Why Designers Shouldn’t Settle
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration
Ugly designs abound on the web, and behind each and every one of them is a “designer”. In many of these cases the designers behind the sites are simply incompetent. They’re often amateur designers or those who have little or no design training or people who design their own sites based on a book from their local library that’s ten years out of date. But there are other times when the designer was perfectly capable of creating a better site .
Tags: advertising, business, Design, designer, Designers, graphics, Inspiration, Portfolio, settling, time, Web Designers
+40 best icons packs that webdesigners should have
Mar 7, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
When you create a new template you have to think about lot of things : the colours, the pictures, the texts, the links etc. For each of them, I think there is one thing particularly complex and difficult to do, I mean the creation and use of icons in webdesign. In fact, you must take time to find the best icons (especially on a website like www.iconarchive.com) and it’s really expensive! Secondary, sometimes you cannot find a good icon to illustrate an action, and the last thing you have to do, is to design it… you know that some websites can use, at least, 10 different icons (as an administration dashboard) it’s take lot of time and it’s really hard! If you are a webdesigner you have certainly understood what I tried to explain to you! And you should know that every week, several websites publish great and useful icons packs . Then, why do you continue loosing precious time, creating new icons for each of your all new web designs projects?
Tags: best-website-icons, Design, designer, Designers, downloads, graphics, illustration, Inspiration, photography, php, Resources, Web Design, Web Designs
So You Call Yourself A Designer?
Mar 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Computer – check . Photoshop – check . Lots of free time – check . It seems that this is all that is necessary to call yourself a ‘designer’ these days.
Tags: articles, Color Theory, critical-thinking, Design, Designers, flash, Inspiration, sketching, technology, Tutorials, Typography
Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers
Feb 17, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career. With the help of our panel of 16 designers, we’ll dispense advice that should help new designers get their career off to a promising start. We’ve asked a few different questions to each of the designers; you’ll see all of their responses below. First, here is a list of the designers who participated. Henry Jones (Web Design Ledger) Wolfgang Bartelme (Bartelme.at) Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks) Chris Spooner (SpoonGraphics, Line25) Soh Tanaka Jon Philips (Spyre Studios) Paul Boag (Boagworld, Headscape) David Leggett (Tutorial9, UX Booth) Jacob Gube (Six Revisions) Elliot Jay Stocks Brian Hoff (The Design Cubicle) Darren Hoyt Walter Apai (Webdesigner Depot) Jacob Cass (Just Creative Design) Zach Dunn (One Mighty Roar and Build Internet) Paul Andrew (Speckyboy Design Magazine) You may be interested in the following related posts: 35 Designers x 5 Questions Professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world.
Tags: business, career, clients, Designers, education, Portfolio, smashing-magazine, time, Tutorials
Designers Sketchbook Showcase + Win 10 Free Sketchbooks!
Feb 10, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
We are often fascinated with the end result of a project that we often forgot how a design originated and morphed into the work that is shown. Personally all of my designs, whether its a logo or the layout of a website, always start off in my sketchbook . Sketching helps to get the brain working creatively, get ideas out quickly, free your mind, and overall improve your design work . I’ve always enjoyed viewing others sketchbooks as well, so I asked my Twitter friends if they wanted to contribute a page from theirs.
Tags: airport, article, creativity, Design, designer-sketches, Designers, drawings, Graphic Design, printing, search-engine, sketchbooks, sketching, Tutorials
Inspiration – The Work of Designer/Illustrator Azul De Corso
Feb 10, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
For this weeks midweek inspiration, I’ve got the work of Azul De Corso. She is a very talented freelance artist/designer/illustrator. Here is a little bit of info about Azul: Azul De Corso is a freelance artist, graphic designer and illustrator. She works for clients as Pepsico, MTV, Nickelodeon,Vh1, Unilever, Creamfields, among others.
Tags: creativity, Design, designer, Designers, Free Fonts, free-brushes, free-ps-brushes, freebies, illustrators, Resources, Textures, Vectors
You got design right – now ‘write’ design!
Jan 25, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Dave Thackeray is a copywriter, podcaster and communicator specialising in technology and travel. He blogs daily at DaveThackeray.com and started the year with a bold promise – to write 10 things every day about ‘10. He’s only missed eight days so far, because he forgot to start until January 8. Humour him as he explains how designers can be great writers too.
Tags: articles, creativity, Design, Designers, editing, Inspiration, Inspired, iphone, Resources, Web Design, words
Build It With Me Help You Bootstrap Ideas Into Actual Apps
Jan 6, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Build It With Me is a great application to brings all the designers, developers and entrepreneurs under one roof. Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often unrealistic; it will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps. Have you ever had an idea for a website or application that you just couldn’t develop yourself? How many times have you just let that idea fall to the back of your mind to possibly get lost forever – just because you couldn’t get the right funding or couldn’t find the right people to work on it?
Tags: business, Design, Designers, development, Inspiration, photography, Resources, Tutorials, wallpapers, web applications, Web Design
The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009
Dec 18, 2009 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
What a great year it has been for design related articles. So many new blogs, new blog writers, great content, great resources, a lot of inspiration, it really has never been a better time to be a designer. In this round-up we have collected fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials.
Tags: design-news, Designers, html, photography, Photoshop, Resources, tutorial, Web
You Can Survive and Thrive After a Crisis
Dec 7, 2009 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Sure, some of us have it easier than others but for the most part, success comes to the people who want it the most. We all know that life isn’t easy and there sure as heck aren’t any free rides. Life will beat you up, drag you through the mud, and then steal your girlfriend. Why?
Tags: abduzeedo, banner, colorburned, computers, design-informer, Designers, fabio-sasso, work
