A recent survey of 3600 designers by the The American Institute of Graphic Arts shows there could be an upswing in salaries.
“We expect to see design salaries remaining firm this next year, with modest increases and growth in employment among designers who have been underemployed over the past several years.”, said Richard Gref??, Executive Director of AIGA in a recent letter to members.
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Add Your CommentsCory Threlfall from PromotionsWorld.com gives his top ten reasons why RSS is so important.
1. RSS Streamlines communication.
2. Readers can Opt-In to feeds.
3. You don’t have to maintain an RSS feed.
4. You have the ability to Syndicate your content.
5. Broadcasts your Sales and Specials.
6. No filters to worry about.
7. No more “Spam” complaints.
8. You get INSTANT credibility.
9. Multiple ways to read your feed.
10. Free and Easy site promotion.
There are a ton of talented illustrators to be found over at creativehotlist.com, today I came across an artist by the name of Sylvia Rostami. Sylvia Rostami, founder of Infinite Image, a commercial art company, is the inventor of the ultimate merger between art and the written word. Text Magic??? (patent pending) is a revolutionary new process where words warp to create an image. A picture forms when every single letter distorts to achieve the overall appearance of lightness or darkness.
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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox lists the web design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.
1. Legibility Problems
2. Non-Standard Links
3. Flash
4. Content That’s Not Written for the Web
5. Bad Search (more…)
Quote:
“Phone reps are a fact of doing business, and in many cases represent the first contact a customer has with your company. Indeed, in a cluttered world where one company’s product can be nearly identical to another’s, quality service is often the deciding factor for finicky customers. ”
Inc. Magazine, June 2005
Robin Good looks at Internet-based telephone services like Skype:
VoIP tools like Skype give small businesses a market advantage against larger competitors by lowering operating costs and increasing productivity with voice calls, instant conference calling, group chat, file-transfer, free toll-free calling and the recently released Skype Toolbars, which let callers make one-click calls to phone numbers directly from within Windows Outlook and Internet Explorer.
I started switching to VOIP about a year back and I have few regrets. Using a combination of Vonage for my regular line and Skype for calls to contractors etc., I’ve cut my phone bill by 60%. I’ve also gained some handy features that I couldn’t get with my regular phone line. For example, when you leave me a voice mail it gets delivered to me via email as an mp3 file.
Have you considered Skype or another VOIP service for your business? If not, I encourage you to take a more serious look. A great way to start is internally with Skype. If you’ve got offices in a couple different cities, why not set-up Skype for inter-office calls? It’s free to download and free to call other Skype users. That would likely eliminate a good chunk of your long distance bill each month. And, who wouldn’t like to do that?
Once you get all set-up, Skype me.
So far the site has focused on 38 graphic artists. This week they have profiled Jean-Sebastien Rossbach.
URL/s: livingrope.free.fr
Location: Paris, France
Job: Freelance.
What inspires your illustrations?
death and love.
If you are a freelance design or illustration business going…Studio Produce could be the answer. They offer thoughts, tools, resources, news, blogs and podcasts geared towards helping you succeed and grow.
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Crotch, hairline, spline…what the heck am I talking about. Well I just read through Cassie Hart’s Typography 101 glossary and now I can speak the lingo with the best of them. Okay maybe I can just understand the terminology a bit better.
Take a peak over at DynamicGraphics to read the full vocab list.
If you’re in the NYC area you should check out the ‘Cut & Paste Competition’ on Saturday at the M1-5 between Broadway and Church.
As termed by the sci-fi author William Gibson in August 2005’s issue of Wired, “this is the cut and paste generation.” From music to fashion and art, we are witnessing a new era of mixing styles and genres into genuinely original creations. That is the essence of cut and paste.
