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Graphic Design Poster Shows

admin — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:14:49 +0000

Graphic design poster shows are a great way to get one’s work out into the world and to earn accolades and prizes. The HOW Poster Design Awards are an especially great contest to enter your work in because there are no categories. Thus, it is open to all styles and all levels of experience. Thus, it is one of the most inclusive graphic design poster shows available to a designer. To learn more about this contest and how it works, keep reading!

The deadline to submit to this contest is December 1st. The HOW Poster Design Awards accept all poster designs: everything from work that was made for your work or for you and your friends is acceptable.
The prizes for this contest are diverse and well worth the time it takes to enter. Ten winners of the contest will be featured on the HOW website. These winners not only receive $150 worth of HOW books and a year long subscription to the magazine, but they also earn bragging rights and a graphic they can post on any website. This graphic announces that you won the HOW Poster Design Award. What more could you want when it comes to graphic design, contests, and graphic design poster shows?

To enter, people need to submit their entries online at the HOW website. The files uploaded should not exceed 500KB or heights and widths larger than 800 pixels. The file’s format should be JPEG. The work submitted to the HOW Poster Design Awards should have been created between July 1st, 2007 and December 1st, 2008. If you are unable to submit work by December 1st, you can submit up until December 15th, 2008, but you will have to pay a late fee of $10 per entry. After December 15th, 2008, no other entries will be accepted for consideration.

You may pay the submission fee by credit card or by using a check. If you are going to pay the fee with a check, the payment must be postmarked by December 15, 2008. The checks should be US funds from a US bank and should be made payable to HOW Poster Design Awards. Entries without payment will not be considered and will be disqualified. When the credit cards are charged, the charge will appear on the statement as F+W Contest. If a check bounces or a credit card is declines, a $10 fee will be charged. Checks should be mailed to:

HOW Poster Design Awards
4700 East Galbraith Road
Cincinnati, OH 45236 USA

If you win the HOW Poster Design Awards, you are agreeing to allow HOW the right to reproduce your work on the HOW website and in other HOW-related digital and printed materials. The entries should all be original and should be the property of the entrant. In no way shape or form is HOW liable for copyright infringement or disputes about ownership of the submitted images.

The winners of the HOW Poster Design Awards will be announced and notified by March 2009. If there any questions about the contest that are not listed above, people can email HOW at HOW-competition@fwpubs.com.

Easy and Creative Online Self Presentation

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:03:42 +0000

In an increasingly connected society, personal image management has moved beyond suits, ties or dresses and into the realm of complete identity control. With every online action recorded for future review by spouses, legal adversaries and potential employers, maintaining a comprehensively professional persona has never been more important.

Identity management starts with careful control of what information is released and through what channels. This control method, known by communication professionals as selective self presentation, is the easiest way to maintain your desired image in both the physical and virtual worlds. By carefully selecting which pictures, blog entries and forum posts are publicly released on the Internet, even someone who spends vast amounts of time online can successfully manage his online image and present a front of professional, intelligent refinement.

Some users simply can not, however, resist posting pictures of college parties, beach blowouts and other less-than-professional experiences. As social creatures, humans naturally want to bond through such outings and share memories with friends and loved ones. With some careful planning and creative use of pseudonyms, this objective can be achieved with only minimal—if any—impact to the fragile professional profile.

A major element in online identity management is careful and meaningful selection of a screen name. While some users take whatever randomly-assigned name is available, others integrate the online equivalent of a pen name into their daily life. A sales executive who happens to be passionate about dolphins, for example, may much prefer an online moniker such as SeaMammal. By subscribing to social networking and other online sites using this “handle,” the sales executive becomes one step removed from any searches on her name that a potential employer may conduct.

Name searching is, of course, not the only way to find someone on the Internet. In addition to a standard name search, many employers, clients and family members attempt to track down other ‘netizens using the unique online identifier on which people rely the most: an email address. For this reason, many users choose to maintain two separate email accounts: one personal account for staying in touch with friends and performing routine online tasks and one account reserved solely for professional communiqués.

When a user signs up for a new email address, she is generally asked to create a screen name for use on that host’s servers. A fun and easy to remember address such as SeaMammal@genericemailserver.com may be a great choice for the aforementioned sales executive, but a quick Internet search on the screen name or full email address may quickly link potential employers or clients to pictures and profiles best left undiscovered. For professional documents, such as cover letters and resumes, a more appropriate choice would simply use the individual’s given name in place of a screen name, rendering a more generic, professional and, likely, untainted email address of JaneDoe@genericemailserver.com.

With a little creative use of email accounts and screen names, online self presentation can be an excellent tool in the professional world.

