My friend over at The Game Critique alerted me to something called “BORT” otherwise know as “Blogs of the roundtable”. What an interesting name, and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was. Apparently it’s a group of game designers who get together and discuss game design, theory, and so forth. This [...]

Designatr will be a place where bands can go to find designers to do things like cover art, poster design, CD design, and possibly even band branding. Of course, it is also a place where designers will be able to go to find work to add to their portfolios. Definitely a great resources as more and more people are coming together to create music at a time where almost everyone wants to be a designer of some sort. Definitely stay up to date with them.

Not too long ago I posted a request on Twitter to have any designers or visual people take a look at my new portfolio website layout and tell me what they think. It’s still in the mockup phase so they were critiquing screenshots of the possible layout.

Today we’re taking an in depth look at three companies famous across America for providing food and drink to the American people for generations.  Each brand is one that most of us have grown up with and though we are used to seeing slight variations in logos over time, there is nothing more upsetting than [...]

A long time ago I had created an underground blast effect by just using the shatter plugin and the wiggle expression. I never thought that it was something that people wanted to see until I came across PSDTUTS and AETUTS where users could submit tutorials to people who needed them. I made sure that my idea was truly such before writing up a 22 step tutorial and submitting it to Envato.

John Maeda: Digital Media Design

Why  they are important:  Possibly one the the most influential designers of the century, Maeda’s personal and public works offer insight into not only what design is but what it should aspire to be.   
Biography: John Maeda is a world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab, and is [...]

Last week I posed the question to the design community: What is it that you dislike about your peers? We all have something against those in our own field be it a difference in ethics, habits, etc, but we rarely voice them. I gave designers the chance to voice their concerns about others in the design community and here is what they had to say!