Taking Advantage of the Mobile Web Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern Sponsored by: Webvanta  Mobile phones, with their capable web browsers and ability to run apps, have created the biggest new publishing and marketing opportunity since the dawn of the web. Hundreds of millions of people now use smartphones to access the web, [...]

What Designers Need to Know About HTML5 and CSS3 A free, one-hour live webinar event from Webvanta The latest generation of web standards, HTML5 and CSS3, offers designers new opportunities to build sites that are faster, more flexible, and support all platforms. These are complex specifications, however, and it can be daunting figuring out what parts [...]

Length: 60 Mins Cost: Free Presented by: Michael Slater, cofounder and CEO, Webvanta Who should attend: Graphic designers, web designers, and marketing managers Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11 am Pacific Time (GMT -8) If you’re like most designers and marketing managers we work with, you need to find a way to deliver sophisticated desktop [...]

FREE DesignCast: Designing with Web Fonts in Adobe Photoshop Sponsored by: Extensis The traditional website design workflow heavily includes use of Adobe Photoshop. From initial design concepts and wireframes through to the final website layout, Photoshop plays a critical role in site development. Integrating web fonts into this design process has been a difficult or [...]

Beyond the Desktop: Creating Mobile Sites and Applications Date: Thursday, Sept. 1, at 11 am Pacific The explosive growth of smartphones and tablets has created new opportunities to extend the reach of your designs far beyond the desktop. Please the upcoming webinar, Beyond the Desktop, to learn how to design phone and tablet sites and apps. If [...]

Sponsored by: Monotype Imaging Typefaces are a critical tool for creating a brand voice. Used properly, type will maintain a positive connection between a product and a user – particularly in an interactive setting. Steve Matteson, Creative Type Director for Monotype Imaging, is the designer of typefaces for brands such as Microsoft, Xbox and the [...]

Sponsored by: Navitor In support of the business strategy to provide added value to their clients and to better compete in the marketplace, Navitor will provide examples of how adding print to the mix complements graphic design assignments and adds to bottom line profitability. In addition to discussing the positioning of becoming a single resource [...]

Almost all motion graphics artists today use After Effects, Photoshop or Illustrator to some degree in their projects. During this complimentary webcast, you will: Learn how the Adobe Creative Suite can benefit your motion graphics workflow Discover ways to connect After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Illustrator Gain important knowledge of essential techniques like repairing and [...]

FREE PUBLICITY! Designers rejoice! This project allows designers from anywhere to design and submit a ‘NO NUKE’ poster and join the project’s noble cause to push for natural energy. Click Here to visit the project’s site (http://int.nonukeart.org/) About the project Japan is currently facing an unprecedented crisis. Even now, one month after the earthquake, the [...]

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Sponsored by: Wacom Join Wes from Wacom, and special guest, Ali Sabet, in this informative webinar about the integral role that a Wacom pen tablet plays in the creative process. Ali Sabet, contemporary artist, character designer and brand consultant, is also the developer of the [...]

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST For years, collaborative design, print and publishing environments have faced many challenges with managing fonts in their workgroups. These challenges are not unique, and many divergent industries have long suffered font problems. If your organization struggles with any of the following, you’ll benefit from server-based [...]

Thursday, January 20, 2011 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (ET) The freelance lifestyle means making your own hours, picking which projects sound cool, working in your pajamas, and taking vacations whenever you want, right? Not exactly. When you start out as a freelancer, you need to hustle, and in this economy, you need to [...]

Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST This session will provide an overview of the Creative Professional’s Guide to Money DesignCast Series. This Series will teach creatives—whether full-time freelancers, agency owners, moonlighters or aspiring entrepreneurs—the basics they need to know about the financial side of a creative business, then point them toward [...]

Creative Pro Webcast: Portfolio Review with Frank O’Brien Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (ET) Is your work good enough to get work? Creative Pro invites you to a live portfolio review with Frank O’Brien, the founder of Conversation, an agency at the intersection of traditional strategy and emerging media. Conversation’s roster of [...]

