Posted: October 21st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Resources | No Comments »
This is a great article showing some solid resources for stock photography and what to expect on price and image sizes:
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Posted: October 21st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Resources | No Comments »
Stockphotolicense.com, an educational copyright resource for photo buyers and researchers, launches their new website today with the goal of explaining in simple terms how one can use an image online and the various legal complexities of digital image use. The site provides detailed information on image license types, photo copyright issues, legal protections and extensions, using free images, Creative Commons, personal vs. commercial use and provides a list of questions you can ask your image suppliers before you buy an image.
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Posted: October 6th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Articles | No Comments »
The very first written word of mankind was the beginning of Graphic Design! And its native land was none other then ancient caves and caverns! The very first symbol they had sketched through cave drawings, paintings, markings on boulders, bone, and ivory are the foremost indication and evidence where graphic design was born, nursed, nourished and grown! Nevertheless, the term Graphic Design was named by William Addison Dwiggins in the early 20th Century.
Anthropologists studying prehistoric periods on cave paintings leads us earlier than the Upper Paleolithic period from 40,000 – 10,000 B.C., where our ancestors were learning how to design signs and symbols that could be communicated visually; moreover they were successful on leaving their marks. The pioneers of graphic design are non other then our own ancestors, who had lived in the caves and sketched their drawing on rocks.
History of graphics design roots to our own ancestors of ancient era where civilization was cultured in caves, and left their drawings and sketches for us on their canvas of cave walls and ceilings.
The earliest drawings known today are from 6,000 years ago, are that of carved stone and pottery containers. Drawings contained in Egyptian pyramids with signs, symbols and letters are known to all and it leads us back 5000 years.
Furthermore, from 600-250 BC evolution on geometrical shape and structures in Europe played a major role for the development of designing and sketching. As an applied art of arranging images and text for an attempt of visual communication; the hand written copy of the Christian Bible “The Book of Kells”, created by Irish monks in 9th century AD with rich illustrations is a good example of the evolution of graphic design.
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Posted: October 6th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Articles, SEO Marketing | No Comments »
Blogs are all the rage — and with good reason. When you convert your web site to a blog site, you will be in complete control when it comes to updates, changes, and additions. A blog (web + log) is a type of web site that is typically maintained by a person or group. Many personal blogs are akin to a diary, whereas a company’s blog may look and behave exactly as a standard web site. The owner(s) of the blog create the pages by posting a constant flow of entries written as commentary, descriptions of events, or reviews of noteworthy subjects or products. Blogs can even include multimedia, such as images, illustrations, video, or sound. These pages (articles, posts, or stories), are generally displayed in reverse-chronological order.
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Cyndie Shaffstall
Author of Small-business Guide to Winning at Web Marketing
http://www.winningatwebmarketing.com
Posted: October 6th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Funny Stuff | No Comments »
It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself – healthy, in fact. And as the type of designer who’s been known to say that I only stop making changes because I’ve run out of time, this viral e-mail really tickled my funny bone. And some of my non-designer friends found it even funnier than I did … hmmmmmmmm
The story starts like this: Shannon, the secretary, has lost her cat, and asked David, the graphic designer, to help with a lost poster.
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Posted: October 6th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Contests & Events | No Comments »
Checkout Septembers Designer of the Month Winners!
http://www.creativepublic.com/design-contest-09-2010.php
