Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Free Ebook: Go Freelance - The complete guide to going freelance

Free Ebook - Go Freelance
Another free ebook from freelancers advisor we found for you. Leif Kendal is the author of the eBook: "Go Freelance" is also a contributor to the freelancer advisor, which provides a way to work freelance workers in the United Kingdom. Although youRead more »

Monday, 27 December 2010

Google Offices Around The World: Photos and Videos

Google Offices Around The World
So you are interested in working for Google? Would you be interested to see the work atmosphere in it? Let's find out together. Here are some snapshots of existing google offices worldwide. Be inspired! :DRead more »

Thursday, 23 December 2010

5 Common Graphic Design Myths Revealed

Common Graphic Design Myths
Of course we hope for graphic design to get recognition from the wider community as an applied science, skills or expertise, and also the profession. But it wasn't easy to achieve it all. General don'tt know what and how is graphic design.Read more »

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

17 Useful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers
One of the most fun as a freelance worker is that they can work anywhere. Freelancers have much time to drink coffee in the cafe and to take advantage of free internet there. This era is what allows you to replace your work space only with aRead more »

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Tuesday's Inspiration: Freebies for Designers

Freebies for Designers
New Week, New Inspirations! Happy Tuesday! Well, everyone, I'm on vacation from Jayce-O-Yesta until December 24th. A Little behind today, but no worries! Go check out your links!! The Jayce-o-Yesta tuesday's Inspirations are still coming weekly! SoRead more »

Sunday, 19 December 2010

Inspirational Workplaces for Graphic Designers


For the designers, the workplace comfort is very important. The designers worked with more thought and a comfortable workplace will still maintain a good mood to keep it so as to support the process of thinking. If lately your mood a little bit disturbed
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010

5 Soft Gradients Effects For Photoshop

Soft Gradients Effects For Photoshop
Some of the following gradient suitable for photo processing, photography, image manipulation, and so forth. I made this gradients to facilitate you in your Photoshop projects, because sometimes when we work using Photoshop software we often findRead more »

Monday, 13 December 2010

6 Characteristics of a Good Logo


If we are talking about aesthetics in a logo, maybe we'll knock no end because it is very relative. But when it comes to issues concerning good and the least, we will refer to the functionality, where a logo judged from its function and purpose. This timeRead more »

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Graphic Design and Gestalt Theory

Graphic Design and Gestalt Theory
Graphic design is a branch of science of visual art that can not be separated from the science of psychology. The role of psychology in graphic design, including how a person's psychological response to the visual display nearby. Therefore, studying the
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Friday, 10 December 2010

Creative 404 Error Pages For Your Inspiration

Creative 404 Error Pages
What do you do when you get an error web page with the message: 404 error page? It is most often the people are immediately closed the page and look for return information elsewhere. That is a loss to the site owner. But some people make their
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010

40 Awesome Flyer Design Ideas

Awesome Flyer Design Ideas
Flyer (also spelled flier1 or called a circular, handbill or leaflet) is a single page leaflet advertising a nightclub, event, service, or other activity. Flyers are typically used by individuals or businesses to promote their products or services. They are a form of
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Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Tuesday's Inspiration: Free Ebook Creative Freelancing

 Free Ebook Creative Freelancing
Free! This free ebook was written by Melissa J. Gallagher, entitled Creative Freelancing. Some discussion on ebook introduces the reader to know the different kinds of working part-time and full-time freelance opportunities, including: a freelanceRead more »

Saturday, 4 December 2010

Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs
Many novice designers giddy and confused in determining color. Understandably, a graphic designer will not be considered an expert if not mastered the field of color. Errors in color selection can be fatal, some colors will make the eyes become tired
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Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Design Tips for Modern Minimalist Design Style

Modern Minimalist Design
A design project doesn't always come exactly as what expected by the designers. Occasionally, a project comes with many challenges which of course must be completed by the designers of any condition. One example: designers have to layoutRead more »

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Tuesday's Inspiration: 9 Freelancing Presentations You Should Know

Freelancing Presentations
Time is fleeting! October will soon be over and we've run the 11/12 of this year. Yes time flies so fast when we're playing or working. Or even while reading the following interesting topic. So, happy reading!Read more »

