Laser, Silk Screen Press & Vinyl Cutter / My Tools!

The Best part about being a Graphic Designer is seeing your work completed. The advantage of being hands on with my projects provides a complete understanding of all the aspects involved in the design process from start to finish. And also you get to see first hand how a design may look completed and come to find out it may need a few more tweaks, before lets say doing 300 hundred shirts or decals. Because every Graphic Designer knows what appears on screen may not come out the same way finished, such as blues looking purple if your not entering correct Pantones and wrongfully deciding to wing it.

CorelDRAW X5 Effects

Using the Contour and Envelope Effects in CorelDRAW X5 can make your designs a lot easier and beneficial to work with. The Contour Effect is similar to adding a stroke, but simplifies your desired look. Since you now have 2 layers you can add stroke to the both of them to add more color, efects etc... The Envelope Effect makes applying text to follow along shapes very simple. Using these effects together will make for easier changes and tweaking. Click on the image to enlarge. www.davidgklotz.com

What Makes a Great Business Card?

The most important idea of a business card is to pass on your essential information. We all know of the special paper stock and the raised ink and even your photograph in a box off to the side. In my opinion that's just plain boring. A great business card has to have a great photograph, good color scheme and a good layout! The above business card was a client of mine that wanted just that, along with a photo with her personal handshake on the back to go with her last name in the tagline. Click on the image to enlarge. www.davidgklotz.com