As you may or may not know, I spent the last year living and working from Costa Rica. Many of my readers at Outlaw Design Blog are aware of this and regularly ask me questions about how I did it. I recently posted a 5 minute video on the subject of living and finding work in Costa Rica.
I recently got turned on to the video blog, From the Couch, by the guys at obox. If you have never seen the videos, I suggest you check them out. The videos are just relaxed conversations, and sometimes rants, on various topics that concern designers, developers, freelancers, and other creatives.
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Having been the victim of a database crash on a major blog, I am all to familiar with the importance of database backup. I think however that some designers put off this task because it is too much on the developer side of things. As a designer, I am here to tell you it is not as scary as you think. This recent post by Noupe shares several ways to easily backup your databases.
I have been doing a lot of research into landing page design and user experience here lately. One great resource on this topic is a newer blog called UX Booth. This site is all about design and the user experience and interaction with it. There are a lot of really great people behind the project/blog which leads to be believe this is going to become a very valuable resource as time goes on.
If you’ve taken a look at GraphicRiver’s category tree this morning, you’ll notice slight changes in how files are organized. In response to popular submissions and trends we’ve seen since GraphicRiver launched, we’ve added and moved around some categories. Here’s an overview of the new categories and what it means for you.
UIs, widgets, buttons and navigation mock-ups! If it’s made for website or web app design, it should go here.
To accomodate the popularity of our business cards and print template files, we’ve created a sub-category just for them, including options for InDesign or Quark files. Submit any templates for design projects to the Design Templates sub-category.
Texture photos and rasters now have their own top level category! Make sure to use the new textures upload form for this category.
Ever just need a photo of an object to drop into a design composition? GraphicRiver is proud to offer a whole new category of photographs with objects already isolated and seperated from the background for your use.
Got a stock graphic that just can’t be layered and organized in Photoshop like normal submissions? An artistic render that doesn’t quite fit into the 3D section? GraphicRiver has opened submissions to layered PNGs and rendered raster files that can not be otherwise layered due to design techniques. Make sure you clearly describe the file type and level of organization and customization in the file description!
We hope these new category changes will better serve the buyers and authors in the GraphicRiver community. If you have any feedback or thoughts on these changes, feel free to send us a note!
Im kind of a geek when it comes to comics. I make a trip to the comic book store at least once a month, sometimes more. I am in no way shape or form a comic book artist, but I really appreciate all the hard work and creativity that goes into some of these illustrations. While there are a ton of exceptional comic book artists out there, I wanted to share with you a few of my favorites. I am particularly found of these guys as they seem to have a style that can stand out from some of the more traditional comic book artists.
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A while back I did a post of stylish retro Twitter backgrounds. Today I thought I would show off some Twitterers < --new word? who had their own creative and custom theme.
Dzine Blog, along with a few other websites have beat me to the punch. So I will just share with you this link for Dzine blog on 40 Beautiful Twitter Theme Backgrounds.
There is a ton of really cool ones here, but these are a few of my favorites:
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Browsing some of the CSS Galleries, I can’t help but notice that there are so many designers portfolios that all look the same. It their quest for uniqueness, they end up being the same. That got me thinking; what are some ways other than design that a designer could do to spice up their portfolio. Below are some of my rough ideas. None of them are perfect and would need to be tweaked to fit your needs, but hopefully you get the idea. Maybe they will even spark some better ideas!
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I’m sure many of your are familiar with the design blog, Deziner Folio, but in case you’re not I thought I would post this link. Recent Deziner Folio did a post that showcased websites that had really good looking mascots or sight characters. The use of mascots and site characters seems to be a fairly popular trend these days.
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Don’t you hate it when you need to IM/chat with a client but you use Skype and they use AIM? The margin for bad chat client combination’s is massive. Sure, there are a number of universal chat clients, but none of them include every major chat client.
Why not just try TinyChat instead?
It is a super easy to use chat site that lets you setup a private chat room in seconds.
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