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Job Posting – Freelance Tutorial Writer

The team here at You the Designer is looking for a freelance tutorial writer to help bolster the variety of content offered to our readers. If you have experience writing design tutorials, please email us right now.

UPrinting.com Offers Free Canvas Print Promotion

Printing on canvas is becoming quite popular among photographers and designers. If you haven’t tried it out, now is the perfect time to give it a shot. UPrinting.com is offering a free 16×20″ rolled canvas print with any order over $50. All they ask in return is that you have your design shared in their print idea gallery (which is great for getting yourself more exposure as a designer).

Win Ben Harper Halloweenabaloo Tickets

Ben Harper, Andy Summers, Linda Perry and Flea (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) are confirmed to perform at the Silverlake Conservatory Of Music’s annual Halloweenabaloo concert at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles on October 31, 2009. Why are we blogging about this? Because we received two tickets to this event and we decided that these two tickets should go to our readers. Yes! That’s right. Keep reading to find out how you can win a pair of tickets to see Ben Harper and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers! This is an intimate fundraiser with tons of big names in attendance. Not to mention the fact that you’ll get the chance to hear some awesome musicians jamming out (with an open bar at your disposal)!

UPrinting.com Blog Sponsorship Program

UPrinting.com has recently launched a pretty cool new promotion for bloggers called the Blog Sponsor Program. The program is basically geared towards helping blog owners promote their new blogs and business ventures and its also a great way to attract new visitors to your blog. Giveaways are big in the design community especially brushes, free vector art, textures and so on and now you can get free printing, which is extremely useful and valuable.

LIVE FOREVER: Enter the AIGA Annual Design Competitions

Our friends from the AIGA wanted us to let you know about some great contests over at competitions.aiga.org. The deadline for submissions is soon, so be sure to enter before the party is over!

Beautiful/Decay Apparel and UCreative.com T Shirt Contest

The Design Gallery UCreative.com is hosting a sweet new T Shirt Contest Sponsored by Beautiful/Decay Apparel where designers will compete for a chance to get their design printed, $200 cash, $100 worth of free printing credits and more! Beautiful/Decay Apparel is known for letting artists express themselves via t shirt designs and the same goes for this contest.

My New e-Book: Fuel for Design

Hey all just wanted to let you all know about my new e-Book Fuel for Design! Fuel for Design is a complete guide on How to Start A Clothing Line and is packed full of the latest T Shirt Business and marketing tips. I know countless designers and many of them specialize in t-shirt design, but what they do is spend most of their time selling their amazing designs off for cheap or praying they will win a t-shirt design contest!

Colorburned Texture Pack Giveaway Winners

Colorburned is an awesome site that offers High-Quality Texture Packs in their online store and they were kind enough to give us over 300 textures to give away to one lucky winner. Colorburned is a great resource site for graphic designers who need to quickly build up an arsenal of great design elements to use in their projects. Thanks to everyone who participated in this giveaway and be sure to Subscribe and stay tuned for more!

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.

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!

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