If you are dedicated to graphic design or any other online business, you probably already know what Paypal is, the most important online bank, and the most used all over the net. Also, you surely know that Paypal charges 4% of any payment you receive, while sending money is free. Paypal works perfectly, but it´s [...]
Continue reading...7 November 2008
Click the image to visit the article I wrote for Freelance Switch as guest writer These days altruism is not very common. We’re so stressed with our work that there’s little free time left, and we want to spend it on anything else. But moreover, sharing what you know is risky. Someone could steal your [...]
Continue reading...18 June 2008
After long time of hesitation, I finally decided to buy a Wacom Cintiq!!! For those who don’t know much about it, the Wacom Cintiq is a monitor on which you can paint directly on the screen, sensitive to 1024 pressure levels, just like Intuos tablets. It’s the dream of an illustrator, the material dreams are [...]
Continue reading...14 May 2008
You have a lot of talent, quality designs saved in your hard disk, you are good, nice and cheap, but you do not have clients. Something is going wrong. It is time to rethink your marketing strategy. Here I leave you some suggestions for your first professional portfolio. First of all, you have to publish [...]
Continue reading...1 March 2008
I have recieved many comments about this topic, even recieved emails blaming me of degrading the design industry… “your work is great, WHY ARE YOUR SERVICES SO CHEAP?” But, do i really charge that cheap? I earn about a 400-500% of the salary of an employed graphic designer in any company of my city, and [...]
Continue reading...17 January 2008
2007, a year full of emotions in the professional and personal. I didn’t have much luck in the first part of the year, i lost a client that guaranteed me about 6.000US$ per month; and also one of my designers abandoned me… luckily, in the 6 remaining months i recovered my clients and even exceeded [...]
Continue reading...2 November 2007
Creativity: "… capacity to create, produce new and valuable things, it’s the capacity of a brain to get to new conclusions and solve problems in an original way." I’ve seen this topic from the point of view of a designer in thousands of blogs, but almost always they forget something, the psicological point of view. [...]
Continue reading...30 September 2007
At last, after so many controversy of plagiarism and interested members of the jury panel, the candidature of Madrid for the Olimpic Games 2016 has a winner, which is only an anecdote because it’s well know that after London 2012 the IOC wont choose another european city… the politicians have to justify expenses. In the [...]
Continue reading...16 September 2007
Another case of plagiarism I think we can officially say the whole contest is a fake Designed by Luis Coderque, this logo was already created for the brand Madrid. The worst in all this is this designer works for Saffron, the company judging the contest. A couple of days ago, i wrote a post about [...]
Continue reading...15 September 2007
The olympic candidature of Madrid 2016 is looking, by popular voting, the three better proposals. After the first look, it seemed to me that the candidates fulfiled aesthetically, ones with more success than others … the problem rose at the time to analyse the reasons that this designers adduced to justify his proposals. Except for [...]
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