Archive for May, 2008

8 Cool T Shirt Designs

Creating custom t shirt designs is an extremely popular venture many designers take on. Whether its submitting designs for a chance to win great prizes, starting your own t shirt design business or doing typical freelance work, the t shirt design business can be very fulfilling in a creative sense and also very profitable!

Round 2 Contest Deadline Extended!

We have decided to extend the final date for submissions for the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition, due to the recent holiday weekend. We know many of you were away so we decided to give you all a little more time to work on your designs. The contest will now run till Friday June 6th, at which point the voting process will begin. Keep up the great work, we have many amazing submissions already!

Behance Portfolio Spotlight – Isabela Rodrigues

Isabela Rodrigues is a talented young designer and illustrator, currently living in Porto Alegre, Brasil. She has a colorful portfolio and incorporates her illustrations into beautiful packaging designs, websites, identity systems and much more. Be sure to check out the rest of her graphic design projects at her Behance portfolio.

Round Two Contest Reminder

Don’t forget round two is ending Thursday May 29th! If you haven’t entered yet check out the contest home page and if you are already working on a design, don’t forget to add text, check all the rules and submit your design before May 29th. Stay tuned for any further updates and good luck!

We Love Our Sponsors! – May 2008

I want to say thank you to all our great sponsors for helping keep You the Designer running at full steam. I strive to publish quality content and that also applies to our sponsors. Not just any website can become a sponsor of You the Designer. Our sponsors are hand-picked based on their relevance to design, usefulness and overall quality and You the Designer is proud to have such great sponsors supporting us!

Free Calendar Icon Set

A new calendar icon set has been released on my graphic design forums! Simply head on over the design forums to download the free calendar icon set, and don’t forget to register and take a look around! The forum is a great place to meet other designers and have your work critiqued!

Italy’s Newest Boutique School of Design

The Florence Institute of Design International will be opening its doors to students world wide this September! This new institute of design has programs dedicated to Graphic Design, Interior Design, and Architecture and will have both master and academic level classes.

The Suite Life Sweepstakes

If you are in the market for some new design software then now is the time to buy it! Adobe is promoting a sweepstakes where you get the chance to win a copy of the Adobe Master collection if you buy the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Premium Edition before May 26th, 2008.

30 Great Examples of Graffiti Writing and Graffiti Street Art

Graffiti writing dates back many centuries, even back to Roman times when art work was scratched in and painted on to walls. In modern time graffiti writing and graffiti street art became much more than just decoration. Graffiti writing became an outlet for political activists to express themselves and also as a way for every day people and artists to express themselves.

Free 278 Page PDF eBook – The Photoshop Anthology

The folks over at Sitepoint and the book’s sponsor 99designs are giving away a free download of an extensive e-book for designers for a limited time only! The book is called The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, By Author Corrie Haffly and it is the ultimate Photoshop compendium for web and graphic designers. While mainly for beginners, the book does cover such a variety of topics that even more advanced users will find it useful.

Page Flip Flash Component Giveaway Winner!

I am happy to announce the winner of the Page Flip Flash Component Giveaway sponsored by Flipping Book. Flipping Book offers a page flipping component by that provides for software page caching.

Propaganda Posters Part 1 U.S.A.

If you have ever gone to design school, you probably have taken an art history course that covered the topic of ww1 propaganda posters and wwii propaganda posters. The use of propaganda dates back many years, but at the time of these wars the use of posters as propaganda took off to a point where almost every country involved had commissioned graphic designers with the task of creating a vast array of posters.

Graphic Design Jobs Board Now Active!

Yes its true! Our graphic design jobs board is now open thanks to our new partnership with Krop.com! New graphic design jobs are posted very often so be sure to keep an eye out for that dream job! Now you can get your graphic design news, resources, tips and design job listings in one place, all at YouTheDesigner.com!

crowdSPRING Goes Live!

crowdSPRING is a new online marketplace for creative services. Buyers can post creative projects, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like. For creatives, the website is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter.

Free Vector Images – Globe Icon Set

Our latest addition to our free vector art section is a vector globe icon set created by the nice folks over at iStockdiary.com. These icons are available for download exclusively on You the Designer. Please be sure to check out iStockdiary.com for Illustrator tutorials, tips and tricks on vector art.

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