The first two months of 2010 have been very busy, exciting and at times, a little stressful! This article is a quick run-through of everything me and my Fiancée have been up to in the early stages of 2010!
Lego is over 50 years old, and is still one of the most-selling “toys” on the market. Although typically categorized as a toy, it can be used for loads of things; artwork, sculpturing, typography and even for building furniture! This post is a short but very inspirational showcase of some of my favorite Lego artwork, collected from Behance and Flickr.
The life of a freelance designer can be pretty hectic. A lot of people assume that because you work for yourself you can set your own work hours and have plenty of scope to make life easier. Any freelancer reading this will know that it isn’t the case. In most cases when you make the decision to work for yourself you find that you must put a lot more hours into your job than you would if you were being employed. This can place added pressure on your nearest and dearest.
In this article, you’ll be able to read the views of my Fiancée, sharing with us what it is like to live with us freelance designers.
We all love social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg and StumbleUpon, and when used correctly they most definitely are one of the best ways to promote the content on your website. To promote the content though, it’s not as simple as simply retweeting your own posts – sure, that can help, but the real joy of it is when everybody joins in! From just one tweet, you could generate hundreds or even thousands of others, and the same goes for Facebook, Digg and StumbleUpon.
One of the best ways to get your websites audience to interact with your site and help promote it using social media is to include links or icons at the bottom of your content-filled pages, such as posts. This post shares with you eleven fresh and modern social media icon packs, with a total of over 900 individual icons!
Movie posters are one of my favourite sources of inspiration, and I love to look at how they have developed over the decades. In this post, we will be looking at how the designs of action movie posters have changed since the 1960’s. You’ll find one poster per year so we can closely monitor the changes, and a small selection of current trends that we’re going to be seeing over the next year (2010) or so.
Action movie posters in general are typically very interesting – captured images of fight scenes, guns, explosions and of course the odd flash of naked flesh are all things that express action films well. The design of a movie poster is commonly underestimated – even with the internet and social media sites, posters are still one of the most effective ways of advertising a new blockbuster film.
