Some great advice about choosing and using color in your design work.
Tagged: design
How to overcome creative block, and other design stuff
You have to set up the narrow parameters that you work in, and then within those, give yourself just enough room to be free and play.
Interesting read for creatives across all disciplines.
Resume/CV design inspiration
Free eBook: The Freelance Handbook
This is not an in-depth, step-by-step guide to becoming a freelance designer. Instead it gives you the broad strokes, with plenty of things to think about and act on.
I’m about half way through reading the 115 page PDF and I must say, there’s some really great advice in this eBook—even though the illustrations are stuck in the 80s 😉
Must watch: Aaron Draplin’s logo design secrets
Advice: Building the best graphic design toolbox
There is no perfect set of tools for graphic designers. We’re all unique, we all work in different ways, and budgets always come in to play. I’ve put together a breakdown of major factors when building the best graphic design hardware and software toolbox based on my experience. Consider the following as a guide, rather than a set of absolute rules.
Keep it simple
I’ve been a graphic designer for 30 years, using the Macintosh the entire time to produce work for some great clients. I’ve worked for ad agencies large and small, a design firm, printing companies, and I’ve freelanced full and part time. Over the years I’ve learned a few short rules as it pertains to building my design toolbox and getting things done—and it has held true everywhere I’ve worked. Those rules are: keep it simple no matter the cost, don’t get caught up in software trends and gimmicks, buy a little more than you think you need, because you will grow into it. The following is more specific advice for building your design toolbox. (more…)
Letter from an old graphic designer to a young graphic designer
An excellent, excellent, excellent pile of advice for young graphic designers.
Brand identity inspiration
25 examples of simple and elegant brand identity design. Ranging from print to digital, these different brands will give you a better idea of what you need to do to get it right.
Are you charging enough for your design work?
That’s the question I get asked more than any other. There’s no right or wrong answer, but this site offers a nice starting point.
Free download: The Guide to Great Logos
A 220-page PDF manual on “Everything You Wanted to Know About Logos But Didn’t Know Who To Ask.” I haven’t gotten through the entire book, but what I have read is pretty good so far. Thanks to the Logo Factory for the book, and for making it freely-available to designers everywhere.