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Create Your Wordpress Design Locally on Your Mac
2007-11-28 11:21:00 I have read several articles about how you could set Wordpress up to run locally on your Mac but it always sounded really complicated so I had avoided it and just set up an online test site. I wanted to start creating myself a new website in Wordpress so I gritted my teeth ready for ... More About: Web Design , Design , Tutorials , Create
Image Manipulation in Firefox
2007-11-26 11:39:00 I was recently reading Vivien’s blog over at inspiration bit where she was reviewing a cool firefox add-on which allows you to manipulate images in firefox. The Firefox add-on application is called Picnik Tools and is available for Mac and PC. I downloaded it for my Mac to try it out and it is like ... More About: Web Design , Image , Manipulation , Pula
Freelancer Focus 23rd November 2007
2007-11-23 10:40:00 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 ... More About: Freelancing , November , November 2007
Freelancer or Design Consultant - What?s in a Name?
2007-11-22 11:17:00 After reading David Airey’s article Are freelance designers really suckers? I have been thinking a lot about how I should brand my own design services. I have been postponing the inevitable rebranding of myself for ages as designing for yourself is always so difficult. When became self employed about three years ago I created a simple ... More About: Design , Consultant , Freelancing , Freelancer , Ulta
Hit the Road! (The Nomadic Designer)
2007-11-20 10:02:00 A Guest post by Milosh Zorica portfolio - www.coroflot.com/miloshz Being a design consultant allowed me to travel a lot. Most often all you need is a laptop and a decent Internet connection. Some other tools might be needed as well. Traveling is not luxury affordable only by the richest. Well, no more. Just about anyone who can ... More About: Freelancing , Designer , Road , The Road , Nomadi
Lessons in Character Design
2007-11-19 10:14:00 As some of you may know I am a big fan of character design and try to keep an eye on what is going on online. I discovered Cedric Hohnstadt’s website and blog a little while ago and thought it was worth a mention. What I like about Cedric’s site is the way he ... More About: Design , Character , Lessons , Char , Hara
Freelancer Focus 16th November 2007
2007-11-16 11:01:00 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 ... More About: Freelancing , November , November 2007
Wordpress Design Showcase
2007-11-15 11:05:00 I have just been reading over on Aaron’s blog www.milienzo.com about a new Wordpress showcase called LoopPress. I think this a great idea, I know when I was writing the post Wordpress as a CMS it was very difficult to find a place where you could see sites using Wordpress being used as a CMS ... More About: Web Design , Design , Showcase
Graphic Design Blog has Moved Host
2007-11-15 10:45:00 Graphic Design Blog has just moved host. It was previously hosted with 1 and 1 but the database was getting frighteningly close to their 100MB limit per database and unfortunately they are not flexible enough to allow you to pay extra to expand it (actually I couldn’t even get a response from support). I have ... More About: Graphic Design , Host , Graphic
Graphic Design Competitions November 14th 2007
2007-11-14 09:44:00 WorldSkill’s Graphic Design Competition WorldSkills is holding a Graphic design competition, entrants can pick from different briefs depending on heir level of experience. The aim of the competition is to showcase your technical and creative skills. More information can be found at Worldskills. The site also features a lot of different areas Design a Snowboard for Moosejaw As ... More About: Graphic Design , Competitions , November
Protecting Your Designs (Intellectual Property)
2007-11-12 10:18:00 I have been doing a lot of research lately into protecting your design work and have come across some sites which you may find useful. One of the frustrating things I have found is how much it can cost to try and protect your work, even if you manage to get official protection in your ... More About: Property , Intellectual , Intellectual Property , Designs , Prop
Freelancer Focus 9th November 2007
2007-11-09 10:57:00 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 ... More About: November , November 2007
Open University Web Design Course
2007-11-07 10:46:00 A few months ago I was desperately trying to find a part-time/evening course web design course in CSS and HTML. I hunted through course listings from local colleges, but there was very little out there locally for me apart from a few 2 day Dreamweaver courses, which were still teaching tables rather than CSS. I ... More About: Web Design , Design , University , Open , Univers
How do you Choose a Graphic Design School?
