The Pros and Cons of Being a Freelance Designer
We’ve all sat there at one point or another and dreamt about storming into the bosses office on a Monday morning and quiting our jobs or what we’d do if we had our own company or worked for ourselves,...
View ArticleInterview with Graphic Designer Kathryn Loveday
This morning we bring to you a recent interview with talented and ambitious creative in the form of Kat Loveday. Having graduated from Salford University, she returned to the classroom shortly after to...
View ArticleHow to Recruit Talented Designers: 5 Qualities that Stand Out
Creative design can often make the difference between the success and failure of products and marketing efforts in today’s highly competitive marketplace. The modern consumer has a discerning eye and...
View Article3 Steps for Respecting other Designers
In this article we will be focusing on Photoshop and Illustrator file organizing and saving practices. The following are pretty basic guidelines on how to save files properly, and how to organize and...
View ArticleThe Decline in Respect for Student Designers
Through from school to college and later university it has become clear to me how the respect for student designers is on a decline. I find that the harder students work to become the best the harder...
View ArticleCultivating the Cultured Designer
In our careers as Graphic Designers, in whatever subcategory we find ourselves, we are in a constant struggle with the industry that allows a large amount of amateur activity within its ranks.
View ArticleAdvice on Keeping Your Branding Consistent
Design for printed collateral should therefore be very carefully thought out before investing a dime in printing.
View ArticleDesigning For Social Media
An almost essential, yet somewhat counter-intuitive, argument about social media is its very nature requires a degree of homogenization.
View ArticleHow to Use Layer Styles in Photoshop
In order to create your own images that people might consider artwork, you have to learn how to use the layer styles allowing you to alter each layer of a photo to make them belong together.
View ArticleKickstarting Creativity in your Final Semester
I’ve just started my final semester of university. This is it. Everything I’ve been working for over the last three years all comes down to these few months. Not only the heaviest grade weighting but...
View ArticlePrint Handbook: Preparing your Pixels for Print
The Print Handbook has been designed to be a handbook full of printed experiments, examples, and a whole load of handy reference material.
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