Design Experience
Dealing with Paranoid Clients
There seems to be a good number of clients who get paranoid about design. They rarely settle with your first design work. In a design they fear, for example, that if you do not make this word in caps or this sentence bigger, or this image over here instead of over there, somehow the design will miss the important message. […]
Nikon D700 Full-Frame DSLR announced
Perhaps the worst kept secret of any recent announcement Nikon has now officially revealed the compact, professional, twelve megapixel, full-frame (FX format) Nikon D700. From the outside the D700 is virtually identical to the D300, albeit for its larger ‘full frame’ viewfinder, internally it’s almost identical to the D3, except for a slightly slower shutter […]
How great design ideas come to be
When I’m speaking about “GREAT IDEAS” I’m not talking in objective term, I’m talking in subjective term. As a designer you know when your design idea is a great one. It doesn’t necessarily mean that if it is great to you, it must be great to others. As designers we know when we […]
Convincing Potential Clients why they should choose you!
You may have been a numerous times in a situation where you ALMOST got selected for the project but something happened in the process and the client dissapeared. Seldom did following up with the client produced any desired results. What happened is yet to be discovered.
There are three areas in which convincing takes place.
Approach
Knowledge
Portfolio
I usually follow these […]
Developing a Design Style
We always recognize an expert in his/her design field when we see one. We also recognize a designer’s style when we see one. Unfortunately you cannot have a style if you dont have the skill. The skill is what defines a style. If you are an imature designer then your designs will lack any recognizable style. Building […]
Bitmap to Vector Tool
A fast and easy conversion tool called Vector Magic for designers who need to convert Bitmap images to vector.
Vector magic is online tool developed at Stanford University. This is a powerful tool, very easy to use and provides unbelievable results. Just upload your image, and it will be converted online and have it available for […]
Why use Color Code Book?
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/Why_you_should_be_using_Color_Tint_Book’;Many Designers design using WYSIWYG approach, although it is very comfortable and time saving, it could hurt you when your prints come back form the commercial printing press and you began yelling, screaming, scratching your head, and calling the printing firm blaming them how dare they printed the sky purple instead of […]
Improving Design by simply purchasing High-Resolution Images
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/What_1_thing_I_can_do_to_Improve_my_Design_skill’;Earlier I wrote about the importance of knowing basics of photography, but there are other times you simply must have professional images purchased through commercial channels, especially because your photography skills and technology can be greatly limited to the abilities of the pros. There was a time when purchasing high-resolution professional images cost a fortune, but […]
Make Residual Income from businesscard reprints.
You’ve probably heard enough of all those money making schemes “make money while you sleep”. You probably went to such seminars and got pumped up only to learn later how quickly your life went flat again. Such Schemes are well known, and you probably learned already not to get suckered in by these scams. The […]
Designers need to know the basics of photography
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/Graphic_Designers_should_know_Photography’;There will be those projects which will require of you to properly advertise the product for your customer. Doing a Point-n-Shoot procedure will not pass for an effective advertising solution. Which is why part of every day design knowledge should be your ability to photograph.
You may say to me,
I purchase all my photography […]
