Why Designers Should Join Design Contests

When young designers attend design schools or collages, they are required to provide assessments and exams that measure their skills and how did they benefit from their study. However, these tests have other hidden benefits. These exams are like a challenge that stimulates all your energy and mind power to achieve the success in this test.

In the real career life, things are different. No one is that lucky to have a daily challenging project or a client that can motivate you to get the most out of your creative mind. Actually, it may be rare to face such a client. However, designers should have a challenge from time to time to be able to keep their creative curve is going up or at least stable through the career as a designer.

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10 Logo Design Tips to Create Professional Logo Design

Among the design tasks, logo design has always been a challenge to designers to be able to use all their creative skills to create such simple, creative, unchangeable artwork for the client’s company.

Logo design is the most important design task when you do a design project for a company, because it puts the basic lines, colors and creative direction for the rest of the company corporate designs and advertisements. However, when you design a new logo, creativity is not enough the reach your goal with an amazing logo idea.

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Quick Guide for Freelancers to do Well in Recession

During the current recession, many of people may find themselves out of the game and lose their jobs any time, especially with the big recession when companies are losing clients and looking for reducing employees. This article tries to give a solution to find another better way to get more money and more clients, and gives tips to start your freelance career and give resources sites that can help you get more jobs and clients.

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How Can Designers Effectively Avoid Coding

In this article, I will try to fill the gap between design and developing from the designers’ aspect of view to help designers to understand the coding concept and allow them to complete their own projects with smart way without the need to hire or get help from other developers.
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How Web Developers Can Become Better Designers – Tips

This article addresses developers who like to fill a common gap when faced by providing dummy design for their projects or need simple design skills to provide their coding in the project with good look layout or color combination without the need to designer assistance in this early stage of the project.
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Are You Right or Left Brain Thinker

Do you feel like a developer or a designer? whatever your feelings are,  actually it has a relation with another factor than just feelings, it depends on your brain right and left parts. Lets see how your brain power can affect your desire to be an inspired designer and guru developer.

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Become an Adobe Certified Expert

No doubt that passing the certification exam for any of Adobe products is a good proof for your employer and in your resume for your profession in this tool. This does not mean that you have to know every thing about the product as many people wrongly think, it is a totally misleading concept.

The certification exam proofs that you got the maximum knowledge of the product and you are able to solve and understand project problems, structure using this tool.

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The Anatomy of Video Player

For better understanding and customization for the FLV Component in Flash, you should have a strong understanding of the video player and it is works. In this video tutorial by David Hassoun from Adobe TV. He will teach us how the video player works and how to use these principles in using and customizing FLV component in Flash.

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Creative Designer Job opening: Able to work under pain!!

Do not worry, it is not a real job, it a metaphoric expression. As a creative designer, I find working in a new idea is such a painful process, this pain that comes with joy when the idea is being formatted under your hand.

Most creative designers are sharing this feel with different degrees according to the personality of the designer and the level of creativity inside the project.

This painful joy or joyable pain is not new symptom, it is a syndrome that is related to all who work in art field and its digital version of computer graphic and graphic design.

If we go back in history to the Renaissance age, we will find many artists like Michael Angelo and others.

Now a days, the creative work got 3 levels of creativity according to an article I read before but do not remember the source:

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What is Adobe Text Layout Framework

The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional or Adobe Flex®, and is already included in the next version of Flex, code named Gumbo. Developers can use or extend existing components, or use the framework to create their own text components.

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ADC Presents – Buidling Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3

In this great video, Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow show how to create your frist AIR application using Adobe Flash CS3. Lee shows a smaple of an existing Flash project and turn it into an AIR application.