YES, they made it: Ajai Victoria
Our goal here at YES is to turn creative ambitions into creative job opportunities. Here’s some insight into our student’s own personal experiences.
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Working with Grids in InDesign
There are many ways to align images and text to perfect your compositions in InDesign and probably one of the best ways is to use grids. There are two type of grids: Document Grid and Baseline Grid.
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What Went Wrong? #2 – Ubisoft logo redesign
Find out why the new Ubisoft logo received such mixed reviews. Let’s take a closer look from the point of view of a graphic designer!
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What do I need to become a Designer?
What do I need to become a Designer? That is a question everyone asks who is interested to work in the creative industry.
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Top 5 Games for Designers
In this post I am going to share 5 of my favourite creative games that are great for designers to learn about topics like typography, logo design etc Details
The Ultimate Keyboard Shortcuts Guide
Keyboard Shortcuts can save you a lot of time no matter what type of work you are doing. They can help you to work much more efficiently and be more productive.
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The 4 types of Design Roles
When looking for design jobs it is important to figure out what type of environment you want to work in. We will take a look at four common types of design environment including studio, in-house, freelance and remote design jobs
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Superhero Movie Poster Ranking
Learn what makes some superhero movie posters better than others. We will be judging them by their overall composition and design.
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Special techniques with Corner effects in InDesign
A great new feature in InDesign CS5 is the quick and dynamic way to edit the corners of frames. In this tutorial you can learn more about this feature, and you can found out how to use the rounded corners for text wrap. This tutorial uses the following new features: Gridify, Edit corners, Gap tool and the Mini Bridge panel. Details
Scarface Design Contest
Listen cock-a-roach, my life story is coming to Blu-ray™ on September 6th, 2011. To celebrate the Scarface Blu-ray™ debut, my fans will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design their own Scarface-inspired artwork. My ‘associates’ at Universal will select the Top 25 submissions based on creativity, originality, quality of composition/design and utilization of the Scarface theme. Details
Replace Smart Objects
Learn an amazing way to use Smart objects in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to save a lot of time whenever you need to make changes to elements that you have in several separate files. In this tutorial I will show how to export and replace the contents of Smart Objects. We are also going to record an action and learn how to Batch replace the same smart object in several images with one click of the mouse. Excited? I hope you are, so let’s get started! 🙂 Details
Recommended Books for graphic designers
List of our favourite books for graphic designers that we have read this year! All the books will improve your knowledge on graphic design.
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