Pro Bono work can provide a valuable portfolio boost
In the design world, nobody will hire you without something in your portfolio, but how do you get that portfolio if no one will hire you?
The top 10 mistakes experienced designers make
Can you remember when you first started out? It feels like just yesterday you were scraping around for work. Today, you strut with some coin in your pocket and a few satisfied clients to boot.
What’s in a name? A case study of the Nike brand.
Naming something like a company or product sounds easy enough, but as soon as you sit to write all those delicious, creative ideas down, writer’s blocks come out of nowhere with a right hook… BAM!!! Now what?
Logo Design Love: a book every designer should have
“Logo Design Love” by David Airey was more than just a book about logo design. If you haven’t begun your fantastic journey into brand design, then you should really pick up this book and get some awesome pointers and advice.
Design software – should you go with the free stuff?
When starting their career, most freelancers are faced with a problem, money. Money in the pocket always seems to be a little less than what is required.
The myth of original design
But the sad truth is how sure are these companies that the new logo they are so proud of is original? That their new logo doesn’t just come in a different color or gradient than someone else?
Want to kill your design career? Don’t take this advice.
What does it mean to be trendy? It’s defined as being fashionable and up to date.
If you’re going to participate in the whole crowdsourcing thing…
Regardless of what a lot of critics say, I believe crowdsourcing can be a very rewarding experience.
How to deal with that incredibly controlling, completely stupid client
Let’s faces facts. Every now and again, you’ll come across that one client in your designing career, that really believes they know more about design than you do.
How to survive creatively as the only person in your office
The first thing you’ll want to do is research the industry the logo is for. You want to know as much as you can about it.
Are Logo Design Contests Evil?
Once, (when I was starting my career as a designer) I had submitted my resume, along with a sample of my portfolio, to a company that was in the process of hiring.
Official French “Anti Piracy Squad” Caught Pirating
Everyone makes mistakes. I get that. But every once in a while a group or organization makes such a stupid mistake that it sets them apart from all other people who make mistakes.
Expedia Fails Horribly In Rebranding Attempt
Launched in ’95, Expedia arrived on the online travel booking scene to give some competition to rival Travelocity (1995) and eventually put all independent travel agents out of work.
Photoshopped Ads Banned In England
When the model “Twiggy” appeared in a series of Olay ads looking much younger than her 59 years and claiming that the product she was advertising, “Definitely Eye Cream”, was responsible for the changes, people started crying foul.
Sculpting with dust. Yes, that’s right, dust.
Paul Hazelton is an artist. But unlike most artists, he works with a very uncommon medium. Dust.
You could get sued for using the Google logo on your site!
You may have seen offers like these using Google’s name or logo that sounded too good to be true.
Get Thee Behind Me: The Client From Hell
We’ve all had them. Those clients who are so crazy unreasonable that you are tempted to give up freelancing completely and go drop an application off at Burger King.
5 Totally Wearable Pieces Of Art
Blackbirds, Japanese Ghost Monks, Giant Trees. Here are some of the coolest shirts you’ll ever see.
15 Deeply Disturbing Photoshop Manipulations
There are many incredible things you can do with Photoshop, such as editing your weird neighbor out of the background of the only picture from the family reunion that everyone was smiling in.
5 resources for designing a UNIQUE logo
Whether you are just a casual designer, who likes to spend some of your spare time doodling on a PC, or are an avid enthusiast who only leaves the PC for ‘snacks’ and ‘toilet needs’, these people/places are a pretty cool way to go for those mental block moments which we ALL acquire occasionally.
Content theft and how to deal with it
The next day I received a panicky call from a guy that sounded like he was still in his teens, he was extremely apologetic, terrified that I was going to sue him, and adamant that the pirated images were his website designers fault and he had no idea that they were not original.
