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Specialized freelancers web designers, graphic designers and seo specialists combine forces to deliver quality competitive web services

By | February 19, 2012 | Graphic Design | No comments

Article by Styling Designs

Freelance web design, graphic design and seo experts

Freelance web professionals from Amsterdam have combined forces to deliver complete and competitive web sollutions to clients worlwide. Styling Designs services comprehend web design, graphic design and internet marketing (search engine optimization, link building). Styling Designs freelancers work from home and have little overhead costs which enables them to offer services at very attractive rates. These freelance professionals keep cost low by working with open source sollutions such as Joomla, VirtueMart and WordPress.

Hire a mobile and flexible workforce

By working with Skype, screen sharing, Dropbox, project management sollutions and other handy tools our freelancers are very flexible and are not bounded by an office or place because they have created their own mobile workspace on their laptops. For the clients this is gret because they cn profit from services which they otherwise could only be able to get from large and expensive commercial agencies or webdesign firms. Another benefit for clients is that they are able to hire freelance internet professionals whenever they have the need to do so and decrease work load. Moreover these freelancers do not have a 9 till 5 mentality and work more than often also on Saturdays and Sundays.

Affordable internet services for consumers and companies

More and more consumers have the need for a private website. More than often these consumers register their private domain name before someone else is registering a domain name that should be theirs. Styling Designs has got collected a team of professional web designers, graphic designers and internet marketeers that deliver full internet marketing services to consumers and businesses worlwide.
Web design services:
* Joomla
* WordPress
* VirtueMart web shops
* Flash
* Newsletters / Email marketing
* Web hosting
* Domain name registration
Internet marketing services:
* Link building
* Seo copywriting
* Web page optimization
* Online advertisement with Adwords (Google), Admarkt (Marktplaats), Yahoo, Hyves, Linkedin, Facebook, Myspace
Graphic design services:
* Logo
* Advertisement design
* Corporate identity design
* Business cards design
* Folder design
* Brochure design
* Flyer design
* Poster design
* Wedding cards design
* Mourning cards design
* Birth cards design
* Invitation cards design
* Birthday cards design
* Letterheads design
* Envelopes design
* Cd and album covers design
For assignments and free quotes, offers and advice please send your requests to info@styling-designs.com
Styling Designs is also hiring freelancers Joomla experts and seo experts. Send your resume to info@styling-designs.com

Styling Designs is a competitive international webdesign, graphic design and internet marketing agency from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Specialized in Joomla, WordPress and Flash webdesign, VirtueMart ecommerce web development, search engine optimization, web hosting, corporate identity and graphic design.

www.styling-designs.com

Graphic Design Edinburgh Style

By | February 13, 2012 | Graphic Design | No comments

Article by Kog Design

In our media saturated age great graphic design Edinburgh or elsewhere has never been more important or more in demand.Every book or magazine we read, every website we visit or software application we use, has had to be designed.

Design is an under-the-radar phenomenon: it matters more than ever but we rarely notice it. It affects our whole perception of an item but we rarely think of the graphic labour which has gone into the everyday elements of our lives when they work. We usually only notice, in fact, when that design doesn’t work, when we find ourselves struggling to make sense of something or taking longer than we expected to do what we want.

Everything from kettles to computers, from road signs to washing machines, is carefully designed. Graphic design is all about creating compelling and effective visuals – arranging and increasingly creating visual elements to both help the user and the content creator. The user is entertained, pleased, impressed – or simply guided to their destination. The content creator is able to present their material to the user in a thought-through, effective, desirable manner.

Originally confined to traditional print, designing for that great visual medium the Web has become an increasingly important part of the every graphic designer’s portfolio over the last decade or so.

Finding design

If you have a need for graphic design Edinburgh style, how do you wade through the competition and sort the great designers from the mediocre?

Talk your requirements through with them carefully and see how they respond. Watch for those ideas which combine spark and originality with practicality. Spark is all very well, but graphic design has a job to do as well.

Spend as much as your budget will allow: there is, after all, little point in saving money on a graphic design project if the result is mediocre and forgettable.

For imaginative and creative graphic design Edinburgh try Kog Design . They work closely with clients to produce great design that effectively communicates the required message, whether online or offline.

Make Great Money And Make Great Art With Graphic Design

By | February 2, 2012 | Graphic Design | No comments

Article by Graphic Artist

I’ve been doing Illustration and Graphic Design for a while now, and I have a lot of fun doing what I do.