Saturday, 27 November 2010

Elements of a Good Online Portfolio

Good Online Portfolio
Personal portfolio website is a must for the designers (either freelance or fulltime). So this time we will discuss some elements that are typically used when designing a portfolio website.Read more »

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Free: 13 awesome slab serif fonts For Design

slab serif fonts
Slab Serif font is another type of serif fonts. The main characteristic of sans serif fonts are thin and slender, but otherwise slab serif fonts appeared in block serif sturdy thick and large. Therefore, the font of this type is suitable for headlines,Read more »

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Graphic Design Principles: Alignment

Alignment in Graphic Design
Whatever form the design is, we would be faced to choose the proper use of the alignment or layout. Alignment is very important in the design to build an aesthetically beautiful look and function effectively. Now we will explore some easy tips relating to use of
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Tuesday's Inspiration: ISO50 Presents Dry Waves


Net has become the source of everything including information. All kinds of information and news can be found on the Net. The power link from one site to another is sometimes only make ourselves feel overwhelmed. But at the end of eachRead more »

Monday, 22 November 2010

Concept and Execution in Graphic Design


Graphic design is a field that requires the ability to think creatively to solve the problem. It's not only about the ability to think, it also requires the designers to be able to execute as well as possible and visualize the results of their thoughts into their
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Sunday, 21 November 2010

Creative yet Controversial Ads Collection

Creative yet Controversial Ads
Visual language have great influence to the people that could change the behavior, habits, and influence the mindset. Therefore, although the graphic designers have the right to creativity, they also have limitations in applying their creativity in a work. Now
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Saturday, 20 November 2010

30 Inspirational Conceptual Photography

Inspirational Conceptual Photography
Conceptual photography is a photography genre in which the photos taken on the basis of a concept or idea which is usually predetermined. The asssessment of the photos on this kind of photography is not based on good or not a photo in general, butRead more »

Friday, 19 November 2010

Create a Scissors-cut Type Effect in Photoshop

Scissors-cut Type Effect in Photoshop
In this photoshop tutorial, you're going to learn how to create a scissors-cut type effect in photoshop. This tutorial is simple and easy to follow. We only use the layer style to create the effect. In addition,  the simple technique to save the style to beRead more »

Thursday, 18 November 2010

20 Powerful Typographic Posters

Powerful Typographic Posters
Poster is one of the most effective visual media used in communicating the message to the public. There are many styles of poster design that was quite interesting including the use of typography styles. some poster design below brings a unique
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010

How to overcome boredom when working as a freelancer

overcome boredom when working as a freelancer
Being a freelancer is very exciting, especially when other people busy with their jobs and locked in a cubicel we can still sound asleep, or even enjoying a cup of cappuccino at a cafe when listen to the strains of a fun song. In addition, as
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Monday, 15 November 2010

17 Inspiring CD & DVD Packaging Design

inspiring CD Packaging Design
Good design should be able to influence the consumer decision to purchase a product. Design is the first impression that describe the good or poor quality of a product. In this article, I have compiled several collections of CD & DVDRead more »

Sunday, 14 November 2010

5 Effective Personal Branding Strategies You Forgot

Effective Personal Branding Strategies
Every person is different but not all people realize it, humans often swept away and follow the trends that eventually becomes the same as anyone else and no longer become a different person. Do we really need to be different? Does a freelancerRead more »

Saturday, 13 November 2010

7 Important Points in Preparing Final Artwork


In this article, I will discuss about the preparations in a final artwork. What is the final artwork? Those who do not know, the final artwork (FA) is a term for the final design files ready to print. There are several important points that must be considered inRead more »

Friday, 12 November 2010

Design and the Creative Process

Design and the Creative Process
Creativity and innovation always encourages us to move forward. As well as making breakthroughs cube-shaped watermelon to fit more in the refrigerator. That is the process of the fight against the philosophy of "I always procrastinate, that's why IRead more »

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Left Brain Right Brain Personality Test

Left Brain Right Brain Personality Test
We as designers are daily filled with things related to emotion, aesthetics and art. We need to know the extent to which our brain works well to manage it. Sometimes we do not have the art skills and so was not awarded the design aesthetic talent, but stillRead more »

Sunday, 7 November 2010

22 Creative Book Cover Design

Book Cover Design Inspiration
"Don't judge a book by its cover!" This quote may not apply to designers, especially designers of book covers. Designers are required to communicate the contents of the book well in order to attract potential buyers. Of course it is not easy toRead more »

Friday, 5 November 2010

Why do we need to sketch if we are designers?

