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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.
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.
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 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.
Our friends over at HOW Magazine wanted us to invite you all to join HOW Magazine in Boston, May 18-21 for the 2008 HOW Design Conference! Each year the HOW Design Conference brings together the greatest minds of the design industry for a spectacular gathering. Below are some great reasons why you should consider attending this one of a kind design conference!
As some of you know I am a graphic designer. Right now I freelance from home and run several websites including this blog, my graphic design forums, t shirt blog and a clothing line. I have also been going to school full time, but I will be graduating very soon. Once I graduate I plan on finding a steady job in New York as a graphic designer, while continuing to work on my website and other projects.
Graphis, The International Journal of Visual Communication is now accepting entries to its student competition where Advertising, Design and Photography students, will compete for the Graphis Gold Award, a spot in the book and world wide recognition!
Our friends over at Flashloaded.com have just released a truly amazing fully customizable flash component that will display your work on a 3D wall and they gave us two of these to give away to You the Designer readers! The flash wall has over 60 adjustable parameters, a built-in-preloader, and users can scroll, tilt and zoom in, ensuring maximum freedom and interactivity while viewing.
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!
This leading European forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts exhibits great collections of over 400 pieces from more than 60 artists at creative hot spots in Europe every year. They are currently accepting submissions, so check out the rules and get your submissions in by July 31st, 2008.