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Last Update: Thu Jun 18 22:51:34 2009 | | + Web design using JavaScript +
I’ve talked many times about the limitations of Flash. It’s issues with accessibility and SEO are two of the main ones. So [...] if you can do it with JavaScript first. Simple and interactive image slideshow fader with JavaScript I got this image slideshow [...] |
| + What rates should a graphic designer charge? +
One of the questions I get asked the most by clients and other designers alike is about (surprise, surprise) money. So what is the [...] fresh out of college, I would say (and don’t blame me if you can’t pay off your loans) around about £9-12 [...] |
| + How to design a color page magazine advertisement +
H’mm, well, I’m not going to explain everything about print advertising in one little blog post. However, having just [...] through from the initial ideas to supplying the final artwork. Supplying initial ideas Some designers will tell you that they [...] |
| + Designing and publishing a hospital radio magazine +
I have been asked to help publish a 90 page magazine by a hospital radio station. Anyone who has had any sort of stay in a hospital [...] entertainment is a welcome diversion at a difficult time. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital One of the bigger hospitals in London [...] |
| + How to pitch, promote and market your ideas +
I did this lectern idea for a company that did events where entrepreneurs pitch to investors. People from the UK will be familiar with [...] show. I’ve been a big fan of the show and I’ve always wondered how I would fair pitching a business idea. I would do [...] |
| + Photoshop a flag inside a country +
This is was a Photoshop image I did to illustrate how Chinese national oil companies were active in Africa. I’d tried recently [...] quandaries and I thought this time it was nice to do it all in Photoshop. I created the mask of the outline of Africa by [...] |
| + Exciting business card design +
This is an illustration I did for a business card which I designed and created in Illustrator and Photoshop for a motorsports [...] they asked for a graphic representation of a Formula One steering wheel. It’s great when clients come up with brilliant [...] |
| + Flash gallery templates reviewed +
I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. It gives you great freedom when designing, allowing you to use fonts, graphics and [...] less likely to rank well with search engines than comparable HTML sites and the file sizes are generally larger increasing the [...] |
| + How to market yourself #6: How to get links to your website +
There are two sides of a coin when considering how to market your site on the internet. Firstly, concentrate on the site itself: [...] by concentrating off the site: getting quality sites to link to yours. Introduction As I’ve said before in this series, [...] |
| + Barack Obama pop art design +
London time: This is now the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America. Here is a [...] Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 talking to the BBC: Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two [...] |
| + How to market yourself #2: How to set up a website +
This is the second post in my How to market yourself series, a personal account of the best marketing techniques you can employ for [...] There are three things you need to do when setting up your website. Decide on your website address (URL) Register it Find a [...] |
| + How to market yourself #1: Introduction +
I have successfully been in the top five Google results for freelance graphic designer for a few months now and I’m quite [...] professional or company will do. For this reason I’m going to write a number of articles about self-marketing, what I mean [...] |
| + Designing title pages +
Designing the title slide, front cover or homepage is almost always the most important part of any job. And this particular area will [...] There was a good reason your mother always told you to tuck your shirt in, first impressions count. It’s impossible to [...] |
| + Using vector illustrations in designs to deliver your message +
Do you ever wish you didn’t use stock photography so much? Recently I’ve found myself trawling through pages of stock [...] to camera. These sites contain some good photography but I’m always worried that the stock approach lacks creativity [...] |
| + Doing eye-catching designs in Illustrator +
I’m always on the look out for simple eye-catching ways to communicate a message. I think this is a great example of a visually [...] graphics or other ways to improve the typography. This is especially useful in direct marketing (email or mail shot). How to [...] |
| + New logo and identity designed +
I have created an identity for IMG Associates who are a China based contract manufacturer and distributer of fine kitchen and [...] company is committed to manufacturing high quality products and strives for design excellence in every facet of its business. [...] |
| + Ways to beat a design and marketing slump +
Personally, I have noticed other recessions far sooner than this one. It seems like months and months of dreary economic forecasts [...] to defeat the dreaded downturn. Diversify Do something you’re not doing at the moment. Web designers should diversify into [...] |
| + Turn your client’s photos into beautiful images +
The problem Err, sorry, the challenge. How many times does this happen? You have an otherwise beautiful design and your client [...] best photographers. This is a reoccurring hitch; we have to include pictures of the CEO, the MD, the whoever, but there’s [...] |
| + Design and marketing in a recession +
Recession, credit crunch, slowdown – these are bywords of the moment and you would be forgiven for thinking that we’ve got [...] inclination for some businesses might be to scale back on marketing activities in an effort to save money. But, last week [...] |
| + Six questions to a graphic designer +
When and how did you get your start in the industry? I was working as a picture researcher for magazines and a night picture editor ... |
| + Designing for the digital grapevine +
Web 2.0 in design and marketing This is an image I made to try to explain the digital grapevine: A network of users that interact to [...] in the use of the internet and web design that enhances creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users that has [...] |
