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

1. Assess your entrepreneurial abilities. Learn the business side of design.
2. Assess your design skills. Acquire at least basic design skills and knowledge.
3. Develop a business plan. Plan your business and work your plan.
4. Choose a business structure. Assess the best business structure for your business.
5. Get the right software and hardware. Use the right tools for the job.
6. Set a price for your services. Calculate hourly and flat fee rates.
7. Choose a business name. Play creative name games.
8. Create a basic identity system. Make a good first impression.
9. Craft a contract. Never work without a contract.
10. Market yourself and your business. Get your name in front of potential clients.

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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 “Education International”, logo from Logo Orange Design Group, designed by Mihai Licanescu, Emilia Breban.

See all the talented winners around the world.

Congratulation to all!

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:

1. The ability to add effects to an object’s stroke, fill and/or content
2. Support for Photoshop 3D artwork
3. Support for Illustrator CS4 artboards
4. Edit With menu item lets you specify the application to edit graphics with
5. Relink To Folder lets you relink multiple items in a different folder
6. Conditional Text panel to show/hide text and create versions of documents
7. Smart Text Reflow can add pages dynamically to a layout when text is reflowed
8. Use Data Merge to output directly to PDF without an intermediary InDesign file
9. New InDesign Markup Language (IDML) lets XML applications create InDesign layouts without InDesign

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 example: example. And this is the rezult:

You can generate tones of charts:

1. Line charts
2. Sparklines
3. Bar charts
4. Pie charts
5. Venn diagrams
6. Scatter plots
7. Radar charts
8. Maps
9. Google-o-meter

I hope you can use this and like it as much as I do.

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 frontpage) perfectly together
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3. then you design your layout being carefull with the margins of the document (the elements of the layout have to be arranged within the margins limits)

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 edges and
then the left edges of the images within
the frames. (Yes, you can align images just
like you can align frames!)

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, read and read again!

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 creative work is characterized by its powerful visual inventiveness and spans a wide range of genres and media. As such, it has received critical praise and accolades from individuals and organizations in an array of industries including design, advertising and art direction.

His major accomplishments include TV commercials for the Honda StepWGN, TBC and Parco Grand Bazaar, artwork for musicians such as Smap and Mr. Children, product development and advertising for Kirin Beer (Gokunama, Namakuro) and Kirin Beverage (Kirin Lemon), branding and interior design for TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, and renewal projects for kindergartens and Meiji Gakuin University.

In his most recent endeavor, he was responsible for the product design and advertising campaign for the NTT DoCoMo “FOMA N702iD.” He has won numerous prizes, including the Tokyo ADC Grand Prix, Tokyo TDC Gold Prize, etc.

You get inspired too?

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 saying more than words.

I don’t know who made this drawings, so if anybody knows, tell us about it.

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