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 »