More than 300 Xmas bruches for your Photoshop
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008A great compilation for Photoshop, for Christmas, made by All Day I Dream About Photography. I highly advice this for everybody.
Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
Webmaster: Focus on purpose and on use, than on the design.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I couple days ago I was just commenting to one of my friends how we designers can be really picky about certain designs. We use colors that we like, and we don’t think of the physiological impact this color has in a person’s mind. This affects the message we’re trying to convey. For example, do you remember a site that had really awful colors? Now try to remember a website that you don’t normally visit, where you have learned something interesting.
Even if your site has the most amazing design someone can ever create, if the content is poor, the site most-likely will be forgotten. It’s not the design, it’s the message. It’s true that a person that finds a pretty web site will stay there, but within the next couple minutes, due to the lack of content, this person will leave the site. On the other hand, if this person found what he/she was looking for, this new visitor will tell everybody he/she knows about this amazing web site. This is why you need to remind your customer’s, the design really matters, but the content matters the most.
The best 2006 posters
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008The 100 best posters from 2006 is a great compilation made by a german site. There you’ll be able to find: icons, illustrations, etc. A great variety. Enjoy
Adidas genies
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008These posters where created by a Turkish agency, and I love them. They present some NBA players, the old snicker idea is finally broken.
Source: 2wenty 4our
Effective communication in your design
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Carrying the message your customers wants, might be one of the greatest challenges you might find yourself with in the designing world. Specially when you work for a big company where many people have to approve your designs.In my personal experience is that the idea of the customer has “evoluved” while the concept was been developed. In some cases for example, it happened in the transpassing from person to person. This tends to happen when it comes down to web page designing, today they’ll like something, tomorrow it’ll be something different and so forth.
It’s because the message that the designer has is not conveyed to the customer. Maybe the customer was trying to say “coorporate”, but you were using the most cutting-edge Flash effect in the market.
Talk to the people in charge, that’s my best advice. Write down the ideas out of a brainstorming, and try to get the big picture of the concept.
