Knowing Photoshop And Illustrator Doesn’t Make You A Graphic Designer

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments by Kamila

How many your friends you’ve heard that they are professional graphic designers? How many of them declare that they know Photoshop and call themselves a designers just because they made corny invitation to the birthday party? Sure, you can be self-taught designer but to be ‘designer’ there is a lot more than knowing Adobe products.

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The Best And Worst Logos Of 2009

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments by Kamila

Last year abounded with many brilliant and missed concepts of brand identities. Yale University gave up with its famous Paul Rand’s logo in aim of simple Yale typeface. Hilton had his logo completely redesigned but didn’t avoid terrible mistake with adding unnecessary bevels. Kraft foods company decided to move with the times and completely changed [...]

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Your Business-Friendly Facebook Profile: How Not To Reveal Too Much Share

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments by Kamila

If you think seriously about your design business you are aware about importance of your business image. It doesn’t apply to the language you use on your website. It applies to all information which is revealed about you on the web. Have you ever heard about HR people checking facebook account of potential candidate for [...]

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5 Websites Every Designer Must Know About

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

In today’s post I would like to share with you 5 great websites every designer must know about. Have you always wanted to know which font is used in Facebook’s logo? Or how your website looks like in different browsers than yours? Do you want to check if your layout is all browser’s compatible? Then [...]

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How To Get Your First Graphic Design Job

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

Designers are aware that our market can be really tough for freelancing. Many young graphic design students find it hard to establish profitable business during or just right out of school. Applying for design job to the company can be a good solution; sustained income, ongoing projects, no or little responsibility for finding & building [...]

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Going freelance: Setting up a graphic design business

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

Graphic designers can work in many different environments. You’ve certainly heard about advertising agencies, in-house designers and of course, freelancers. This article is focused on setting up your on graphic design company, in other words: going freelance.

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To tweet or not to tweet? Promoting your company’s blog on Twitter.

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

Twitter is a particular phenomenon in social-media industry. This 3 years old company already has 46 millions members and recent surveys show that it increases the number of members of more than 1360 % annually. Want to know what Miley Cirus eats for breakfast? Or how many dogs bought Paris Hilton last week? Go on [...]

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Product placement in the movies: Did 500 days of Summer contribute to building Ikea brand?

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

I’ve just watched one of the greatest movies recently made – 500 days of Summer and it made me start thinking about product placement in the movies. To reduce costs of the movie, producers of this surprisingly good movie, agreed for product placement (or rather in this case – brand placement).

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Top must-have WP plugins for your company’s blog

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

Your blog is not supported by WordPress? Doesn’t matter. This article can still be very helpful for improving usability of your company’s blog.

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Free stock photography websites for your company’s blog

Jun 05, 2010 No Comments

Everybody knows how important are the photos on your website. They help building the image of your company, creating mood by using certain themes or colours & explaining things without words. Here are some of the best royalty-free stock photo sites:

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