I very often need freelancers to help me with my jobs. So I am looking for hard-working, honest individuals to contact me and supply me their details. Here are the sort of people I am looking for: print designers, web designers, interior designers, artworkers, photographers, illustrators, copy writers, copy editors, Flash specialists, Photoshop re-touchers, PHP, [...]
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Article filed under: Freelancing on February 21st, 2007 71 Comments
Independent freelancers often outperform agencies in quality, price and timeliness. To some the word “freelancer” may have a certain stigma of a maverick who ignores rules and misses deadlines. In reality freelancers have usually been around the agency block already and know their stuff. Nobody starts work as a freelancer. There used to be advantages [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork, Design, Freelancing on February 19th, 2007 27 Comments
Question: How can you disseminate a graphically interesting, beautifully designed small book to a large number of people cheaply? Answer: Email a PDF. Almost every computer has Adobe Reader (formerly called Acrobat Reader) and PDFs are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Question: Why [...]
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Article filed under: Acrobat, Artwork, Design, InDesign on February 11th, 2007 6 Comments
Not only can you see art for free at Tate Britain, you can also get some just down the road. On the left you can see Locking Piece (1963) by Henry Moore on Millbank right by the river between Vauxhall bridge and Tate Britain. And on the other side of the road there’s Jeté by [...]
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Article filed under: Games & fun on February 8th, 2007 No Comments
Choose and bold sans serif for your type. This is Arial black. Rasterize Type. Rotate canvas by 90º clockwise. In order to get points coming from the top of the type it needs to be white out type on black on the same layer. Go Filters > Stylize > Wind from the left. Then invert [...]
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Article filed under: Artwork, Photoshop on February 4th, 2007 No Comments
The first rule of making PDFs is easy… do it in InDesign, don’t even think of doing it in Quark. Navigation, linking to the web and even playing movies can be sorted out in InDesign first before the PDF is made. This way when the client has added his changes these elements don’t have to [...]
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Article filed under: Acrobat, Artwork, Design, InDesign on February 3rd, 2007 4 Comments
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