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Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Fashion Photography Course – valuable guide to a succesful shoot
Several years ago, I was just starting to seriously learn about the requirements and technical aspects of professional photography. Back then, I would browse glossy magazines, looking at portraits and saying to myself “how hard can it be?’. My naivety at the time, fueled by a serious lack of experience and in depth knowledge, was making me believe the age old misconception that a good photographer is all that’s needed to take good pictures. In other words, you either got it or you don’t. [...]
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Tagged advertising, beginner, book, commercial, course, fashion, photographer, photography, review
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The clueless mistress and her older boyfriend
Despite what some might think upon reading the title of this post, it’s not about a troubled love story gone wrong. It’s actually about a type of people you should stay away from, if they ever approach you for any design work. Their inability to understand the requirements of a professional project or to emphasize with the needs of a designer makes them an unnecessary stress generator and a very unlikely source of profit. These two were one of my first clients and to [...]
Posted in Lessons learned from working with clients
Tagged advice, clients, issues, respect, web design, working
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Black and white stripes on classic clapperboard
The idea for this vector graphic came while browsing a visual foreign language dictionary, when i reached the entertainment section. Among items such as scene props, the director’s chair, microphones and others was a tiny thumbnail of a classic clapperboard. It felt interesting to see if i can make something similar out of just a few simple paths. Yet, before i started working on it, i did a brief image search on Google and Wikipedia if i remember exactly to find what other variations [...]
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Tagged clapperboard, labels, movies, vector, writing
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Ogilvy on Advertising – the book that changed my life
Back in high school, there was this craze about advertising among teenagers. The whole media was coming of age, and the agencies were booming. As a result, at that time there was a huge leap in terms of quality as well as quantity in the ad world. Unfortunately, what i was about to find out a couple of years later, when i started going to the university, was that most of those “passionate” about it, were in fact craving for the money and the [...]
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Tagged advertising, books, branding, classic, marketing, review, training
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Lessons learned from working with my clients
As a designer working either on web or in print, dealing with clients can be truly frustrating at times. Without enough experience under your belt you won’t be able to spot those hopelessly troubled individuals you’re better off without, maintain the lines of communication open with the ones that don’t share your views or keep close those you’ve enjoyed working with. Just as everything in life, this type of jobs come and go, faster or slower, better or worse. Even more important than the [...]
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Tagged client work, clients, lessons, mistakes, projects, workflow
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Logo Savvy – clever mix of branding, naming and identity
If you were to judge this book just by reading the “Contents” page you’d have a hard time finding reasons to buy it. At a little under 200 pages and just over 40 case studies you could think it’s not too much bang for your buck. At least not when comparing it to those index type publications which feature examples in excess of several hundreds up to a thousand and more. If you were to do that you would be quite wrong. To be [...]
Websites vs. books for design training and inspiration?
The natural and easy answer would be “both”. That’s because rather than thinking they are competing against each other, you could see them as training resources that go hand in hand. Of course, each has its own pros and cons and based on your own preferences/knowledge you could be leaning towards one or the other. After quite a long time spent believing the web was enough, I’m now going through a book phase which i have to admit I’m enjoying a lot. There’s something [...]
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Tagged books, cons, design, photography, pros, resources, websites
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Let’s start fresh
With a new year comes a bunch of new decisions and one of them was to bring order among the online channels used to display some of my work. After testing over the last couple of years both personal blogs and websites built from the ground up, I’ve finally settled on this solution. The freedom and flexibility that a simple post offers makes this the ideal medium to combine elements such as graphic design freebies, tips and tricks, tutorials and book reviews to name [...]
