No one is an island. Anyone who has ever become successful has had help from someone along the way.
Sharing one’s experiences with fellow artists (like we’re doing right now) is not only a great way to keep one’s finger to
Archive for August, 2009
Now more than ever, company marketers are charged with improving performance with fewer resources and shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics such as SEO and social media. There are significant benefits from combining search engine optimization and social
We have all read the advice out there about the questions you need to ask a client when you first interact with them. All of them are quite academic and make a great deal of sense for robots who are
When I first began freelancing, I cheated somewhat. I still had a full-time job. My goal was to phase out the job as I became more successful. Several obstacles had to be hurdled as you can imagine. In the beginning
One thing that you’ll need to know if you’re going to be designing, is how the colors that you see on your computer screen differ from the colors that will print out on your (or anyone else’s) printer.
Everyone loves a list such as “101 places to get free fonts,” but who actually has the time to click through and research all 101 websites? Seems like a lazy way to do things to me – so instead of
One of the negative consequences of the advances in computing power is the notion that all you need is a computer to be a designer. When pundits, most overly filled with coffee, began promoting the term “desktop publishing” they thought
If you have yet to do so, read my article about resolution, in which I covered re-sizing images, a topic that has everything to do with aspect ratio.
One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing fun-house mirror pictures.
Q: Where to get Photoshop for free?
A: You can use a peer-to-peer (P2P) software service or a bit torrent software to download and/or capture an illegal version of Photoshop. I do not advocate this, because it is ILLEGAL and punishable, and
This sounds like one of the coolest jobs on earth, yet I had never considered what designing movie posters for a living would be like until I read this movie poster design tutorial by Jacob Cass. I relished the idea of
