My favourite links this week include - how you can gain experience as a designer, 100 seamless patterns, brochure, headers and footers inspiration, how to clean up a logo, and design elements of a blog.
Tips for new designers to gain real world experience
In this article, Preston Lee guides new graphic designers with various tips and techniques on how to gain working experience in a ‘tough-to-start-out-in’ field. As a designer, you’ve certainly run into the classical blunder: You can’t get real design experience without a design job, and you can’t get a design job without real-world experience. This article lists several steps you can take to gain real-world experience as a new graphic designer.
100+ Seamless Patterns Great for creating website backgrounds
Seamless patterns are a great way to add interest and detail to a web design background. In this post we’ve rounded up over one hundred seamless patterns. You’ll find a wide variety of styles such as vintage, florals, and stripes. All of these are of very high quality so you can use them as is or use them as a foundation for your own background.
Tips and tricks for freelance graphic designers
Freelance graphic designing is an enjoyable professional field that allows you to work with freedom and much relaxation. However, managing your freelance operations is a hell of hard work that most of us do not learn until a very long time. Freelancing has its particular pros and cons that depend a lot on the freelance designer himself. There are many risks involved in freelancing business, which, however can be dealt with.
20 Brochure design examples - ideas for your print projects
20 Beautiful brochures you just have to see.
How to effectively clean up a logo in Illustrator with the pathfinder tool
Cleaning a logo is a must do. This isn’t something that you just pass on to someone else. Just like naming your layers before handing off the logo, this separates the men from the boys (or women from the ladies) and truly defines you as a good designer to work with or a great designer that gets recommended to others.
Life cycle of a website - an experience
It feels really great, when you get associated with the complete life cycle of a website – strategize – design – develop – market – develop – make money. I am sure that many of you have experienced this awesome practice and many are just starting. And there are a lot more people who are not directly associated with this whole process. Here is one of my experiences that may help you understand it from an implementer’s perspective.
7 Essential design elements of a blog
Any Blog requires certain design characteristics to ensure the users remain as satisfied and engaged as possible. With the recent popularity of social media, expectations from blogs are higher than ever before. Any user would expect to immediately do a Facebook ‘like’ upon reading a good blog article today! By this of course we are speaking of a feature. How about design elements? They are just as important, although some of you may be unaware of the reasons! A user expects a design that places images and text in an easy to follow manner. We’ve put together eight pointers, which we believe help fine-tune your blog design.
35 Inspiring headers and footers
Headers and footers are extremely important in web design, as we mentioned last year, they are powerful sections of a website and it’s very important that you take good care of them while putting together your site. From clean and minimal to colorful and illustrated, you can really get your viewers attention with beautiful and well designed headers and footers. Check out some inspiring examples we’ve gathered.
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Tips for new designers to gain real world experience
In this article, Preston Lee guides new graphic designers with various tips and techniques on how to gain working experience in a ‘tough-to-start-out-in’ field. As a designer, you’ve certainly run into the classical blunder: You can’t get real design experience without a design job, and you can’t get a design job without real-world experience. This article lists several steps you can take to gain real-world experience as a new graphic designer.
100+ Seamless Patterns Great for creating website backgrounds
Seamless patterns are a great way to add interest and detail to a web design background. In this post we’ve rounded up over one hundred seamless patterns. You’ll find a wide variety of styles such as vintage, florals, and stripes. All of these are of very high quality so you can use them as is or use them as a foundation for your own background.
Tips and tricks for freelance graphic designers
Freelance graphic designing is an enjoyable professional field that allows you to work with freedom and much relaxation. However, managing your freelance operations is a hell of hard work that most of us do not learn until a very long time. Freelancing has its particular pros and cons that depend a lot on the freelance designer himself. There are many risks involved in freelancing business, which, however can be dealt with.
20 Brochure design examples - ideas for your print projects
20 Beautiful brochures you just have to see.
How to effectively clean up a logo in Illustrator with the pathfinder tool
Cleaning a logo is a must do. This isn’t something that you just pass on to someone else. Just like naming your layers before handing off the logo, this separates the men from the boys (or women from the ladies) and truly defines you as a good designer to work with or a great designer that gets recommended to others.
Life cycle of a website - an experience
It feels really great, when you get associated with the complete life cycle of a website – strategize – design – develop – market – develop – make money. I am sure that many of you have experienced this awesome practice and many are just starting. And there are a lot more people who are not directly associated with this whole process. Here is one of my experiences that may help you understand it from an implementer’s perspective.
7 Essential design elements of a blog
Any Blog requires certain design characteristics to ensure the users remain as satisfied and engaged as possible. With the recent popularity of social media, expectations from blogs are higher than ever before. Any user would expect to immediately do a Facebook ‘like’ upon reading a good blog article today! By this of course we are speaking of a feature. How about design elements? They are just as important, although some of you may be unaware of the reasons! A user expects a design that places images and text in an easy to follow manner. We’ve put together eight pointers, which we believe help fine-tune your blog design.
35 Inspiring headers and footers
Headers and footers are extremely important in web design, as we mentioned last year, they are powerful sections of a website and it’s very important that you take good care of them while putting together your site. From clean and minimal to colorful and illustrated, you can really get your viewers attention with beautiful and well designed headers and footers. Check out some inspiring examples we’ve gathered.
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