GridMaven goes live!

We're happy to announce the unveiling of the new website for GridMaven, an energy utility solution by SKTA Americas. The GridMaven site was built on a WordPress foundation and features a home page slideshow, in-line video and several other custom modifications. Thanks...

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Design Tip: Photography 101

Five simple techniques to instantly boost your photographic prowess You really, truly don't have to be a pro photog or have a $4000 rig to take creative, memorable photos. Your level of photographic acumen will jump by leaps and bounds with the consistent use of just...

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2011: The Year in Review

Looking back on our biggest growth period in over a decade! 2011 was quite a transformational year for your favorite graphic design studio. We saw the creation of a second division, a big push into the online marketing space, the growth of our creative and engineering...

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Kudos to a Terrific Team!

A heartfelt thank you to from the owner to his copilots I can assure you that this is not a one-man show. Angled End is my baby, but it is a child with many parents (how progressive of us!). I have been honored to work with a growing team of talented artists and...

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Design Tip: The World of Web Fonts

If there's one thing designers obsess over, it's typography. And for that reason, the web has been problematic from the start, since web browsers can only take advantage of fonts that are installed on the viewer's computer, and there just aren't many fonts that...

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6 Ways to Market More Cost Effectively (Part 1)

This  two-part blog was inspired by an article entitled “The 5 Minute Guide to Cheap Startup Advertising” by Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot and chief blogger at OnStartups.com. Angled End’s client base ranges from companies who have thousands allocated to their...

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A thousand thank you’s, Steve.

I was a Windows guy from the start. I grew up using computers long before the graphical user interface started appearing on consumer products, and I was pretty damn happy with the PC world until my dad convinced me to switch to the Mac, since the design world favored...

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A (Desperate) Open Plea to the Software Giants

Please don't make it "better" until you've made it actually work As I attempt and fail to use Illustrator's so-called "smart guides" feature to align an object with the corner of a page, then look over to my computer's desktop, which has been rendered a disorganized...

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Introducing the new TamGroup!

AEI has been working with TamGroup for many years now and just completed a full suite of re-branding materials, including tweaks to their logo and corporate style guide, advertisements, stationery and their shiny new website (which is based on the HubSpot CMS, by the...

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Demand Generation: Website is Everything!

I recently tuned into a very interesting Round Table discussion on the B2B social networking site Focus.com. The topic was the “Future of Demand Generation” and included an impressive panel of four industry-veterans who between them had many years’ experience as VPs...

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