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Andy Brown
N. Ireland Graphic Designer Joined over 6 years ago
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- Just A Few Hours Left! A New Color Tool. (kickstarter.com)
- Swatchos: A Better Way To Choose Colors (kickstarter.com)
- What's the worst graphic design mistake you've made that got printed?
- I've Finished The 4th Edition Print Handbook!
- The New Print Handbook – focusing on digital printing (I created 5000+ PDFs! for this) (printhandbook.com)
- The New Print Handbook Is Finally Here! (printhandbook.com)
- The Missing Advice I Needed When Starting My Career (smashingmagazine.com)
- Quiz: Are You a Print Production Pro? (resources.printhandbook.com)
- Quiz: Are You a Print Production Pro? (docs.google.com)
- How Music Affects Your Productivity (helpscout.net)
Posted to What's the worst graphic design mistake you've made that got printed?, in reply to Reece Butler , Mar 13, 2020 Posted to What's the worst graphic design mistake you've made that got printed?, in reply to Jon Lehman , Mar 13, 2020 Ouch. That's a painful to fix late in the day.
Posted to I've Finished The 4th Edition Print Handbook!, in reply to Mark Bult , Mar 13, 2020 Thanks Mark. Yes, I've got a good collection of print production books now.
Posted to I've Finished The 4th Edition Print Handbook!, in reply to Patrick Loonstra , Feb 17, 2020 Thanks.
Posted to I've Finished The 4th Edition Print Handbook!, in reply to Steve O'Connor , Feb 17, 2020 The orange one was the 2nd edition with the foiled cover.
Posted to The New Print Handbook Is Finally Here!, May 31, 2018 
I created 5000+ PDFs so each cover is unique.
Posted to What is the best ergonomic mouse for macOS?, Mar 22, 2018 I use a Magic Mouse (3 days a week) and the Logitech MX Master (2 days a week) and I'd choose the MX Master as the better mouse.
The Magic Mouse is pretty good. It's a little small and the scrolling annoys me sometimes – it seems to go mad in Photoshop and Illustrator sometimes.
The Logitech MX Master has some lovely customisation settings and works great with macOS. I like having a few extra buttons too.
You can see the sort of settings you get here...
Posted to ASK DN: Christmas Gifts for Designers?, Dec 07, 2017 Here's a gift guide I put together, but really it's just a bunch of gifts that I would quite like...
If you are looking for some books as well check this article out...
Posted to Ask DN: Black Friday 2017, any deals for designers?, Nov 21, 2017 The Print Handbook – 20% Off Everything
Posted to What CMS for designer/front end developers?, in reply to Thomas Michael Semmler , Jul 07, 2017 I'd second that. I totally love Perch. It just let's you get on with the design.
I feel like Perch starts with the minimum and then you add to it. Whereas it feels like Wordpress starts with everything and you have to take things away.
I did End The Echo with Perch and it felt perfectly suited to that.
The admin is so much easier for clients as well. Which I think is a big deal.
These sort of typos are so easy to slip through especially when everything is a rush.