ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 11:57 am Great Advice Is Always a Great Find If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. I can’t remember how I came across this one. Great Find: 45 Rules for Creating a [...]

HOW TO … Build a website published: Saturday | October 11, 2008 Anthea McGibbon, Staff Reporter THE QUEST to capture more clients drives many entrepreneurs into expanding their business horizons on the World Wide Web. According to 15-year consultant Michael Conally, building a viable website is less difficult than most persons think. Conally is CEO of a London-based media/news [...]

There’s good news in bad: A recession can actually be a great opportunity for well-managed companies to advance, according to a new study. During the 2001 recession, just over half the 400 companies studied improved their gross profit margins during the year, according to Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, of Chicago. The winners’ secret: Targeted rather [...]

Are you ready for some creativity? I hope you are because it’s finally time for my previously announced What is Graphic Design Poster Competition. Sharpen your pencils and let those creative juices boil until you come up with a unique concept. I’ve waited a bit longer to start this as I got a few requests [...]

Graphic designers—or graphic artists—plan, analyze, and create visual solutions to communications problems. They find the most effective way to get messages across in print, electronic, and film media using a variety of methods such as color, type, illustration, photography, animation, and various print and layout techniques. Graphic designers develop the overall layout and production design [...]

But What is Graphic Design? Graphic design basically is visual problem solving using text and/or graphical elements. Your aim is to create something that is pleasing to the eye, and gets the attention of the viewer. But things can’t just look cool. They have to work as well. How effective is a great looking restaurant [...]

Web Designers Say Future Is Social Networks, Google—And Definitely Not Blinking Magazine Covers Last night, four premier Web design honchos got together on a panel with an ad man who has escaped from magazine publishing. This was at the fancy fashion school F.I.T., in New York City. The consensus of the room was that in the [...]

Here’s our free collection of Halloween Clip art. Please do not copy any other images from this site other than the ones below. Do NOT include this clip art in any other clip art collections. If you use this clip art, please include a link back to this site, thanks! You can use one of [...]

It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design. This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form [...]

Dick “It Wasn’t My Fault” Fuld, the CEO of bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers, (seen here being heckled after testifying on Capitol Hill) was apparently punched in the face while working out in Lehman gym on the Sunday following the bankruptcy, according to CNBC’s Vicki Ward. Fuld testified before the House Oversight Committee yesterday, blaming everyone [...]

Aman Goyal October 07, 2008 Websites are generally conceptualized for the sake of marketing and sales. In this time and age when Internet marketing is the current craze, everyone is literally enthused to go for the same type of business. Online marketing is definitely soaring high in terms of its popularity and it only means that [...]

An Event Apart Reveals 2009 Web Design Conference Dates, Locations, and Speakers “Sells Out Chicago Conference DMN Newswire–2008-10-7–An Event Apart, the conference for people who make websites, today announced three of its 2009 conference dates and locations, along with its first confirmed speakers. This conference helps web designers and developers gain a deeper understanding of web [...]

An Event Apart, the conference for people who make websites, today announced three of its 2009 conference dates and locations, along with its first confirmed speakers. This conference helps web designers and developers gain a deeper understanding of web standards and emerging best practices, while offering fresh ideas and new directions in the web design [...]

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Lancaster-based Elaine Biss’ take on couture catches the fashion world’s eye As Elaine Biss looks at her digital watercolor of a tall blond afloat in the ruffles of her sea-green ballroom gown, she sees Cinderella. “I like the girl who, nobody knows who she is, but everybody thinks she must be somebody because she’s beautiful,” Biss of [...]

by Manish Gaur October 02, 2008 Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines? Thanks to the birth of professional search engine marketers the top ranks are saturated with the pages of companies that can pay for such insight. That said, it’s [...]