Traditonally May 1st in my family started with the words “Good morning, it arrived!” My dad used to greet us this way. Even after we knew what he was up to, we had to ask: “Who?”
With a bright green he used to say: “May – it has arrived!”
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Finally it is gone, this long winter, which seemed not to end. I really can’t believe it. Sun is shining brightly, the birds are singing, the busses are delayed, and the trees are sprouting new leaves. Read the rest of this entry
Wallpapers for March.
It started with a flower. In Germany we call this flower “Pril-Flower”. Pril is a dish soap and used to advertise with this kind of flower somewhere in the past. Read the rest of this entry
We created some pretty wallpaper for you.
Today we have 2 different motives.
One is dedicated to Valentine’s day on February 14th … so it is a dream in pink … the other one is dedicated to carnival. In Berlin people don’t celebrate carnival, but they are crazy for something they call “pancakes”, the rest of Germany calls it “Berliner”, you might identify it as a special filled donut.
Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Carnival.
BTW. we created the wallpapers in plain version and with the calendar of February 2013.
We started to renovate the site a bit. Nothing wrong with the color, but maybe the navigation was not that suitable for you. So we did a little face-lifitng with the site.
We also thought about a slogan for Helz-Design. You know that the whole industry is crazy about USP – Unique Selling Point. We don’t want to get that crazy about it, but yet thinking about it can’t do any harm, right?
And we have been successful, and therefore we are a little bit proud! Was not easy.
Most of the thinking has been done in German and it is somewhat difficult to get the right tone in English. You just can’t translate it literally. So we wanted to transport the feeling instead.
Ever asked yourself what is special about Helz-Design?
If not, maybe we can tease you now to think a bit about it.
Ok we think we are the uncommon agency.
We are different, we are special, we are extraordinary, we are uncommon.
So we created some new headers trying to explain our uniqueness.
Enjoy and share your thoughts!
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I really believe we are going to have a white Christmas here in Berlin.
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A happy 1st of Advent to everybody … can you already smell it in the air? Christmas … Read the rest of this entry
Oh joy … it is getting closer and closer.
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Just 44 days to wait until Santa comes down the chimney and unpacks his sack after checking that crazy list. Read the rest of this entry
This is not the ultimate guide to do an e-book. I am pretty sure that there are more than just one method. And although I am now able to create e-books for e-book-readers I still prefer those lovely old-fashioned books which have been printed and which you can take in our hands, feel the paper, smell the paper and which or better who will develop their own character during the years.
To tell you the whole story from the scratch. In July a friend asked me if I am able to do an e-book. Sure, I can do an e-book. By that moment I was thinking of good old pdf-file. Those files we all have in hundreds on our sites to provide information to our friends, fans or customers. Same procedure, than for sending a book to the printing office. You just have to use another preset, lower resolution etc. Nothing complicated.
I really thought that the new customer just wanted a pdf-e-book. Ok, I placed my quota, which was accepted happily. I got the script as an openoffice-file. I got some pictures and the email-address of the customer. Read the rest of this entry
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Understand typesetters, media designer and printers.
Grafik-Design deals with different color systems. One of that is the so called subtractive color system which is used for printing with printing colors CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. One other system is the additive color system. Read the rest of this entry
What do they mean when they say?
I know my blogging has been a bit lazy the past couple of weeks.
I am awfully sorry for that. There have been some reasons: personal issues, health issues and business issues.
I had the pleasure to layout a diploma thesis for a student. Quite a challenge since the schedule was more than tight.
When doing the final corrections for the thesis, before sending it to the printing shop, I realized that it is time! Time for a little glossary with the words of my world. Read the rest of this entry
Does your Facebook need a new dress?
So maybe here are some options for you.
You can download them for free … if you use them unchanged. Read the rest of this entry
Again some lovely quotes … free to download here … for your blog, articles and delight.