The Magic Bullet for Social Media Success featuring Jason Harper of Organic is Tuesday, December 21 at 4 p.m. ET. Jason will be sharing a formula that removes the risk associated with social campaigns and provides an accuracy rate of 98% in predicting the success of your efforts. Click here for details.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST Ever wonder if there was a “rule book” for typographic success that only great Web designers were privy to? It surely seems that way. They make great typography look downright easy.

This blog is officially a 2010 Philippine Blog Awards Nominee for the Best Personal Blog category. I didn’t even know that people actually read my posts. So that explains the 1000+ pageviews… Thanks to everybody who bothered sifting through my posts and actually read whatever twisted nonsense I’ve posted here. Maraming salamat sa inyo. This [...]

Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST 2010 could easily be called “The Year Typography Came to the Web.” You may have heard about web fonts, and want to start using them in projects, but aren’t sure just how to do so. In this DesignCast, Jim Kidwell will show you how web [...]

FREE DesignCast: 25 Tips for Saving Time With Adobe Creative Suite When: Thursday, November 4th, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Creative Suite 5 Design Premium includes dozens of features designed to reduce the number of steps required to complete common tasks. This complimentary seminar will show you how Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign – [...]

How color is evolving in 2011? In this session we will discuss trends and color direction for Fashion, Graphics and Product design. Learn what colors will be hot enough to tempt consumers in these challenging economic markets. When: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Click Here to register or get more [...]

So you use Photoshop. Big deal. Don’t we all?! What about everything else? Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, etc. Wacom pen tablets are integral tools in the creative process. They are used by millions of professionals around the world to create and enhance images, videos, products – just about everything that we encounter on a daily basis! [...]

A few days ago I was sifting through my projects folder, looking for stuff I could showcase in my portfolio. What I noticed was, for the projects I’ve worked on in the last three months, I have been subconsciously having an affair with a specific typeface. Now, a lot of designers would agree that it is [...]

 FREE PicScout DesignCast: That Resonates with Me! Change the World One Presentation at a Time.   Presented by: Nancy Duarte When: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Presentations are the language of business and those who master communicating with them rise faster than their peers, reach more customers than their competitors, [...]

Accelerating Trust: Maximizing Your Organic Rankings with Smarter Content, Analytics, and Strategy Tuesday, September 21 @ 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT FREE Webcast | Register now! Savvy marketers understand the strategic role that content optimization and analytics play, and how they impact their organic search rankings, and ultimately their bottom line. Learn how to increase [...]

This webcast is ideal for professionals who want to add to their skill base, for beginners who need to learn the basics, or for others who are self-taught and want to solidify their knowledge. Graphic design and new media expert, Richard Harrington, will cover many of the exciting new Photoshop CS5 features, such as: Puppet [...]

Web and graphic designers rejoice! Remember those days when you used to bring those bulky colour swatches whenever you meet-up with a client? It looks really professional right? Probably gave you additional plus points when it comes to making an impression. Well for me, gone are those days. Now I’m using Adobe Kuler whenever I [...]

I’ve just downloaded the Photoshop Express App for the iPhone. I must say that I was excited to think that I could finally do something artsy yet counter-productive (eh?) while I’m idly sitting on the bus or train. While it was downloading I was already halfway through my mental list of those people whom I wanna take [...]

It’s about damn time! I have just found out that Gmail has just recently announced that they are finally natively supporting this feature (Click here to read the post @ the official Gmail Blog). I have been waiting for this feature for the longest time (well… not longer than the time I’ve waited for Starcraft 2, but [...]

The coolest open-source browser on the planet is running a contest!Mozilla Creative Collective’s design challenge: Create an iPhone skin design for Firefox Home! The goal of this challenge is to create a design that may be made into official Mozilla iPhone skins. The top 5 designs will be highlighted on the Creative Collective homepage, blogs [...]

This is a totally awesome display of creativity. I saw this vid from the PGDA fb wall, I’ve probably watched this for more than 15 times but I still can’t get over how painfully detailed it is. Enjoy. F is for FAIL from Brent Barson on Vimeo.F is for Fail is a short film about [...]