Archive for The Industry
{ December 2, 2009 @ 7:43 pm }
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{ Design News, The Industry, marketing }
{ Tags: design, grapchic design, crowdsourcing, crowd sourcing }
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A crowdsourcing company out of Australia, DesignBay, has recently acquired another big crowdsourcing site, DesignCrowd. The new combined forces will do business as DesignCrowd, DesignBay.com is already being redirected to DesignCrowd.com. Although in the design world crowdsourcing has caused a lot of controversy, it seems to be a growing business, with crowdsourcing sites popping up all over the place it’s still hard to see how this will affect designers who are actually competing with hundreds of other people for the same income they used to rely on, it could mean that the best designers will rise to the top, while lazy designers will be weeded out, or it could mean design gets watered-down. Only time will tell.
{ November 17, 2009 @ 8:32 pm }
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{ Print Graphics, The Industry, custom design, graphic arts, illustration, marketing }
{ Tags: advertisments, design, marketing, movie posters, poster design, posters }
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{ November 12, 2009 @ 11:46 pm }
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{ Design News, The Industry }
{ Tags: adobe, adobe systems, graphic design }
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The LA Times is reporting that Adobe systems is planning to lay off 680 employees in the near future due to a decline in sales, as many are waiting for the next Creative Suite to release next year before spending any money with the company. Last year the company also cut 600 jobs which was equal to about 8% of it’s workforce. Read the entire story at LATimes.com.
{ November 12, 2009 @ 12:03 am }
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{ The Industry, graphic arts, marketing }
{ Tags: graphic design, movie posters, poster design, vintage design, vintage graphic design, vintage movie posters }
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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.
{ October 29, 2009 @ 10:34 pm }
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{ Design News, The Industry, graphic arts }
{ Tags: graphic design, team manila, manila, street wear }
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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!
{ October 23, 2009 @ 11:46 pm }
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{ The Industry, graphic arts }
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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!
{ October 15, 2009 @ 11:26 pm }
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{ The Industry, graphic arts }
{ Tags: graphic design, new clients }
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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.
{ September 14, 2009 @ 11:02 pm }
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One of the most famous graphic designers of this generation has got to be David Carson, as one of his assignments at the un-conventional Ray Gun Magazine had him using a Dingbat font for an interview that he considered to be boring. He’s been known to use non-mainstream styles and his style often has a grungy edge to it. Be sure to check out his site.
{ August 14, 2009 @ 10:48 pm }
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{ Design News, The Industry, custom design, graphic arts, illustration, marketing, package design }
{ Tags: design, package design, tequila }
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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.
{ July 15, 2009 @ 9:15 pm }
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{ Logo Design, The Industry, marketing }
{ Tags: branding, graphic design, Logo Design, logo redesign }
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Once a brand has made it’s mark it’s hard to look at any other logo concepts without thinking that they all look inferior to the known design. There may even be a better logo than the one they use in the stack, but the logo the world has already known will always be proffered. Logo Design Love posted about different Sony Playstaion concepts, and though most are not as great as the current logo, there are a couple in the batch with definite potential.
Just to show how important branding is, if Playstation were to change their logo now, I don’t think it would be well received. Not just with Playstation, but any brand in general usually sees a little backlash, just like Pepsi had when they changed their logo a few months back, though it’s evolved, their last re-brand was a little too extreme.
Be sure to check out Logo Design Love’s other posts too, their blog is great.
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