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Archive for April, 2009
Typography Love
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009T-Shirt Contest Sites
Monday, April 20th, 2009
{designs featured at DesignByHumans.com}
T-Shirt contest sites are a great way to put your graphic design and illustration techniques to use in order to win cash prizes. It also can award you free T-shirts.
Usually T-shirt contests sites have you submit a design using their template, at which point viewers of the website can vote to choose which designs they like best. If your design is chosen you typically win a cash prize. Some of the sites offer very generous awards.
Once you get the hang of what people like, and you find a good way to promote your design, you can make some serious bucks off these sites! Just be ready for some stiff competition because some of the best illustrators around submit to these T-shirt contest sites!
Inspiration: Graphic Design Everyday
Monday, April 20th, 2009
His name is Julien van Havere and he is a self-taught graphic designer living in Brussells. Sevendaysmakeaweek.com is home to his daily exercise where everyday he posts daily findings of graphic design that examples a weekly theme. He states that this exercise exists to help him develop his creativity everyday. He publishes his findings in a blog-like setting to increase his creativity and personal accountability, and to share with you.
Try this exercise on your own accord. Get inspired! Explore these other sites like Sevendaysmakeaweek to expose yourself to fresh designs everyday.
After School Special: Advice for Emerging Designers
Monday, April 20th, 2009
In the beginning of a career, the transition from school to work is difficult. Lynda Decker of Decker Design offers this advice.
Building a career is not something that happens overnight. It requires patience and tenacity, and it involves more than raw talent. A career demands an overarching curiosity about the world and how things work, topped off with well-honed people skills. To rise to the top in your profession, you have to have the guts to be self-aware, to know your own strengths while trying to improve upon your weaknesses. And, come to think of it, raw talent doesn’t hurt.
In the beginning of a career, the transition from school to work is difficult, to put it mildly. The first thing you learn is that there is more to learn. A lot more.
Continue to the After School Special (PDF)
