1. Social Media for Graphic Designers – Constructive or Destructive?
With the growing challenges of graphic designing, social media is a becoming a necessity for every graphic designer. Nowadays, every industry is shifting its focus towards social media for its publicity and promotion and the graphic design industry is no exception. But like every other technology that has been invented, social media has its share of boons and banes. Now don’t get me wrong here guys, I am not suggesting that we should not utilize the blessings of social media. What I wish to achieve in my post is to give you a balanced analysis of social media and its impacts on graphic designers.
2. Smashing Your Creative Block – Photoshop Tutorial
The question arises so much nowadays, How do you overcome your Creative Block? I made it simple for everyone today and created a Photoshop Tutorial to smash your creative block. I will use simple and easy techniques to create a smashing composition text tutorial. It won’t take you to long to finish and you will learn that it is pretty easy to create this effect. Have fun.
3. 45 Awesome Free Grunge Fonts
Grunge fonts are very popular within the design world right now. If you are a fan of grunge design style where everything is worn, distorted or eroded looking, my collection of 45 free grunge fonts is just perfect for you.
4. The Lost Principles of Design
In the instant design age many of us often stray away from the basics in design. If you had a professor in college who taught you the fundamentals of design these may be engrained into your skull. For the self-taught, you may have a book on your desk with these very principles that you refer to on a daily basis. However, the more and more people that flood the internet for design content need to learn the basics before trying to make a stellar gradient in Photoshop. While this is cool and amazing right now, there will come a point where this style is left behind and a new style is made. In history, this lesson has repeated itself with movements like the Bauhaus and Swiss Modernism and will soon label our current trends as part of history.
5. 300+ Beautiful Websites For Design Inspiration
Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display excellent design.
6. The History of Television Through the Pages of Popular Science Magazine
The Jetsons promised us flying cars and sentient robots by 2062. 2001: A Space Odyssey promised galactic travel – beyond today’s dinky power wheels stuck in mud up in Mars – that’s now already a decade overdue. And while I’ve jumped into damn near 300 hot tubs since I first saw the trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, Duran Duran is still socially unacceptable listening. Technology has totally failed us.
7. Why You Can’t Ignore Video
I’ve tried to ignore video as long as possible! I’m not a fan of cameras – they’re too revealing, intimate, and personal. They capture everything. They convey more emotion and carry more impact, and they reveal more flaws. Actually, these are a few of the reasons you can’t afford to ignore video.
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8. Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design
Web design has followed a long and windy road from it’s rather modest beginnings. Initially, the term “web designer,” described something much more akin to that of a graphic designer: a designer who concerns themselves with the presentation of text and pictures.
9. Google Stealing Content and Hijacking Traffic? A deeper look.
Recently, a blog post by Michael Gray called “Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic” caught my attention. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s the low down: The blog suggests that Google is “stealing” traffic (and thus revenue) from other companies by providing more information to its searchers upfront, instead of requiring searchers to click through and see the content themselves, among other claims.
10. 404 Error Pages for Your Viewing Pleasure
