Designer Daily, one of our favorite blogs here at IheartGraphics they just posted 30 Amazing Vintage Movie posters, and it’s great to see how some of these are easy to date, but they still look great! All of them, great inspirational material for any graphic designer! Be sure to check them out.
I grew up in a neighborhood with a high concentration of Filipinos, so when I came across this article on Team Manila I was immediately interested. It seems this graphic design studio has been open since 2001 and puts a lot of their efforts into nationalism, rather than focusing on other cultures they’re embracing their own. Be sure to check out the article!
First and foremost, if you’re thinking of joining the graphic design community it should be something you’re passionate about, because the competition can be so stiff, it’s important that this is something you really want to do. Oxidizzy has a great blog post on 8 steps to get into the graphic design industry, be sure to check it out!
These days there’s not a lot of money floating around, and most businesses are hurting but there are things you can ask of your clients instead of more money. You The Designer posted up 7, while I’ll list what I think the most important are.
Testimonials
Testimonials are great for your site, but only if they can be verified, if someone gives you and awesome testimonial but wants to remain anonymous, who’s to say you didn’t write the testimonial yourself? A link to the clients website should take care of this.
Designed By Links
When you design a website, be sure to ask the client if you can include a small link at the bottom of the page, often times even resistant clients will let you put a link up that may match the background closely, especially for a discount of some sort, or maybe you can offer to design free business cards, something simple, the link is worth it.
Logo Usage Rights
For your own website, it’s important to have a list of your clients, be sure to ask if you can use a client’s logo on your site.
Referrals
The best way to get business is by word of mouth, ask your clients to tell their friends about you, you can also offer incentives for every project you get based on one of their referrals.
Creattica.com is a great site where the design community can look forward to submitting great designs as well as view other designs for inspiration. Over 3,000 designs are featured on the site and you vote on designs if you like them. Only the best work is featured in their gallery which appears to be monitored by an actual graphic artist(s). The logos featured are all very creative while keeping the simplicity. Be sure to check the site out!
1800 Artist Series
1800 Tequila has a wonderful new project going on right now, they’ve commissioned 1800 artists of all styles and have come up with an artist series that displays art in a not-so-typical medium. Also if you sign up at their website you can upload your own artwork or photos and have people vote on them.
While searching for the evolution of logos I found the Evolution of Tech Logos over at Neatorama. Though all of the logos listed here have changed significantly, if not entirely, from the originals, for the most part they’ve been on the same path for decades now. Apple’s first logo was virtually unknown and not even used for a year before they switched over to the rainbow striped apple they used until 1999, when it was replaced with the monochrome apple we all know today.
Be sure to head over to Neatorama to check them all out.
Every year there seems to be trends in logos, not many stand the test of time, but for instant recognization, many business models fall into the trends of the time that they’re staring their brand. Logo Lounge has posted a great article about all the recent trends from photo fills to mosaic styles. Be sure to head over and check it out.
Have you always wanted to be a graphic designer, or looked at something and thought “I could have made that.” Well PSDTUTS is offering 50 100% free lessons in graphic design, the topics cover a wide range indepth including Typography and Color Theory. Be sure to check it out, you’ll definately learn something.
I came across a brilliant blog entry entitled 50 Popular Airline Logos on the Web Designer Depot.
The blog which is new to me will definatley be on my regular blog rounds.
