Normally people advice us not to think “silly stuff”, or going through our thoughts. We normally listen to these type of advices from teachers and professors. When we go to a company, on the other hand, they hire only the most talented and highly creative personnel.
The person that can keep and understand the next 5 [...]

Your customers will always ask you, why is that so expensive? That’s the moment when you need to defend and stand up for your design, your job and it’s quality.Our profession, many times, tends to be underestimated and some even say “it’s something anybody can do” and this is a grand mistake! When we talk [...]

For anyone out there that has at least once been asked the question: But why so much money? I believe this is a very common thing that happens as a freelancer. It´s really important to get to know your product in order to stablish a fair price.
Note: Don’t lie, be 100% honest.

When it’s Christmas time you know two things will happen: gift giveout and anual reports. Gtemplates has created a great template for Photoshop with Christmas designs PSD.
It can even be used for christmas cards.

If I could number the times I’ve heard the phrase “it’ just that am not creative today” or “am havin’ a low creativy day”. I would be in the millions. When you’re a graphic designer you need tons of creativity to develop all your works. It’s true that we cannot be “inspired” all the time, [...]

I know that many graphic designers don’t like feedback, because customers can give both negative as well as possitive comments about a designer’s work. But it’s only a critic, it’s nothing personal.
If there’s something I always like to take my time explaining to my customer is the chosen color, a shape, an image, etc. Remember [...]

It’s true that a design for a web page has pretty, it’s not the most important thing for the user. Even when this affects the user, given that this is the first impression he/she will remember of the site. If the design is confortable, the user will stay there, but even more when the site [...]

This time around I will show you how the tool bar in photoshop has evolved. From their very beginings when the icons looked with comic designs up to 3D figures.

Source: MJG Adrian

Written by: elBarbon! 
This is the first time I ever get to write for ARTEgami, I would like to talk to you about one of my favorite sites that talks about tutorials, is the web site of an english magazine called Computer Arts, in this web site they have a full section dedicated for tutorials. This [...]

Here’s a very interesting list of things we do as designers, there are some things here we all could improve:

Taking constructive critisism personally
We don’t know Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand & friends.
Not been updated in the world of design
Not having any manual
Not charging enough for our projects
Not using contracts
Too many freebies
Not asking for half [...]