by Kaz | Dec 21, 2017 | Celebrations, Goals and Motivation, Graphic Design, Website Design, WordPress
Today, Kaz Design Works turns ten years old! On December 21st, 2007, I registered the business name, Kaz Design Works—and that’s the day, Kaz Design Works officially came into being. Today, I am happy to be celebrating Kaz Design Works’ tenth anniversary.... 
by Kaz | Aug 4, 2016 | Colours, Graphic Design, Uncategorized, Website Design
For a while now on Pinterest, I’ve been sharing the predicted colour trends for the upcoming seasons (you can see the ones I posted for 2016 here). Sometimes, I’m a little late sharing, so this year I thought I’d get a head start and share what... 
by Kaz | Feb 28, 2016 | Graphic Design Terms, Uncategorized
Simply put, in typography, tracking is a consistent increase (or decrease) in the amount of space between letters so as to alter the density in a line or block of text, whereas kerning is the process used to adjust spacing between a pair of individual letters to... by Kaz | Jan 18, 2016 | Graphic Design Terms, Uncategorized
When I first started in the typesetting and desktop publishing business we talked in picas and points and all ads were created using these units of measurement to specify size and placement of individual elements. As I moved onto creating graphics and enhancing photos... 
by Kaz | Jan 14, 2016 | Graphic Design Terms, Uncategorized
In my previous post, I mentioned x-height. Were you wondering what it meant? It sounds pretty obvious, right? And it is. So is cap height. In typography, the x-height is the height of lowercase letters that do not have an ascender or descender, represented by the...