Some Important facts of a Logo Design

Jessica — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:22:16 +0000

by Jack Johnson

A logo refers to a pictorial illustration of an organization. A logo is a graphical symbol that reflects the nature, vision or core activities of an enterprise. Entrepreneurs use this graphic symbol to promote the company’s products and services. It carries the brand identity of an organization. They use their trademark not only on their products but also on the rest of the corporate literature. It distinguishes a company’s product or services from the competitor’s products or services. A designer should consider a few aspects that are essential while designing a quintessential logo. While designing a logo a designer should keep a few points in mind. The main purpose of an attractive trademark is to leave a deep and positive impression of the company’s image in the mind of a potential customer. Therefore, you should create few essential features of a logo like design, color or size beautifully. A designer should avoid using designs copiously. A person can use many types of designs in creating a logo. One can use graphics in a logo. A trademark can also be text based or include initial letters of the company’s name. A designer can also use animation in the logo. However, among all these designs one should create a logo that is simple in appearance. A simple design makes a logo more comprehensible and lucid for a viewer. A potential customer retains the name of a company for a longer time. A company uses its name in a logo so that the first thing a customer grasps is its name. A designer should select the color of a company carefully. The shade should be attractive for a viewer. You should avoid using very bright colors that are blinding in appearance. One should use those shades that are pleasing to a human eye. During the printing of a logo on any corporate literature, the use of shade should not hamper the quality of the trademark. The shade should also reflect the nature of the business dealt by an organization. The size of the logo should not be very large so that it becomes problematic while printing. You should not keep a very small size that becomes incomprehensible when printed. A designer should keep a standard size of a logo. If you want to create a logo for your company there are many logo designs available on the Internet. You can also get numerous ideas to design a logo in an innovative and creative manner.

About the Author

Myself webmaster of logochefs.com. We are dedicated professionals providing business logo designs, custom logo designs, logo design services and other design services.

Unique Website Design Benefits

Jessica — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:23:08 +0000

The concept of web designing has been created to facilitate communication between user and content effectively. Designing for the web means designing in consonance with the way people actually use the web, not how we think they should.

Surfers skim pages for clues, instead of reading
They make quick decisions, instead of judging and evaluating the website by looking at the complete picture.
They are driven by their goals, not ours.

Web designers should have special skills to succeed in this environment. And try to gain the best possible insight into user goals. Designers always nearly get a clear on their designs purpose, and have the mental discipline to stick to it. They believe in pursuing simplicity ruthlessly and not rely on complexity to convey their messages and goals to the targeted audience.

Website Designing

When designers work on website designing, He/She should also ensure that your brand is reflected in your web presence. Each aspect of your web design brief is taken into consideration and ensures that the website is created with the right mix of excellent design and industry standard benchmarks.

Website Re-Designing

Take a moment just check in your website. Do you think its look and feel will help you in promoting your company products and services? Is it favoring your brand name? Is the navigation features sound enough and is the browsing easy to do? Are customers pouring in and are you making sales from them? If the answer to any of the answers is NO, then your website needs serious redesigning.

Redesigning a site will help the website to load quicker and faster. A website which takes time to load is not user-friendly which will increase the bounce rate and result in no favorable results.

Benefits of redesigning a website:

A rejuvenated look
User friendly website
Fast downloading of the site
Search Engine Optimization
Implementation of best and latest web techniques

Multimedia Design

It is highly evident that animation and multimedia create excitement in the minds of every targeted audience, the difference lies in the message which is put across. A message which is put in motion is an absolute conveyer of the message. Motion graphics is the trend of the day as the internet is getting full of them. It is becoming visually appealing. Even corporate stuff needs to get out of the rut and become frothy and bright, keeping in view of their respect brands.

CSS Based Website Design

CSS based websites (cascaded style sheet) styled websites are part of the most innovative website design technologies and is a real SEO-friendly way to create websites. Most websites previously used designs which hampered the progress of the Google crawlers over the website resulting in bad SEO results. It also affects the ranking of the company website and ultimately even gives no returns to the owner.

CSS-based website with accurate div statements enables the user to scan through the content easily and browse whatever content is present on the site. CSS based websites are mostly easy for the Google crawlers to crawl upon and resulting in higher ROI for the website and its owner.

Additionally, the size of the files are incredibly less because most of it is sourced or referenced from a specific location. Thus CSS-based websites are quick to load on the machine too.

About the Author

SEORank use all the latest and most established technology to create a website design that is visually lip-smacking and just perfect for your needs. Also provide an ongoing web consulting process that will clearly identify your requirements in web design Sydney.

Graphic Designing Field’s Basic Gist

Jessica — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:31:07 +0000

by Philip Hodgetts

The importance of integrating graphic design into websites has increased as a result of its favorable appeal and usability. It is difficult to imagine a website with only plain text and no design. Such sites would surely prove to be a bore thing for the visitors. Graphic designs add the glamor quotient as well as make a website more interesting and communicative.Graphic designs have to be in line with the web design and site content that suits the needs of the clients. Online competition of companies of all businesses is getting fierce by every passing day. Therefore the emphasis lies in creating innovative and effective graphic design elements.

