The Ideas Collection

A Creative Treasury of Helpful Ideas

Design Tips • Marketing Tips • Tech Tips • Print Tips

We all have times when we could use a little inspiration in our work. If you're running short on ideas, we're here to help with articles and insights meant to ignite your creative fire. From marketing tips to creative how-to's, you're sure to find something to spark the imagination.

What's New?

Helpful Business News and Practical Ideas

We live in an age of unprecedented access to information. Unfortunately, trying to keep track of all that data can be overwhelming. Twice a week, we provide executive summaries of some of the most interesting articles and posts we find from popular business websites and blogs.

Twice Weekly • Single page • Executive summaries Current | Archives

Our List of Greatest Treasures

The Ultimate Collection of Graphic Arts Help and Resources

We all have websites we rely on every day for information relevant to our businesses and lives. Then there are the exceptional sites -- the ones we stumble on occasionally that are sooooooooooooo good, we make sure to save them in a special place for future reference. Over the years, we've built up a pretty good trove of website gold, and now we're sharing that bounty with you, our customers.

Glossary of Printing Terms

Real-world definitions for common printing and graphic-arts industry words

Confused by a term you've seen on our website or heard a printer use when describing your printing? Find real-world definitions for all those printing and graphic-arts terms that have you stumped and scratching your head.

Popular Graphic Arts Software

Take the guesswork out of design software!

Keeping track of the latest software upgrades is enough to drive anybody crazy... unless you have access to our easy-to-use list of the most popular graphic arts software. What a helpful reference tool!