Creative Expansion! Acuity Designs and 2011 …
Share Dec 13 and we are all sat around the table here; some familiar faces and some new ones in the creative studio. A few hours, a long discussion and we are all very excited – 2011 will be very eventful year for Acuity Designs. Acuity Designs has just expanded to include a whole new [...]
20 Sources of Daily Inspiration for Designers
Share Sometimes, all it takes is a little spark to intrigue the designer. From letterpress printing to photography, these twenty sites represent some of the best designs in the world.
30 Stunning Black and White Photos
Share While the art of photography continues to develop with new technologies and colour capture, the classic aesthetic of black and white photos continues to be a major current of the form. Monochrome images tend to have a distinctive atmosphere, with the emphasis on light and dark, composition and mood.
Web Based SEO Applications and Online SEO Tools
Share As we move more and more into doing things via ‘clouds’ and online web based applications; one of the few things that I have yet to find is a truely comprehensive intermediate web application for search engine optimisation.. I soon came across one that seemed to fit the bill.
5 Quality UX Blogs Designers Should Read
Share Being a web designer should hopefully come with an inherent want to produce and design websites that are great to use for the end-user. As such it makes sense to stay up to date and informed on recent developments, assertions and techniques in relation to User Experience.
Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Youtube in the 1960′s Posters
Share Brazilian ad agency Moma has given some of the worlds most modern brands a vintage 60s sepia makeover for an ‘Everything Ages Fast’ campaign.
WorkSnug – Finding Places To Get Design Work Done On The Go
Share WorkSnug is a really cool augmented reality iPhone app that enables you to find great places to work nearby, from cafes to coworking spaces, complete with reviews.
Polishing Photos Off With Shadows & Sharpening (Video Photoshop Tutorial)
Share When people look through my photography, they often ask what I do in my post processing to achieve the subtle exaggerated shadows to result in somewhat dramatic / ‘epic’ and overall better looking picture…
70 GigaPixel Photo of Budapest
Share Whilst going through my RSS reader, I came across this amazing achievement of tech and photography via Photography Blog. An amazing 70 Gigapixel 360° panoramic photograph of Budapest.
14 Great Design, Marketing and Freelancing Blogs
Share Hi all, I thought I would post up 14 blogs that have sat in my subscribe list on Google reader since the dawn of the time. Why do i think these blogs are so special? They actually provoke thought.
Maintaining Business Standards As A Freelancer
Share Freelancing is very different to the majority of other businesses due to its innately personal involvement and attachment to every aspect of the business. Maintaining objectivity and a decisive decision process can be hard as your personal feelings begin to creep into the equation.
Quote Robot – A Nifty Little App!
Share Quote Robot is an app that I came across recently that seemingly streamlined the tedious task of writing proposals for lots of freelance designer’s out there. Intrigued, I signed up and have been giving the free trial a run for its uhh… money.
Interview with Young Web Designer Jamie Billingham
Share A great gem for you today; we managed to catch up with Jamie Billingham, a 14 year old young and aspiring Web Designer. We managed to catch up with him and ask him about his interests, challenges and opinions about Web Design!
25 Amazing Photos of World Skylines
Share The shapes of the buildings that cut into the sky define a large part of a city’s character and culture. Some cities compete for bigger and taller towers to represent their financial and political power; others strive to preserve elegant and historic skylines against over-development. This post collects 25 examples of beautiful cityscape photography [...]
5 New & Amazing Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5
Share The other day we blogged about the amazing things we liked about Adobe Photoshop CS5. Today it’s Illustrator CS5′s turn. As keen illustrator users ourselves, any new features is a party in our minds!
How to Avoid Over Working Yourself As A Freelancer
Share When running your own business it is very easy to run yourself into the ground as it feels like there is always something that needs to be done…
Designers – Maximising The Value Of Your Work
Share We here have been looking at developing a CRM system here, and as such we got talking about customer service and its relation to our business. Importantly, our pricing.
Compositing and Selecting Hair in Photoshop CS5 – Amazing
Share With all the talk about the content-aware features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 – I think the following feature has been somewhat over shadowed but for me its ridiculously intuitive. I love it! I am already imagining the hours of time it is going to save me when retouching photographs.
20 Impressive Sites Powered by Drupal, Joomla, Magento and Zen Cart
Share Websites are no longer expensive and difficult things to create. The open source movement has given web users and web designers the tools they need to create sites for free, and the possibilities are almost limitless. Just take a look of some of these fantastic sites created using Drupal, Joomla, Magento and Zen Cart [...]
5 Articles to Help with Goals in Google Analytics
Share Thanks to a smashing article on six revisions about setting up goals in Google Analytics – we delved further into the subject and found these great 5 articles to help you get to grips with just the same.
Interview with Glennray Tutor – PhotoRealism Painter
Share Hi all, an ABSOLUTE treat today… I came across the work of Glennray Tutor by chance via the wonder of the WWW. I then contacted him, and he was gracious enough to give me an interview and a rare insight into how he creates his truly mind-boggling photo-realistic paintings!
50 Freely Available Professional Fonts For Your Designs
Share Being designers we usually need more than just the usual font collection. Many typefaces are made available online for free it can be very helpful for designers to build up their type arsenal. Of course many would argue that designers should avoid using free grungy typefaces and instead apply type treatment to existing and [...]
Interview with Illustrator, Designer, Musician Joel Gonsalves
Share Hi all, another treat for you today. We managed to sit down with another great talent in London. Illustrator, Musician, Designer ; Joel Gonsalves. An insightful work with some stunning illustrative work.
Jul 31, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Illustration | Tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, interview | 4 Comments »