Archive for August, 2008

Round Three Contest Extension

Due to the holiday weekend we have decided to extend the final due date of Round Three of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition. So enjoy the weekend and be sure to get your entries in by the new date September 8th!

12 Wild Wine Label Design Samples

A wine store is a paradise for any graphic designer seeking inspiration. Most wine stores have thousands of bottles of wine, all of which are uniquely branded with a wine label. You could spend an entire weekend examining all the different wine label designs in a wine store and still not view them all.

We Are not Freelancers’ Competition

We Are not Freelancers’ is hosting a fun little competition where you have to take an image provided by them and use it in a creative way. The contest is sponsored by UPrinting.com and there are some cool prizes being awarded.

How to Create Raining Clouds – Adobe Tutorial

Ok, in this tutorial I am going to help you create clouds with rain ( you can choose to add the rain ) in Photoshop. I am using Photoshop CS2 for this tutorial, but if you are using any other version I’m sure it’ll work just the same! This tutorial is pretty basic, yet highly effective!

Top 15 DVD Cover Art Designs of 2008

2008 has been an amazing year for movies with great hits such as Iron Man, The Dark Knight and The Pineapple Express. All of the movies we love are given a face by the graphic designers and art directors who work hard on the DVD cover art, posters, print ads and so on. Today we showcased DVD cover art from 30 of the top movies of 2008. Larger versions of the DVD cover art below can be found at www.freecovers.net

Round Three Contest Reminder!

This is just a reminder that Round Three of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition has begun! This round is all about typography, and you will compete with other designers to see who can create the most awesome poster design using type and textures!

10 Ways to Build a Name For Yourself

Building a name for yourself is the best investment you can make as a designer and building up your own name recognition really isn’t as hard as you may think. If you are well know and trusted than finding work will be much easier, so check out these tips on how to get your name out there!

User Experience / Web Designer at UPrinting.com

UPrinting.com is currently seeking a full-time senior level user experience and web designer to join their creative team in their West Los Angeles office!

Cinema 4D Tutorial – How to Create 3D Grass

Ok! This is a Cinema 4D Tutorial I’ve created which will introduce you to object manipulation, textures, fur and also general familiarity with the program itself. I’m using Cinema 4D 10 and you can download the demo directly from Maxon.

Top 5 Graphic Design Forums

Graphic Design Forums are a great way to really immerse yourself into the graphic design community. You can meet other designers, ask questions, talk about the latest design news, ask for critiques of your work and much more. Being active in a design community is also another great way to promote your own work and get your name out there. If you are an active member and you contribute quality posts most forums will let you add a signature after your posts linking to your portfolio.

Round Three of the UPrinting.com Contest Live

Round Three has begun and this time Typography and Textures are the name of the game! Designers will create a poster design using one or more of the provided stock textures from iStockphoto.com and one or more of the fonts from FontShop.com for a chance to win great prizes, including an iPhone and the chance to be featured in a full-page ad in PRINT Magazine!

Flashmint Blog Design and Blogging Contest

FlashMint.com is a great website for flash templates and they were kind enough to let us know about a design contest they are holding where designers will compete to come up with the best blog design for the Flashmint blog where the 1st place winner will get $500.

UCreative.com Design Gallery Giveaway

UCreative.com is a new Design Gallery I helped launch that lets designers submit, rate and view designs. Our goal with this site was to create a massive design gallery that designers could go to for inspiration. It also servers as great platform for designers to showcase their best work, allowing potential clients to find designers for jobs and gigs!

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