PostBidWin.com, an online marketplace that enables advertisers and design-seekers to fulfill design projects, is now offering its project posting services for free.
From their press release on xtvworld.com:
Anyone seeking creative services can define their project requirements using PostBidWin???s unique project posting software and receive quotes from a team of unparalleled design professionals. The services??? dedication to solving business problems is creating a buzz in the industry and helping people to save both time and money on visual advertisement projects.
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Came across a helpful little forum. Good place to check out contests for graphic designers, etc. Here is an example of a popular thread:
What use is a graphic designer?
Imagine if you were on a plane, it crashed on an island (yawn, i know… stick with me here for just little while) and your professional trade was useless.
To celebrate its 6000 member, the KobOne site organizes its second T-shirt Contest, of November 15 2005 to January 15,2006. The topic is: “free creation”. Imagine a logo, a style or a fresco for t-shirt. No limitation of field or subject. Any type of subject can be treated or diverted (company, world, sport, voyage, mode, topicality…). 1000 Euros up for grabs folks.
“Using reference clippings from architectural and decorating magazines, Lisa Henderling was inspired to create patterns and a color scheme for the fabric furnishings and decorative items of her illustration. After drawing most of the elements on separate layers with the Pen tool… ”
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I worked as an artist’s model for several years during art school. There was nothing I hated more than the pretense of sterility they had in art classes. Because the people who run them are uncomfortable with nudity, we get personality-free models, sterile grey rooms, no talking, and (Picasso help us) no fun.
So, me and mod inspired illustrator A.V. Phibes are doing something about it.
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School is our take on the traditional sketch class. Set in the swanky Lucky Cat Lounge we’ve got burlesque dancers modeling, ridiculous art contests, and all the sort of boozy fun you go to art school for.
You can find out more over here.
The first class in Saturday, December 10, 2-5 pm, with the glorious Dottie Lux doing some clown-burlesque inspired modeling
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For their second consecutive year XO Create! wins the national American Graphic Design Awards. The team is proud to be honored in the 2005 awards for their entry in the self-promotions category. The unique entry was conceptualized as a ???gift of time??? and appropriately titled ???Take 5???.
Read entire press release…
Does this guy look like a rock star? Well in the world of high-end graphic design he is considered just that.
“Regarded as the world’s foremost book jacket designer, Chip Kidd’s work covers a wide array of authors: Michael Crichton, Allan Gurganus, Anne Rice, and John Updike, to name only a few. The recent books of Texas authors Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry all have Kidd covers. In his 14 years at Alfred A. Knopf, the venerable New York publishing house, Kidd has created more than 1,500 book jacket designs.”
Design software publisher Adobe has announced that its stockholders have approved the recent acquisition, by Adobe, of web graphics company Macromedia. According to Adobe, the stockholders of both companies have voted in favour of the merger.
