…since I left you, without a strong beat to step to, step to, ste…ste…step to. That’s the question my friends, why haven’t I updated this site forever despite an inordane amount of growing hits from spam sites and what not. Well I’ve been busy, very busy…creating….THIS!. We’re launching april 30th with a [...]
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New Sexy Icons!
I know we’ve been quiet for a while. It’s that time of year you know where we start to kick back a little too early for our own sakes. But not us, though we’ve bee quiet on the blog front we’ve been working on hard on the back-end to bring a whole slew [...]
Read more →So you think you’re a…favicon?
Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Why would I want to reduce my company, portfolio or website into a 16×16px icon and really show off?
Favicons are bite-sized morsels of brand representations. They are little squares of awesomeness. Imagine if you could reduce everything your website or company represented into a tiny [...]
Grids & Rationality
Okay, so I got the following e-mail: Dear Mr. Sothy, how come whenever I let my enclave of monkeys design my websites for clients, I get really angry clients. I was so enthralled by this sort of experimentation and sheer enthusiasm that I thought I’d give explaining rationalism and design another try and [...]
Read more →Project Management Basics
Most people have heard of Projects before, but really what is a project? What the heck is a this Project Management stuff? And Why does it matter to designers?
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (Written by the Project Management Institute) defines a Project as “A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service [...]
Read more →Chrismas Icons
I’ve been slaving away at a new
Christmas Icon sets for folks to download to give their
packaging or presentations a bit of that Christmas spirit. You
can find them at iStockphoto.com for about 10 to 15 bucks a pop
which ain’t so bad considering there is about [...]
Your First Gig
So you get a lead and a client wants you to build a web page for
them. Now what? How do I make sure that I actually get paid? What
options are there to charge a client?
MONEY MONEY MONEY…… I am assuming most
people want to get paid [...]
Sick & Not Illustrating
On a completely different note I’ve been sick and not adding to the
blog because I’ve been in bed have cold sweats regarding the new
Best Match changes on iStockphoto. I hope to be around and back to
the world of the living soon. In that time I’ve been playing
BioShock and boy, let me tell you something about [...]
Web Design 101 - Grids
Let’s face it, any google search of the words Grid
Based design will give you something like 1 billion
results. This is fine, because non of them are probably mine. I
wanted to talk about something very special to my heart and those
are Grid based designs. For those [...]
Free 3 Icon Spooky Set
Alright here it is, another Thursday another set of tid-bits to
chomp on. Halloween is coming up. Everyone knows what that means:
punching little kids in the back of the head and stealing their
candy. Or just punching them. Whatever works. On another note, if
anyone has any issues [...]
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