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You The Designer Update

As you guys can see we are updating the way images are displayed in our posts on You The Designer. We ditched the default border around the images and increased the size of images so they line up nicely with the text. We will be going back into old posts and redoing all the images as well. We hope you like the new look as much as we do!

You The Designer is Growing!

We also want to thank all of our readers for being so supportive of the blog and coming back each day to read our posts. After only 3 weeks of being up we are already averaging over one thousand visitors a day and growing fast! We look forward to continued growth and we hope you are enjoying the blog and finding it useful.

Studio Spotlight – Blizzard Entertainment

If you know of Blizzard Entertainment, there is a good chance that the main reason you are familiar with them is because of their famous game World of Warcraft, which has over eight million subscribers world-wide, and continues to grow on a daily basis. In other words, the people have spoken – and the people are more than pleased.

Graphic Design Portfolio – Justin Broadbent

Justin Broadbent is an all star artist from Canada with amazing graphic design, web design, illustration and photography skills. His portfolio consists of great poster designs, CD designs, flash websites and incredible photographs.

Guide to Typography Video

This is a great video that explains the basics of Typography and the anatomy of type in under 2 minutes! This guide to typography video was directed and animated by Boca and Ryan Uhrich

Book Spotlight – Graphic Artists Guild Handbook

Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical guidelines, 12th Edition is arguably one of the most important books a designer should have in his or her design book collection. This book shows great dedication to protecting and promoting designers economic interests. It contains a multitude of information on topics such as project planning, proposal development, budgeting, legal issues, sample contracts and more. The Graphic Artists Guild Handbook is a great help to anyone looking to create designs for profit.

Product Spotlight – Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display

Wacom’s Cintiq 21UX interactive pen display combines the benefits of using an LCD screen with the precise control and comfort of Wacom’s most sophisticated tablet technology. Using the tablet pen directly on the screen lets you work more naturally compared to using a separate tablet pad and pen.

The Ladies Room – Funny Poster Series

This poster series is located in an office building of a software company in the Netherlands. Since corporate offices are often so ‘buttoned-down’ and serious, it’s refreshing to see one of them opening up its metaphorical doors to humor and fun in their design and decoration.

Cut&Paste Los Angeles Design Tournament Tomorrow

Tomorrow In Los Angeles, Cut&Paste design contestants will be will be going head to head once again to compete for amazing prizes and great exposure. Just to give you an idea of how serious these tournaments are, check out some of the amazing and generous prizes awarded to the designers who compete.

How NOT to Design Your Portfolio Site

Instead of showing you guys great examples of portfolio sites I would like to show you an example of a portfolio design that breaks many important rules.

Cut&Paste Chicago 2007 Winner – TEWZ

Congratulations to TEWZ the winner of the Chicago Cut&Paste tournament of 2007. TEWZ is a multi talented artist and teacher from Chicago whose inspiration is drawn from the sights and sounds of his natural environment of Chicago.

People’s Design Award 2007

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is brining well earned attention the the worlds greatest and most innovative designs via the People’s Design Award of 2007.

The Future of Computer Design

Touch screen based technology has been around for a long time but companies are really starting to go past the initial boundaries and make these advanced computers more mainstream. I have collected several videos that showcase what the next generation of computers will be like. These computers have no keyboards and no mice, and it’s all hands-on interactive computing.

Resource Spotlight – Behance Network

Behance is a great website for visionary professionals dedicated to organizing the creative community and making ideas happen. Artists and designers can showcase their work, network, collaborate and learn all in one area.

Studio Spotlight – Homeostatic

Homeostatic.net is a web design firm with a radical new approach to web design. A visit to the site gives you an experience that you will rarely encounter on the web. This site is not only interactive, but you get an incredible sense of the environment.

Cut&Paste Chicago Design Tournament – October 6th 2007

Don’t forget the next Cut&Paste digital design tournament is tomorrow in Chicago! If you can’t make it on location you can check it out via live webcast on the Cut&Paste website tomorrow. To see the list of Chicago contestants and the judges rating them click here. Next stop is Los Angeles on October 13th 2007.