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Seminar: Freelance Designer Survival

Editor in Chief — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:35:03 -0700

"How to Survive as a Freelance Designer" is the title and topic of a November 19, 2009, webinar being led by Jeff Fisher, author of Identity Crisis & The Savvy Designers Guide to Success. The event begins at 4:00 PM ET and costs just $39. 

Among other subjects, Jeff will cover marketing as a way of life and working effectively without a traditional office.

All attendees will also receive a FREE download of the October 2009 issue of HOW magazine, featuring an article by Jeff Fisher.

Hands-On Workshop: Facebook and Twitter for Business

Editor in Chief — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:18:02 -0700

Press release

The Institute for Graphics and Imaging (IGI) is offering a very original seminar to help you learn the best ways to use the two hottest social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter, to promote your business and services. The event on Wednesday, December 2, will be divided into two half-day seminars, both are directed at business owners, marketing pros, creative professionals and anyone who wants to grow their business using social marketing.

Client Gift: You-Branded Coasters

Editor in Chief — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:36:11 -0700

If you're in the position to send client gifts this year and still haven't started the process, you're probably aware that the 2009 holiday season is bearing down on you like a runaway rhino. Perhaps, like Scrooge, you can benefit by looking at holiday seasons past.

Create Better Marketing Postcards

Editor in Chief — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:46:53 -0600

This article originally appeared on Print Soup, the blog of PrintingForLess.com, CreativePro.com's parent company.

New Lynda.com Courses on Photography & Social Media Marketing

Editor in Chief — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:33:11 -0600

Here are some of the courses recently unveiled at online training provider Lynda.com:

Photo Assignment: Backlit Portraits
With Derrick Story

Watch a trailer.

Trademarkia Claims to Be Easiest Way to Create a Brand

Editor in Chief — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:40:17 -0600

Press release

Trademarkia, the fresh, easy and intelligent way for people to create a brand, previewed its free service at TechCrunch50 on September 14, 2009. Trademarkia was selected to demonstrate its product in TechCrunch50 – a showcase of the world's hottest new startups – from among more than 1,000 applicants in 26 different countries.

Where Trademarkia fits

Tap Into Your Inner Idealist with the Good Web

Editor in Chief — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:37:34 -0600

On September 25, 2009, Core Industries is putting on a conference called The Good Web as an official event of New York City's Climate Week and Advertising Week. The conference's aim is to bring together advertisers, designers, brands, and non-profits to share their ingredients of success for building awareness and participation around the causes they believe in.

Free For All: Just What You're Looking For

Editor in Chief — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:09:19 -0600

Automatic Drag-N-Drop Image Libraries

Advertising Greats Explored on Film

Editor in Chief — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:15:19 -0600

Art & Copy is a new documentary about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time.

Free Design Learning Materials

Editor in Chief — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:00:17 -0600

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

Here are the course titles and material descriptions:

Design is the Problem: A course in sustainable design 1.0
• Entire Curriculum in one Download
• Syllabus:
• Presentation
• Stakeholder Presentation Evaluation Criteria
• Final Project Presentation Evaluation Criteria

Free For All: Free for Web Designers

Editor in Chief — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:23:38 -0600

Free for All is twice-monthly for the summer, which gives me the opportunity to do more specialized installments. This time around, you'll get resources and tools especially for Web designers. If that's not your thing, browse past columns -- there's plenty to please everyone!

All-In-One Web Elements Design Kit

Design a Unique Twitter Background

Editor in Chief — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:14:58 -0600

Spreading word about your business or services via a Twitter account can be a useful addition to a marketing strategy. There are many resources with advice on what, when, and how to tweet. But since we're creative professionals, we should also pay attention to what our Twitter pages look like. In this tutorial, I'll explain how to create a Twitter background that meets four goals:

1. Displays well on the widest range of monitors
2. Visually conveys what you're about
3. Contains extra information about you or your company
4. Loads quickly

Four Designers' Bootcamps from HOW

Editor in Chief — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:45:24 -0600

HOW magazine's Designers' Bootcamps are intended to help attendees grow their business, finesse their career, perfect their marketing efforts or move smoothly into web design.

Expert instructors will take participants through an intensive course designed to help them fine-tune their business-survival skills so they can thrive in any economy.

Each Bootcamp focuses on a specific topic and takes place in a different city.

Running a Successful Design Business
New York, New York
September 17-18

StockLayouts Launches LayoutReady.com

Editor in Chief — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:00:02 -0600

StockLayouts LLC has announced a new template resource, offered under its new brand, LayoutReady, which provides small business owners with a large selection of agency grade templates for creating marketing materials suitable for high quality output on office color printers. The templates, which are available for immediate download in both U.S.

Get a Free Font from... Toyota?!

Editor in Chief — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:49:26 -0600

Recently, Toyota hired two graphic designers, Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta of the Belgian studio pleaseletmedesign, to create a typeface. Then a pro racecar driver, Stef Vancampenhoudt, got behind the wheel of the Toyota iQ and approximated the glyphs in a large hangar while being filmed by overhead cameras. Coder extraordinaire Zach Lieberman devised software that interpreted the filmed movement of colored dots on the car and translated that movement into the font's glyphs.