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Win Business Cards from MOO
2011-12-13 17:09:00 Graphic Design Blog is happy to have business card printers MOO.com provide us with 3 sets of 100 MOO business cards, for 3 lucky readers. If you?ve not heard of MOO, they are business card print specialists, and also print Postcards, MiniCards , labels, Greeting cards and more! More About: Business
Freelance Graphic Design Rates New Survey is a Guide to What to Charge
2011-12-09 16:33:00 The Freelance graphic design rates survey will help you work out what to charge for your freelance services More About: Design , Graphic Design , Survey , Charge
Advice on Licensing your Character Designs
2011-11-30 10:30:00 Top tips from Forward Licensing on how to present and license your character designs and artwork More About: Advice , Character
Design Goodies Bundle Offer from Inkydeals
2011-11-28 16:25:00 I received an email from Inkydeals about an offer they have on for all their previous deals in a bundle, this included vector graphics, textures, fonts and a Wordpress theme. You might want to check it out More About: Design
Avoid Design Distractions with the Concentrate App
2011-11-23 10:30:00 The Concentrate App helps you avoid distractions and concentrate on the design task in hand More About: Design
Free Design Project Management and Collaboration Software
2011-11-17 18:15:00 Some great FREE options to manage, schedule and collaborate on your design projects. More About: Software , Design , Project Management , Management , Free
Logo Design Tutorial Exercise 2 for Complete Beginners
2011-11-09 10:09:00 This logo design exercise will allow you to concentrate on another important aspect of logo design which is to start looking for suitable fonts/typefaces. As with the first logo tutorial we are again going to use the two words we used previously. More About: Design , Tutorial , Exercise , Logo
Make Design Business Dreams Come True ? Set Goals
2011-11-07 10:00:00 Design business dreams are fantastic; they can fire-up your enthusiasm and make the planning and work feel worthwhile. What's even better than business dreams? Watching them become your reality. More About: Business , Design , Dreams , Goals , True
Logo Design Tutorial Exercise 1 for Complete Beginners
2011-11-01 17:12:00 Here's one logo design tutorial exercise for a complete beginner which could start your mind thinking more in the way a designer does. By keeping the exercise very simple you can concentrate on just one element of logo design at a time More About: Design , Tutorial , Exercise , Logo
Setting up a WordPress Blog Free Guide for Beginners
2011-10-13 12:13:00 A while ago I wrote a post called 8 Reasons Why Designers Should Blog . This post explained how designers can use a blog in many ways to promote themselves and their work. In the time I have been blogging I have learned a lot about how a blog can help you get found on Google ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Free , Guide
Interview with Designer Amanda Vlahakis about her Personal Design Project C
2010-10-26 10:19:00 ver the last few weeks I have written a few posts about different designers personal design projects and so was interested to see that Amanda Vlahakis from Truly Ace (great blog check it out) had just created her first self initiated comic strip. I asked Amanda if she would consider answering a few questions and happily she agreed: More About: Personal , Design , Project , Interview , Designer
Interview with an Inventor who Created a New Baby Product
2010-10-25 11:06:00 For anyone who has ever had a creative idea for a new product or invention you might want to check out my new post on ideauploaded.com it's an an interview with Inventor Claire Mitchell from Chillipeeps who has developed a new baby product. More About: Baby , Product , Interview
Interview with Illustrator Lee Cosgrove about his Personal Design Project ?
2010-10-21 10:58:00 Most of my work to date has been in the realm of children's publishing which I really enjoy, probably because I loved drawing so much as a kid. In fact it's something I've been absolutely crazy about since I was old enough to hold a pencil, whether it was copying superheroes from comic books, or inventing my own characters and the worlds they live in. So I guess its a good fit that I'm now drawing things that kids want to see, and copy and hopefully inspire them to use their own imagination to create for themselves. More About: Personal , Design , Project , Interview , Illustrator
Two Graphic Design Competitions
2010-10-19 13:06:00 Design Competition to Create a Movie Poster Tiffany Shlain (founder of the Webby Awards) has come to Talenthouse to find an aspiring designer who would like the opportunity to work with her and create the official movie poster for her newest full feature film “Connected.” Designers are asked to visit http://www.talenthouse.com, download the “Poster Logo + Photos ... More About: Design , Graphic Design , Competitions , Graphic
What Noel Gallagher Could Teach Graphic Designers
2010-10-15 10:57:00 I remember hearing Noel Gallagher once mention that in the early days Oasis would say in interviews that they were the best band in the world. He said that if people heard them say this enough they would hopefully start believing it. So what’s that got to do with graphic design? A designer friend and I were ... More About: Designers , Graphic
Quirky a Cool Way to Get New Product Ideas to Market
2010-10-12 11:19:00 A quick video of about Quirky I came across quirky.com only recently while looking for resources for creatives and inventors for my new blog http://www.ideasuploaded.com Quirky is a way of crowdsourcing product design ideas, to create products with input from the quirky community. You can either submit your ideas for a product for 10 dollars per submission ... More About: Ideas , Market , Cool , Product
365 Vector Character Designs ? a Designers Personal Project
2010-10-07 12:04:00 A designers personal project to create a new vector character design each day of the year. More About: Personal , Project , Designers , Character , Vector
Fantastic Typographic Designs to Interpret Music
2010-10-04 11:06:00 I recently discovered Typo Music by Carlos Fernando Agudo when he started to follow me on twitter, I checked out his website and followed him back. When I first saw his site I thought “what great collection of typographic designed album covers”, but I was wrong. I had already checked the website’s about page, but ...
Strata Design 3D SE ? Easy 3D Sofware for 99 cents
2010-09-30 10:47:00 I have been using Strata 3D CX for 3D along with Cheetah 3D for a while now to produce 3D visuals for my design work, so was pleased to see that they have now created a stripped down version Strata Design 3D SE for only 99 cents for a full license, to help get people ... More About: Cents
Only 1000 Dollars to Enter my Graphic Design Competition
2010-09-15 13:12:00 I am delighted to announce a new design competition on Graphic Design Blog UK Simply send me your best pieces of design work (along with an entry fee of just 1000 dollars per submission – cheques and paypal welcome). What can I win? One lucky winner will get exposure on this graphic design blog plus 500 dollars. When will ... More About: Competition , Graphic Design
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
More articles from this author: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 ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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