whose work was pretty poor. On the flip side, I’ve […]

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30 contemporary sans-serif fonts | RANDi #1

Chaten Parmar — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:04:35 +0000

I know, I know! If you’re going to use a font, a contemporary sans-serif font, then your best choice would be to use a classic font like Helvetica, Futura or Frutiger. But you know what? That also has some drawbacks. By using the same classic fonts, your work may get a little too common or […]

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A beautiful guide to Emotional, Psychological and Intelligent Marketing using Graphic Design

Chaten Parmar — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:57:56 +0000

From billboards and tweets to literature and speech, the best marketing: Informs Influences Entertains Informing and influencing customers is a typical marketing tactic, entertaining is not. Everyone can be generically entertained by the same thing, but to truly influence consumers, they need to be specifically entertained. And to be specifically entertained, the marketing material needs […]

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7 Steps to an Authentic Brand Identity Design

Chaten Parmar — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:40:03 +0000

Creating a brand identity is a daunting task. It might look like fun because you get to play with colours and shapes like you did in school, but its a far cry from scribbling crayons and splashing poster paint about. Brand identity design is actually more about research than anything else, and a lack of […]

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Is your Logo a Vector Logo Design?

Chaten Parmar — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:52:00 +0000

Have you ever tried to resize a logo design and noticed how it starts to look blurred or jagged? That’s because the image file that you’re using is a rasterized file and not a vector logo design file. A raster file is one which has a defined set of pixels and data to produce an […]

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What to put on a business card

Chaten Parmar — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:48:00 +0000

We’re a graphic design agency in Essex and designing business cards is a pretty regular thing for us. The one question we commonly get asked is “What to put on a business card?” A business card is a personal introduction to yourself and your business, an advert, a communication document and a reminder of who […]

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SWASTIKA – The World ‘s Best Logo Design (or not)

Chaten Parmar — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:52:49 +0000

Authors Note: I realize that the Swastika is a controversial symbol offensive to many but the goal of this article is not to promote fascism, any modern day western connotations or offend any cultures. This article explores the historic Worldwide use of the Swastika (positive & negative) through recorded facts.

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The Ultimate Guide to Subliminal Marketing Psychology

Chaten Parmar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:01:49 +0000

Subliminal marketing is a psychological tactic used in almost every piece of marketing we see. It communicates underlying messages through deep connotations and stereotypes that exist in society. The goal is to tap into the audience’s mind, build a relationship and reinforce a sale. Advertising psychology explains these tactics. When you visit a business based […]

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How to Buy Pro Print for Your Business and Save

Chaten Parmar — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:46:48 +0000

Being a professional graphic designer, I source print for clients regularly. This inspired a quick guide to buying professional print and saving money. On occasion, new customers approach me and ask, “How much do you charge for printed flyers?” That’s like asking “How long is a piece of string”. Some people have never ordered print […]

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