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.
A Monitor for Every Budget – What Monitor for Photography and Design?
Share Once again, I found an excuse to upgrade my monitor and so went on the hunt for the best design appropriate monitors. A while back I did another search and came up with the list of monitors for design. I went for the HP w2558hc in the end. Great monitor and I can’t recommend [...]
Turn A Boring Photo Into An Emotive Portrait – Photoshop Tutorial – with video
Share This is a fairly ‘intermediate’ tutorial, although most beginners will be able to follow along with the video. It’s a neat little tutorial packed full of lots of little gems and tricks which we use in order to arrive the result; which is a much more stylistic portrait, that’s a lot more emotive and [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
Share 1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is [...]
What Is Graphic Design? video
Share During our web travels we came across a nice little video by Becky Nasadowski that attempts to answer visually, the question: what is graphic design?… Enjoy
How to Calibrate Your Screen/Monitor for free
Share Whilst surfing the web after buying my new Samsung T220 monitor, I was looking for a way to calibrate, as out of the box it was glaringly bright – great for movies etc – poor for design work. What I ran into was Supercal. Is a great tool, and after running a few test [...]
Do you need a design degree to freelance?
Share How essential is a design degree to a designer? Having gone through the process of formal education in graphic design and illustration (and paid the accompanying expenses) Many designers have often had to ask themselves the question: ‘was it worth it?’ The simple fact is that, with the evolution of the internet to a [...]
5 Ways To Copyright Your Work
Share This post is a short extension and continuation and summary from a previous article: Importance of Copyrighting Your artwork - it would serve well to read this before reading the following, as good background knowledge. 1) Deviant Art By uploading your work to a personal gallery on deviant art, you can protect your work under [...]
Designing for Print and Designing for Web Differences
Share Designing for print, and designing for web are two different kettles of fish, and learning some of the basic considerations between the two can save you many of the traditional rookie mistakes that plagued us, in our teething process. this little article should hopefully stop you from making any huge mistakes early on. Firstly, [...]
10 Tutorials and Resources to Understand Typography
Share 1) Typography: The Essential Guide What is typography? And why is it so important to graphic designers? As long as you spell everything correctly and make sure the message is what the client wants to see, why does the font style make any difference? Because everything you touch, see and create is impacted by [...]
Print Design Templates (Bleed, Trim, Guide’s)
Share Below is a list of links I have compiled over time to free psd templates for everything from business cards to flyers. The templates do not contain designs, just simply all the correct bleed, trim and text/content guides, to help ensure what you design on screen gets printed properly! All PSD files are 300DPI [...]
10 Resources and Tutorials to Understand and Create Corporate Identity
Share 1) How to create a strong corporate identity You need to decide what is the core proposition of the company; what you do and what you sell,he said. If you don’t know what the company stands for it is difficult to create an identity. You can come up with the funkiest identity but if [...]
10 Resources to Help You Decide What To Charge for Design Work
Share As website designers , we know all to well how difficult it can be to competitively price your work; we compiled the following list of resources to help us in our endeavors. 1) Design Talkboard: ‘How much to charge for Graphic Design’ in reality, freelance designers will need to research carefully and develop a [...]
Using Humour Effectively in Design
We went on a short trip to amsterdam, and stayed in, probably the worst hotel in Europe. (that anchor text is adding to their advertising, trust me!) It wasn’t an exaggeration to suggest that our room resembled a prison in every way, except for the bars. However, the budget hotel embraced it’s flaws instead of trying to cover them up – using humour in their advertisments, they successfuly turned what should have been the worst aspect of any hotel, into its biggest selling points.
Copyright Your Artwork
As artists and creative minds it is becoming ever more important to make sure you copyright your work! This protects you from infringement, criminal clients and a host of other problems that can arise when you realise someone has stolen your work. We are about to produce a poster for mass sale through various outlets, so we have managed to find out the following on copyright in the UK. If you have anything to add or correct, let us know!!!
Adding A Rainbow To A Photo in Photoshop Tutorial
Share Hey all. Every now and then you take a beautiful picture of a clear scenic day and nothing could make it better than adding a wonderful rainbow into the shot. Or in your designing etc, you may just want to add a rainbow to the composition. Below, is a tutorial, showing you how to [...]
Photoshop Adjustment Layer and Retouching Tutorial with Video
This tutorial should hopefully have you adjusting and touching up all your photos at an intermediate level in no time. the techniques and principles can ten be applied in doing other things within photoshop.
30-Second Sepia Effect Photoshop Tutorial
To quickly create a simple sepia effect in Photoshop, do the following:
10 Resources For The Starting Freelance Graphic Designer
Share 1) Register for tax! Source: CarolineMurphy.co.uk ‘I feel like a broken record when it comes to this subject, but a lot of people are either unaware or chose to ignore the fact that once you are self-employed /freelance in the UK, you must register with HM Revenue and Customs.’ 2) Contracts! Author: Jacci Howard [...]
Creative Block – Beating It – Fresh ideas and inspiration
Share So your self-promotion has worked and you have that all important new client. The project itself has scope for you to add some personal style or artistic flair to it as well. After the initial brainstorming, research and sketches you are nowhere – with nothing visual to guide yourself. Creative block! We have various [...]
Aug 01, 2009 | Categories: Advice, Commentary, Graphic Design | Tags: Advice, creative block, tips | Leave A Comment »