If you have some background in drawing and you’re naturally skilled at it, Graphic Design or Graphic Art could easily be the best career path for you. If you’re going to be graduating high school in a year or two, you have some time to look into schools for next year. If not, and you’ve graduated already, it really doesn’t change much as you can look into school for next year or even jump in to a Community College.

First, you’ll need to start experimenting on your own. Drawing is a great start to going anywhere in the arts, and having a great sketchbook loaded with ideas is not just a really good resource, but can be a great example of your abilities. If you own a computer, get your hands on some design software like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP (Free Photoshop like program) or Inkscape (Free Illustrator like program) and start messing around, creating stuff, figuring out what tools do what. Here are some links to get you started…
http://www.tutorial9.net/school-of-photoshop/
http://www.adobeillustratortutorials.com/

Going to school and getting a rudimentary education in Arts or Design is my next suggestion. I went to a private art school right out of High School, and while this was a killer experience, it was probably one I wouldn’t suggest for the field of Graphic Arts or Graphic Design. Public, or State colleges offer some extremely great programs, and in the long run, it means paying off a lot less debt in loans through your early working years. Take a look at SDSU, UCSD (you’ll need decent grades and SAT scores to get in here) or any other California UC or State college for some Bachelor of Arts programs.

Another thing you can do is complete an Associates Degree in Arts, or 2 year degree at a community college and learn a lot of graphic design basics. This would be good for Web Design especially. It’s cheap, super educational, and completes 2 years of a UC or State’s 4 years towards a Bachelor’s of Arts.

Once you know how to use programs for design and even get some drawing instruction, you can start working as a Junior Level Graphic Designer. A lot of times, this is an unpaid gig, or internship. But if you have the skills from school, and can use them in a quick, creative way, most companies bump these designers into paying gigs pretty fast.

Even if you aspire to one day be a freelancer, working for yourself and getting clients, you’ll need to work for another company or business first. This is some seriously necessary time, because it’ll teach you how to manage projects and deadlines, and also help spark more creativity.

Graphic Art, or drawing and illustration is a great gig too, but as I’ve found over the years, I couldn’t do it alone. I’ve always had to keep a good solid job as a Graphic Designer to make sure I was gainfully employed since Graphic Art jobs can dry up easily. If you end up really liking this type of art, you should also look into some animation classes.

If you have interest in 3D design, or game design as well or alternatively, this is a great field to get into since there will always be a demand for games and animation. Also, this industry pays extraordinarily well after a couple years of grunt work at a game or production company. 3D would definitely require a different focus in school. Again, try to avoid private art institutions unless they guarantee you a job post graduation. It’s difficult to get scholarships for these schools as they’re not accredited, so you pay a lot over all. But a school like Platt is pretty good at this. For this particular field, you’ll definitely want some decent math skills, since building 3D models and scenery is all about geometry.

I know that college can be daunting for a lot of people, but it’s one of those necessary evils in life. But you don’t have to blow a bunch of money or pay off loans for 2 decades to do it either (like I did, heh). Besides, college is a great experience besides course work.

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Catch The Eye With Cutting Edge Graphic Design

By | February 1, 2012 | Graphic Design | No comments

Article by Blue Baboon Design

Everywhere we look we see logos and brands clamouring for our attention, promoting goods and services, events, companies, in fact everything that you can imagine. Amidst all this clutter of visual imagery some designs stand out and grab our interest. So, what makes a logo or a brand stand out?

If you’re looking to get advise on graphic design to capture a local market like, say, Surrey, then there will be no shortage of people you can call. Typing ‘graphic design Surrey’ into Google will no doubt get you lots of websites you can visit that promise to get your company, event or products noticed, but not all graphic design companies are made equal.

You need to look for many things in order to make the right choice, not just your budget. A good start is to look for a company that can offer a broad range of formats, such as logos, business cards, posters, brochures, magazines, leaflets, menus, stickers and many more. Such a company is likely to provide a one-stop shop for all you graphic design needs, and once it understands your business and the intentions of your marketing plan you can come back again and again.

The most important ingredient, of course, is the quality and variety of the designs that a company can offer. The right graphic design partner should not be stuck in one style, but should be able to interpret the individual requirements of each job and produce imagery and design formats that match them exactly. Good graphic design is about the client, not about the preferences of the designer.

A good way to gauge the capabilities of a graphic design company is to look at its track record and view the samples of previous work that it provides on its website. Look for a broad range of formats, types of client and target markets. Some companies will focus on a particular market sector, whether it is trendy youth culture or upmarket brands, but the ideal partner will be able to produce designs that tap into what any market needs.

