10 Services That Turn Your Designs Into Real Stuff

10 Services That Turn Your Designs Into Real Stuff

There's a new industrial revolution going on, and it's called digital fabrication. Using rapid manufacturing technologies — from laser cutting to 3D printing to digital textile printing — products no longer have to made on the assembly line. This means products can be personalized, customized, and individually created.

 
10 Questions to Be in Sync with Your Clients

10 Questions to Be in Sync with Your Clients

Are you looking to build long-term relationships with your clients and create high value deliverables? Do you want to develop strategically-sound creative that helps them build their business? If so, here are the 10 questions you should ask to make sure you’re in sync with your clients’ corporate and brand strategy.

 
Things Designers Forget Before Starting Development - Part One

Things Designers Forget Before Starting Development - Part One

As designers, we know how the site should look. Exactly as it looks in the design. However, by learning more about development we can help streamline the coding process, possibly reducing the time to code the site and any complications that may occur.

 
20 Simple techniques for taking better photos

20 Simple techniques for taking better photos

As a photographer I’m always trying to improve the photographs I take. Over the years I’ve accumulated all manner of hints and tips that I’d like to share with you to help you to produce better photographs more often. Here are some simple techniques for taking better photos!

 
10 Reasons Why We Re-Designed DesignersCouch

10 Reasons Why We Re-Designed DesignersCouch

There's a combination of personal reasons and usability issues that fuelled the re-design of DesignersCouch. Personally, we wanted to re-design the site so that it would be a place Creatives would really enjoy using. Professionally, here are our reasons for the big move!

 
Font Managing Tools That'll Make Typography Easier to Deal With

Font Managing Tools That'll Make Typography Easier to Deal With

Most designers have a large collection of fonts waiting to be used a first or second time for whichever project they make be working on. However, because of how many fonts there are it can be pretty hard to deal with. Choosing a font can be a heck of a task, especially if you don't have them organized in any way.

 
Top 12 Job Boards for the Freelance Designer in Need of Fresh Work

Top 12 Job Boards for the Freelance Designer in Need of Fresh Work

Freelancing isn't always easy, especially if you have to be on the lookout for prospective jobs and clients. The best way to stay on your toes is to find several promising Freelance Job Boards that have a section geared towards developers and designers, then either subscribe to that section or follow up on a regular basis.

 
Tips for Dealing with Difficult Clients

Tips for Dealing with Difficult Clients

New clients can be like Christmas morning. You open your presents and you've either got that wicked new bike from dad, or a hideous sweater from grandma. Either way, dealing with clients is all about learning to make the best out of what you've got!

 
6 More Lessons on Tough Negotiations from Pawn Stars

6 More Lessons on Tough Negotiations from Pawn Stars

This is part two of the lessons from the popular American television show, “Pawn Stars” about negotiating to get what you want. If you’ve seen the show, you know the basic premise. Set in Las Vegas, Nevada, the high-stakes gambling capitol of the U.S., people of all ilk come into the shop to buy, sell and pawn assorted items.

 
Google Chrome Extensions that Compliment Productivity

Google Chrome Extensions that Compliment Productivity

A large portion of designers and developers have built an intense relationship with Mozilla FireFox (and with good reason). However, there are those that have started to fall in love with a new breed, Chrome.

 
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