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Icons Filling Effect | Cody - Free HTML/CSS/JS resources. An eye-catching filling effect for your icons, that can be used to make a simple page look cool and dynamic. Browser support ie Chrome Firefox Safari Opera 9+ Sometimes you just want to create something cool. Maybe for one of those pages – about us, our history etc – where you want to come up with something unique to support your brand. This effect can help you design a cool web page with just few icons. The inspiration: some of our users suggested us to take a look at Elliot Condon beautiful portfolio, and create something inspired by the filling effect of the vertical timeline. Creating the structure Before diving into the code, I’m gonna try to explain what’s behind this resource. This way you just need to place the illustrations on top of a colored section, then move them. Just to make sure this is 100% clear, I put together this quick animation to show you the animation process: That said, the structure is just an unordered list.

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How to promote yourself as a designer. Most creatives spend large chunks of time thinking about other people and their opinions, needs and wishes. From clients and customers to the people you follow on Twitter, there's a vast and varied audience to think about, consider and research. Which might not leave much room to pay attention to yourself. Are you making enough of your personal quirks? How can you promote yourself in a way that suits your personality? It's often said that great design should be invisible, but that needn't apply to designers as well. Take illustrator Gemma Correll, who has made great use of her love of pugs – from books and prints to an Instagram feed crammed with photos and illustrations. Being authentic Done the right way, an injection of personality can be a hugely successful move for defining who you are as a creative.

"Finally I was flat broke, barely making the rent and I said: you know what, now's the time to do it, I'm just going to do the stuff I like," he continues. Brand honestly Quirky quips.

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Photographers, Illustrators, Designers, Portfolios on The Creative Finder. Europass: Niveaux de langues européens (CECR) La candidature qui fait mouche - Le blog de ThinkInnovation. Personne n’est assez préparé à l’étape cruciale qui suit l’obtention d’un diplôme : l’entrée dans la vie active, et la science délicate qui permet de se vendre à une entreprise. Jeunes diplômés, vous me direz : « mais comment voulez-vous que je me vende ? Je n’ai AUCUNE expérience ! Et en France, personne ne veut engager des gens sans expérience... » Chez ThinkInnovation, nous n’avons pas de département « ressources humaines » : quand une candidature arrive nous l’analysons ensemble à la lumière de notre projet d’entreprise et de notre stratégie sur plusieurs années. Même si je suis designer, il m’arrive très souvent de recevoir et d’analyser des candidatures.

Certaines sont surprenantes de maturité quand d’autres accumulent les petits écueils que je vais vous lister ci-après. Si vous ne devez retenir qu’un seul conseil, ce serait « soignez les moindres détails ». Les conseils qui suivent, glanés tout au long de ma vie active, peuvent vous y aider. Renseignez-vous sur l’entreprise.