This post is the second of my new Friday Favorites Series. My goal is to showcase some of my favorite designs every Friday. Each week I will choose a different category or style and share the most inspiring designs I stumble across. I hope you enjoy.
Also I am planning releasing a tutorial on Mondays (if feasible) on how I would go about designing something similar. So be sure to check back in for a free tutorial on how to design a concert poster. Read more »
This post is the first post of my new Friday Favorites Series. My goal is to showcase some of my favorite designs every Friday. Each week I will choose a different category or style and share the most inspiring designs I stumble across. I hope you enjoy.
With my own wedding coming up next fall, I have probably already looked at about a dozen wedding related websites. The sites cover everything from themes to center pieces, to shower ideas etc… (Luckily we have decided we aren’t doing any of that). One of the things that did stand out to me though was some of the awesome designs for wedding invitations. It’s surprising to me that anyone would go with a standard design when there are such great designers out there who can create such awesome invitations for you. So without further ado here are some of the best I stumbled across: Read more »
Earlier this month I published my free desktop wallpaper. Well it is time for another free giveaway from Goyette Design. Today it is a free grunge web layout PSD file. All of the layers are nicely organized making the file extremely easy to navigate and edit. If you have any questions regarding the file please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Read more »
White space is the absence of design elements. White space is the absence of content. Yet white space is a vital aspect of any good design.
Why is this? Through the proper use of white space it allows the important elements of a design to stand out and be front and center. As designers we often see a blank spot of the canvas as a place to do what we do best…design. However, by ignoring this first impulse of filling any empty areas of a design and taking a step back we then have the opportunity to really allow the design to come together. Read more »
Often times designers spend so much time designing their site that they lose sight of having a plan for when it goes live. On The heels of the launch of my own portfolio site – www.goyettedesign.com, I decided to sit down and ask an expert for their advice and tips about launching a new website. That expert was Elliot Jay Stocks. Read more »
Chris Spooner, the guy behind Blog.SpoonGraphics and Line25 was kind enough to take the time to answer some questions for us this past weekend on the topic of Creativity and Inspiration. Chris is a self employed designer, who earns a fulltime living with a mix of blogging and the odd design project. On top of the 2 amazing blogs he runs, his design portfolio is quite impressive as well. So we wanted to know where he gets the inspiration for the amazing work he does. Here is what Chris had to say: Read more »
Chris Coyier is a web designer/blogger most prominently know for his awesome web design blog CSS-Tricks. Being a fairly new design blog ourselves we wanted to find out what it takes to run a successful one. So we decided who better to ask then Chris, as his blog CSS-Tricks serves over 1.5 Million page-views per month and is one of the most well known blogs on design out there. Read more »
This post is the first post of my new free calendar wallpaper series. Each month I will release a new desktop wallpaper featuring the current calendar month. This idea was inspired by the awesome monthly calendars Franz Jeitz over at Fudge Graphics releases and the monthly round-ups of calendars Smashing Magazine does. Read more »
Social networking can be one of the most important strategies for Freelancers to generate clients and new business leads. But I know that I can’t be alone with my reaction when I first heard about twitter back in 2007. I thought to myself “why in the world would anyone care what I am doing right now?” and vice versa. It may have been a shortsighted or close minded view but I thought it was a complete waste of time and I think a lot of people still carry that sentiment to this day. So can Twitter really help you as a designer? And How? Read more »
One of the questions we often hear is, “how can I become a Web designer?” The answer isn’t that simple. There are many different paths one can take to become a professional Web designer, each as different as the individuals themselves. Some have formal educations and some are self taught. A lot of designers just starting out may have the desire but are often overwhelmed by the vast array of knowledge for different programs and coding skills it requires to be successful. Read more »
Franz Jeitz, owner of Fudge Graphics, (an awesome source of freebies such as photoshop brushes, textures and vectors) was kind enough to assist us with out first ever investigation on how to break into a freelance design career. Franz is originally from Luxembourg, Europe, is 23 years old and just graduated with a masters in physics. He has been living in london for the past 4 years and has a great passion for live music and plays the guitar himself. On top of his Design career and a masters degree in physics he also played in a band in Luxembourg which is how he first got in contact with design (doing cd artwork, t-shirt graphics and myspace design). In a very short time Franz has built quite a name for himself within the design community and we thought he would be the perfect person to provide some tips for fellow designers. Read more »
Steven Snell is a web designer and blogger from New Jersey. He designs and blogs at Vandelay Design and he also runs another design blog, DesignM.ag. Steven has also done a lot of freelance writing for a number of blogs including Smashing Magazine, PSDTUTS, Web Designer Depot, Freelance Switch, Six Revisions, Noupe and others. Read more »
