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- Free! Exclusive! Multimedia Designer Icon Set in PSD, AI, EPS from Pariah Burke
Courtesy of our friends over at Vecteezy, IAmPariah.com is giving away an exclusive set of 36 multimedia icons free for personal and commercial use. The icons themselves are a stylized retro sticker motif that stand out well from usual icon sets.
- 20 Top Promotional Tips for Freelance Designers
This is a biggie! I’ve got so much design work business through cross-promotion. Be direct and convince a contact or business associate to cross promote in their on or offline promotions, i.e., a print designer could promote themselves via a web designer, photographer, or copywriter, etc.
- Design Challenge: The Floppy Disk and the ‘Save’ Icon
The above letter may sound a little dramatic but for a number of few years now the floppy disk icon has come under fire for being used to encapsulate the idea of ‘saving a file’.
It has been a discussion point for so many years that we are addressing it once more with the hopes that our readers might provide some insight and even suggestions to this issue.
While I’m not campaigning to save the floppy disk, I’m certainly not grabbing the nearest pitchfork and torch to march on it either.
- 10 Talented Comic Book Artists You Should Follow on Twitter
The social networking site is perfect to showcase pieces and share tips, as well as converse with your favourite artist. Here are just a few to get you started.
- Privacy as a Premium: Say Goodbye to the Free Internet
The concept of privacy changed once it went online. What was once a sacred tomb of personal information has been twisted and altered by the digital age, like so many analog and now antiquated concepts before it.
Privacy is now something that is not only taken for granted, but no longer held to any regard. Yet, online privacy is not something that is so much as taken from us but is what we’ve elect to give away.
- Difficult Conversations: Cringe Fast, Cringe Early
How should you start a conversation that you’ve been dreading? If you’re going to miss a deadline, do you ease into the bad news by first highlighting your project progress? Many people prefer to pad difficult conversations with fluff, in the hopes of dulling the inevitable impact.
- Design Trend: White Headline Text in Web Design
Very often background photographs are dark, so it would seem that white is the new black in website design.
- Designer & artist explores color palettes in films, transforms work
“In my effort to learn and transform my relationship with color from a sometime struggle into a collaborative partnership, I decided to start a project involving nothing but color. It all suddenly came to me one evening, as many serendipitous i…