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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
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
Typographic Inspiration
2007-09-18 10:29:00 I don’t know about you, but the classic thing I do when looking for typographic inspiration is to flick through a few magazines, design books or the web. Try taking a look at the typographic group on Flickr I really like what has been done. There are entries as you would expect showing pages ... More About: Inspiration , Graph , Typo
Don?t Panic Poster Design Competition
2007-09-17 10:36:00 Don’t Panic are running a competition to design a poster using the theme of ?Stress? as your inspiration. The 10 designs with the most online votes will have their posters exhibited at the special Don’t Panic Exhibition and will be judged by James Joyce www.one-fine-day.co.uk. The winner’s artwork will also be printed on the Don’t ... More About: Design , Competition , Competitions , Poster , Petit
Freelancer Focus 14th September 2007
2007-09-14 10:14:00 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
Art Rage - A Cheap/Free Alternative to Painter
2007-09-13 10:30:00 Most people have heard of Painter by Corel which simulates the look of real paints and canvas, but you may not have heard about Art Rage . I read about Art Rage recently in a Mac magazine and decided to download the free starter edition to quickly try it out. The starter edition gives you a ... More About: Alternative , Free , Cheap
Inspiration for Illustration
2007-09-12 10:09:00 I am a big fan of illustration and used to do a lot within my work, unfortunately time/budget constraints and cheap royalty free images means that it’s now a luxury to be able to illustrate, and it’s easy to get out of practice. I thought I would share with you some sources of inspiration for ... More About: Inspiration , Illustration , Stration
Time - A Designer?s Friend or Foe
2007-09-11 10:16:00 A Guest Post by Bryan Zimmerman from www.bryanjzimmerman.com I cannot count the number of times that I have woken up in the morning, only to have a dozen or more great ideas running through my head. I jot down the ones I can remember, but I know it is in vain as I never know ... More About: Time , Friend , Designer , Friend or Foe
Do you Take Design Challenges, or Play it Safe?
2007-09-10 09:55:00 It’s easy to fall into the steady stream of designing what you know, but every know and then something pulls you out of your comfort zone and you have to decide whether to go with it or not. A few weeks ago I was called by a client and asked if I could do some room ... More About: Design , Play , Safe , Halle
Freelancer Focus 7th September
2007-09-07 10:22:00 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 , Sept
Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System
2007-09-06 09:08:00 I have been intending writing a bit about using Wordpress as a CMS for a while now. This post is made up of several parts - Website examples of Wordpress being used as a CMS My endeavours as a beginner to use Wordpress as a CMS A series of tips for using Wordpress as a CMS by graphic ... More About: Web Design , Tutorials , System , Management
A Closer Look at Comic Book Design
2007-09-05 09:48:00 A Guest Post by Philipp Lenssen - www.coverbrowser.com/design 7 Design s From the World of Comic Book s Here are some interesting covers from the wild world of comic book art which may inspire design ideas! This is a cover from the species “painted covers.” Far from being extinct, this species grows more and more popular on the US comic ... More About: Closer , Comic Book
Should Newbies Learn Static or Dynamic Web Design?
2007-09-04 10:50:00 I have a question, one that goes out to all you experienced web designers from inexperienced web newbies like me - Should we be learning to design dynamic websites or start with basic static sites? Does anybody want static web sites any more? As I look around on the web today I am seeing fewer and fewer ... More About: Web Design , Design , Learn , Dynamic , Static
Eric Meyer?s CSS Sculptor for Dreamweaver
2007-09-03 09:55:00 I have been reading about a new plugin for Dreamweaver CSS Sculptor which sounds like it could be incredibly useful for both CSS novices and more experienced web designers looking to speed up the web layout process. I have watched the video showing what the plugin can do and basically you start with an option ... More About: Web Design , Weave
$4000 Worth of Prizes to be Won in a Blog Givaway
2007-09-01 20:21:00 David Airey is celebrating his one year blog anniversary with a bumber giveaway from himself and fellow bloggers including Graphic Design Blog . A small selection of prizes up for grabs include: Logo design from David Airey. Blog review from Aaron Russell of miLienzo Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill of Nate Whitehill dot Com. . Website critique from Randa ... More About: Blogging , Competitions , Prizes , Worth
Freelancer Focus 31st August 2007
2007-08-31 10:29:00 Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. This week Verne Ho (pictured left) is the freelance designer in question. If you would like to take part please read my previous post. Any designer or illustrator can also take part in Design ... More About: Freelancing , August , August 2007 , Freelancer
Why is it So Difficult to Design for Yourself?
2007-08-30 10:10:00 A Guest Post by Jorge Goyco Have you ever tried to name your rock band? How long did it take you to come up with the names of your kids? Your dog? Your company name? Your domain name? Did you run it past anyone first? Maybe it?s just me, but I think designing for yourself is one of ... More About: Design , Diff
A Tasty Way to Promote a Design Company
2007-08-29 10:04:00 Sarah Talbot who owns a Cornish Design Company called DesignStudio has an innovative way to promote her design company through a cook book she has designed. I asked Sarah if she would consider an email interview for Graphic Design Blog and she kindly agreed. My thanks to Sarah for taking part. 1. Please could you tell ... More About: Promote , Romo , Mote
5 Things About Design and Me
2007-08-28 10:17:00 Brian Gardner, WordPress theme creator has tagged me as well as Randa, Charity, David and Char to start his new meme. What is something that would surprise people about you and design? I never really intended becoming a designer, to be honest when I went and did a 2 year General Art and Design course when I ... More About: Web Design , Blogging , Things
Del.icio.us Tags, Should Bloggers Beware?
2007-08-27 11:40:00 Like many bloggers I try and keep an eye on what is going on by various methods - google news, technorati, digg, del.icio.us etc. A couple of days ago I was doing a bit of research for a design topic I was intending writing a post about and searching for suitable links and information. I ... More About: Blogging , Bloggers , Tags , Beware
Freelance Focus 24th August 2007
2007-08-24 10:53:00 Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. This week Ambert Rodriguez (pictured left) is the freelance designer in question. If you would like to take part please read my previous post. Any designer or illustrator can also take part in Design ... More About: Freelancing , Freelance , August , August 2007
Jon Burgerman, Character Designer
More articles from this author:2007-08-23 09:41:00 I have like the character designs of Jon Burgerman since I first saw them in Computer Arts magazine. His character designs are very child like using thick black line and bright colours. Over on Youtube I found an interesting clip where Jon Burgerman created a black and white mural in Derby UK using the people ... More About: Designer , Character , Germ , Char , Hara 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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