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Consultant in Action: Consulting for Dockery Design

At Dockery Design, consulting for a business can be a day-long affair, a multi-month engagement in their office, and everything in between. Consulting for a live, working business often involves a learning curve as our team comes to understand their current business workflow, their vendor interaction, and their marketing plan. Once we see how their

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Dockery Design Staff Asked to Teach Course in Advanced Typography

Dockery Design Staff Asked to Teach Course in Advanced Typography
Dec 18th, 2009   10:57am EST

On December 18th, 2009, Tyler Dockery, creative lead at Dockery Design, a Raleigh Graphic Design Firm was asked as a special favor by old colleagues at Wake Tech to return and teach a course in Advanced Typography.

“I have taught at the collegiate

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Successful Web Design for Businesses in 6 stages

The Web Site Design and Development Process

There are several steps in the web site design and development process— from gathering initial information, to the creation of your web site, and finally to maintenance to keep your web site up to date and current.

The exact process will vary slightly from designer to designer, but the basics

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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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Whitepapers: Why Bother?

by Tyler Dockery, Creative Lead with Dockery Design.

Whitepaper- what does that term even mean?

In times past, the term E-Book set the internet on fire. Getting an E-Book was something to brag about— you received some materials which you should have bought, but you got them for free. They were large. They were chock full of

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R2D2: Did you see him?

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R2D2. He’s our hero, and what a guy! Not only has he defined the robotic wingman, and the droid on a mission, he has escaped the world of Star Wars completely. As a creation of George Lucas, and a

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Web Design: Beginning Web Design Books That Work

No one sets out to be a code monkey. We designers usually start with lofty thoughts of building logos all day, with an annual report, ad campaign, or awards banquet to round out the week. But then, reality sets in.

Being a graphic artist simply isn’t enough. You also have to be a web designer. You

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HATE: How to get people to HATE your blog

by Tyler Dockery, creative lead at Dockery Design

I do a small amount of work with bloggers— helping them to redesign their sites, and punch up their content. One of the minor complaints that I hear rather often is that “people seem to HATE my blog. No matter what tack I take, visitors leave and don’t

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For Your Love to Grow, Let Your Nerd Love Show

Tyler Dockery Suggests: Show your nerd-love

Nothing wrong with a little bit of Nerd Love going on. A specialized response for specialized workers. You are the CSS to my HTML.
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