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If Graphic Design was Like the Movies?
2007-07-26 10:49:00 If graphic design was like the movies every brochure would need an extra couple of pages at the back. Just think, at the end of every movie everyone from the top movie stars down to the person who made the coffee gets a credit. If in the graphic design world we took a leaf ... More About: Movies , Design , Graphic Design , Graphic , Like
Flexible Online Portfolio for Designers and Photographers
2007-07-25 09:55:00 I have recently been reading about a website called format pixel. “formatpixel is an online application which allows you to create ‘page’ based presentations; anything from magazines to fanzines, brochures to catalogues and even portfolios” The basic idea is that users can upload images and display them, but the thing that seems to separate this site ... More About: Portfolio , Designers , Online , Photographers , Flexible
Flexible Online Portfolio for Designers and Photographers
2007-07-25 09:55:00 I have recently been reading about a website called format pixel. “formatpixel is an online application which allows you to create ‘page’ based presentations; anything from magazines to fanzines, brochures to catalogues and even portfolios” The basic idea is that users can upload images and display them, but the thing that seems to separate this site ... More About: Portfolio , Designers , Online , Photographers , Flexible
Is it Wrong for a Graphic Designer?s Website to use a Template?
2007-07-24 10:40:00 A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Bryan Zimmerman, who suggested that he would like to see a post discussing the following question: Is it wrong for a graphic designer to use a “web template” for their personal web presence? Especially if they are looking for a graphic design position and not a ... More About: Web Design , Website , Designer , Template , Graphic
Is it Wrong for a Graphic Designer?s Website to use a Template?
2007-07-24 10:40:00 A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Bryan Zimmerman, who suggested that he would like to see a post discussing the following question: Is it wrong for a graphic designer to use a “web template” for their personal web presence? Especially if they are looking for a graphic design position and not a ... More About: Web Design , Website , Designer , Template , Graphic
Take Part in Freelancer Focus
2007-07-23 10:18:00 As I mentioned last week I would like to start a regular feature called freelance focus where any freelance designers (or moonlighting freelancers ) are invited to answer a series of questions. I know a lot of designers thinking about going freelance or new freelance designers would be interested in your input. You will ... More About: Part , Focus , Lance , Elan , Freelancer
Take Part in Freelancer Focus
2007-07-23 10:18:00 As I mentioned last week I would like to start a regular feature called freelance focus where any freelance designers (or moonlighting freelancers ) are invited to answer a series of questions. I know a lot of designers thinking about going freelance or new freelance designers would be interested in your input. You will ... More About: Part , Focus , Lance , Elan , Freelancer
Find Free Photos on Yotophoto, the Free Images Search Engine
2007-07-22 12:19:00 There are are lots of different sources of free royalty free photos - from image libraries, Flickr and public domain images, it would be nice if you could search for them in one place wouldn’t it. That’s where www.yotophoto.com comes in handy. Yotophoto has indexed over a quarter of a million Creative Commons, Public Domain, ... More About: Photos , Blogging , Images , Free , Search
Find Free Photos on Yotophoto, the Free Images Search Engine
2007-07-22 12:19:00 There are are lots of different sources of free royalty free photos - from image libraries, Flickr and public domain images, it would be nice if you could search for them in one place wouldn’t it. That’s where www.yotophoto.com comes in handy. Yotophoto has indexed over a quarter of a million Creative Commons, Public Domain, ... More About: Photos , Blogging , Images , Free , Search
The Grey Area of Design Responsibility
2007-07-20 10:12:00 In graphic design as with any profession mistakes cost money. I am often envious of web designers, if they make a minor mistake it just takes a few minutes to put right, but print, when something is printed that’s it, there’s only one shot (after proofing) to get it right. As a freelancer if you are ... More About: Design , Freelancing , Grey , Area , The G
The Grey Area of Design Responsibility
2007-07-20 10:12:00 In graphic design as with any profession mistakes cost money. I am often envious of web designers, if they make a minor mistake it just takes a few minutes to put right, but print, when something is printed that’s it, there’s only one shot (after proofing) to get it right. As a freelancer if you are ... More About: Design , Freelancing , Grey , Area , The G
Do you Design in Black and White?
2007-07-19 09:47:00 A while ago I read an excellent blog post by Mark Boulton called Five Simple Steps to Design ing with Colour. Mark explains how he often starts working on a web design in black and white “Designing with black and white first will ensure that the solution doesn?t rely on colour to work.” I had never really ... More About: White , Black , Black and White , Lack
Do you Design in Black and White?
