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Why You should Choose Design as a Profession

Why You should Choose Design as a Profession

July 25, 2012 · by jgeorge · in Articles

Why You should Choose Design as a Profession I have a lot of friends that hear about my job and think “I would love to do what you do!” I love the enthusiasm, but I don’t think a lot of…

My Predictions For Design and Development in 2011

My Predictions For Design and Development in 2011

January 5, 2011 · by jgeorge · in Articles

I like how so many people like to say that web design and graphic design is going to do this and that. Honestly, I don’t think anyone knows where the world of design, web design and web development is going…

The Sometimes Humorous Side of Being a Designer

The Sometimes Humorous Side of Being a Designer

November 19, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Articles

This article is made to be more funny than anything, just because of how people think when they know, or are friends with a graphic designer. Sometimes it can be really frustrating when being a designer, because a lot of…

Things to Remember During an Interview

Things to Remember During an Interview

October 26, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Articles

The economy is in a rough place right now, despite what the media says about no longer being in a recession. None of us can afford to bomb an interview, so I thought I would share some tips and things…

Should Pentagram Sue? Would it do any good?

Should Pentagram Sue? Would it do any good?

October 22, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Articles

I recently came across a case involving Pentagram, where one of their designs were blatantly ripped off by a famous clothing company Sean John, owned by the famous rap artist known as P Diddy. Sometimes you can argue that a…

The Future of Design and Advertising

October 3, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Articles

I was asked a question yesterday that really got me thinking: What do you think the future will hold for design and advertising? What will be the next big platform to design for? I thought about this for a long…

Is the design field seeing the end of its day?

September 27, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Articles

I frequent a lot of design blogs, simply because I like to know what is on the mind of other designers, and also because I like to have my ear to the ground regarding our industry. One thing that I…

What Does it Take to Succeed in Design?

September 6, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Articles

There are so many arguments about what makes a successful designer/artist. Some argue that any artistic ability is based on talent, and that the technical side is only for execution of your talent. Some argue that you can be taught…

Make your text fit an object in Illustrator

Make your text fit an object in Illustrator

August 19, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Illustrator, Tutorials

I got this question yesterday, and thought that it would be a good topic for the day. If you want to fit text to a certain shape, you have a couple of options. The first option is to do what…

Create a Psychedelic image in Photoshop

Create a Psychedelic image in Photoshop

August 17, 2010 · by jgeorge · in Photoshop, Tutorials

This is a neat trick that will give you some really interesting and extremely colorful results. To start off, create a new document. It can be any dimension that you want, and click ok. Mine is set at 1024 x…

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20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

An article about 20 flat web & mobile designs. See these 20 flat web and mobile designs that will inspire you.

20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

Tags: flat ui, Mobile, web design

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150 Greatest Free High Quality Fonts

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Design Organized Websites Rapidly With 960 Grid

Design Organized Websites Rapidly With 960 Grid

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8 CSS Properties Designers Can’t Live Without

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10 of the Best Magazine WordPress Theme

WordPress is one of the popular blogging platform, which offers many beautiful free and premium themes for your website. If you are looking for a magazine or news site on a WordPress platform, then below you can see the most beautiful magazine WordPress themes that we have gathered. It provides you with the functions a news/magazine, a web site should have.

10 of the Best Magazine WordPress Theme

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Gooddeedz – a P2P charity forum site

Gooddeedz is about people helping one another on a person-to-person basis, as opposed to an organization-to-person level. The goal is to have people connect to one another directly, with no institutional intermediaries whatsoever, and have them interact either by asking for a good deed or offering one.

Gooddeedz – a P2P charity forum site

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Simplistic Responsive Design using WordPress Themes

With the changing scenario in the technical field and with a new mobile device hitting the market each day, developing mobile websites and meeting the resolution of each device wasn’t getting the right attention by the developers, users as well as by Search Engines.

Simplistic Responsive Design using WordPress Themes

Tags: Responsive, Themes, Wordpress

Free Office templates

Free templates for freelancers: cover page templates, flyers, resume, invoice, certificates, proposals, and much more. 100% free, distributed under Creative Commons.

Free Office templates

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Top 10 WordPress Theme Companies

If you ever find yourself needing a more modern, futuristic appeal to your brochures, this is the perfect tutorial for you. This tutorial will help you design your own, techy looking brochure with included resource links so that you can see where you can find some free stuff to use on your own designs.

Top 10 WordPress Theme Companies

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Best WordPress Options Panel Solutions

Premium WordPress themes should come with unique features plus an options panel that can be easily customized. Most of the WordPress developers create theme option panel for layout, background and navigation configuration and also to help users or clients modify the theme without changing any codes.

Best WordPress Options Panel Solutions

Tags: Panel Options, Wordpress

Free InDesign Templates

Free InDesign templates include layouts, images, and artwork shared under Creative Commons license. Feel free to download, customize, use for yourself of for your client. Create your own InDesign brochures, magazines, newsletters, flyers, books, and other publications quick and easy.

Free InDesign Templates

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15 Beautiful Minimalist WordPress Themes

Minimalist WordPress Themes are simple themes that look clean, clear, faster to load and easy to navigate to achieve better results.

15 Beautiful Minimalist WordPress Themes

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11 WordPress Themes Perfect for web hosting company

Web hosting companies can build their own website by WordPress. Hosting template provides user with information about hosting plans, features, coupons, reviews and support. Check out below some of the best WordPress themes perfect for web hosting company.

11 WordPress Themes Perfect for web hosting company

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