My Mom Has No Clue What I Do

The Apple dictionary defines graphic design as, "the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books."
Since you are enrolled in a graphic design (or related) program, what is your definition of graphic design? If you are nearing the end of your program, has your definition changed since you first started studying the subject?
I look forward to your responses!

Creative Briefcase - Great Price

$35 for one year! Seems great to me. It's a special rate and will increase once their membership is increased. So if this is what you need. Get it now. Here's a description from their website:

You can take years bumping along the runway trying to get your Graphic Design business off the ground, but that’s the hard way to succeed, and there are no guarantees that you’ll succeed in the end.

But there’s an easy way too – Creative Briefcase. Our step by step instructions are developed by world renowned Business Consultants and Graphic Design experts, and they’ll put your business in overdrive and blow past the feast and famine cycle.

• Existing Graphic Designers – If you’ve been in the Graphic Design business for years and just want to streamline your business model, Creative Briefcase will so vastly exceed your expectations that you won’t believe it. You’ll find yourself literally overwhelmed by the sheer volume of first class information, including advice by world famous consultants and experts – professionals who have been exactly where you are now and know how to leave your all your problems in the dust. You’ll even solve problems you didn’t know you had!
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• New Graphic Designers – If you’re just getting into the Graphic Design business, congratulations – Creative Briefcase is about to show you how to skip years of heartache and lost profit and launch your business in overdrive, blowing past competitors who have been stumbling around for years. Our professionals will give you all the tools and plans you’ll need to set up a wildly successful Graphic Design Business from scratch, and all the advice you’ll need at every step for years of business building to come

Gene Powell Redux

For those of you who missed it or if you just want to relive it—Gene Powell's recent presentation to the group can be seen on YouTube (minus the last 40 minutes). Follow this link.

Guest speaker Gene Powell of Spoke

Wonder what that is? You would know if you came to the lecture by Gene Powell of Spoke last week. One of these mysterious tiles were found in Toledo back in the mid 90s by Gene and a friend of his. He submitted the finding to a website and if you search his name along with Toynbee tiles you can still find his digital mark.

Ephemeral the internet is not.

But Gene talked about so much more than just the Toynbee tiles. Now I want to hear from you. What did you think of all that Gene had to say? Leave your feedback in the comments.

2009 Student Exhibition and Competition

What are your impression and/or comments regarding this year's show? (You can view it online at http://www.daviscollege.edu/design_show/design_show.html

What's in my browser tabs right now—4.17.09

Street Art Defacement: Appropriate Media vs. Banksy

30 amazing (free) online magazines for graphic designers

What I've Done—a cool little type based video done by the brother of local twitterer @ryanlanciaux.

25 Photoshop Tutorials on Texture

25 Photoshop Tutorials on Texture discovered via Design Related.

Inexpensive Storage Source

http://www.lacie.com/us/shop/index.htm

Check out the cool key shaped flash drive. Only $17.99 for 4GB!

Redesign

Those of you who are with me on the whole design:related thing... here's a pretty cool blog from those same folks about redesigns and updated corporate identities.

redesign:related

The Birth of the Obama Logo

A great look at the options and progression of President Obama's logo.

http://www.logodesignlove.com/obama-08-logo-design-options

Design Article Archive

I just discovered this archive of design articles. It has a nice mix of cutting edge and classic. I especially love the vintage Russian ads.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/design/

Another Font Finding Resource

Courtesy of Emil Wisch of Chicago:

Identifont

Get Your Free Images Here! Fresh, Free Images!

In the course of doing some research, I came across these free image stock sites:

http://www.freerangestock.com
http://www.freephotos.se/
http://www.oneodddude.net/
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net
http://www.freephotobank.org/main.php
http://www.morguefile.com
http://www.f11digital.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/

Enjoy!

What The Font?

Discovered this nifty little tool via Rob Sheridan.

Enjoy!

WhatTheFont?

Pop-up books about letters rock!

Check out this short video of a very cool pop-up alphabet book. Seriously. Go check it out and then come back here and tell me what you think. Keep an eye out for the W—I had to go back and see it again.

Think Design

A great blog for freebies, resources and inspiration.

www.thinkdesignblog.com

Design Competitions

http://www.graphicdesignbasics.com/

http://www.graphiccompetitions.com

More Free Stuff

This blog was featured in the LJ spotlight.

Free Textures!

Process

Rob Sheridan is the art director for Nine Inch Nails. He recently posted a step-by-step description of the process he used to create one of his most popular non-Nine Inch Nails related pieces. It's a great example of process and includes some cool ideas.
Anatomy of a Digital Painting: Cereal Mascot Reunion

Emily, Duane, and I Are There

Where are you?

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