a nest of bees in graphic design

I found this usefull tips if you want to start your own business.

Assess your entrepreneurial abilities. Learn the business side of design.
Assess your design skills. Acquire at least basic design skills and knowledge.
Develop a business plan. Plan your business and work your plan.
Choose a business structure. Assess the best business structure for your business.
Get the [...]

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Wolda announces the ‘08 winners: 192 logos selected from almost 1100 entries submitted from 43 different countries around the world. The overall winner of Wolda ‘08 is the “One Degree” logo from Landor Associates (Australia), designed for News Limited by Jason Little, Tim Warren, Steve Clarke and Mike Staniford.

And from Romania the winner is [...]

Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4. Here are first-hand impressions of three of the new versions.
I can’t wait to try it.
For begining take a look at some of the new InDesign CS4 features:

The ability to add effects to an object’s stroke, fill and/or content
Support for Photoshop 3D artwork
Support for Illustrator CS4 artboards
Edit With menu [...]

You need some charts that are not so doll like excel charts? This is your answer: google charts.
It’s not so complicated as it seems. After a while you get the hang of it. You just have to be carefull at the symbols and letters that you have to introduce after each formula. Here is an [...]

1. open a new document with the following settings.

2. when you create the layout split it into 3 parts
- the frontpage of the brochure should be divided into: 97 mm/ 100mm/100mm.
- divide also the backpage into: 100 mm/ 100 mm/ 97 mm.
doing this you will create a brochure that will fold (the backpage and [...]

For an interesting effect, you can make one image look as if it�??s inside multiple
frames:

1. Place the image in a circular frame.

2. Use Edit > Step and Repeat to create a row of frames.

3. Using the Direct Selection tool, shift-click to select each image

4. Using the Alignment controls in the Control
Palette, align first the top [...]

Today I received a link from a good friend of mine: truisme.
It’s a very usefull site with a lot of interesting books available for free dowload.
Books like: The Fundamentals of Creative Design, The Complete Guide to Digital Graphic Design - Bob Gordon, Black and White in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom - Focal Press
so… read, [...]

Every once in a while you see a website that inspires you. That is what happened when I visited Kashiwa Sato’s site.
Born in Tokyo in 1965, Kashiwa Sato studied graphic design at the Tama Art University.
After a period working for Hakuhodo, he started his own business, establishing his creative studio “Samurai” in 2000. Sato’s [...]

I never have been interested about the news, from my country or another, but today I received this drawings on my e-mail I read on the internet and began to realize what it’s happening in Tibet. And about the continuous war between China and Tibet. I am against violence, and this drawings are [...]

The Eulda winners in 2007 for the best logo are all over Europe.
For Romania the winner is x3 studio from Timisoara.

Who knows, maybe this year we could be the winners too register