You asked your legal, copyright and trademark questions, and Jean has answered! All questions are taken from comments posted on the original ‘Ask Jean’ post. We invite you to ask more questions. Hi Jean! I run a Creative Services department in a large corporation. I am creating a brochure for a tradeshow. In this brochure is a 30 year...
I take most taglines with a grain of salt, but when MOO says “We love to print” I think they really mean it. The MOO website, moo.com, is as fun as the products they print.] Many designers have a love/hate relationship with printing. Print materials can look so amazing, and are so essential to promotion, but can be a...
Flash designers and Flash developers are often the same person. Why? It’s mainly because Flash has proven such a popular success and because it breathes interactive life into lightweight, great looking artwork—or, looking at it from the other side, that it spiffs up programming projects so well from a visual standpoint. The platform really serves as a blend of...
You asked your legal, copyright and trademark questions, and Jean has answered! All questions are taken from comments posted on the original ‘Ask Jean’ post. We invite you to ask more questions. Hi Jean, Great site! If you design a stationary system for a client and take your files to the printer, and the client in turn pays the...
Jean Perwin Jean Perwin is a Miami based attorney who specializes in Intellectual Property Law, Entertainment and General Corporate Law. She is most recently a recurring author for Notes on Design, and has a just launched a new series of informational posts to answer all your burning trademark/copyright questions. For those unfamiliar with the genius of Jean, we asked...
How many times have you started a web page design from a Photoshop PSD mockup? Or needed to revise an image in Photoshop after it was part of your web layout? Dreamweaver CS3′s integration with Photoshop makes these common tasks much quicker. Start off by opening a page in Dreamweaver and opening an image in Photoshop, even a layered...
You asked your legal, copyright and trademark questions, and Jean has answered! All questions are taken from comments posted on the original ‘Ask Jean’ post. We invite you to ask more questions. Hi Jean, As I’m designing corporate training classes I often have topics where it would be instructive to show brief excerpts from movies.
I spend over 75% of my workday in Flash, and it’s time I really do enjoy. If I’m not coding up a custom MP3 player, I’m designing character models for an interactive mascot or working out the navigation for a corporate slideshow. Heck, I even do video work in Flash, often using the main timeline and manual tweens to...
Chocolate promos? Besides business card and letterhead, have you ever created any kind of promotional mailer piece for yourself as a designer? So much emphasis has been placed on the online portfolio of late that I feel physical, tangible methods of self-promotion have fallen by the wayside among designers entering the industry today. But that’s exactly why a well-done...
You asked your legal, copyright and trademark questions, and Jean has answered! All questions are taken from comments posted on the original ‘Ask Jean’ post. We invite you to ask more questions. Hello Jean, So nice to hear that you are doing this. I am new to the field and my first question is: On all sites you see...
