Admittedly, I’m not the biggest Beck fan. That said I know he’s had an extensive career emerging with a folky hip-hop sound with an acid trip-like undertones that quickly turned to a more funk-oriented genre mix that kept you guessing over the years. From what I’ve heard his live performance is out of control. I…
For today’s Monday Motivation, I present to you Awwwards.com which is a blog that presents some of the best website design and development. From their about page they have this to say about themselves: The awards that recognize the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world. A meeting…
There are multiple ways to achieve the same thing in photoshop. Sharpening an image may sound easy enough to accomplish especially if you’re a seasoned designer, however, there were a few things that even I learned from this tutorial. Below are my notes. Check this video out and learn all the different ways to sharpen…
Last week we talked about Asana, a project management platform to keep you and your team on top of the projects you’ve been tasked. Let’s get real for a second. We as designers are in business to make money, we realize that none of us are going to become bazillionaires doing it so that leaves…
We all make gifs from time to time especially to get people to, if they so happen to open their email, to actually pay attention to it. One easy way to do that is to add motion to your images via animated gifs. The problem is that you’ll never have the time to do something…
There was a time when the Washington National’s stadium was referred to as Citizens Bank South because they were terrible as a brand new expansion team. For those of you not in the know Citizens Bank Park is where the Phillies play and as a proud Philadelphia sports fan there’s no way I’m going to…
First and foremost, I think of graphic/web design as a calling and a dream job. I put a lot of time and effort into developing my skills so while this may look like a post where you may write it completely off as “selling out” or “in it for the money” trust me it’s not….
There are a lot of project management tools on the internet and with the ever-increasing market of offsite workers, the need for efficient organizational tools is needed more than ever. When I’m freelancing I typically like to keep in touch with clients and co-workers through Asana. Its intuitive design on mobile and desktop make keeping in…