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  • “Make Beautiful Things” – Tips from Saul Bass

    I recently came across this series of short video clips taken from Saul Bass‘ documentary and this one really stood out for me: Making Money VS Quality Work. I highly recommend watching this short video.
    The fact of the matter is, I want everything we do, that I do personally,…

  • Le Book NYC 2010

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    Adding to Le Book’s already impressive roster of artistic superstars, this year the New York edition of the influential publication tapped the work of late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to “dress” their covers. For a resource widely serving as the media maker’s yellow pages, the inspirational choice draws on the instrumental…

  • What can “Jersey Shore” teach you about negotiating?


    Have you seen MTV’s Jersey Shore? I sampled it once for 10 minutes and clicked off. I don’t suffer fools gladly, so I have little patience for someone like “Snooki” – who thinks Canada is one of the 50 states. (Don’t believe me? Check out her appearance on The Ellen…

  • What You Can Win: 4 days that will change your life!

    • Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010, 06:00 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
    • By: Grids, Grids

    “No sleep, no time, no room for failure. The Eddie Adams Workshop separates out the photographers who have what it takes to succeed.”David Griffin, Director of Photography, National GeographicEnter SPD’s student photography competition and win a place at the world renowned Eddie Adams Workshop where you spend 4 days with…

  • San Antonio Current

    • Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010, 05:00 GMT+7 (2 days ago)
    • By: Grids, Grids

    The San Antonio Current is another alternative weekly newspaper featuring remarkable cover design and imagery created on a shoestring budget. Chuck Kerr is the talented graphic designer/illustrator/poster maker (and band drummer!) who has art directed the Current for the past four years. Kerr’s cover designs, many of them featuring his own…

  • Cool Hunting Video Presents: How to Make Kim Chee

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    Gregory MitnickFor this video we visited our friend Tim’s grandma, Yu Um Chon, at her home in New York where she showed us how she makes Kim Chee. As one of dwindling numbers of Koreans who still make the spicy pickled staple themselves, she explained that everyone has their…

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  • PSD gold world award icon, golden medal

    gold world iconA very detailed golden medal graphic in a shiny gold color. Circle shape with the world map and laurel wreath around it. Gold world award icon for web and print. Customize it by editing layered PSD file and make a custom golden medal, seal, brand sign, emblem etc.
    For one…

  • Night Lights

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    An interactive installation, “Night Lights” counts on bodies, hands and mobile phones to bring a massively colorful game of charades to life. Staged at Auckland’s Ferry Building, the project is the upshot of a joint effort between four creative agencies and the public.

    Using software made with the openFrameworks library…

  • Super Punch Tarot Cards

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    In celebration of their third anniversary, art and design site Super Punch paired selected artists with a deck of tarot cards for a creative spin on the typically mystical illustrations featured on the average deck.

    The collection runs the style gamut—from anime-saturated Six of Cups to the Art-Deco Tower, the…

  • Fax Ex-Machina

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    To get around Brazil’s convoluted customs procedures and expensive tax laws that govern importing and exporting art, Brazilian collective Autista and British gallery KK Outlet turned to the fax machine to transport art across oceans for a new show called “Ex-Fax Machina.”

    At last Thursday’s opening Brazilian artists Ramon Martins,…

  • Why Designers Shouldn’t Settle

    Ugly designs abound on the web, and behind each and every one of them is a “designer”.
    In many of these cases the designers behind the sites are simply incompetent.
    They’re often amateur designers or those who have little or no design training or people who design their own sites…

  • Word of mouth can land you in hot water

    Check out my latest article for ADBASE, Word of Mouth Ain’t All That, and find out why word of mouth can put you in a precarious position, and how to be proactive and strategic about drumming up new business.

  • ARTFUL COMMUNICATION: Public Speaking (Ugh)

    • Monday, 8 Mar 2010, 07:11 GMT+7 (3 days ago)
    • By: Grids, Grids

    Teaching presentation skills is actually a small part of Gina Barnett’s practice. Most of her work is devoted to leadership presence and communication excellence. Gina works with a wide range of executives to identify their communication strengths and areas for growth. She helps them to recognize the unconscious habits that…

  • How to Tell When It’s Time to Take a Break

    sick-dayI threw my neck out something fierce not long ago. I don’t know how it happened. I must have been fighting this big monster in my sleep, rolled over so I could grab a rock to clonk him over the head with, and was suddenly awake, clutching my neck in…

  • 17 Designer’s Favorite Free and Commercial Fonts


    We recently had a reader ask us to do a post about our favorite fonts, and we thought the idea was such a good one, that we decided to take it step farther. We wanted to open this post up to a few other members of the design community to…

  • Why Better blogging equals better business for freelancers

    Lets skip past the topic of “should a freelancer have a blog” for a moment because we all know the answer (yes). I believe the real question we should be asking is ‘how can I get more out of my blogging for my business?’ – and the answer is simple;…

  • Design Indaba Expo 2010: Heartworks Stitching Club

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    Nestled in a small display cube within the Cape Craft and Design Institute’s exhibition at the recent Design Indaba expo, Heartworks Stitching Club’s hand-embroidered teddy bears immediately caught our attention with their bold colors and one-of-a-kind appliqué.

    Founded by Margaret Woermann, owner of the Cape Town crafts boutique Heartworks, the…

  • Recreate a Bygone Era with Photoshop Brushes

    The following Photoshop brushes are free for downloading on the DeviantART Web site. Click on the hyperlinked text or the sample image to go to the relevant page on the site.
    Note that each sample image includes only a small selection of the brushes at each link — there’s lots…

  • Photoshop’s Best Friend: What You Can Do with a Pressure-Sensitive Tablet

    I’m always surprised when I meet someone who doesn’t use a pressure-sensitive tablet while editing photographs. If your edits are confined to global adjustments that can be easily applied using a slider, a tablet isn’t so necessary. But if you perform localized edits — dust removal or cloning; masking of…

  • 8 Tileable Dark Wood Texture Patterns

    8 Tileable Dark Wood Texture Patterns

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  • PSD mobile phone, black cellphone icon

    cellphone iconA modern black mobile phone isolated on white background, with brushed metal details. Glossy display with nine icons that are also available as PSDs in previous posts. A great cellphone icon for web use, download as layered PSD file.
    You might also like Google Nexus One in PSD format.

    Resolution:…

  • Wallpaper of the Week #90 – Neil Hanvey

    AbduzeedoThe wallpaper of this week is an artowrk created by Neil Hanvey, a designer, illustrator and web developer from Hereford, United Kingdom. For this wallpaper Neil shows us a design to support the victims from the earthquake in Haiti, the design is called “Hope for Haiti”.
    For more information we…


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