Adobe TV is one of my favorite sites and a good place to lurk around for tutorials and product updates, most recently they added a new comedy series produced by the comedy troupe FreeLoveForum, which I think is a must see. They say “our glance at the individuals who make up the advertising, publishing, and entertainment industries.” Read More
Profiles of Creative Pros on Adobe TV
October 6th, 2009Some really cool creativity quotes
August 24th, 2009Anthony Viva, sent these beautiful creativity quotes, to members of Advertising group on facebook. I think this would help the way we think. My personal favorite: “Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.” Read More
Wake up IT, guerrilla-style! And finally get your browser upgraded!
August 1st, 2009Bouncing around here and there during my regular surfing session, I found a really interesting idea. Even though Internet Explorer had many issues, IE made headlines like this in the year 2004: “The U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser.”, all issues aside, designers and developers are at war with the browser for eight years now. “Hey IT!” has a unique plan to get your attention. They have started a guerrilla-style war against Internet Explorer. Read More
A few non-tech things to become a successful web designer
July 31st, 2009While mentoring a young designer at my company, I felt it’s not just design techniques and technologies that a person must master in order to be a successful designer. A few hundred resumes that I have seen this year while recruiting for a certain Denmark based e-commerce company, always have a standard set of skills and the core emphasis is on the number of design programs that a designer should know. Read More
I am my worst client
July 29th, 2009While I was working on this theme, which by the way isn’t built from scratch its based on the default wordpress theme, I figured its hard to justify my own concept to myself. Primarily because when I ask for opinions from friends and foes, they don’t see it from my perspective. 9 out of 10 people think its hard to read even though it has a lot of breathing space and it lacks color which is a major contradiction coming from a person who claims to be a creative and it gets hard to justify. Read More