Marketing

Seminar: Freelance Designer Survival

Jeff Fisher, author of Identity Crisis & The Savvy Designers Guide to Success, is presenting this $39 webinar on November 19.

Hands-On Workshop: Facebook and Twitter for Business

On December 2, 2009, Anne-Marie “Her Geekness” Concepción will get you rolling in the social media marketplace.

Client Gift: You-Branded Coasters

If you're giving work-related gifts this year and haven't yet begun, check out this inspirational example.

New Lynda.com Courses on Photography & Social Media Marketing

Are you looking to take better portraits? Or perhaps you want to market your company on Facebook and Twiter? These new offerings from lynda.com are for you.

Create Better Marketing Postcards

Postcards are like freeway billboards: You have a very short time to communicate your message. Here's how to create effective postcards that get the response you want.

Trademarkia Claims to Be Easiest Way to Create a Brand

More than 5 million new logos, slogans, and trademarks are searchable on this Web site.

Tap Into Your Inner Idealist with the Good Web

The Good Web conference, on September 25, 2009, is a forum in which advertisers, designers, brands, and non-profits can share their ingredients of success for building awareness and participation around the causes they believe in.

Advertising Greats Explored on Film

The powerful documentary Art & Copy is about advertising and inspiration. It opens in select cities on August 21, 2009.

Free For All: Just What You're Looking For

Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame textures and backgrounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy scheduled emails; and a service that displays a Web design in 90 different browsers.

Free Design Learning Materials

Nathan Shedroff, a pioneer of experience design, has released materials for three courses on sustainable design, experience design, and meaningful design.

Free For All: Free for Web Designers

In this all-Web installment, you'll get a massive Photoshop Web elements kit; thousands of Twitter, RSS, and UI icons; CSS compression; Website spell checking; analytics; and uptime monitoring -- all free!

Four Designers' Bootcamps from HOW

HOW magazine's new workshops help you grow your business, finesse your career, perfect your marketing efforts, or move into Web design.

Design a Unique Twitter Background

Make your Twitter page stand out (in a good way!) with these four simple tips.

StockLayouts Launches LayoutReady.com

This affordable version of the StockLayouts marketing template library is aimed at the small business and home office user of common Microsoft software applications.

Get a Free Font from... Toyota?!

In Belgium, Toyota has a new car called the iQ that's small and nimble. It's perfect for parking in crowded urban centers -- and, as it turns, perfect for drawing a typeface.

The Mohawk Paper Store Adds Find a Printer, Find a Designer

You can add your name to the printer and designer databases for $50 annually.

Canadian Marketing Association Awards Walk the Walk

The publicity campaign for this year's awards deserves its own award for its creativity and strategy.

MYOB Conference Registration Opens

HOW Magazine's "Mind Your Own Business" conference has announced its speakers and opened its registration. It will take place October 1-4, 2009.

12 Tips for Creative Pros on Facebook

Facebook offers a slew of communication tools that can help your creativity reach a wider audience. How wide? Try 200 million active users! To make the most of this opportunity without alienating that potential audience or putting your copyrighted creations at risk, follow this expert advice.

Creative Alliance Tour for Photographers

This summer and fall, the Creative Alliance (Adobe, Apple, HP, Nikon, Nik Software, Wacom, and X-Rite) will offer one-day pro photography seminars throughout Europe.