Just like most things in web design and user interface design, personal preference is the cause of many arguments. Rather than discuss this as an argument, I would like to see statistics on opinions from fellow designers, internet users, general garden gnomes etc. Please select below, whether you prefer to create/visit/browse center aligned websites, or [...]
....continue readingArtists place their signature in the bottom corner of a masterpiece and journalists add a copyright to their articles. Logo designers, however, are not so quickly recognized for their work. Some logo designs , especially those that were created prior to the internet age, do not have an official designer attached to them, and for [...]
....continue readingAs with any logo designer, it is a lot of fun to see your very own creation applied in many different ways, whether it is on tv, or a popular website. One of my favorites is to see a logo I designed presented large scale on the side of a building. for the general public [...]
....continue reading**update – submitted this article to Just Creative Design’s Group Writing Project for charity along with a monetary donation over at Just Creative Design’s fund raising page ** Static design visuals: all web designers use them as a way to present the designs to a client. I personally upload a jpg of the visual to [...]
....continue readingSome designers make a great career out of freelancing, some struggle to ever pay the bills solely from freelancing income. If you are already a successful freelancer, you will probably see that you are not guilty of most of the points made below. If you are hoping to be a full-time freelancer, or are currently [...]
....continue readingThere are a a few ways that you can achieve this in Photoshop, but this tutorial will simply go through my personal process of how to create a post-it note pretty quickly. I tried not to use too many shortcut keys when doing this just so those with less Photoshop experience could follow what was [...]
....continue readingI was recently hired to re-design Hawaii Real Estate’s most popular website, Adrhi.com. While the old website did it’s job in the past, it was extremely out-dated in both design and usability. Under the hood, the html was a table based layout with inline styles that needed to go. So, Brian Joseph Studios got to [...]
....continue readingLater tomorrow (September 2nd), at 5pm US Eastern Time (10pm in England & Ireland) a business magazine will be interviewing me for a story on the topic of: "providing businesses with the basic information they need to make an informed decision about creating/updating a web site as well as how to avoid pitfalls and avoid [...]
....continue readingThere are many things to consider when designing a logo , from developing a concept, to the final production. Along the way, sometimes a logo will start to move in a bad direction. This is often down to either an inexperienced designer, or a client that just wants what they like, and doesn’t realize that [...]
....continue readingMany users of photoshop don’t seem to ever get their hands dirty in the animation tools that Photoshop gives you. Well, this post is here to help you to start using more than $50 worth of photoshop! First , we need to create our image, with all of the layers that will make up this [...]
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