Archive for June, 2008
Your graphic design portfolio is a representation of yourself and of your skills as a graphic designer and it will become an essential part of landing your graphic design dream job! This guide will help you fine tune your portfolio to make sure its in top shape for your upcoming interviews!
The votes are in and the winners of round two have been chosen! I want to thank everyone who entered, our judges and our sponsors for making this contest great! Below you will find the top 10 round two poster designs of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Contest.
The next round (Typography Round) will begin in a few weeks so make sure you subscribe to our feed so you can get the latest updates. You can also keep an eye on the contest home page for updates.
You (the designer) no longer need to worry about front-end coding and browser compatibility issues! leave it up to markup4u.com to take your designs and convert them into a custom sliced WordPress theme or table-less xhtml/css template. The markup they provide is cross-browser compatible, SEO optimized and W3C valid!
The winners of Round 2 of the UPrinting.com International Poster design competition will be announced Friday! The entires were amazing and I want to thank everyone who participated including our sponsors for putting up such amazing prizes!
Studying the work of other artists is a fundamental aspect of developing yourself further as visual artist. You learn whats been done, what can be done, whats in style, new techniques, you get inspired and everything you absorb becomes apart of who you are as a designer. The more you absorb the richer your sense of design will become. below is a great collection of some amazing graphic designers. Examine their portfolio sites, their individual projects and absorb everything you can! Enjoy these graphic design portfolios!
Desktopography is a great a non-profit, fun project meant to bring a bit of joy and nature to the cold mechanical computer screens designers use every day. Designers spend much of their life in front of the computer and often miss out on a lot of the great wonders of nature. These desktop wallpaper designs are meant to brighten our long days with beautiful scenes of nature related landscapes.
Adobe Photoshop tutorials are a great way to keep your design skills sharp while learning how to create cool new effects. We keep a close eye on the top Adobe Photoshop tutorial websites in the design community so we can keep you informed on the latest and greats adobe tutorials. In this tutorial round up you will learn how to create an incredible mystic faced man, a Loox Pocket PC, an iPod Shuffle and an awesome space scene with lighting effects!
Custom printing has always been associated with hefty printing costs, slow turnarounds and pre-press nightmares, but with advances in printing technologies this is finally no longer true! Custom printing sizes have many benefits, including more creative freedom, more personalization and it can be great for marketing campaigns looking to achieve a better (ROI) return on investment. Consumers are so used to standard sizes and like we’ve mentioned in previous posts, these new custom sizes can be very refreshing!
You the Designer Exclusive! Vector Art Free Download – Envelope Icon Set
Our latest edition to our exclusive free vector art collection is this awesome and extensive envelope icon set created by our good friend and talented illustrator Phil Earley.
Having a portfolio website is an essential aspect of many designers lives, and optimizing and monitoring your site will benefit you in many ways. If you are seeking freelance work and more recognition then yo will need a to use one or several of these website traffic monitoring methods.
Round two of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition is now over and I am pleased to see so many amazing entires! To see all the entires you MUST login to Flickr and view the group. Now that all entries are in, the judging period will begin. We expect this to take about two weeks and we will keep you all updated. Once all votes have come in we will announce the winners with another post on this blog.
All submissions must be in by midnight eastern time tonight before it becomes June 6th! All submissions are moderated so as long as you submit your poster and comment in time you will be fine. It usually takes a while for them to show up in the flickr group and comments section of the post. Good luck everyone!
MTV and HP are teaming up for a a cool new series that will air on MTV worldwide. This new show will pit creative minds from around the world against each other in a battle of digital art skills that will include graphic design, animation, mixing sounds, filmmaking and more.