Archive for the ‘ Graphics and Design ’ Category

My cutting edge stylin’s

Okay, it was my daughter’s idea. At the end of last summer, she asked if I could knit a particular lacy tank top pattern that she could use as a swim suit cover. Only she wanted the pattern adjusted so that it’d be fitted, and longer, and change the straps, and parts of it in [ READ MORE ]

6 tips for working with a graphic designer

You want to get the most for your money, right? Of course you do, and your designer very much wants you to be happy with the finished product, too (trust me, this is of prime importance to a designer!). These tips offer some guidance on how to deal with a graphic designer to ensure you [ READ MORE ]

Team 140 For The Cure

The Race For The Cure went great! I managed to raise a whopping $25, but I guess that’s $25 they didn’t have before, so cool. I was part of a group I met on Twitter, Team 140 (because you can only use 140 characters in a tweet, get it? I didn’t, either, someone had to [ READ MORE ]

GREP Styles

I just finished posting an article about GREP styles in InDesign on my graphics site. It’s a beginner-level article for anyone unfamiliar with GREP. If you’re a designer and you haven’t used GREP before, check it out, it’s a highly versatile editing and styling tool well worth learning. In the course of doing research for [ READ MORE ]

Creative Suite 4 Unleashed

Overall, the seminar was really good. Trying to cover the entire Suite in one day obviously meant that many topics were skimmed very quickly, instructors RC Concepcion and Dave Cross resolved that by skipping the bare basics and covering new features and some best practices. InDesign is the CS app I’m most familiar with and [ READ MORE ]

Portfolio flair

I did a lot of research when deciding how to set up my online portfolio (I still follow the basic design principles I learned in school – step 1: research). I looked at a whole lot of designers’ portfolios, most of them had some really great work in them, but I wasn’t always wild about [ READ MORE ]

I love you, Lynda

I’d expect any experienced designer would already know about lynda.com. It’s really essential, considering how fast design software changes and how much there is to know. They now have a feature for Certificates of Completion, which can help you keep track of trainings you’ve done and provide evidence of current training for employers. I’d highly [ READ MORE ]

Hone your skillz, yo

We’ve all heard about how difficult and demoralizing job hunting is. And it is, the Job Search a hideous bitch goddess. There is the possibility of advantages to it, though. As much as I thought I’d kept my skills up to date, I’ve been confronted with the reality of all I had not done. And [ READ MORE ]

CS 4 Seminar

I registered for KelbyTraining.com’s Adobe Creative Suite 4 Unleashed Tour in Austin on October 12. It’s half the price of the Photoshop seminars, I hope that’s not a sign of the actual worth of the experience. I noticed typos on their page: “Learn abut improvements to existing tools and functions….” I’m only asking for trouble [ READ MORE ]

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