How to properly apply for a design job
Sep 4, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Sound advice by Mike Davidson for those applying for a design job. I like the fact that he lists a blog as “stuff” to include in your portfolio. Other great advice in this article as well – check it out.
Tags: advice, article, brian-hoff, creativity, Design, dribbble, facebook, freelancing, Inspiration, job, personal, search, twitter
Geotica – new family and free font by exljbris
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Jos Buivenga, the type designer behind exljbris Font Foundry , just released another set of fonts with one free to download. Geotica was designed “more or less from simple geometrical line elements.” I’m particularly a huge fan of the beautiful ligatures and swashes Geotica has to offer. Also comes in four different grades or line thicknesses and fours styles.
Tags: advertising, article, creativity, Inspiration, miscellaneous, notebook, personal, printing, Resources, twitter, Typography, Web Design
Working For A Web Design Agency
Sep 2, 2010 General
The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you? Setting foot in an agency for the first time can be daunting. It’s filled with people who have probably worked in the industry longer than you and who probably know a lot more than you.
Tags: business, Design, design-agency, development, naldz-graphics, people, personal, Web Design
ColorBlendy: See how two colors blend easily
Aug 27, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
ColorBlendy could turn into another useful web app for seeing how two colors blends while overlaid, multiplied, or have dodge, burn or screen effects applied.
Tags: advertising, color, creativity, Design, dribbble, facebook, notebook, personal, philadelphia, printing, Resources, search, tutorial, twitter
Gridulator: Create and download grids with ease
Aug 27, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Gridulator is a nice little tool for creating grids with customizable widths and columns.
Tags: advertising, brian-hoff, Design, downloads, dribbble, grids, information architecture, miscellaneous, personal, search, tutorial, Web Design
Startup Quotes
Aug 22, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Who doesn’t like a good, motivational quote – especially if they pertain to starting up a new business or launching new products / services? If so, Startup Quote has you covered. “Observe the world around you – everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.” — Aaron Patzer, Founder of Mint
Tags: advertising, brian-hoff, creativity, dribbble, Inspiration, notebook, personal, philadelphia, printing, quotes, search, startups, twitter
New Web Font Service by Font Bureau
Aug 22, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
More exciting news in the realm of web typography: A new web font service, Webtype led by Font Bureau and Ascender Corp., brings new, beautiful type to our web pages for a yearly ‘subscription’ fee (they also offer a free 30 day trial). A few of the type families that are available through Webtype include, Interstate , Gill Sans , Century Gothic , Agenda , and Calibri . We welcome you with open arms Webtype .
Tags: brian-hoff, creativity, dribbble, facebook, freelancing, Inspiration, notebook, personal, philadelphia, Resources, tutorial, Typography
Adobe brings legendary typefaces to the web
Aug 16, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
I couldn’t say it better than John Boardley, “ This is BIG! ” Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary fonts – such as Garamond, Minion, Myriad, Rosewood Fill and Trajan – to the web! In terms of web typography, this is a huge push forward.
Tags: brian-hoff, Design, dribbble, Fonts, Graphic Design, Inspiration, miscellaneous, notebook, personal, printing, tutorial, twitter, typekit
Daily Inspiration #588
Aug 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspiration” in the subject, and don’t forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com Alexander Rojas Moreno Apolo Short Film from Alexander Rojas Moreno on Vimeo . black mets Best Bookmarks Campbell GT Daniel Rodrigues designlent Edward McGowan Fabiano Fabio Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer on Vimeo .
Tags: abduzeedo, daily, daily-inspiration, Inspiration, movie, personal, Tutorials, vimeo
Wallpaper of the Week #113 by Justin Maller
Aug 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The wallpaper of this week is an artwork created by Justin Maller called Ursus. Justin wrote a case study about this piece and you can check out the post, Ursus – Brief Process Examination by Justin Maller published here on Abduzeedo. For more information about Justin Maller visit his Web site at http://www.justinmaller.com/ and blog at http://realheadsknow.tumblr.com/ or read his interview here on Abduzeedo . You can also find Justin on Twitter at @justinmaller.
Tags: gimp-tutorials, Inspiration, justin-maller, movie, personal, Photoshop Tutorials, wallpaper
