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25 Creative Design to Describe and Brand Yourself Infographic Resumes : Little Box of Design

25 Creative Design to Describe and Brand Yourself Infographic Resumes : Little Box of Design.

This is some great examples of how to really grad some attention with what is normally an extremely dull thing… your resume.

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WordPress – RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme – ThemeForest

WordPress – RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme – ThemeForest.

Quite possibly the sickest WP Theme i’ve seen to date.

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Advanced WordPress Techniques

Good stuff for a wordpress geek 

 

Advanced WordPress Techniques – Developers Handbook | Affordable Web Design from SneakyMedia.

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Who’s got the most to lose from Twitter’s new image sharing service?

Who’s got the most to lose from Twitter’s new image sharing service?.

Ah yes, Twitter finally got into the photo game and the winner is Photobucket!

This comes on the heels of Lockerz aquisition of Plixi. HAHA kind a puts a damper on that purchase eh?

 

 

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Single Serving Sites < my next obsession

Single Serving Sites.

Thinking of what one as we speak. Stay tuned.

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Our Jobs In Cyberspace: Craft Vocabulary vs. Storytelling

Great quick read by Zeldman today that is getting the ol noggin’ moving on this slow Monday morning.

Zeldman brings up an interesting theory about the creative ARC. Basic theory = “young practitioners often argue passionately about theory while older practitioners tell stories and draw pictures.”

He asks at the end of the post where we are in our careers. Here is my response:

Like many of the folks that have already commented, I feel I’m falling in the middle of this “arc”.

I think I’m still finding my own personal style (do you ever really find it though?), so keeping up with the buzz and not falling behind is very important to me. At the same time I feel a lot of my design ideology comes from experience and just stuff that’s in my head.. this, I think is how i keep my designer soul intact. I feel I have to because it’s why I got into the business.. to be creative and solve problems.

I’m find it is also important to know what the hell you’re talking about and merely being creative doesn’t cut it in our business. You have to back up your understanding of UX to really be relevent. There needs to be reason behind a design and I don’t think that hinders your creativity, I work with some traditional creatives now and it’s been in interesting experience seeing the big differences in the two. I’ve also been tasked to help them understand more about how I work, and that is where being in the “middle of the arc” is coming in mega handy!

 

Where do you fall in the “creative arc”???

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25 of the most useful Social Media Markeing Blog Post of 2010

Social Media Today posted a list of the 25 most useful SM Marking Blog Posts of 2010. Good read.
My fav is the 55 inforgraphics article. I looooove inforgraphics.

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A great read for any designer out there!


One of the designers I follow and respect on Twitter, @iamfinch put together a great article the other day titled Failure by Design. Talking about how failure in design is a must if you want to grow as a designer. I agree. I fail all the time, so I like this idea. HAHAHA His “Lego Designer” analogy is spot on too. Good stuff.

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Some things never change… Typography is one of them.

via Smashing Mag : A handy overview of typefaces that fit and do not fit together when
combined in a design. A September 1992 issue from the “International
Journal of Typograpics”.

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Best Halloween Costumes EVA! Angry Birds