Designer

‘Less is More’, an apho­rism coined by the German – American ar­chi­tect for Coining suits the term ‘Minimalism’ in an apt way. In to­day’s world where ev­ery­thing is grow­ing in a fast paced man­ner, we have to com­pro­mise some­where to catch up with the speed, like a skyscrap­er can­not be con­struct­ed with all the ar­chi­tec­ture and the fine de­tails as in case of a palace, but a skyscrap­er does jus­tice to its part and ev­ery­body ac­cepts this. In the world of dark­ness, a sim­ple can­dle can light the whole (...)

One thing a blog­ger or an own­er of a web­site needs to take in­to con­sid­er­a­tion of is its bounce rate. This is very im­por­tant for it tells you on how many vis­i­tors are “bounc­ing” away on your site. A bounce rate de­ter­mi­nes the suc­cess or fail­ure of a web­site. Wikipedia de­fines bounce rate as: A term used in web site traf­fic anal­y­sis. It essen­tial­ly rep­re­sents the per­cent­age of ini­tial vis­i­tors to a site who “bounce” away to a dif­fer­ent site, rather than con­tin­ue on to other pages with­in the same (...)

The Week in Type Two thou­sand and ten has been some­thing of a blur, but it’s been a good year. It’s been an­oth­er good year for type de­sign and ty­pog­ra­phy, with some great new work, and some won­der­ful new type de­signs. So, to ease you in­to 2011, and the won­ders that await, I pre­sent to you the week in type. New Type Ardoise from Jean François Porchez. Wonderful: A com­pan­ion to Jos Buivenga’s pop­u­lar Calluna has just been re­leased. Calluna Sans is avail­able from MyFonts. The reg­u­lar weight (...)

Time is a free­lance graph­ic de­sign­er’s biggest as­set. We are paid per pro­ject ba­sis. Unless we get a pro­ject done and ap­proved by the client, we won’t get paid nor start on an­oth­er pro­ject. Being a free­lance de­sign­er is a job made in heav­en or hell. Don’t you love the feel­ing of ful­fill­ment on­ce your de­sign has been ap­proved?  Being rec­og­nized and praised for your work is the best feel­ing to have, but this is not al­ways the case—­some boss­es are hard­er to please than others. We have been on that (...)

Cross browser com­pat­i­bil­i­ty is an op­tion to test the com­pat­i­bil­i­ty of your web site among the oceans of other sites. There is a pos­si­bil­i­ty of surf­ing out your web site from browser as for their wish or else lack of ef­fec­tive­ness in the web site. This is writ­ten for de­sign­er and de­vel­op­er to over come all the draw­backs of ear­lier test­ing op­tions. Being a web de­sign­er find­ing place in pop­u­lar brows­ing op­tion like fire­fox, sa­fari,chrome, in­ter­net ex­plor­er is im­por­tant. Browser test­ing is the (...)

Technology in smart phones the­se days are amaz­ing. It has helped us with a bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion by us­ing the 3G tech­nol­o­gy and stay up con­nect­ed through wire­less in­ter­net us­ing the data plan. What's even bet­ter is that if you hap­pen to have iPhone. As the Apple trade­mark slo­gan of iPhone says, "There's an app for that!" made it easier for any­one to find any ap­pli­ca­tion on the App Store. Most of de­sign­ers prefers to use Mac for their tools in trade, and are most like­ly pair it with an (...)

In the world of web de­sign, blog­ging has be­come a sta­ple for most busi­ness­es look­ing to carve out a place of their own from which they can reach their in­tend­ed au­di­ence to grow and sta­bi­lize their busi­ness. Many of them turn to us, the de­sign­ers and coders, to de­ter­mine what the best course of ac­tion is is for their busi­ness­es needs. For the most part, it seems a large part of the com­mu­ni­ty tends to steer them to­wards WordPress. But is that al­ways the way to go? The Basic Rundown There is (...)

Our 2010 edi­tion of the best ar­ti­cles which have been fea­tured on Creative Nerds through out 2010. A col­lec­tion of good ar­ti­cles which may not of got the most traf­fic but where just con­sid­ered by us as a good  post worth check­ing out. Let us know which is your favourite blog post on Creative Nerds you’ve read in 210. ArticlesThe 5 Golden Rules for Increasing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty as a Designer These are five very use­ful tips which I use and fol­low as de­sign­er in order to in­crease pro­duc­tiv­i­ty while (...)

The end of the year is al­most com­ing and, all of us, young or old, hope that their good be­hav­ior since the last Christmas was no­ticed and Santa Clause will of­fer to them beau­ti­ful gifts. This part of the year is in the opin­ion of a lot of peo­ple the most beau­ti­ful (hon­est­ly I beg Santa Clause to give me a year full of Christmases be­cause in this way all peo­ple are kinder, open to other’s prob­lems and feel­ings). We are 7 bil­lion peo­ple and all of us are dif­fer­ent; some­body as God, Allah, (...)

In my CSS3 pre­sen­ta­tion that I’ve given sev­er­al times over the past year, the part that seems to im­press the au­di­ence the most is my demon­stra­tions of me­dia queries. I’m with them. I think me­dia queries are per­haps the most use­ful and ex­cit­ing piece of all the great new stuff that’s new to CSS3. While cre­at­ing ef­fec­tive, at­trac­tive, flex­i­ble lay­outs that adapt to the user’s screen size has al­ways been pos­si­ble, me­dia queries add an­oth­er lay­er on top of flex­i­ble lay­outs to make them even more (...)

