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Monday, August 31st, 2009

Learning From El Lissitzky

I’ll admit it – I had a HUGE design crush on El Lissitsky when I was in school. I had just discovered Russian Avant Guard work and was in love with the red and black color scheme, harsh angles and visual punctuation, and geometric simplicity. Whats not to love? We can learn a lot from [...]

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Friday, August 28th, 2009

Question of the Week #13 Marketing Yourself

This week we are discussing how you are currently marketing yourself – as a freelance designer, as a designer looking for a job, on twitter. Wherever and however you are marketing yourself ! Leave a comment and lets get a discussion going.  Share links to your resources for marketing tips and strategy. Listen!

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009

How To Create Brushes In Photoshop

Today we are going to go over the basic’s of making a brush for Photoshop. While I am using CS4 there is no difference in using CS3, as seen in my previous tutorial.

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Monday, August 24th, 2009

Don’t Miss The Next Chat Creative Pannel!

You won’t want to miss the next Chat Creative panel on August 26th at 6pm CST! What’s this Chat Creative thing? We like to think of ourselves as a design panel for the rest of the world. Our goal is to help connect the creative community one chat at a time. The  panel includes Aaron Irizarry, Adelle Charles, Chad [...]

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Friday, August 21st, 2009

Quick Tip #40 Eazy IE6 PNG Fix!

In this quick tip I show you how to use the fastest, easiest, and quite possibly BEST ie6 png fix out there! (DD_Belated PNG Fix) Leave a comment and let me know what you think! And don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes.

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Launching: Daily Design Bits

If you’ve been following me on twitter you are well aware of what I’ve been up to the past few weeks. Today I’m launching another (mini) blog called Daily Design Bits. This blog will feature frequent short posts of all the ‘shiny things I find on and off the interwebs’. Hop on over there and [...]

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