20 Free Grunge Like Fonts For Your Creative Projects
Share Everyone seems to be talking about grunge nowadays. Are you a fan of worn out and destroyed style aswell? If the answer is YES, I am sure you’ll enjoy this little collection of 20 free grunge fonts from fonts2u.com that I have built up below. I am sure few of them will become your [...]
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
What is Usability?
Share During my web travels, I have seen the term usability thrown around everywhere and although on the face of things, its an easy concept to grasp; I searched for an in-depth resource to explain the term, its applications and examples. Then I came across this, give it time, takes a good 2 minutes to [...]
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 [...]
Art/Illustration: Artistic Realism vs Abstract Concepts
Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions on my personal views on art and illustration; particularly about the old abstract vs. realism question. I’ve got too many opinions on this subject to elaborate everything here, but I might as well throw some ideas into the debate.
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 [...]
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 »