Campaign Monitor, a web-based email mar­ket­ing soft­ware for web de­sign­ers, re­cent­ly of­fered up 5 copies of their book, Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works. Over 260 Six Revisions read­ers left a com­ment dis­cussing how the book would help them in their pro­fes­sion. This post an­nounces the 5 win­ners. The Winners Matt L. Din Jee Christopher Bishop paul go Congratulations to all the win­ners! The win­ners should al­ready have re­ceived in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing their prize. Results of SQL (...)

Any web de­sign­er in any level of ex­pe­ri­ence, must be start­ed at some point in life as a new com­er. A new com­er has al­most no ex­pe­ri­ence in the field, and it is noth­ing to be ashamed of! BUT they have sur­vived the prob­lems of a new com­er, they have con­tribut­ed to web de­sign as a whole, and are now rec­og­nized pro­fes­sion­als! Photo Credit Let us dis­cuss the first thought pro­cess­es and ac­com­pa­ny­ing ac­tions be­fore you em­bark on your jour­ney to look for your first de­sign job. You may even be a (...)

Want to be a bet­ter de­sign­er? To come up with more cre­ative and in­no­va­tive de­signs? And make sure that you don’t de­vi­ate from the de­sign ca­reer path that you’re most pas­sion­ate and ex­cit­ed about? Well, you can be a bet­ter de­sign­er by do­ing more non-de­sign things. Huh? Be a bet­ter de­sign­er by ac­tu­al­ly do­ing more non-de­sign ac­tiv­i­ties? That may sound coun­ter­in­tu­itive to some. After all, when some­one wants to get bet­ter at some­thing, they should sur­round them­selves with more of that ac­tiv­i­ty, (...)

I will be post­ing some fresh free fonts ev­ery Friday, yes I know it's awe­some. I will look for­ward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you im­prove your ty­pog­ra­phy work. Check out what I se­lect­ed for you on the FFFF#78 and make sure to come­back for more next week. Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts Augustus by TechFonts LatAm Download Augustus CheapProFonts by CheapProFonts Download CheapProFonts Retro Stereo Wide by Gus Thessalos Download Retro (...)

As a de­sign­er, you have a much high­er like­li­hood of con­fronting the free­lancer vs. full-time em­ploy­ee dilem­ma than most peo­ple. No mat­ter which side you’re cur­rent­ly on or have been on be­fore, there are sev­er­al key ques­tions that you should ask your­self be­fore de­cid­ing where you fit in best. Below we’ll take a look at ten such ques­tions that you can use to assess your ca­reer aspi­ra­tions and long-term goals. We’ll al­so of­fer tons of ad­vice along the way about how to in­ter­pret your an­swers to (...)

Inspired by vir­tu­al im­agery and dig­i­tal com­put­er graph­ics, specif­i­cal­ly the pop­u­lar “e­moti­cons”, PATTERNED SMILE in­tro­duces two new faces de­signed ex­clu­sive­ly for this ur­ban, con­tem­po­rary table­ware set. A del­i­cate and hu­mor­ous vi­sion by Estudio BIS// CUIT to give your table a dis­tinc­tive and cre­ative twist. I’m en­thralled y’all. Really, this is just BRILLS! Dimensions: Each din­ner set in­cludes: 1 din­ner plate-27 cm di­am. 1 bowl- 19.5 cm di­am. 1 dessert plate- 21 cm di­am. The pieces are (...)

The first decade of the 21st cen­tu­ry has been fre­quent­ly ac­cused of lack­ing co­her­ence. Ironically, co­her­ence emerged as one of the pre­vail­ing themes of some of the decade’s most im­por­tant de­sign work. Target’s Clear Rx bot­tles—hailed by IDSA’s es­teemed jury as the stand­out Design of the Decade re­ceiv­ing a gold award and it’s de­signed by a stu­dent no less. The sto­ry of the ClearRx be­gins in the frail hands of a grand­moth­er who misun­der­stood the la­bel­ing on a pill bot­tle and took the wrong dosage (...)

Tired of cre­at­ing me-too de­signs? Want to escape cre­at­ing de­signs that look too much like others? Looking for a con­stant source of fresh in­spi­ra­tion? Well, you’re in luck, be­cause this is the Beastie Boys guide to more cre­ative de­signs. The Beastie Boys were one of the most icon­ic and fierce­ly cre­ative mu­sic groups from the ’80s and ’90s (and still rock­ing it in the ’00s and be­yond). Ad Rock, MCA, and Mike D had roots in New York punk, be­came a hip-hop group, record­ed land­mark al­bum after (...)

While mil­lions of peo­ple share the dream of work­ing from home, very few un­der­stand its dif­fi­cul­ties. From on­line dis­trac­tions to tech­ni­cal mal­func­tions, on­line en­trepreneurs and free­lancers face thou­sands of po­ten­tial set­backs, each one threat­en­ing a de­cline in in­come or a pause in cash flow. We’re all fa­mil­iar with this prob­lem. Yet the prob­lem doesn’t af­fect ev­ery de­sign­er and de­vel­op­er. With so many tools avail­able, any­one can op­ti­mize their work rou­tine and in­crease pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. (...)

Wonjune Song sent us his ver­sion of how time flows like a river and mem­o­ries are all that are left be­hind. Nice eso­ter­ic thoughts, but I dig the Memory Time Watch more for its ca­su­al looks, and the sub­tle way the in­ner me­chan­ics are re­vealed. Let’s just go with the mem­o­ry flow! Designer: Wonjune Song Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore won­der­ful con­cepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just con­cepts. See what's hot at the YD Store! (...)