How to Create Great Infographics

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Infographics are an increasingly popular way to make complex subjects and information understandable to your customers. As a highly shareable visual format, it’s the perfect way to condense data about your business or your industry without dumbing it down or confusing customers.

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Keys to building your brand recognition

For many small businesses, breaking into a competitive market is a major hurdle. Coming up against big-name competitors may be daunting, but remember, they were once exactly where you are now. Although there are many aspects involved in becoming a well-known and distinguished company, building your brand recognition will play a big part in your future success.

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Importance of logos in business

Corporate logos are intended to be the “face” of a company: They are graphical displays of a company’s unique identity, and through colours and fonts and images they provide essential information about a company that allows customers to identify with the company’s core brand. Logos are also a shorthand way of referring to the company in advertising and marketing materials; they also provide an anchor point for the various fonts, colours and design choices in all other business marketing materials.

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Litho print and printing plates

When I first started my career in graphic design after leaving college in 2003, my first role was with a small printers based in Newcastle upon Tyne at a town called Byker. It was here I first started using and creating printing plates. Printing plates back then were mainly created using the old plastic film (like used in old cameras before digital became popular) it was not an easy process:

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