2007-07-19 09:47:00 A while ago I read an excellent blog post by Mark Boulton called Five Simple Steps to Design ing with Colour. Mark explains how he often starts working on a web design in black and white “Designing with black and white first will ensure that the solution doesn?t rely on colour to work.” I had never really ... More About: White , Black , Black and White , Lack
Mojizu Contemporary Character Design Community
2007-07-18 10:52:00 I found the site http://www.mojizu.com a few weeks ago and thought it was quite a unique idea I hadn’t seen before. The site allows users to upload their own character designs, which can then be voted on by the character design community and prizes are available for winners. Other features include the Mojizu war where ... More About: Design , Community , Character , Contemporary , Comm
Your Input on Freelancer Focus and Guest Posts
2007-07-17 10:12:00 A couple of people have written guest posts for Graphic Design Blog - thanks Lauren and Bryan, and I would like to ask your input on some other ideas for guest authors please. I know guest authors could input different views and expertise to Graphic Design Blog, and even show what it is like to ... More About: Freelancing , Focus , Posts , Guest , Lance
8 Things You Don?t Know About Me
2007-07-16 10:06:00 I was tagged a couple of weeks ago by both Paul of www.paulenderson.com and John of www.redsil.com/blog/ to take part in a meme “8 things you don’t know about me” so here goes… 1. When I was 6 I lived in Houston Texas For 2 Years Before my Dad retired he used to work for Texas ... More About: Blogging , Things , Thing
Pet Peeves of Buying Design Software
2007-07-14 17:01:00 Is it just me that gets annoyed when buying design software? Why does it have to cost so much when if they sold it for a little less more people would buy it rather than copy it and pay nothing? Why does free and cheap software seem to come with far superior support than the software you ... More About: Software , Design , Buying , Peeves , Pet Peeves
Curing Web Coding Phobia for Graphic Designers
2007-07-13 10:07:00 When I look back with hindsight now I can see how stupid I have been not to try and learn more about web design. The idea of coding had always scared me. Several years ago had my first dabble with Dreamweaver, it didn’t last long, I hated it. About three years years ago a friend ... More About: Web Design , Designers , Coding , Graphic , Graph
Cut and Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007
2007-07-12 09:22:00 Over at http://blog.iamparagon.com I found a post about a digital design tournament held by a company called Cut and Paste . This year the digital design competition will take place in 11 cities around the World. Graphic designers taking part will be given 15 minutes to create a design/illustration based on a given theme. You can ... More About: Design , Competitions , Digital , Tournament
Graphic Design Must Convey a Message
2007-07-11 10:15:00 One of the most important elements in design in my opinion is that it must get across a message to a user. You could create the most beautiful site or brochure but if the message is wrong or there is no structure to the information you may has well have produced it in Word ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Message , Graphic , Must
Japanese Package Design
2007-07-10 10:05:00 A while ago I stumbled across the website of James Bowskill’s Japanese package design scrapbook. It amazed me how much more interesting it was than most of the packaging I see in the UK, where everyone tries to look like the market leader. Maybe that’s because I haven’t seen much Japanese packaging? What I really like ... More About: Design , Pack , Package
Sketches and Grids Speed up the Design Process
2007-07-09 09:38:00 One thing which nobody ever taught me about as a graphic design student was grids, how crazy is that? Grids must be one of the most fundamental elements of design and can help make sense from chaos. Immediately by using a grid it helps you find a sense of balance within a layout, that’s not ... More About: Design , Tutorials , Sketches , Speed , Sketch
Portfolio Page with Design Work Added
2007-07-08 17:36:00 I have just added a portfolio page. You are welcome to have a look at some of my work. More About: Design , Portfolio , Freelancing , Work , Page
Google Notebook for Bloggers and Designers
2007-07-06 15:13:00 I first heard about Google Notebook book over on www.redsil.com/blog/ and have been using it ever since. Whenever I used to find a new site I thought was interesting I used to bookmark it in Firefox, but my bookmark list became huge and I could never quite remember what some of them were. Google Notebook makes ... More About: Blogging , Designers , Bloggers
Flaunt It Design Competition
2007-07-06 11:55:00 123 Royalty Free is currently running a design competition, to win prizes including a 15 inch Mac Book Pro. To enter you simply need to submit one of your designs which must use a least one RF123 image or you can win by voting for designs. I am not affiliated with RF123 in any way, ... More About: Design , Competition , Competitions , Petit , Flaunt
A Good Problem to Have?
2007-07-05 16:05:00 Guest post by Bryan Zimmerman First allow me to introduce myself. My name is Bryan Zimmerman, and I reside in the USA about an hour and a half West of New York City. I just graduated from college with an AS in Visual Communications, and am in dire need of some advice. I ... More About: Freelancing , Problem , Good
New Designers and Students Needing to Build a Portfolio
2007-07-05 12:14:00 If you are a recently qualified designer or student designer it is difficult to show a portfolio of design work to potential employers when you haven’t yet had the opportunity to work on many projects. One option is to work on “dummy/fictitious” projects to try and fill in the gaps where you feel you are ... More About: Portfolio , Students , Designers , Build
Design Terminology How Much do you Know?
2007-07-04 11:38:00 If you speak in design terms to a non designer they think you’re mad. “What’s a widow then?” asked one of my clients when I spotted one in a document. Then there’s visies or comps, bleed, trapping it’s a language all of its own. If you think you know your design terms take a look ... More About: Design , Terminology , Ology , Term
How to Have Creative Ideas
2007-07-03 09:19:00 While I was away on holiday I took the book “How To Have Creative Ideas ” by Edward de Bono which I heard a lot about. For those of you that haven’t heard of Edward de Bono (I hadn’t a few month ago) he is a leading figure in the field of creative thinking and has ...
Back to the Design Work after Sorting the Spam
More articles from this author:2007-07-02 12:48:00 As some of you may know I have been away in the South of France for a couple of weeks, got back just yesterday. Thank you to everybody who continued to post comments on my blog they are much appreciated I am sorry I have not been around to reply. I have a slight complex ... More About: Design , Spam , Work , Back , Sorting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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