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Freelance Focus 6th June 2008
2008-06-06 10:36:00 Freelancer Focus is a regular feature, where freelance designers are invited to answer a series of questions about themselves and freelancing. This week Erin Behrenhausen (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: June , Freelance , June 2008 , 2008
MTV Graphic Design Reality Show Competition
2008-06-04 17:16:00 MTV are looking for entrants for their graphic design reality competition. Each week the teams are given a brief that they need to produce media for. The results are then judged by a panel of experts. The experts names have not yet been released but there’ll be someone from the world of business who’ll play the ... More About: Design , Reality , Competition , Graphic Design , Show
Advice for New Freelance Designers
2008-05-30 12:28:00 As part of a regular feature called Freelance r Focus one the questions that freelance graphic designers are asked is “What is the biggest piece of advice you would give to someone starting out freelancing?” Brian Yerkes made a great suggestion of creating a post with all the answers the freelancer designer who have taken part ... More About: Advice , Freelancing , Designers
Time Constraints and Stock Images Kill Design Creativity
2008-05-28 11:25:00 It’s a topic I think most people in design will have become frustrated with at some point or other, when you are given too little time/budget to give a job to attention it deserves. Quoting jobs is always a difficult one but what is even worse is when a job has a really small set ... More About: Design , Time , Images , Stock , Creativity
Contemporary Graphic Design - Book Review
2008-05-20 10:01:00 A guest review by Harry Elliot Contemporary Graphic Design , published in 2007, by Peter & Charlotte Fiell, Taschen, contains an eclectic mix of around 100 graphic designers and their work. The book itself is attractively presented with full-page spreads and a glossy finish. It opens with an introduction that illustrates the preoccupations and issues to which ... More About: Graphic Design , Book Review , Review , Book
Freelance Focus 16th May 2008
2008-05-16 12:56:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelance r 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 , 2008
Free Photoshop PDF Book (Complete) from Sitepoint
2008-05-15 10:24:00 I just had an email from Sitepoint that I thought I would share with you. They are currently offering their full book The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques as a PDF download for free. I have bought some Sitepoint books in the past and they have been excellent so if you ... More About: Free , Book , Complete
Free Fonts for Personal Use - What About Commercial Use?
2008-05-14 09:52:00 There are loads of free fonts out there, I sometimes use them in my work especially for headings though generally steer clear of them for body copy as they don’t always have a full character set or kern very well. Dafont is one of my favourite free font sites. I was looking at Smashing magazine’s ... More About: Personal , Commercial , Free , Fonts
Latest Jobs on the FREE Graphic Design Blog Jobs Board
2008-05-13 11:17:00 Don’t forget that you can now post a creative job for free on the new graphic design blog job board. The latest jobs advertised are for graduate graphic designers in Leeds, UK and a senior web designer in Glascow, UK. More About: Design , Jobs , Graphic Design , Free , Blog
Google Has Gone All Arty
2008-05-03 11:55:00 I am not usually a fan of fancy screen savers etc, I generally just stick with the standard default (boring eh!), but I was intrigued to see Google are providing arty themes you can skin your google home page with. My Google home page is already set to have my local weather and my RSS ...
Freelance Focus 2nd May 2008
2008-05-02 11:39:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelance r 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 , 2008
Free Figure Reference for Designers and Artists
2008-05-01 14:48:00 If you are a budding artists, character designer or illustrator there are bound to be times when you need human figure reference. I was recently looking for some books to help with figure drawing and showed different poses but in the process of searching came across a website that could really help. Characterdesigns.com is a ... More About: Free , Artists , Designers , Reference , Figure
Apologies for Missing Images in RSS Posts from Graphic Design Blog
2008-04-28 20:40:00 I have been having a few problems with one particular website (no way am I linking to them ) copying my posts and images and wondered if I could do something about it. They ignored me when I tried to contact them so I tried out something David Airey had suggested to stop people ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Images , Blog , Missing
Travel Books for Designer or Creative
2008-04-28 10:48:00 I know some of you are very keen travellers, so when I read in Computer Arts Magazine about some new travel guides aimed at creative people I thought I would write a quick post about them. I haven’t bought any of the books but according to the books’ website: Little Black Books are city guides created ... More About: Creative , Travel , Designer
Photoshop Video Tutorials to Help You Learn
2008-04-20 17:13:00 Photoshop has to be one of the hardest of the graphic design programs to get a grip of. I remember thinking I would never understand it when I first started. There are just lots of different ways to accomplish the same thing with photoshop, I know personally I have only scratched the surface of what ... More About: Video , Tutorials , Photoshop , Learn
Freelance Focus 18th April 2008
2008-04-18 09:43:00 I am looking for more people who would be interested in taking part in Freelance r 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: April , Freelancing , 2008
TCF ? Creative meets Creative
2008-04-17 09:43:00 A guest post by Milosh Zorica A major concern for most freelancers is establishing a place to work from. While working from your bedroom has its advantages, plenty of people, including myself, feel their productivity is lower at home. Simply put, home is not meant to be a place of work. I?ve worked in a ... More About: Creative , Freelancing
Why So Few Women Web Designers?
