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D.I.Y. Design It Yourself
Chapter Topics

Basic design
Blogs
Books (blank)
Books (printed)
Brands
Business cards
CD and DVD packaging
Embroidery
Envelopes
Flyers
Gifts
Housewares
Invitations
Kids
Logos
Newsletters
Note cards
Photo albums
Postcards
Presentations
Press kits
Stationery
Stickers
T-shirts
Tote bags
Web sites
Wall Graphics
Zines
Interviews

 

Kids are constantly assaulted with brand images and corporate cartoons, making the typical family birthday party a consumer-fest of licensed goods. Yet children are great artists and designers themselves. Encourage them to value their own creativity and help them put their personal mark on objects and media of their own design. Learn something new by making stickers, t-shirts, Web sites, and other stuff with your kids or your younger friends and siblings.

Girl Power No need to be a fashion victim (or a Disney slave) when you can put your own fabulous drawings on t-shirts, napkins, stationery, and other stuff. Apply graphics using iron-on transfers, screen printing, paint, or fabric markers. (See our t-shirt chapter for instructions and more ideas.) Younger kids will need assistance; teens can get going themselves and launch their own personal product lines.

 

 
 
 
 
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