How 20 designers charge their clients
In this article Graphic Designer David Airey interviews 20 designers. He asks them how they charge their clients and why they recommend charging this way. This is really helpful especially if you’re just starting out.
How 20 Designers Charge their Clients
December 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials
The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials – Smashing Magazine
December 1, 2009 Leave a Comment
Divine
Divine creates websites from Photoshop to Wordpress quickly, and it’s free! Your design looks as you created it, not as browsers want it. I’ve not tried this but it looks quite good for those who don’t have much HTML knowledge.
October 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
Free Textures from TextureZ.com
A good source for free textures for commercial and non-commercial use in your projects.
October 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
Texture Lovers
texturelovers.com has lots of great, free textures you can use in your designs. Categories include cardboard, fabric, concrete, liquid and paint.
Bundled Cardboard Textures - Texture Lovers
September 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
Best 5 Hand-Drawn Social Icon Set
Best 5 Hand-Drawn Social Icon Set.
August 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
32 Trashy And Distorted Fonts For Your Next Grungy Design
Some prefer grungy-looking websites over glossy “web 2.0″ style websites. Using patterns and textured backgrounds can help give a website that dirty grungy feel, but a similar style font can help too. Spyrestudios.com has compiled 32 Trashy And Distorted Fonts For Your Next Grungy Design.
August 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
“The logo is the face of any brand — the very first impression — so its design is extremely important. When executed correctly, a logo is a powerful asset to your client’s brand. However, creating an effective visual representation of a brand requires much more than just graphic design.”
12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
July 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
East Anglian Graphic Designers
To put it bluntly, there are more designers out there than Chris Spooner and David Airey. I was getting pretty bored of the same designers being mentioned in blogs, over and over. Sure, they are great designers and I will always visit their websites, but there are more talented people out there who deserve a mention, and it’s pretty lazy to keep mentioning the same names in lists of great designers.
It can also be difficult to see what’s really out there when you’re influenced by the same designers.
So I’ve done a little research (when I say research, I mean I googled “graphic designers”) and formed a small list of people from my neck of the woods. Some of their websites aren’t quite up to scratch, some of them are bloody brilliant, but that doesn’t matter. This is about the quality of their work, so click through to the portfolios of these sites and take a look at what the east of England has to offer.
July 14, 2009 1 Comment
30 Beautiful Wood Inspired Websites and 200+ “Woody” Resources
“Using wooden background, patterns , cardboard background, table-top design is really a cool trend among web designers. Whether you are creating a portfolio or a company website using wood materials brings “real life” like feeling in the web pages. In this post you will find 30 beautiful wood inspired web sites and resources such as background, patterns, photoshop brush to create your own “wooden” website. ”
30 Beautiful Wood Inspired Websites and 200+ “Woody” Resources
July 13, 2009 Leave a Comment