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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
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
Designed to Amuse
2007-08-22 10:00:00 On a light hearted note I thought I would share a few of the design related things that I have found amusing lately. I am not usually one for being amused by joke emails, in fact I am a bit of a stick in the mud, but I received an email from my boyfriend that ...
Do You Know When to Abandon a Design?
2007-08-21 13:43:00 If any of you are like me you will have experienced this before, you sketch out ideas for a design project, you perhaps narrow it down to three of 4 potential designs at this stage and start working on the Mac. This is where the problems start. So you’ve picked your favourite sketch to start ... More About: Design , Abandon
How Do You Sell Your Ideas to a Difficult Client?
2007-08-20 10:23:00 A Guest Post by Jeff Williams It can be the worst feeling. You pour your creative soul into a presentation. You know the design is great. You meet with the client, and they immediately start picking at the design: “The logo needs to be bigger” “I don’t like green” “This isn’t what I want at all” These ... More About: Ideas , Sell , Client , Diff
Graphic Design Competitions
2007-08-19 21:01:00 Website for Graph ic Design Competitions I found a site that may be of interest to some of you, it list graphic designs competitions, take a look at www.graphiccompetitions.com/ Another competition to win a scolarship has also been brought to my attention: U Sphere?s $5000 Digital Design Scholarship Competition All you have to do is submit your best digital design ... More About: Graphic Design
Freelancer Focus 17th August 2007
2007-08-17 10:03:00 Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. This week Graham Buckley (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
Design For Print Check List
2007-08-16 10:55:00 Lauren over at Creative Curio suggested a print checklist would be a good idea for a post, so here are my suggestions on setting up a graphic design job for print. When you are designing a job that needs to be printed there are certain things that need to be remembered and checked. FOR A FOUR COLOUR ... More About: Design , List , Check , Print
Elgg, Your Own Open Source Social Network
2007-08-15 10:14:00 Ever wanted to create your own social networking (a la MySpace) site to bring fellow creatives or designers together? Elgg is an Open Source (free) program to do just that, I have been reading a little about it in .Net Magazine and hope to have a dabble with it when I can. Elgg can be downloaded ... More About: Social , Blogging , Network
Show off Your Design Case Studies
2007-08-14 10:09:00 I am a big fan of seeing how a designer goes through the design process, from planning and thinking to sketching, design concepts to finished design. I know from the feed back that some of you have given that you enjoy this type of post too. I would like to start showing some of your ... More About: Design , Studies , Show , Case , Dies
Please Give Me Design TV!
2007-08-13 10:33:00 We can have TV about a group of wannabees sitting around a house doing nothing for weeks, TV where ugly men try and date a good looking woman so come on surely we could have some Design TV? The last adult targeted design programme I can remember on TV was Better by Design a program ... More About: Give , Ease
Freelancer Focus 10th August 2007
More articles from this author:2007-08-10 12:19:00 Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. This week Will Howe (pictured left) is the freelance designer in question. If you would like to take part please read my previous post. 1. Your Name? Will Howe 2. Where are you based? Newcastle, UK 3. What ... More About: Freelancing , August , August 2007 , Elan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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