2008-04-15 13:31:00 I was contacted by a company the other day who were looking for a web designer, they were keen to hear from any one interested in a full time web design/developer position (the job is posted on the free graphic design blog jobs board), but especially from female web designers to balance out their development ... More About: Women , Web Design , Designers
Brochure Design Case Study
2008-04-14 10:33:00 Last year I was asked by a company called Perkz in Northamptonshire to design an A5 brochure, to use as a direct mail piece. Perkz are a business incentives company, companies sign up for their service and their employees are then gives discounts from leading retailers, travel companies etc. Perkz wanted to look like an ... More About: Design , Study , Freelancing , Case , Brochure
5 Comebacks to Client Questions
2008-04-02 10:40:00 A guest post by Danny Outlaw Client “I was looking at your portfolio and really liked design X. Can you do something like that for me?” Designer Thanks for the compliments on my work. Im glad you like that project and I promise yours will be up to the same standards. As for designing ... More About: Questions , Freelancing
Stretch Yourself with Personal Design Projects
2008-04-01 10:40:00 Do you do personal design projects? I know personally I have learned a lot from the personal design projects I have done in the past. It seems to help keep design work fresh. When you are working regularly for a lot of the same clients you can find you are not stretching yourself. You use the ... More About: Personal , Design , Projects , Stretch
Free Graphic Design/Creatives Jobs Board Added to this Blog
2008-03-30 20:44:00 I have just added a simple job board to graphic design blog. If any one has a graphic design or creative job they would like to advertise for free, post it on the jobs board. More About: Design , Jobs , Graphic Design , Free , Blog
Freelancer Focus 28th March 2008
2008-03-28 11:00:00 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 , March , March 2008
Problem with Colour Cast Epson R1800, Help Please!
2008-03-26 21:28:00 Has anyone else experienced problems with a colour cast when printing with an Epson R1800? Whatever I do I see to end up with a magenta or cyan colour cast. I have tried original and remanufactured cartridges, printing straight to the printer and via Power-Rip X and PrintFab from different programs but nothing seems to ... More About: Cast , Problem , Colour
Web Design Mock Ups in Illustrator
2008-03-26 09:08:00 The majority of my work is for print, but also I occasionally create the look for websites as well. This will just be done to comp/mock up stage ready for someone else to code (though I am learning). What I have always found surprising is that when you hear of people creating web design mockups ... More About: Web Design , Design , Illustrator , Mock
Area 2 a Graphic Design book for Inspiration
2008-03-19 11:10:00 I was pleased to given a free copy of Area 2 which i was asked if I was interested in reviewing. Even though its a freebie I don’t believe in giving a good review unless I feel it is deserved, but fortunately I really like this book. According to Phaidon who publish the book: 10 of ... More About: Design , Inspiration , Graphic Design , Book , Graphic
Logo design from sketch to final design
2008-03-11 10:45:00 Last year I was asked to create a logo for In4systems, a company that creates property management software. This software is used by companies who need to manage large portfolios of properties, such as landlords and housing associations. I started by asking a few questions about their requirements and enquired about their competitors. Their brief ... More About: Design , Final , Logo , Sketch
Freelancer Focus 29th February 2008
2008-02-29 10:54:00 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 , February 2008 , February
Cheetah 3D Intuitive 3D Design Software Built for the Mac
2008-02-28 12:13:00 A few weeks ago I mentioned I was looking for some new 3D software to use for character design and modelling. Many of you offered advice on programs you recommended, thank you for that. Programs such as 3ds Max are just too complicated and expensive for my current needs. I had also looked at the ... More About: Software , Design
Inspiration for Package Design
More articles from this author:2008-02-25 10:20:00 I do quite a bit of package design for surface graphics. I have always found finding inspiration for package design online and in books quite difficult, it just seems to be an area which is not as popular as other areas of graphic design. The type of package design work often featured in books is ... More About: Design , Inspiration , Package 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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