This will come as great news and help to those of your struggling to make beautiful comps. LiveSurface is a stock-image site designed just for designers. Their library contains hundreds of beautiful shots of different products, places, and pieces on which to apply your beautiful design! They obviously know what they are doing because all their files come as layered PSD’s for ease of use. A hump day treat indeed.
It’s all about the grid – here, here and oh look: here. GRIDS (title does exactly what it says on the tin), published by RotoVision not only serves as a compendium of exemplary designs (featuring the work of Matt Willey, Peter Crnokrak, George Adams and Airside to name a few) overprinted with their underlying grids, but includes an accompanying CD containing all of the examples in both InDesign and QuarkXPress. A truly indispensable resource to say the least, considering the modest price to go with it.
This interesting article reports on overcoming the all-too-familiar creative block. Featuring an impressive line up of well known and prolific designers and artists, each individual sharing their most effective cures for the syndrome – some of these are pretty interesting. Try it. You might be what you’ve been looking for…
Some tshirts designed to help over at Thread & Water. Our good friend Mr. Ness has designed this one above which I find particularly well done. Head on over and purchase some shirts to help with some clean drinking water in Haiti.
After a lengthy wait, Minimal Sites is finally up and running and showcasing a refreshing mix of, you guessed it – minimal design work. Worth a look around .
Sent to us from our good buddy Tom, an interesting watch on meshing personal projects and commercial projects. Something I am still struggling with to this day. It is inspirational, yet what he speaks is so the truth. So my biggest question is in this day of junkolios and work to pay the bills, is anybody really happy doing anything and getting paid for it? I’m crossing my fingers….
It recently occurred to me that we’ve scarcely covered any forms of design on the radio or podcasts here on GH. Little more of the source is known, apart from being the ‘Thoughts and Discoveries of an emerging designer’, but this on-going series of podcasts entitled ‘Simplexity of Design’ raises some valid points about the graphic design industry and provides some in-depth information on traditional areas such as research and theory, in contrast to more recently highlighted subjects such as design service commodification and the phenomenon of crowdsourcing. It’s certainly worth a quick listen whenever you find the time. You can subscribe to the RRS feeds here.
Computerlove transforms itself into an alternative network of 3 websites (Cpluv.org and Cpluv.me coming soon) dedicated to awarded artists, designers, and directors. Welcome to Ubiq, public beta. For what’s new or if you’re just plain lost, head over to the the FAQ’s for a quick lowdown. Fly in!
