Posts Tagged ‘leaf

Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online. I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and [...]

With fall upon us, I thought that it would be great to share an autumn-themed freebie. Leaf’d is a set of free Photoshop leaf brushes. The brushes are big – giving you flexibility in usage (they’re between 1,900 – 2,400+ pixels wide). They’re available for you to download under the Creative Commons license and you’re [...]

I’ve written before about how to be an efficient designer. As a two-person business, Paper Leaf needs to be especially efficient, as the two of us need to cover a lot of jobs – designers, but also sales, accounting, project management and more. With that in mind, we’ve recently starting using client forms to help [...]

We all know the importance of having a solid online portfolio. It’s relatively simple to show the work we’ve developed for the screen on our website – after all, that’s how it was meant to be seen. But what about printed material? As designers, we have two options for showing our printed material on our [...]


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