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		<title>Humor in Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 09:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humor is a funny thing (puns!). It manifests differently in every person and culture and yet it elicits the same emotional reaction within all of us: laughter and amusement. That is why humor is such an effective tool in communication. Often, we’ll see something clever or funny or “LOL-worthy” and automatically, we have a positive feeling about what we’ve just seen which is why humor is used throughout most of the creative arts.]]></description>
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		<title>Font Collection: Thin and Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultra light or "hairline" fonts lend your designs a very delicate and luxurious feel. However, since these types of fonts usually have very small line weights, most of them are only useful in display sizes. The free fonts featured here all are very thin and light weight and we're sure you'll find amazing uses for them! ]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Creative Inspiration When You Need It the Most</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time, creativity is a hard fire to get started. Then there are the times when it’s like trying to light a wet match; when getting started or getting unstuck on a project is just next to impossible. You’ve sat down, you know what needs to get done, but your mind is just blank or filled with useless ideas. We’ve all been there.]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking: Rules and Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of rules when it comes to design and the creative arts. In fact, one can even argue that design is built on well-tread techniques and methods that achieve results time and time again. Colors are chosen with purpose, layouts are composed based on grids and other rational means, and techniques are employed based on how effective they will be in a design. So then why does it seem that these rules are always being bent, sometimes even broken completely, and to great effect?]]></description>
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		<title>How to Effectively Manage Your Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JC Parmley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going from a mid-sized company using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life-cycle">SLDC</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development">RAD</a>, and the hybrid of other software development methodologies to a one-man shop was extremely difficult, to say the least. One would think that having the flexibility and autonomy of being an entrepreneur would prove otherwise. These advantages, ironically, were the root of my problems in getting my design projects done on time; I lacked the skills to manage my own projects by having too many options.]]></description>
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		<title>You, The Ideal Creative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have ideal versions of ourselves. It’s the person in your mind who has become all that we’ve wanted to be, has achieved all that we wanted to achieve, and producing the kind of work we’ve always wanted to produce. Unfortunately, it’s never as simple as that. We are never the perfect versions of the people we envision ourselves to be but that doesn't mean we have to stop trying.]]></description>
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		<title>Destroying Old Ideas to Make Room for New Ones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a moment of introspection over the weekend, I came to a rather stark realization about the lengths we go through to keep our creations in perpetuity. I examined my views on my own creative efforts and what I do to preserve every bit of control I have over them. Did I like what I saw? The short answer is no.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Project: Sketchbook Treasures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend, for most people, is a time to relax, unwind, and do things that aren’t necessarily convenient to do during the workweek. For us, at Design Instruct, the weekends offer an opportunity to have a little more fun than usual.]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing: The Best of Design Instruct eBooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Site News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we launched Design Instruct a little over 2 years ago, we had one goal in mind: to publish top quality creative content for artists so that they may do great things with their talent and creativity. Our tutorials were just the beginning.]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: The Best of Design Instruct eBooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Gube</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month or so, we've been working hard putting together an amazing collection of tutorials to be made available for download here on Design Instruct. The most beautiful, most loved, and most informative tutorials we've published will now be available in 2 volumes in various eBook formats so you can read and learn anywhere.]]></description>
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