Archive for March, 2008

Graphic Design Portfolio – Luisa Bernardes

Luisa Bernardes is a talented designer offering art direction, motion graphics and illustration services from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Luisa often art directs and or designs projects that use photographic images combined with colorful vector graphics used to enhance or highlight whatever action is going on in the photo.

12 Fantastically Free Graffiti Fonts

Graffiti fonts are one of the most sought after free fonts available online, so below you will find a great collection of popular free graffiti fonts. All of the fonts can be downloaded for free from the great free font site dafont.com.

Do You Trust Your Online Printer?

Online printing is a tricky business. Can you count on your printer to deliver your prints on time? Is your printer’s quality as good as they say? Are they consistent?

A design professional needs to trust their online printer and UPrinting.com has long been a trusted printer for the YTD community. Recently, the company launched an online program entitled UPrinting.com Reviews. The program focuses on receiving and publishing customer reviews, complaints and experiences for all to see. All reviews can be sorted by product, city and industry, so that you can research how UPrinting.com performs in your niche market. If you ever wanted to know about UPrinting.com’s customer service and print quality, you couldn’t ask for a better resource than UPrinting.com Reviews.

Must Know Shortcut Keys for Designers

Written by Jacob Cass

A must know list of very handy shortcut keys for any blogger or designer that is serious about time…You must learn these shortcut keys!

Awesome Free PDF Design Tutorials

I recently came across the portfolio website of Patrik Hübner and noticed a great tutorials section with design tutorials in PDF format. He currently has two issues posted on the site and it looks like there will be a new issue every month. Below is a sneak peak of what you will find in the tutorials:

Poster Contest Half Way Point!

Win an iPhone and a Chance to be Featured in PRINT Magazine!

We are about half way into the U-Printing International Poster Design Competition and we have a lot of great entires so far! The contest ends March 21st so if you are interested in winning a brand new iPhone and hundreds of dollars worth of stock photography credits and printing credits from iStockphoto.com and UPrinting.com, then head over to the contest page!

Did I mention you could win a chance to be featured in PRINT magazine?

ENTER THE CONTEST

Face to Face Business Networking 101

Written by MediaMisfit

Social networking and online portfolios work to a certain degree but at some point in time you’ll have to crawl out from under your shy shell and start networking face to face. There is a certain element about a face to face relationship that creates a stronger bond between you and the people you network with. You’re no longer just a name on a screen or piece of paper. You’re a person with a face, a voice and a unique personality.

You the Designer and Allmightys.com Mini Contest

Allmightys is known for their great designer t-shirts and competitions and they were kind enough to sponsor this mini contest and provide one lucky winner with two awesome free t-shirts! Their design competitions are great because if you win you get a commission for every shirt sold, so keep any eye on their most recent competitions if you have a talent for designing t-shirts.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials – Extract Complex Shapes

Tutorial by Markus Ever tried to extract a model’s hair with the pen tool? Well, I gave up after a few minutes and eventually came up with another way to do that, which I’d like to share with you here in this Adobe Photoshop CS3 tutorial.

Common Design Scams

Any freelance designer who has been in the business for a few years has probably run into potential clients trying to get work done for free or for insanely low prices. This funny animated video comments on how some people will try to persuade designers to do work for them for free by offering them incentives such as “a footer link”, “future jobs” and “telling all their friends about you”.

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