2007-11-06 12:03:00 I have received a few emails recently from people asking me for advice on choosing a graphic design school/university. It’s a long time since I was at design college and so I thought I would throw the question open to you to see if any one else can help. What made you choose the Design ... More About: Graphic Design , School , Graphic , Choose
Freelancer Focus 2nd November 2007
2007-11-02 10:07:00 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 ... More About: Freelancing , November , November 2007
Creating your Portfolio of Graphic Design Work
2007-11-01 10:10:00 Although you can have an online portfolio, a graphic designer who does print work still needs a physical portfolio. The way I have produced a portfolio has changed a lot of the years and the size of my portfolio has shrunk from A1 straight out of college (which was a nightmare to carry round) to ... More About: Design , Portfolio , Graphic Design , Work , Creating
Sell your Art and Designs as Prints Online
2007-10-30 11:03:00 I came across a site called Imagekind which allows artists, designers and illustrators to sell prints of their designs online with no initial outlay. I know cafepress and similar sites offer the ability to customise a lot of different items but this site seems to specialise in prints and offers buyers the opportunity to have ... More About: Online , Sell , Prints , Designs
NVU the Free Alternative to Dreamweaver
2007-10-29 11:40:00 It never ceases to amaze me the amount of free programs out there as an alternative to the commercial ones. NVU is an open source web design package that can be used in both design and code view. If you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor and don’t want to pay out a few hundred ... More About: Web Design , Alternative , Free , Dreamweaver , Native
Freelancer Focus 26th October 2007
2007-10-26 11:30:00 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: October 2007 , October
CSS Resources for Web Design
2007-10-25 10:42:00 As some of you know I am trying to learn XHTML and CSS and it’s very slowly beginning to sink in. I signed up for an Open University Course which I am so far unimpressed with, however I did find this site full of CSS resources mentioned in one of the forums. Holy CSS Zeldman ... More About: Web Design , Design , Tutorials , Resources
Royalty Free Images - Subscription or Pay as you Go?
2007-10-22 11:20:00 As a designer I probably use photo library sites a few times a week. What is great nowadays is that most images only cost a few dollars/pounds and some are even free, affordable enough to be used in visuals as wells as finished artwork. I have on several occasions looked into the possibility of joining ... More About: Images , Free , Royalty , Subs , Ages
Freelancer Focus 19th October 2007
2007-10-19 11:20:00 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 , October 2007 , October
Graphic Design and Art Competitions 15/10/07
2007-10-18 10:22:00 Ooprint Design Competition Ooprint are holding a greeting card design competition. First prize $1000 second prize $500. The theme of the card design should be Happy Holidays, see the Ooprint website for more details. Brickfish Art Competition Brickfish Show Us Your Art competition invites artist to submit an original piece of art for their virtual gallery. Art can ... More About: Graphic Design , Competitions , Graphic
How do you Organise your Graphic Design Files?
2007-10-17 09:39:00 When you’re doing a job that has several stages sometimes keeping files organised can be difficult. I initially start with main folder, with a job number and description for easy backing up and retrieval. My main Quark files are saved straight within the main design folder and then I have a set of folders to ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Files , Graphic , Organ
IPhotobuddy Helps Organise your Images in iPhoto
2007-10-16 10:00:00 When I first started using Mac OSX I really liked iPhoto, it was a great way to organise my images so I could easily access both my personal photos and images for my designs. As my gallery of images got bigger though, not surprisingly iPhoto became pretty sluggish, especially on opening and I began to ... More About: Images , Iphoto , Organ , Ages
Design Case Studies - Dani Jones
2007-10-15 10:00:00 I contacted Dani to see if she would be interested in showing a design case study after seeing a post on www.danidraws.com - The making of a children’s book illustration, make sure you check it out along with her other work. Design Case studies is a feature where graphic designers/illustrators are invited to show off ... More About: Studies , Jones , Dies
Freelancer Focus 12th October 2007
2007-10-12 10:58:00 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 , October 2007 , October
Dealing with Freelance Design Cancellations
2007-10-10 12:13:00 One of the mistakes I made a lot in the past and I have also done recently is how I handle freelance design cancellations. For the first year and a half that I freelanced, the majority of my work was working inhouse for design agencies. Sometimes a design agency would contact me as much as ... More About: Design , Freelancing , Freelance , Ancel
My Character Designs at Brand Licensing Expo
2007-10-09 10:56:00 As some of you may know I took a small stand space at the Brand Licensing show at Olympia London last week with some of my character designs. Thank you for all your good wishes and those people who have emailed to ask how I got on (you know who you are ) I arrived ... More About: Expo , Character , Designs
How do Freelance Designers Find Design Work?
More articles from this author:2007-10-08 10:21:00 I recently received an email from Rafael Caicedo (who is currently working on his website so I can’t link at the moment). Rafael wanted to know if I had ever written about how to find freelance work. Rafael has agreed that I can show his email- …I was wondering if you had ever written an article ... More About: Design , Freelancing , Work , Designers , Find 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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