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Warm up your ideas!

All the designs that are innovative and successful are the ones that have a clear message and objective. If you spend the right time analyzing, asking and searching the objectives and messages that you want to transmit, you’ll notice how the ideas will come flowing right away to you, without breaking a sweat.

The creative process [...]

[ More ] September 13th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Creativity |

10 serious lies to cheat graphic designers

As I was surfing around on the web, I found myself with this site Expressions.com.do, in which I’ve found a very good and important article for both new designers as well as for not so newbies like me, trying everyday to improve and keeping Freelance a way of living.
Right here I’ve listed the 10 [...]

[ More ] September 13th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta

For all of you that wish to try the brand new Adobe Photoshop version, you can go here: Download Photoshop CS3. Remember this a beta version and it may have a lot of bugs and problems.
This is the very first time in history Adobe gives out to its clients a beta version of [...]

[ More ] September 13th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Photoshop |

Five Signs You Should Not Major in Graphic Design

(An adaptation from Peter Vogt’s, “Five Signs you Should Change Your Major”.)
 

Give yourself a point for each question below you answer ‘yes’ to:
1. You’d rather be surfing myspace during a lecture or presentation or you can’t stop surfing during class breaks.

Let’s face it, it’s not really the teacher’s lecture that has you so bored [...]

[ More ] August 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Articles |

Everything You Need to Know About Web Design

A representation of content, related to an individual, business or any other topic; using design and graphic principles on the internet in the form of web applications and web sites is known as web design. Web design usually involves and uses technologies and standards such as HTML, CSS, XML, SSL, PHP, ASP, etc.
Web design differs [...]

[ More ] July 27th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

Web Design Myths Version 2.0

A term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
A lot believe Web 2.0 is social networking and that they [...]

[ More ] July 13th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Articles |

What does your website say about you?

Your website opens you to a world of contacts you’d never have imagined you’d meet.
Now more than ever, millions of people have access to your online presence, who, whether you like it or not, will immediately judge you upon your website design.
What does your website design say about the person or business you are?
All [...]

[ More ] June 20th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

10 Essential Marketing Skills for Freelancers

Here are the essential marketing skills for any freelancer:
Blog. It’s been said many times before, but the blog is the new resume. If you don’t have a blog, learn how to start one up. And don’t just rant about politics and talk about your cat. Make your blog look professional, write about things that would [...]

[ More ] June 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Articles, Freelance |

The Pros and Cons of Freelance Flexibility

There are the obvious benefits of self-employment, like no half-hour time limit on lunch breaks, assuming you start work before lunch, or a computer timing every second your spend in the bathroom. But lately, it’s the smaller things that have left me feeling more free.
I’m not forced to use a computer set up the way [...]

[ More ] June 1st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Freelance |

Things to avoid when designing a website.

Everyone makes mistakes. Even those who’ve been web designers for many years still fall victim to the many traps set out for us along the way. Whether its a tempting special effect or a way to boost some (short term) revenue that either way probably isn’t good for all of our visitors right? Right.
1. Flash
Don’t [...]

[ More ] May 25th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Articles |

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