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Graphic Design Blog
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a blog about the world of a graphic design by a freelance graphic designer
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10 Awesome Twitter Backgrounds for Inspiration

This is a guest post from Blake from You Design It Twitter is used as a sounding board for brands big and small. One aspect that can’t be overlooked on your Twitter profile is the background. T...

21 may 12

Inspiring Package Design Book Box Bottle Bag from the Dieline

I have only seen very few package design books that I really like, but Box Bottle Bag is definitely one of them. You wouldn’t really expect any less when it’s brought to you by The Dielin...

17 may 12

Tips on Running a Web Design Business

Rob Cubbon is a graphic and web designer, a prominent design blogger and has also recently written a book all about running a web design business. I asked Rob to share a bit of his design background ...

09 may 12

Design Graduates Clever CV Campaign Wins him his Dream Design Job

In this interview Ryan MCleod talks about how he got his first design job through a clever cv campaign Tara: Please can you tell me a little bit about yourself, where you work and the type of work yo...

02 may 12

Skitch more than just Screen Capture for Mac

Skitch is a great free piece of screen capture software for mac, but it does a lot more than just straight screen shots. Skitch will also allow you to just drag images straight off the web and annota...

27 apr 12

Interview with Childrens Illustrator and Toy Designer Claude Bonnaud

Claude Bonnaud is a toy designer and children’s illustrator who has also licensed his own children’s character brand. Claude kindly agreed to share some of his experiences of working on t...

19 apr 12

Graduate in Graphic Design versus the Mature Designer the Challenges

With the economy in the state its in, being a graduate in graphic design at the moment must be very difficult. At any financial time good or bad, getting that first elusive design job is always the h...

10 apr 12

Free Pitching for Design Jobs Don’t Make the Mistakes I Did

Like anyone, in the course of my freelance graphic design career I have made some mistakes, one of those being that in my earlier freelancing days I did some free pitching (won a few lost a few). It&...

29 mar 12

Graphic Design Competition to Create a Typographic Poster about Sport

Take part in a graphic design competition from Conqueror which is inspired by sport (in line with the year of the Olympics in the UK). The brief: to design a typographical poster about sports using t...

27 mar 12

Student Designer Profile Tom Hughes University College Falmouth

Student designer Tom Hughes who is currently studying animation at University College Falmouth got in touch with me by email recently. Hi just said that he was getting in touch with different organis...

13 mar 12

Why Graphic Design is like Sex

The virgin The virgin…aka the blank white piece of paper you encounter at the beginning of every creative job. There is fear and uncertainty of the unknown (exciting though). A bit of foreplay ...

09 mar 12

12 Tips for Students and Graduates looking for Design Jobs

A guest post by Steph Pickerill, from Jeenia Ltd who offers her advice for design students and graduates looking for their first design jobs Getting opportunities to expand your portfolio is tough. L...

02 mar 12

New Photoshop Touch App for Ipad

I have just heard about a new Photoshop App that has been released for Ipad called Photoshop Touch. I haven’t head chance to try it out yet, but it looks pretty interesting especially for worki...

29 feb 12

Using Indesign or WordPress to Create iBooks or Kindle Ebooks

I have recently been in the process of writing a design ebook and have been wondering about the possibility of converting it for Kindle or Ipad (not just as a PDF). I am still a bit old school and ha...

22 feb 12

If your Apple Mac Died Could you Easily Carry on Working?

Without getting into a Mac versus PC debate, Macs are great when they work and fortunately don’t usually give you too much trouble, but what if yours stopped working tomorrow? Even if you have ...

16 feb 12

Google Plus for Freelance Designers

You just start getting the hang of Facebook and use a bit of Twitter for marketing for your freelance design business and then Google Plus arrives and throws another spanner in the works. So now we a...

09 feb 12

Free Graphic Design Software for when you are Learning Graphic Design

If you are learning graphic design and haven’t got a big budget, the first investment I would suggest is a layout pad and pencil/pen (yes – seriously). The most important thing will alway...

07 feb 12

Student Car Graphics Design Competition

To celebrate the launch of a new model of electric car called the Twizy, Renault are running a competition entitled “Design a Twizy”. The competition is targeted at students in further and higher edu...

06 feb 12

Great New Graphic Design Podcast

Wes McDowell got in touch with me to let me know about his great new graphic design podcast called the Deeply Graphic Design Cast. Wes kindly agreed to answer a few questions about himself and what w...

01 feb 12

Logo Design Tutorial Exercise 3 for Complete Beginners

For more tips on learning design straight to your inbox click here When you are working on a logo design project: 1. First you will have taken a design brief Read Why is a Design Brief so Important 2...

26 jan 12

Twitter for Freelance Designers

For several years I didn’t bother using Twitter. Now blogging, that I loved, but Twitter… I just didn’t get it. A couple of years ago I decided to have another go (DesignblogUK) and...

18 jan 12

Marketing your Freelance Design Services

With the current financial situation, freelancers could either find themselves in demand as they are cheaper than larger companies or that their work shrinks as their clients continue to feel the squ...

13 jan 12

Win Business Cards from MOO

3 sets of 100 MOO business cards, for 3 lucky Graphic Design Blog UK readers Graphic Design Blog is happy to have business card printers MOO.com provide us with 3 sets of 100 MOO business cards, for ...

13 dec 11

Freelance Graphic Design Rates New Survey is a Guide to What to Charge

When you first start out freelancing it’s really hard to know what freelance graphic design rates to charge and of course no-one wants to reveal what they earn either. Obviously there are many ...

09 dec 11 1 person likes this

Advice on Licensing your Character Designs

As I have mentioned previously on this blog I would love to license some of my character designs, and while I keep on trying have not quite managed it yet. I put a tweet out asking for advice on lice...

30 nov 11

Design Goodies Bundle Offer from Inkydeals

I received an email from Inkydeals about an offer they have on for all their previous deals in a bundle, this included vector graphics, textures, fonts and a WordPress theme. You might want to check ...

28 nov 11

Avoid Design Distractions with the Concentrate App

Nowadays everyone’s attention spans seem to be getting shorter and shorter. I don’t know about you, but I can easily get distracted from the current design task in hand with the likes of ...

23 nov 11

Free Design Project Management and Collaboration Software

Up until recently I had always organised my design work in a really basic way, just typing up a list if projects and breaking them up over the week. A few months ago I was introduced to Basecamp, whi...

17 nov 11

Logo Design Tutorial Exercise 2 for Complete Beginners

This is the second logo design tutorial, which is again aimed at complete beginners. The exercises are designed to break down the thinking behind designing a logo into bite size chunks. Don’t f...

09 nov 11

Make Design Business Dreams Come True – Set Goals

A Guest Post by Mhairi Gordon-Preston from Suit Free Business Help For Design Companies Business dreams are fantastic; they can fire-up your enthusiasm and make the planning and work feel worthwhile....

07 nov 11

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