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Freelance Focus 2nd May 2008
2008-05-02 11:39:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelance r Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: Freelancing , 2008
Free Figure Reference for Designers and Artists
2008-05-01 14:48:00 If you are a budding artists, character designer or illustrator there are bound to be times when you need human figure reference. I was recently looking for some books to help with figure drawing and showed different poses but in the process of searching came across a website that could really help. Characterdesigns.com is a ... More About: Free , Artists , Designers , Reference , Figure
Apologies for Missing Images in RSS Posts from Graphic Design Blog
2008-04-28 20:40:00 I have been having a few problems with one particular website (no way am I linking to them ) copying my posts and images and wondered if I could do something about it. They ignored me when I tried to contact them so I tried out something David Airey had suggested to stop people ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Images , Blog , Missing
Travel Books for Designer or Creative
2008-04-28 10:48:00 I know some of you are very keen travellers, so when I read in Computer Arts Magazine about some new travel guides aimed at creative people I thought I would write a quick post about them. I haven’t bought any of the books but according to the books’ website: Little Black Books are city guides created ... More About: Creative , Travel , Designer
Photoshop Video Tutorials to Help You Learn
2008-04-20 17:13:00 Photoshop has to be one of the hardest of the graphic design programs to get a grip of. I remember thinking I would never understand it when I first started. There are just lots of different ways to accomplish the same thing with photoshop, I know personally I have only scratched the surface of what ... More About: Video , Tutorials , Photoshop , Learn
Freelance Focus 18th April 2008
2008-04-18 09:43:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelance r Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: April , Freelancing , 2008
TCF ? Creative meets Creative
2008-04-17 09:43:00 A guest post by Milosh Zorica A major concern for most freelancers is establishing a place to work from. While working from your bedroom has its advantages, plenty of people, including myself, feel their productivity is lower at home. Simply put, home is not meant to be a place of work. I?ve worked in a ... More About: Creative , Freelancing
Why So Few Women Web Designers?
2008-04-15 13:31:00 I was contacted by a company the other day who were looking for a web designer, they were keen to hear from any one interested in a full time web design/developer position (the job is posted on the free graphic design blog jobs board), but especially from female web designers to balance out their development ... More About: Women , Web Design , Designers
Brochure Design Case Study
2008-04-14 10:33:00 Last year I was asked by a company called Perkz in Northamptonshire to design an A5 brochure, to use as a direct mail piece. Perkz are a business incentives company, companies sign up for their service and their employees are then gives discounts from leading retailers, travel companies etc. Perkz wanted to look like an ... More About: Design , Study , Freelancing , Case , Brochure
5 Comebacks to Client Questions
2008-04-02 10:40:00 A guest post by Danny Outlaw Client “I was looking at your portfolio and really liked design X. Can you do something like that for me?” Designer Thanks for the compliments on my work. Im glad you like that project and I promise yours will be up to the same standards. As for designing ... More About: Questions , Freelancing
Stretch Yourself with Personal Design Projects
2008-04-01 10:40:00 Do you do personal design projects? I know personally I have learned a lot from the personal design projects I have done in the past. It seems to help keep design work fresh. When you are working regularly for a lot of the same clients you can find you are not stretching yourself. You use the ... More About: Personal , Design , Projects , Stretch
Free Graphic Design/Creatives Jobs Board Added to this Blog
2008-03-30 20:44:00 I have just added a simple job board to graphic design blog. If any one has a graphic design or creative job they would like to advertise for free, post it on the jobs board. More About: Design , Jobs , Graphic Design , Free , Blog
Freelancer Focus 28th March 2008
2008-03-28 11:00:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelancer Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: Freelancing , March , March 2008
Problem with Colour Cast Epson R1800, Help Please!
