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Letting Your Customers Tell You What’s Trendy

In a marketplace full of fickle and temperamental customers, market research is the key to giving your brand an edge. In our fast-paced world where fast manufacturing is king, too many businesses fall into the trap of telling consumers what they want instead of actually finding out what they want. While the brain trust in…

Design

Grrrr…Making Your Packaging Appeal to the Modern Male

Male product packaging is sometimes assumed to be right for everyone, and sometimes it’s merely a copy of a feminine product with manly colors on it. What’s the secret behind appealing packaging for men? When men aren’t hunting for bears, scaling Mt. Everest, barbecuing huge quantities of brisket, or shaving with a machete, they’re shopping…

Design

5 Ways Packaging Adds Value to Your Beautiful Product

In an effort to pretend that they don’t all use pretty much the exact same ingredients, beauty product designers land customers with these five sweet packaging elements instead. Walking down the beauty product aisle of any drugstore is a lesson in visual diversity, so discovering that most of those items have practically identical ingredient lists…

Design, More

5 Trends in Web Design That Aren’t Totally Stupid

There are way too many web design trends these days that are completely, irredeemably idiotic. But here are 5 that aren’t. Oh, web design. With all of the crazy artists out there who realized going into graphic design was probably the only way to make an actual living, it’s no wonder that some websites have…

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