So, when you type in your Google search for ‘graphic design Surrey’, what do you find? Well, using the criteria above you still find some viable options. For instance, there is Blue Baboon Design, which is rapidly becoming a leading name in graphic design around Surrey and beyond, and which typifies an approach that blends exciting designs with an understanding of what grabs our attention.

One of the first things that you notice when you find the right graphic design partner is that no matter what the target market you are trying to reach, the designs it comes up with clearly have imagination and insight behind them. They will not merely copy what has been successful before, but will look to add a new dimension.

It may seem a lot to ask for, but there are graphic design companies out there that have fresh, innovative and yet experienced touch.

Blue baboon Design has an efficient and professional team of graphic design in and around Surrey. The designs are used and recommended by clients again and again.So thinking about graphic design surrey think about Blue baboon Design.

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The Tortured Graphic Designer

By | January 25, 2012 | Graphic Design | No comments

Article by Brendon Hull – Senior Graphic Designer & Studio Manager – Artifact Advertising

Graphic Design. Mention these two words at your yearly family gathering and dear aunty Liz will ask you to design a logo and web site for her Tuisnywerheid.

Are we witnessing the death of graphic design?

By | January 25, 2012 | Graphic Design | No comments

Article by Graphic design durham boy

The huge popularity of the Internet and an increasingly high standard of digital design are meaning that traditional graphic design and branding are not the top dogs any more. Digital design is served to the masses on a daily basis through websites, email blasts, television and eBooks. So where does this leave traditional graphic design, are we witnessing the death of graphic design as we know it?

There is nothing quite like holding a fine quality bound book in your hand, the touch, the feel, the paper weight, the gloss finish and the vibrant colours that pantone provides. Even with the depletion of the Rain Forests and a reduction in popular demand for paper-based goods, there will always be those consumers who want these products. Just as vinyl has remained in the era of digital recordings, paper will ride the storm too – that’s good news for the traditional graphic designer. Whether or not paper based goods will become a niche rather than a mass market remains to be seen.

But are the two schools of design really that much different anyway? Surely what we are talking about here is evolution and progression as one area of design drifts into another and we end up with convergence and even more types of design as a result.

Digital and conventional graphic design differ in colour, font and context consideration. The role of a Digital Designer is one that is more technical in terms of having to understand the technical aspects of web browser technology and scripting for accessibility so all of their audience can view their work without exception. But the conventional Graphic Designer must also consider technical aspects such as print methods and font theory.

There are clearly some fundamental differences between a Graphic Designer and a Digital Designer but there are also many parallels. Essentially, both use images, text, and typography to create an effect and to communicate a message to their chosen audience.

Just as Graphic Designers have had to adapt to web design, Web Designers will need to adapt to future developments in mobile technology and other new hardware devices that will challenge their current working practise.

Many Graphic Designers have adopted web design skills in order to survive and win work. The approach of mixing both the traditional and the digital design skills is now a common one and is echoed in the industry that often feeds much of this work through – Marketing. The demand now is more for integrated campaigns where offline design supports online design in a seamless way.

There is certainly more demand now for digital design courses than more traditional design courses and this reflects the move in skills. New courses are appearing all the time, many built around the software that is used to design in today’s design world, the majority of Digital Designers and Graphic Designers sit side by side using the same suite of software.

What is changing significantly is the manor in which audiences respond to information. The format of online design keeps ‘the message’ short as the focus increases on our ever-decreasing attention span. The video game generation don’t have time for 700 page novels with hand illustrated chapter headings, they are too busy scanning the vast array of information which now presents itself only a few clicks away.

Does this mean that we will end up with mini-books the size of postage stamps? I think not. It does, however, signal a new era of design for both graphic and digital design. There will still be books in 200 years time and they will still adhere to the same design principles but we will be reading them on Google Books via a hand held device. It is unlikely that we will be reading Shakespeare from our wristwatch as it will be illegible – so if technology is changing you can still count on the good old human race. We may be evolving but unless something drastic happens designers will still be designing for humans in 2209.

So Graphic Designers, don’t hang up your Pantone Pens yet, all is not lost – come back, all is forgiven!

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Jamie Wisdom is a North East based graphic designer, branding and community art workshop expert.

If you are interested in finding out more about Jamie Wisdom graphic design, branding or community art workshop services please visit the graphic design Durham website.