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...
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...
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...
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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Hate Arial and all what is common in the web? Want your blog to be different and original? Keep on reading, this article will help solving one of your problems. Web design has its limitation, which is for e.g. using common fonts like Arial, Tahoma, Verdana families etc. However, creatively thinking designers always find a...
When you are starting, aspiring graphic designer you might want to keep your expenses low. You want to practice using best available cost-effective resources. Meaning? You want as much as possible for free Below I list some of the best free font websites. Remember that most of the free fonts are not good option for...
- Yes.. but I would do it in different way, use that colour and background[...].” -”And that’s why is ME WHO IS DESIGNER, not you” – you would like to talk back. Probably you had this great pleasure to meet client who seemed to be designer of your project. The type of client who disagreed...
If you are traveler or are simply interested in international marketing, you have probably noticed that brand names of some companies differ between countries. To stay recognised, usually only the name is being changed while graphic representation of the company stays the same. What you can call Walls Ice Cream in UK, in its former...
However there are no rules in designing and stating any may seem controversial, but I would like to raise awareness on some of the hot mistakes/misuses in designing. Some of them I gathered from another great designer Jacob Cass’ s article, some I know from experience. Remember that design is an experimenting process and some...
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