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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?
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
Freelancer Focus 5th October 2007
2007-10-05 10:48:00 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
Big List of Cheap Photo Sites for your Designs
2007-10-04 09:49:00 First I would like to apologise for my lack of posts this week, things have been a little hectic as i have been down in London at an exhibition for three days with my character designs. I will write a bit more about this next week when I have had time to collect my thoughts ... More About: Photo , Sites , List , Cheap , Designs
Your Input on Subscription Royalty Free Images Please
2007-10-01 09:48:00 I am planning to write a future post on subscription versus pay as you go royalty free images and have been looking at the pricing of some of the different subscription services available. Have any of you used subscription (pay one fee and use any photos for a set period) based royalty free photos services? I ... More About: Images , Free , Royalty , Subs , Input
Freelancer Focus 28th September 2007
2007-09-28 10:33:00 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 , September , September 2007
Preparing My Character Designs for Brand Licensing Show
2007-09-27 10:18:00 As some of you may know (or not) I am taking a small stand for my character designs at the Brand Licensing Expo in Olympia, London next week and have been trying to prepare for it. I designed my stand a few weeks ago, but as Jorge Goyco said in a post a while ago ... More About: Show , Character , Designs
Designing on Air
2007-09-25 10:52:00 Imagine being able to create three dimensional illustrations by moving your hands in three dimensional space - that’s exactly what some computer scientists have done. Computer scientists Daniel Keefe (who?s also an artist), Robert Zeleznik, and David Laidlaw from Brown have created the system called “Drawing on Air” Artists and Designers wear a virtual reality mask, hold ... More About: Designing , Signing
Freelancing and Holidays
2007-09-24 10:48:00 One thing I really like about freelancing is being in control of your own time, you decide when you work and how much holiday you take. One thing I hate is that no-one does the work while you are away. I have just been away for a week down to Devon, hence my response to comments ... More About: Holidays , Freelancing
Freelancer Focus 21st September 2007
2007-09-21 10:20:00 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 , September , September 2007
Design Case Studies
2007-09-20 10:33:00 Design Case studies is a feature where graphic designers/illustrators are invited to show off a piece of work and talk us through their design process from initial ideas through to their final design.Jeremie Werner (pictured left) is featured this week and talks about one of his designs 1. Your Name? Jeremie Werner 2. Your Location (City and ... More About: Design , Studies , Dies
Reinventing the Wheel in Graphic Design
More articles from this author:2007-09-19 10:30:00 If like me you have been a designer for many years you may well have been in this situation - You have been working for a client for several years and of course some design jobs will need refreshing every year or two or maybe projects of a similar nature crop up a lot. This ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Graphic , Wheel , Graph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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