2008-03-26 21:28:00 Has anyone else experienced problems with a colour cast when printing with an Epson R1800? Whatever I do I see to end up with a magenta or cyan colour cast. I have tried original and remanufactured cartridges, printing straight to the printer and via Power-Rip X and PrintFab from different programs but nothing seems to ... More About: Cast , Problem , Colour
Web Design Mock Ups in Illustrator
2008-03-26 09:08:00 The majority of my work is for print, but also I occasionally create the look for websites as well. This will just be done to comp/mock up stage ready for someone else to code (though I am learning). What I have always found surprising is that when you hear of people creating web design mockups ... More About: Web Design , Design , Illustrator , Mock
Area 2 a Graphic Design book for Inspiration
2008-03-19 11:10:00 I was pleased to given a free copy of Area 2 which i was asked if I was interested in reviewing. Even though its a freebie I don’t believe in giving a good review unless I feel it is deserved, but fortunately I really like this book. According to Phaidon who publish the book: 10 of ... More About: Design , Inspiration , Graphic Design , Book , Graphic
Logo design from sketch to final design
2008-03-11 10:45:00 Last year I was asked to create a logo for In4systems, a company that creates property management software. This software is used by companies who need to manage large portfolios of properties, such as landlords and housing associations. I started by asking a few questions about their requirements and enquired about their competitors. Their brief ... More About: Design , Final , Logo , Sketch
Freelancer Focus 29th February 2008
2008-02-29 10:54:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelancer Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: Freelancing , February 2008 , February
Cheetah 3D Intuitive 3D Design Software Built for the Mac
2008-02-28 12:13:00 A few weeks ago I mentioned I was looking for some new 3D software to use for character design and modelling. Many of you offered advice on programs you recommended, thank you for that. Programs such as 3ds Max are just too complicated and expensive for my current needs. I had also looked at the ... More About: Software , Design
Inspiration for Package Design
2008-02-25 10:20:00 I do quite a bit of package design for surface graphics. I have always found finding inspiration for package design online and in books quite difficult, it just seems to be an area which is not as popular as other areas of graphic design. The type of package design work often featured in books is ... More About: Design , Inspiration , Package
New CSS Reference for Web Design at Sitepoint
2008-02-20 10:38:00 If any of you are like me and just starting to try and get your head around CSS there are a lot of online resources out there. A new resource I have just become aware of is Sitepoint’s CSS reference for web designers which goes through all the basics and not so basics of CSS. ... More About: Web Design , Design , Reference
Freelancer Focus 15th February 2008
2008-02-15 10:09:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelancer Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: Freelancing , February 2008 , February
2 New(ish) Design Related Blogs
2008-02-14 10:40:00 I try to keep an eye on what is happening in design by keeping an eye on other design related blogs. A couple of relatively new design blogs are Margins and Columns and Logo Design Love Margins and Columns Margins and Columns is a blog brought to my attention by its owner Pawel Grabowski who took part ... More About: Blogs , Related
Greeting Card Design at the Spring Fair
2008-02-12 10:53:00 Last week was a busy one for me. I went down to Birmingham Tuesday and Wednesday to the Spring Fair to look around the exhibition and meet a couple of people. If you have never been to the Spring Fair before (I hadn’t) it’s a large exhibition featuring toys, gifts, kitchenware and cards. You wouldn’t ... More About: Design , Card , Greeting
Freelancer Focus 1st February 2008
2008-02-01 12:31:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelancer Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: Freelancing , February 2008 , February
Is Subscription Based Design Software a Good Idea?
2008-01-31 10:37:00 I have recently been looking at different 3D software. I currently use Strata 3D which is great for packaging design and POS but not as good at organic modelling. I have dabbled with a few free 3D packages and also tried out Lightwave, which I found the interface way too complicated. I found Animation Master ... More About: Software , Design , Idea , Good
Computer Arts Logo Design and Funtastic
2008-01-30 10:05:00 The last couple of weeks have been pretty good for me on a design front Just before Christmas I was pleased to be invited by Computer Arts to submit a short opinion based article about logo design. Yesterday I received a copy of Computer Arts Projects - Branding and Logo Design and there on the inside ...
Cool Colour Features in Illustrator CS3
2008-01-29 09:40:00 I bought Illustrator CS3 a while ago but hadn’t really looked into all the new features. I found a flash video from Adobe Illustrator Techniques showing the new colour features that Illustrator CS3 offers which look like they could be really useful. The first is the ability to easily change all the colours in ... More About: Tutorials , Features , Cool , Colour
Freelancer Focus 25th January 2008
2008-01-25 14:57:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelancer Focus please see this post for details if you are interested. I am also interested in design case studies too. Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. ... More About: Freelancing , January , January 2008
Can You Teach Yourself Graphic Design?
More articles from this author:2008-01-22 09:56:00 I often receive emails with people asking me how they can teach themselves graphic design. Having taken the traditional college route I find it a difficult one to answer. I know from personal experience that what I learned at college was only a drop in the ocean (a starting point) and much of my current ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Graphic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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