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Solving design problems: uniqueness

10 April 2011

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Solving design problems: uniqueness

I’m redesigning my portfolio – as you surely know – and I’m finding a problem quite difficult to solve: choosing the images for my portfolio… it’s not an easy task if you have so many portfolio pieces to choose from. The problem: as many as possible When I started designing I used to work for [...]

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What do you do when a client refuses to fill a brief?

25 January 2011

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What do you do when a client refuses to fill a brief?

Some days ago I received an interview by email, somebody asked me about the way I write my briefs when designing by order. At first time it looked like Spam so I didn’t care too much, but on a second read I thought it would be a good blog post. So let’s talk about the [...]

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6 Web design mistakes that I won’t make… again

19 December 2010

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6 Web design mistakes that I won’t make… again

Some time ago I announced about the redesign of SOSFactory, my corporative web. It was designed 6 years ago, when I still had no idea about web design. The current design (SOSFactory V1) has been profitable but it has restricted me in many aspects. It´s an involuntary but systematic attempt to break every principle of [...]

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5 reasons why you should enter design contests.

22 November 2010

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5 reasons why you should enter design contests.

A few days ago, I published a post about crowdsourcing webs. Clients come to these webs with a project, and designers compete for a prize. I received many comments for and against these webs. So I thought it would be interesting to examine these pro-crowdsourcing positions in depth. First of all, I must admit that [...]

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Design for dignity (a 99designs review)

10 November 2010

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Design for dignity (a 99designs review)

UPDATE 16 March 2011: 99designs tried to censor this post due to an inexistent copyright infringement. This post is a product review and fit within the Fair Use doctrine. The contest object of review is now private, I bet my review went further than I predicted. Please, share this post in your social profiles. Something´s [...]

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Random questions from the blog’s users

9 February 2010

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Random questions from the blog’s users

Hey buddies, I’m finally back from my “holidays” (they weren’t holidays really, I spent this time to move to Berlin). I’m already settled and ready to go on with the blog. Today we have a post with some questions from the blog users: about copyright, confidentiality, how to improve our drawing skills and how to [...]

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How to receive payments online and save fees

13 November 2009

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How to receive payments online and save fees

PayPal is the standard online payment system for both selling and buying. It is very convenient, instantaneous and secure, that’s why it is expensive. It can cost us up to 3.4% out of the money we receive depending on the country where you live, plus a 2.5% to convert the money to your local currency, [...]

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Random questions from a newbie illustrator

29 October 2009

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Random questions from a newbie illustrator

From time to time I receive interesting emails from newbie designers or illustrators, who are trying to open up this complex industry for themselves, but they don’t know where to start; they ask for my help and of course, I do my best to help them. It occurred to me that maybe, if I publish [...]

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Start making passive income with your designs

23 October 2009

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Start making passive income with your designs

If you´re a designer, probably you have lots of unused graphics, webs, loops and Flash files, and you don´t get any profit from them. You could sell the rights of use of these designs (stock design) for a very low price but lifetime. You won´t become a richman but some extra income is always welcome, [...]

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When does a good portfolio replace an official degree?

10 September 2009

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When does a good portfolio replace an official degree?

Some days ago we commented the advantages and disadvantages of self-taught training versus official training, and we reached the conclusion that it would depend on our working aspirations, our personality and our resources. I’m really glad I received so many comments from people who make a living by themselves, without an official degree. Some people [...]

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