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Win the Business with this Elevator Pitch - Steve W. Martin by Steve W. Martin | 7:00 AM August 22, 2012 Pretend that you are in an elevator at one of your industry’s trade shows. Silk Icons “Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format. Containing a large variety of icons, you're sure to find something that tickles your fancy. And all for a low low price of $0.00. You can't say fairer than that. London Street Art Along with many other cities around the world London has a vibrant and active street art and graffiti scene. I've been taking photos of some of the artists work from around the turn of the century and since 2001 have been uploading them onto artofthestate.co.uk. Below are links to some of the most prolific London Street artists around. It's by no means an exhaustive list so there are further links to many more artists with a full list of the image galleries available on the right. LONDON STREET ART / GRAFFITI events and shows guide If you want to find out what events are currently happening in London take a look at the artofthestate street art and graffiti events guide
Mayor to Londoners: Don’t Jump Update: This ad campaign is, thankfully, a spoof. The London Underground has had rashes of suicides on the tracks. Deep tube stations have “anti-suicide pits” or “suicide pits” or “dead man’s trenches” beneath the track that enables responders to help prevent death when a passenger falls or jumps in front of a train. London Underground has a “Therapy Unit” to deal with drivers’ post-traumatic stress, resulting from someone jumping under their train.
5 Pricing Tips to Earn More on Client Projects Why is it that some agencies and freelancers can charge premium prices while delivering low-quality work? We’ve all seen this time and time again. It’s not hard to find stories of people paying tens of thousands of dollars for mediocre design or development. In fact, maybe you’ve inherited some of this work in the past and have had to repair it. Sometimes clients aren’t satisfied with the results, but often — and this is the crazy part — they’re happy with the results, even if they could’ve received better work at a much lower price from you.
The 50 Best Street Art Work Selected in 2011 Looking for street arts? then have a look at these best selected street artists of the year. With one of the most authoritative resource… for 2011. Street art is an awesome way to represent anything which can be a type of visual art, many artists today have a keen interest in street art as it’s the most profound and it can be used to serve many purposes.
The Unsung Art Of Patent Drawings The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, at 176 years old, has granted patents to some of the most important inventions in American history. It’s also granted some of the dumbest (see: Patent 5,865,192 for a Self-Haircutting Guide Apparatus). 11 Of The Most Influential Infographics Of The 19th-Century We live in a world steeped in graphic information. From Google Maps and GIS to the proliferation of infographics and animated maps, visual data surrounds us. While we may think of infographics as a relatively recent development to make sense of the immense amount of data available on the Web, they actually are rooted in the 19th century--a fact that I write about in my most recent book. [John Smith’s “Historical Geography” (1888) portrays a country driven by two fundamentally different ideals: the avaricious slaveholding South and the God-fearing, righteous North.] [Emma Willard’s “Chronographical Plan,” or “The Tree of Time” (1864) attempts to “impress upon the mind” of her young students the logic and order of U.S. history.] The following survey of early information contains examples that are by no means intuitive or clear--some are downright chaotic--but they stand out for their attempt to integrate more than one class of information or tell a complex story in a single picture.
10 Illustrations From The Dawn Of Graphic Design In August of 1922, William Addison Dwiggins, a book designer and the designer of Caledonia (a font you’ll likely find on the computer you’re using to read this), published an op-ed in The Boston Evening Herald. In his essay, "A New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design", Dwiggins proposed a new name for the commercial art that he and his contemporaries were doing: “graphic design.” Today we (maybe lazily) use that term as a catch-all to describe 2-D creative work.
50 Alternate American Flags, Each A Secret Infographic For all the diversity found in the many countries of the world, national flags adhere to a fairly predictable formula. Sure, some states flout convention--I’m looking at you, Nepal--but for the most part, flags are built from the same basic symbols: some colorful stripes, a handful of stars, and maybe a national emblem. But that doesn’t mean they can’t pack in a wealth of coded information. Winsor McCay’s Anti-Prohibition Illustrations While strolling through a used-books store in Los Angeles over 20 years ago, I spied the dust-jacketed binding of a book with a familiar illustration style. Much to my delight, I’d found a little-known 1929 first edition volume published by the Hearst Company concerning Prohibition—and primarily illustrated by the brilliant comic-strip artist and animation pioneer Winsor McCay, with some additional pieces by the well-known Hearst cartoonist Frederick “F.” Opper. Titled Temperance — or Prohibition?
Master Class: "Weird Al" Yankovic On How To Make A Great Parody Here’s something kind of funny: Over the course of his long and varied career, "Weird Al" Yankovic has been written off by some as a joke. Hard to believe that the guy who makes silly songs arguably better than anyone else in the world would have trouble being taken seriously. Whatever criticism he may have endured in the past, however, nobody could reasonably dismiss Yankovic’s musical or comedic prowess at this point. Over 30 years into a steadily fruitful career, the accordion-loving artist saw his 2012 album, Alpocalyspse, land in the Billboard top 10, his highest position on the charts yet. The only thing funny about this success now is that it would still surprise people anymore. The premiere pop culture parodist got his start in the late-1970's by sending homemade tapes of his music to popular offbeat DJ, Dr.
The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss Before Theodor Seuss Geisel found fame as a children's book author, the primary outlet for his creative efforts was magazines. His first steady job after he left Oxford was as a cartoonist for Judge, a New York City publication. In 1927 one of these cartoons opened the way to a more profitable career, as well as greater public exposure, as an advertising illustrator. This fortuitous cartoon depicts a medieval knight in his bed, facing a dragon who had invaded his room, and lamenting, "Darn it all, another dragon. And just after I'd sprayed the whole castle with Flit" (a well-known brand of bug spray). According to an anecdote in Judith and Neil Morgan's book Dr.