| + How to put one image inside another image +
There is an ad campaign in London at the moment for Portuguese tourism. You can see 48-,24- and 16-sheet adverts in the tube with [...] with a landscape showing through the image. Something similar to this effect that can be achieved with only a few clicks [...] |
| + Simple design idea for corporate marketing +
I was asked to come up with a visual to portray a corporate bank’s image. This was one of the largest banks in the world, one [...] solutions and, whilst it wanted to evoke reliability and gravity, it also wanted to be known as innovative. The tag line for [...] |
| + Changing an image to match your design’s colours +
You have a great photo. You have a great design. One problem: the photo doesn’t “go” with the design. The solution [...] the design or, more commonly, to match the client’s or brand’s colours. In the above example the final image (on the [...] |
| + How to design psychedelic pop art +
I made this image of one of my favourite guitarists, Jimi Hendrix. He is associated with flamboyant clothing and psychedelic [...] this image as vibrant as possible. To do this I followed the basic techniques of pop art that I’ve used before. Only this [...] |
| + Forum design for music website +
I have just created a phpBB bulletin board or forum for my music website. Click here to visit the mu-sik forum. I installed it using [...] cPanel. I chose the prosilver phpBB theme which was close to the look I was trying to achieve. This meant tweaking a few [...] |
| + Using Photoshop channels to create cool montages +
A client of mine was illustrating an article about the World Economic Forum whose annual meeting is usually held in scenic Davos in [...] within both the forum and the wider business community and gave me an image of connected wires of light to marry [...] |
| + How to design a 3d box or cube in Photoshop +
I created this image to represent the idea of “Energy in a Box”. The secret of making a box in Photoshop is to use guides [...] feature to make sure everything looks as it should do. I started with selecting a 2d side (or sides) for the box. I chose a [...] |
| + Adding graphics and images to your designs +
I am always looking for new ways to add eye-catching imagery to my designs – in the web, on print or wherever. This happened to me [...] I had to look for a smiling face image. It was difficult to think of something original. I did an internet image search for [...] |
| + Design stylized images with Photoshop and Illustrator +
The image above has been stylised in Photoshop and Illustrator (I went for the American spelling of “stylized” in the [...] go File > Place and select the photo you want to trace. I find it useful to then lock this picture layer in the Layers [...] |
| + Get your message across with graphics and photography +
Everybody knows that your marketing message will be enhanced by the creative use of graphic imagery. A competent graphic designer [...] ever wondered what is the best way to make the graphic communicate the message? The above picture provides an answer. And it is [...] |
| + My business cards designed and printed +
I recently got my business cards printed and I was amazed at how much of a baffling array of online print companies there are trying [...] rules for business card designing and printing. Don’t do a business card! Everyone does one! Have you got a bit of extra [...] |
| + A gritty, grainy, reportage look and feel to photos +
The above picture of a couple has been treated in Photoshop to give it a gritty, grainy, reportage look. This has also been described [...] guitarist from Slade) although, of course, this won’t be his exact method. It immediately looks like a serious photo that [...] |
| + Photoshop trick for smoothing a model’s skin +
This is a quick technique to even out blemishes in a model’s skin. I came across this by accident but I think it’s a [...] and professional. It also has the effect of brightening and adding contrast. Very simple. Get the layer you want to work [...] |
| + Sierra boxes and amaray cases for CD and DVD packaging +
Here (above) are three sierra boxes I did for a music creation software company. Also in this product range I did a DVD disc label, [...] obviously, in the sierra box. The sierra box was also printed with a spot UV or varnish which give the pictorial elements [...] |
| + How to make CDs and DVDs in Illustrator +
This took me a while to figure out! The object is to get the gradient mesh to radiate out of the centre of a circle and that’s [...] expect. Anyway, this is a good one. To start with something easy – draw a circle. Select the circle tool and drag diagonally, [...] |
| + How to web 2.0 your logo +
After I had designed a vector logo for a client, I was asked to web 2.0-ify it. This is what I did. The “Toby Beresford” [...] I set the Layer Styles of Gradient Overlay and Bevel and Emboss. The Gradient Overlays are the same on both layers. I [...] |
| + Two tips for design inspiration +
Keep it simple Steal Keep your designs simple OK! This is easier said than done but this is paramount. If you want to live a happy [...] do a good design… you get the picture! Take this photograph of 60s fashion model Twiggy by Barry Lategan, for example. He [...] |
| + How to design perspective in Photoshop +
I used this image as a title slide in a PowerPoint presentation for MasterCard, one of my clients. It was a great excuse to do a [...] make it look like the headline is actually there on the pavement. The method I use to do perspective is much simpler that going [...] |
| + How to design water reflections in Photoshop +
“Reflections are the new drop shadows!” If that’s the case, here’s how! Copy the text layer – or layer – [...] to reflect is a text layer then you should Rasterize it. To do this, right-click on the text layer in the Layers palette and [...] |
| + How to design a 3D crystal ball in Illustrator +
This starts, as most tutorials start, with something very easy: draw a circle. So, select your circle tool and drag diagonally to [...] white, with no stroke. Next, select the Gradient Mesh Tool (U) and click four points diagonally across the circle. Make sure [...] |
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