Granny's Mettle
Book Review: The Non-designer’s Design Book, Second Edition
One of the books I strongly recommend for non-designers like me is Robin Williams' "Non-Designer's Design Book". It is a must for dummies who want to have a career on graphic designing even without the formal education.
Date Posted: March 11, 2005
Hot Multimedia Tips
Some of Howwired's best web developers and designers have converged to share their techniques to create effective audio, video and animation in the web.
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Web Design Illustration Tips
Pictures are worth a thousand words. So are illustrations and images on any web page. Your illustrations will either make your visitors stay and read on, or make them decide to skip and click on another web site.For best results, you could apply the...
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Print Shop Deluxe Empowering Users To Do Publishing
Professional and business-looking cards have become so tedious that I have been trying to get other programs to help me create cards and albums without feeling that it's a lot of work for me.Broderbund's "The Print Shop" has been...
Date Posted: March 03, 2005
The Do's of Banner Designing
Banners are effective media materials that can make or break a company's ad campaign. For web sites, along with the corporate logo, the banner speaks of your message and what you want to achieve for your corporate image and identity.To help you...
Date Posted: March 03, 2005
Fusing Traditional and Technical Illustrations
The following is an excerpt from the tips and techniques provided by a designer using Photoshop 4. He based his techniques from a current project of creating illustrations for a story of a mythical city in a magazine.
Date Posted: March 03, 2005
How To Create Your Logo (Part 1)
For a businessman, image is everything. Big companies invest a lot to have an attractive, dynamic, eye-catching image to brand their identity. These eye-catching visuals are commonly known as logos.A logo is a name, symbol or trademark of a company...
Date Posted: March 03, 2005
Image Pro 9: Powered Desktop Publishing Program
Microsoft provided software carrying two CDs--- Digital Image Suite 9 and the Digital Image Pro 9. It comes with wizards that walk you through the process, and tutorials that help you get started right away.
Date Posted: March 03, 2005
Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses
Designers value the litheness of digital presses that let them print shorter four-color runs. But choices of paper and preparation of files require special care.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005
Digitalize It! : (Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel)
Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005