I’m getting married next year! And through my wedding planning I have found a beautiful Irish blog called OneFabDay. When I found it a number of months ago it really inspired me to design my own freelance wedding stationery website, for which I did some preliminary work. There are some really beautiful blogs in the [...]
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Stumbled upon this pretty cool website – Hello Lucky – and thought it most definitely worth noting. Love the option of letterpress printing!
At first I wasn’t sure what I felt about this… designers putting their work out there in an environment where it could be copied or undervalued, but now I think I’m coming around to the idea. Check it out – iwantadesign.com launches today at 3pm and will host ‘contests’ for designers to submit pitches to [...]
The One Page Graphic Design Portfolio Guide
Posted: February 16, 2009 in Design, WebsitesTags: graphic design portfolio websites, online portfolios
Found this really good post on creating effective online portfolios over on YouTheDesigner.
Smashing Magazine
Posted: October 28, 2008 in Design, WebsitesTags: graphic design websites, Smashing Magazine
A friend sent me the link to Smashing Magazine today and I have to say it is just brilliant. Full of graphic design tutorials, freebies, showcases and inspiring posts… I highly recommend a browse.
If you are ever without your Photoshop and need to re-size or crop some images in a hurry, Pixenate offers online image editing with no fuss.
creativeireland.com
Posted: June 18, 2008 in Design, WebsitesTags: creativeireland.com, graphic design jobs
Just realised that I haven’t mentioned a very important Irish design secret on this blog – www.creativeireland.com. The place to look for graphic design jobs in Ireland.
misterclipping.com
Posted: May 10, 2008 in Design, WebsitesTags: clipping paths, mister clipping, photoshop
God I would have found this site SO useful in my last job! Handmade clipping paths from €1.95 – €7.00 per image. An original idea – I hope these guys do well.
A Guide to Making Passive Income
Posted: April 30, 2008 in Design, WebsitesTags: freelance graphic design, make extra cash
Attention all graphic designers! Need to make some extra cash? Some excellent ideas on how to do this can be found in this FreelanceSwitch Guide.
Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch
Posted: April 30, 2008 in Design, WebsitesTags: adobe photoshop tutorials, design your own website, NETTUTS, PSDTUTS
An excellent Adobe Photoshop tutorial from PSDTUTS, followed by another to code it all up and make it happen on NETTUTS. Two more essential websites to favourite, as well!
freelanceswitch.com
Posted: April 30, 2008 in Design, WebsitesTags: freelance switch, good design articles
A really good website with some cracking good design articles. Check this one out: 12 Practical Ways for Freelance Designers to Increase Leads
Sigh… If only we could really use these in our jobs!
A latin text generator for all those template documents.
YouSendIt lets you transfer large files over the internet, replacing the need for FTP transfers. Files up to 100MB are free – a good solution if you need to send artwork to a printer in a hurry.
This is the website for Impulse fragrances. It’s pretty cool and worth a look if you’re into funky experience sites.
If you need to find large size logos for any big name brands, try allfreelogo.com
The how-to magazine for everything Adobe: layersmagazine.com
Another great graphic design blog: youthedesigner.com
Attention web designers! designmeltdown.com
