Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category

Index Book: searching for inspiration

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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Maybe you’ll also share my opinion about this. One of the greatest inspirational sources out there in the big blue is the good-almighty Internet. This time, let me talk to you about Index Book, a very large library/editorial page specialized in graphic designing books. There, you’re pretty much going to find it all, take your time and give it a look, it’s going to be worth your time.

4 Great tutorials to make your pictures new arts

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

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VictorMartinGarcia.com is presenting 4 great tutorials, most of them for Photoshop, where you’ll be able to turn your photographs into new arts.

Pop Art inspired by Roy Lichteinstein

  • Tool: Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Medium-high
  • Estimated time: 2 hours

Pop Art inspired by Andy Warhol

  • Tool: Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Medium-low
  • Estimated time: 1 hour and a half.

Vectorial Art

  • Tool: Photoshop
  • Difficulty: low
  • Estimated time: 1 hour

Miniature image mosaic

How many drafts do you sent to your clients?

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

bocetos1.jpgPersonally speaking, I don’t send more then three. Why? I don’t want to confuse my clients with too many things. I have faith that my designs will be good enough. Normally I let them know why I used certain elements in my designs and their benefits this will bring to their company, etc.

Collis, from FreelanceSwitch.com, tell us that he sends out more than 5 drafts to his clients.

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Creatives think that a complex site is better than a simple one

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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I don’t quite understand why some creatives in publicity agencies think that in the “avant-garde” internet, everything has to be complicated.

If you talk to them about your site, they’ll ask you for sure for a more “creative” interface, when in the real life, as many of you already know, if you have a too “flash-y” website google won’t index you.

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Open Designs: Free web templates

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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The main objective of this community is to create a web page where you can download, for free, templates for your websites. Open Designs promises to be a great resource