Why do we need to sketch
Everyone is unique and special. People are not born with equal talents. That means, not everyone has a good drawing ability. This may be a factor in some people reluctant to apply the process of sketching in their design projects. Yet in practice,Read more »

Thursday, 4 November 2010

Horriblelogos: Speciality Bad Logos

Horriblelogos
Hey guys, how are you these days? Good? That's great! This week I have discussed some specific articles about the Logo on some of my articles. It has encouraged me to do research about the bloggers or designers who provide logo creation services.
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Color Psychology in Branding & Marketing

Color Psychology
In the Internet business or non-internet color selection also have a role, it can affect to your product image, as well as your business. Color is vibration, and we always respond to it either consciously or not. Colors affect the comfort of the environmentRead more »

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Free: Beautiful 11 Brush Fonts for Design

Brush Fonts
Brush font is a fairly typical kind of font style and size brushwork bold. Fonts brush is widely used for various purposes such as logo design, web design, print design etc. Now I want to share some beautiful fonts brush link that you can download for free.Read more »

Mind Mapping in Graphic Design

Mind Mapping in Graphic Design
Mind Mapping is a process for solving problems by using words, names, images, and colors, all of which refer to a central idea or word in the form of diagrams. The function is to liberate creativity and get brilliant ideas to solve a problem.Read more »

Monday, 1 November 2010

Balance in Graphic Design


Balance is one of the important points the success of a design. Everyone loves the convenience (not lame) to what they see. Balance in graphic design can be achieved by adjusting the visual weight of each element, both in terms of scale, color, contrastRead more »

Sunday, 31 October 2010

A Professional Logo : The Ultimate Guide

Professional Logo
This is a practical guide on how to make a logo. This guide has been widely used by designers of a world famous logo and it proved effective to create the famous logos, functional, and able to win the attention of target consumers.Read more »

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

So What Is Creativity?

What Is Creativity
Graphic design is one of the areas covered in the creative industries. It's called "creative" because graphic designers are required to find solutions and find the right ideas to solve problems.Read more »

Sunday, 24 October 2010

Blog Structure, Design & Usability


Most blog authors used to use the blog as a place to vent, now its function has changed, stout people use it as a publication medium for the general public (Citizen Journalism).Read more »

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Environmental Graphic Design

Environmental Graphic Design
Every day and everywhere we go either to the mall, museums, office buildings, hospitals, colleges, schools, or the airport - we always meet and look at the signposts, information boards, banners and others.Read more »

Sunday, 17 October 2010

7 Blog Post Ideas for Graphic Designers

Blog Post Ideas for Graphic Designers
Sometimes graphic designers get stuck about what to write in their personal blogs, it may happen because they are usually familiar with their visual work.Read more »

Saturday, 16 October 2010

The main capabilities of the graphic designer


Believe it or not, becoming a graphic designer requires us to master many things. Therefore, many say a graphic designer is someone who is multi-talented.Read more »

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Best Graphic Design Quotes

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Interesting quotations always be an inspiration to the designers to understand more about graphic design. It is also a motivator who encourages designers to continue to learn digging ability.Read more »

Monday, 11 October 2010

Design is the Applied Art

Design is the Applied Art
If so, a design similar to the art, the difference lies in the word 'applied'.Read more »

Monday, 4 October 2010

16 Inspirational Text Art Creations

Text Art
Typography is the most unique design elements, it's not just reading text, but also can produce beautiful works. Text Art is an example.Read more »

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Why Does Everyone Think They Are a Graphic Designer?

Graphic Designer
If you go to the dentist, do you dare to teach the correct way of pulling teeth to the dentist? Maybe, if once you were a dentist and know about this. What if you weren't?Read more »

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Sunday, 19 September 2010

10 Cool Inspirational Vector Illustrations

Vector Illustrations
Character designs are popular lately, some people love the cute style of character design, and some other like simple or vector-based cartoon style.Read more »

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Get Website Feedback from Concept Feedback

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Sometimes we need a valuation of other people on the results of our design, either input or criticism.Read more »