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AdHack Ad Creator Resources
This is your AdHack utility belt. Full of powerful tools, tutorials, stock media and links to helpful sites and services.
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12 Mar 10
Tips for how to shoot for online video in documentary style
OJR, the Online Journalism Review, recently posted an extensive article on how to shoot for online video.
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12 Mar 10
Actual Objects: Royalty-Free Design and Illustration Collections

Ever need illustration assets, vector art, characters and drawings to start your work off? Actual Objects is a place to find exactly that.
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20 Jan 10
Strobist - Learn How to Light Photography
From the most-excellent Cool Tools blog, a recommendation for Strobist a blog collection of techniques to help photographers light photos.
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5 Jan 10
Historic and Vintage Advertising Creative from Vintage Ad Browser
At AdHack we're big fans of vintage advertising. Knowing the history of the advertising industry and seeing past creative ads provides great context and helps put today's creative challenges in context.
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4 Jan 10
YouTube Creators' Corner for Small Video Creators
YouTube recently launched is YouTube Creators' Corner, a "creative hub for aspiring videographers with big dreams and small budgets."
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16 Sep 09
Everything You Need to Know About Logo Design - Vital Tips For Effective Logos

Before you can tackle the physical "design" portion of a logo it's best to gain a solid understanding of what makes a logo design good in the first place.
We came across a great article thanks to @cdemwell on Twitter. The article discusses some great tips on logo theory and covers essential points such as:
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11 Sep 09
How to Use YouTube to Sell Videos and Market Yourself in 5 Easy Steps
We've noticed:
- Lots of AdHack Ad Creators use YouTube to host videos and share them on AdHack.
- Lots of those videos are really great assets that open up great opportunities for their Ad Creators.
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11 Aug 09
10 Tips On Thinking Like a Designer
You don't have to be a designer to think like one.
PresentationZen.com wrote an interesting article about how teachers, students and business people of all types can implement common design practices into everyday problem solving and work.
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11 Aug 09
Free Open-Source Print-Ready Vector Web Icons
Who likes free stuff? I know we do!
Here we have a set of 100% free and open-source icons for you to use. Remix, reuse and share them to your hearts content.
These icons are all in print-ready EPS vector format and can provide a great framework or starting point for your own custom icons.
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31 Jul 09
AdViews - Free vintage TV commecial archive
Looking for some inspiration with a nostalgic flare? Then you'll want to check out this impressive archive of vintage TV ads called Ad Views.




