Open A Corrupted AI FILE: How to open a corrupted .ai file

Question:
My Illustrator file is corrupted / became corrupted. How can I open a corrupted illustrator file?

Answer:

I can’t tell you how many times this burned me in college and after school until I started using Freehand. (Freehand is dead now, but OH! how I miss it sometimes…). AI files become corrupt when the machine crashes or

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InDesign: Save All Your Files at One Time

by Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design.

Consultant Question: I usually keep 3 windows open in InDesign CS3 at a time when working catalog files. Is there a way I can save them all at once?

If you’re a designer like me, you will often have 3-4 InDesign documents open on your desk at one time (Let’s not even get

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Your Resume: The Hidden Design Piece — part 1

by Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design.

PART 1:  Back To Design Basics: Understand Your Target Audience

You would be surprised how many resumes a design firm receives every month. Some are plain, some are fancy, some come with cover letters, and some are really “over the top”. But one thing remains the same— We don’t know any

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Glow in the Dark Ink: How to Make your own

Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design has made a batch of this Glow in the dark ink in the past, to some stellar effects.

Cheater Caught. Revealed in Public

Tyler Dockery Suggests: I think you got what you deserved.

Envisioning Apple.com in 1983

Tyler Dockery Suggests: Envision Apple.com in 1983

Do you know what this is, dear Apple fanboys and haters? From the beige to the menu bar items to the Lisa Office or the iPhone, this 1983 take on Apple.com’s frontpage is pure genius. That’s exactly what this is. (click image for full size).

13 Tips for Effective Communication with Clients

A Personal Note From Tyler Dockery:

While this article is written from the point of view of a web designer, we at Dockery Design take this materials straight to heart. Our project managers follow this process as well, and so can any businessman or businesswoman, so don’t feel put off by the design bent of this

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Add Retweet Counters to Your Website

Tyler Dockery used to cringe when he suggested that his new clients should consider the mantra “Eat Twittter, Sleep Twitter! and Now Blog and share now on Twitter”. Find those words lame? Do you know that several larger design firms and business networking sites have 40% 0r more of their traffic coming from Twitter alone! So

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Design Trends for 2009

Design in general is always evolving and changing. From the dull days of boring, spotty websites to the age of color and excitement— web design evolves quickly in a few short years. There’s no doubt that design trends, styles and techniques are changing rapidly, and that as designers, it’s our responsibility at Dockery Design to

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BNI Durham Rainmakers interview Tyler Dockery

BNI Durham Rainmakers interview Tyler Dockery
interview took place on 7-9-2009

Today, we’re meeting with Tyler Dockery, Creative Lead with Dockery Design, a graphic design firm and web design studio in The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Triangle Area of North Carolina.