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Don’t Forget To Say Hello
As you probably all know I’m an avid Twitter user. I love interacting with other designers and non designers to share and learn. But all to often Twitter turns into a sea of links and re-tweets. This in itself isnt a bad thing, but I think we (myself included) tend to forget that ACTUAL PEOPLE [...]
Posted on 12 March 2010 | 5:35 am
How To Set Up Files For Printing
One of the most important assets you can have as a designer doing print work, whether you are new or old is an understanding of how to correctly set your files up for printing. There are multiple ways to do this and I am not saying that my is the only way but, mine [...]
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 5:43 am
So You Call Yourself A Designer?
Computer – check. Photoshop – check. Lots of free time – check. It seems that this is all that is necessary to call yourself a ‘designer’ these days. I believe that there is far more to a designer than software, computers and free time. Designers should have critical thinking skills, understanding of design principals, knowledge of grid systems, typography and [...]
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 2:45 pm
How To Change Text To All Caps In Photoshop
In this quick tip I’ll show you how to change the case of existing text in photoshop. This can be super handy if you are working with lots of text in photoshop as I was today. If you are too lazy to watch the video the magic keyboard shortcut is shift+cmd+k with the text selected [...]
Posted on 25 February 2010 | 2:44 pm
It All Started With Photoshop…
So it looks like Photoshop just rang in another birthday! Photoshop just turned 20?!?!?!? Holy crap that’s a long time for software. I don’t know about you but Photoshop was my first ‘design’ program starting with version 6. I admit that I cheated a bit and also tinkered with Gimp for a bit. But I [...]
Posted on 20 February 2010 | 5:36 am
Clients From Heaven, Clients From Hell – Design Chat With Liz Andrade
In the wake of the popularity of the Clients From Hell site I thought it would be appropriate to talk about good experiences with clients. I had a chance to have a chat with Liz Andrade from CmdShiftDesign and discuss the topic. What do you think? Have you had good (or bad) experiences with clients? What was it [...]
Posted on 18 February 2010 | 6:03 pm
Designers *First* Designs…
Remember when you had that *first* genius moment in design when we discovered effects in Photoshop or the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator? (I remember these moments quite fondly…) Its always great to look back and where we came from and laugh at ourselves I asked some of my fellow designers to [...]
Posted on 8 February 2010 | 5:46 am
Finding A Design Community Online
Social design communities can be found all over the web and can play a vital role in growing and learning as a designer. I will be reviewing four of my favorites: Flickr, DeviantART, Coroflot and Behance and discussing the positives and negatives of each community. Flickr is mainly geared towards showing off photography, but you can often [...]
Posted on 3 February 2010 | 6:13 am
Quick Tip: How To Create Diagonal Guides In Illustrator
It’s super easy to make diagonal or custom guides in Illustrator! Just grab the line tool or pen tool, draw the line and then go to view guides make guides. If you are into keyboard shortcuts its apple+5 on mac or control+5 on PC. Walla! Have a suggestion for a quick tip? Wondering how to do [...]
Posted on 29 January 2010 | 3:47 am
My Thoughts On The Apple iPad
Yesterday afternoon I tuned in with the thousands of fanbois and girls to listen to God, (I mean Steve Jobs) introduce Apples newest creation: The iPad. After my initial non-amusement with the name and product features I couldn’t stop thinking that this product was not made for me – a power user. The iPad is geared [...]
Posted on 28 January 2010 | 5:01 am
