Denver Graphic Design

Graphic Design and Web Developer Portfolio

A collection of the best design portfolio projects from Denver graphic designer Steven Held. Services include:

Logo Design
Packaging Design
Web Design
Corporate Idenity Design
Branding
Printing Services
Business Card Design
Brochure Design
Business Marketing
Business Advertising
Web Development
SEO

Graphic Design Blog

Articles and interesting things from a graphic designer perspective

About Steven Held

About the creative artist from Denver, Colorado.

Graphic design informs, persuades, organizes, stimulates, locates, identifies, attracts attention and provides pleasure.” — AIGA He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” — Albert Einstein Beauty of style & harmony & grace & good rhythm depend on simplicity.” — Plato Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” — Brian Reed Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated.” — Paul Rand Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.” — Juan-Carlos Fernandez Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.” — Hans Hofmann Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It's messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.” — Scott Stevenson Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” — Steve Jobs A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.” — Leo Frankowski To attend to the feel and form of words is to refuse to treat them in a purely instrumental way, and thus to refuse a world in which language is worn to a paper thinness by commerce and bureaucracy.” — Terry Eagleton Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions.” — R.M. Rilke If your work appeals to everyone then it moves no one.” — James Victoré It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff – as much stuff as possible – with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.” — Stefan Sagmeister It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.” — Milton Glaser It is the coming together of form and content that is the realization of design.” — Paul Rand Everything is design. Everything!” — Paul Rand I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then to finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” — Isaac Newton It used to be that designers made an object and walked away. Today the emphasis must shift to designing the entire life cycle.” — Paul Saffo I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” — Dr. Seuss Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.” — Robert Bringhurst Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.” — Calvin & Hobbes Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” — Peter Bilak Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” — George Bernard Shaw I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.” — Elvis Presley Creativity is magical. But, is not magic.” — Charles Limb Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” — Bill Moyers Graphics is the visual means of resolving logical problems.” — Jacques Bertin I'm a freelance graphic designer in Colorado.” Looking for a Graphic Designer? Call me today - 303.901.3687” Looking for a graphic designer near you? I have clients all over the world. Call or email me today - 303.901.3687 design@stevenheld.com” I design logos that are remembered.” Looking for a great website design? I design and code websites that get leads.” Looking for a printer? I can get you great rates.”

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