Before & After's creative director John McWade's conversations with subscribers After posting my comment last week about printer points (72 per inch) matching Mac screen resolution (72 pixels per inch), I got wake-up calls from readers Saul Bottcher and Mordy Golding. Said Mr. Bottcher . . . “Nooooo! Not the 72 ppi [pixels per inch] myth again! Your tips are normally great, but you have just done a disservice to any designer who is trying to make digital and print work together.
10 Tips For Designers (And Anyone Else) Working Pro Bono Designers can outline a project down to the nitty-gritty detail, but scopes often creep, clients get overwhelmed, and designers themselves sometimes miss the mark. This is true of pro bono design as well. But for some reason, designers and clients often lose sight of the fact that pro bono projects are really no different, no less demanding, and no less important than regular fee-generating work. The Science of Creativity - Graphic Design Yes, Sweden bring me one of these flying carpets please! Oyyo. Woos (2010) by PetPunk from Lithuania. Am back from the UK, and here is Japan's Myoshka. The unofficial poster of this track.
10 essential books that all creative freelancers must read If you’re thinking about taking the plunge into freelancing or you’re already dipping your toes in at the deep end, you don’t need to feel alone. Loads of support can be found in the pages of many helpful books. Whether you’re unsure how to get started, don’t know how to handle your finances, or need some advice on how to get your name heard; these essential freelancing books are here to help… 1. Work for Money, Design for Love: Answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions About Starting and Running a Successful Design Business by David Airey
Using MBTI to shape User Personas’ personality You are interviewing some people for building your User Personas or perhaps to explore how they will react to different product solutions. Then you realize you need to know some personality traits in order to understand why they react the way they do. But how to identify personality traits in a quick feasible and credible manner instead of just based on observation? I make myself the same question some time ago, and here is how I solve it using MBTI. Perhaps you have seen on my layout for User Personas, an area dedicated to “Personality”. DIY User Personas Probably you already know what a persona is –if don’t check this -, and probably you, like me, build your first persona using some of the thousands personas layout you can find in the internet. But as has happened to me you’ve probably also discovered this is not easy work… But you know, I love recipes, so here you have my own recipe to build user personas, step by step including 10 elements your persona should have. I create this guideline with the purpose to make the process of create personas a simple fill in the blank work, so I think could be useful for you too. Let me know! The guideline it is structured in 3 points:
40 Creative and Versatile Adobe Illustrator Tutorials From 2012 Adobe Illustrator is the designer’s best friend (and together with Photoshop, they’re like Starsky & Hutch). Illustrator offers unlimited opportunities, but you need to know how to use them. That’s where neat tutorials come handy. Tutorials are not going to make you a better or more talented designer, yet the techniques and tricks they cover will come to assist you for a long time. For this roundup, we’ve prepared 40 fresh (2012 only), creative and comprehensive Adobe Illustrator tutorials.
Vector Illustration: 60 Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices - Noupe Design Blog Jul 14 2008 Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. So, step-by-step tutorials can provide a lot of help, thats why we spent a lot of time searching for the best tutorials out there and the result was 60 remarkable illustrator tutorials, tips, best practices from some of the best illustrators and artists; besides you’ll also find references to brilliant illustrator portfolios out there.