Quality is always appreciated by the customers, bad quality of design are major turn-off and creates bad impression on the user. Therefore graphic design should have excellent quality and have gone through quality control check before making it online. Correct color combination and spellings should be there, any error in any of these would adversely affect the image of your organization. Text or graphic elements are utilized for producing something rational satisfying the clients requirements. The design should be such that it is soothing to the eyes, makes sense and captures attention of the target customers.

A website has only few seconds to impress the visitor of any particular website, an image conveys thoughts and can be a substitute for thousands of words too. Therefore graphics on the home page has to be eye-catching and sensible enough to keep the potential customers hooked to your website for long.

To create graphic design certain tools are compulsory. First and foremost tool is a ‘Computer’ without it no online activity is possible. It acts as business as well as design tool. Graphics software can produce illustrations, images, layouts and touch-up photos. More the computer is latest version with better features, the results would be more spectacular.

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Areas where the use of graphic design is greatest are product packaging, advertisements, website design and magazines. Any product packaging contains graphics in the form of logo, designs in different color and formats. In graphic designs composition plays important role, presentation is everything in graphic designing.

Discuss with your graphic designer in detail about the designs that can be used to produce desired results and capture the market audience. There are skilled professionals having experience and knowledge about the aspects of graphic designing and related issues.

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About the Author

SPINX – Web Design Los Angeles Company offers services like Internet Marketing Los Angeles, Website Design Glendale, Website Design Beverly Hills & also across the globe.

Presenting Quark Xpress 8

admin — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:11:36 +0000

Quark announced that QuarkXPress® 8, the next major release of the industry standard page-layout and design software, is now available to purchase.

QuarkXPress 8 delivers superior design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout and includes new features such as built-in print, Web and Flash® authoring tools, advanced typography control, and global publishing capabilities. QuarkXPress 8 also offers users an enhanced design experience so they can work faster and smarter by quickly and easily accessing the tools they need.

The new, intuitive interface delivers updates that allow for more design with fewer clicks. For example:
Flash and Web Authoring Tools: Without any programming skills, designers and creative professionals can share print content on the Web and in Flash format without purchasing multiple applications or learning code.

Picture Content Tool: Allows users to grab, rotate, and scale images in real-time without typing in numbers or switching from tool to tool.
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Tool and Text Content Tool: Smart behavior within these tools allows for less switching between tools, even for rotation and managing multiple items.

New Bézier Pen Tools:

Draw illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool.

Workspace Enhancements: Include new buttons for instant access to master pages and exporting to PDF, EPS, SWF, and HTML— plus new split-view buttons, enhanced contextual menus, and customizable active pasteboards.

Measurements Palette: Further enhanced to make even more functions easily accessible, including new clickable controls for on-the-fly drop-shadow modification.

Drag-and-Drop: Drag text and pictures from the desktop, Adobe® Bridge, iPhoto®, or any other application that supports drag and drop. Alternatively, drag content from QuarkXPress to Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Microsoft® Word, and other applications for direct editing.

“We are excited to announce the broad availability of QuarkXPress 8. This new version of our flagship product raises the bar once again for page-layout and design,” said Terry Welty, Senior Vice President of corporate marketing for Quark. “QuarkXPress 8 offers users advanced features and functionality and increased productivity while maintaining familiarity for long-time users. I encourage everyone to try QuarkXPress 8 with our 60-day Test Drive version, or visit us at one of our Xperience Design Global Tour stops.”

60-Day Test Drive
In addition to being available for purchase, Quark is also now offering a free, fully functional, 60-day Test Drive version to users who are interested in experiencing QuarkXPress’ new user interface, improved typographical control, built-in Flash functionality and much more. The 60-day Test Drive can be downloaded from http://8.quark.com/evaluation.html.

Xperience Design Global Tour
The Xperience Design Global Tour is now underway and, in total, will span 30 countries and 58 cities across the globe. The upcoming portion of the tour to hit the United States includes Dallas and Milwaukee (Pewaukee). The international tour will visit various cities in the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Please visit http://www.quark.com/about/events/quarkxpress8_roadshow.html to find out more.

Purchase Information
QuarkXPress 8 is now available for purchase directly from Quark and through Quark Authorized Resellers. An upgrade to QuarkXPress 8 from any previous version is $299 and full product can be purchased for $799. To purchase, visit the Quark Store http://www.quark.com/sales/estore.html or find your nearest authorized Quark reseller at http://www.quark.com/sales/desktop/resellers.cfm.

About Quark
Quark Inc. (www.quark.com) provides desktop publishing and dynamic publishing software that help customers design and publish richly designed communications across a broad spectrum of media. Two decades ago, our flagship product — QuarkXPress — changed the course of traditional publishing. Today, not only does QuarkXPress continue to innovate in the desktop publishing market — now Quark is revolutionizing publishing again with Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, helping customers cost-effectively meet enterprise-scale publishing challenges by extending the benefits of advanced technologies across the publishing process. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.