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	<title>Your Brain on Design: A Graphic Design Blog &#124; Leslie Tane Design</title>
	<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog</link>
	<description>All design, all the time</description>
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		<title>Parlez-Vous Designer?</title>
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From my blog entry on the Digital Space blog
RGB. CMYK. Pixels. Serifs.  Running heads. Resolution. Wrap-around. Sometimes designers speak a  language for insiders only. This is fine when we’re talking to each  other, but what about when we’re talking to our clients? Are we  expecting them to break the code?
When presenting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/parlez-vous-designer/458</link>
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		<title>Color Palettte Goodness: Coraline</title>
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The creepy/cool animated movie Coraline is not your average animated movie. With its fabulous graphics and retro color palette it&#8217;s a graphic designer&#8217;s dream. No bubblegum pinks and unicorn, glitter purples here. A selected color palette from the movie looks more like this:

and this:

Hats off to visual designer Tadahiro Uesugi for his amazing and inspiring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/color-palettte-goodness-coraline/400</link>
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		<title>Is Direct Mail Dead?</title>
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From my blog entry on the Digital Space blog
It’s the age of the Internet — e-mail marketing, social networking, blogs. So why would you do printed, direct mail marketing? No one reads that stuff&#8230;do they? more at Digital Space&#62;&#62;

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		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/is-direct-mail-dead/454</link>
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		<title>Just Launched: etesian-tech.com</title>
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Please check out our latest e-commerce site for Etesian Technologies, a manufacturer of wind speed sensors. This is a complete redesign of an existing site which (full disclosure) was designed and programmed by the ambitious inventor and intellectual client who had no prior web design experience.
The former site:
The new site is managed entirely in WordPress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/just-launched-etesian-techcom/448</link>
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		<title>Location, location, location</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always helpful to actually work with clients, preferably at their own computer, and watch the way they use their websites and the internet in general.
What have I noticed? That a lot of my clients are confused between the location bar and Google search. Many people have Google set as their home page, and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/location-location-location/440</link>
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		<title>Designing for NonProfits</title>
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From my blog entry on the Digital Space blog
One of the things I most enjoy is working with non-profit clients — it’s especially satisfying to do design that makes a difference. We specialize in this type of work and our clients include a range of organizations, from those who work with troubled youth, to those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/designing-for-nonprofits/435</link>
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		<title>Should I go to an online design school?</title>
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From my mailbag:

My friend&#8217;s daughter has some questions about going to school for Web Design. She wanted to know the best way to proceed because she has a baby on the way and wants to make the right decision. She was thinking about taking an online degree program to obtain an AA in web design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/should-i-go-to-an-online-design-school/430</link>
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		<title>Color Palette Goodness: Met Home</title>
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Color inspiration can come from anywhere. In December&#8217;s Metropolitan Home (RIP. Sob) there was a feature about an apartment with an amazing color palette. My favorite image is above: gorgeous, unexpected color.
I ran the image through CSS Drive&#8217;s Image to Colors Palette Generator and was rewarded with this mouthwatering color palette:

Yum.
For more color palettes, please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/color-palette-goodness-met-home/393</link>
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		<title>So much to say, so many blogs to say it in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am flattered to report that I was asked to blog for Wausau Paper&#8217;s new blog: Digital Space. Check it out at http://www.wausaupaper.com/DigitalSpace/post.aspx?id=7841&#38;blogid=298 I&#8217;ll be posting all original posts over there, and I&#8217;ll let you know when they go up.
A paid writing job! My diploma is kvelling.

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		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/so-much-to-say-so-many-blogs-to-say-it-in/424</link>
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		<title>Play this Game!</title>
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This is what the internet is all about. I&#8217;m warning you, though: This font shooting game is completely addictive.
PS: Note the last two daily high scores. BOO-YA!

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		<link>http://leslietanedesign.com/blog/play-this-game/421</link>
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