Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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!
The world is buzzing about the upcoming President elections in the U.S. and TemplateMonster has decided to hold its own elections, well to see which template will win of course! All you have to do is vote for the design that you consider to be better for America-the-beautiful. Then after the elections are over TemplateMonster will count the votes and the ones who voted for the design that eventually becomes the winner will be entered into the lottery. The voting is active from June 26th until July 9th 2008 so hurry and get your votes in!
Hey all its finally time to announce the winner of the Markup4u.com comment contest! Markup4u.com can 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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.