5 essential rules of self promotion Self-promotion is one of the trickiest and most elusive skills a designer must acquire. Like learning to ride a bicycle, you have to do it to find out how it's done. Nor is it something that can be avoided. As soon as designers emerge from education they have to be able to promote themselves to prospective employers. How to make the perfect exhibition take-away Later, as they enter the freelance world or the world of studio ownership, they have to be able to promote their services to prospective clients. 9 Free Icon Sets to Diversify your Library Every designer needs to be ready to go wherever their projects take them. This is why you need to have a diverse library to count on. To help you with this task, we have some very stylish free icon sets to share. From weather to food and much more, you will have some fresh and beautiful icons to count on for your next project.
Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services Advertisement In the mid-80s the desktop publishing revolution began with the introduction of the Mac Plus, Aldus PageMaker and the Apple LaserWriter printer. It took quite a few years for these tools to make an impact on the design and publishing world, but once they did, there was no looking back. In 2010 we see a similar revolution starting to take shape with web fonts. Even though @font-face was introduced in the CSS2 spec in 1998, it wasn’t until this past year that all in-use web browsers added support for it. Free Icon Fonts for Web User Interfaces By Jacob Gube This roundup features 18 free icon fonts that can be used in your commercial projects. The icon fonts in this post are perfect for your app user interfaces (UIs). What are Icon Fonts? Icon fonts are font files that have symbols and glyphs (e.g. arrows, folders, magnifying glasses) instead of standard alphanumeric characters.
Serif vs. Sans: the final battle First it was the Capulets versus the Montagues; then it was Coke versus Pepsi; and the latest epic battle? Serif versus sans-serif, of course. Lucky for us, the crew at UrbanFonts has produced a nifty infographic to help clarify the age-old rivalry between serif and sans. Brief, yet information-packed, it covers everything from DPI to classification, and expertly explains why serif is better for print and sans serif is best suited for web.
A New Free to Download Photoshop Grunge Brushes We have already showcased several sets of grunge brushes in the past. In today’s post, we are going to present a collection of fresh grunge brushes which are useful in enhancing your compositions. If you are one of those who preferred the grungy designs then this article is for you. Grunge brushes allow designers to render a grubby appearance to their designs. The Grunge look is distinguished by gritty backgrounds, damaged corners, scratched, chipped, dull and vintage visual components inspired by commercial structures and landscapes. A proficient designer can perform this design into whatever internet site.
Artificial Brain that can Educate Itself Created by Russian Scientists Image Credit: Shutterstock Artificial Brain that can Educate Itself Created by Russian Scientists Russian scientists are one step closer to crafting full artificial intelligence. A physical model of a brain has been designed, with the ability to educate itself. Tomsk State University in western Siberia housed an international team of scientists who “built mathematical and computer models of the human brain,” said the head of the laboratory, Professor FIT Vladimir Syryamkin. How to Convert Mac Font (dfont) to Windows Compatible Font (ttf) If you are a designer and always switch between Mac and Windows, you will find that some of the beautiful fonts in Mac are not available in Windows. Even when you copy the font over, the Windows system does not recognize the font and can’t register it to the system. The reason is because those fonts are in dfont format which can only be used in Mac. To get it working in Windows (or Linux), you have to convert the dfont to TrueType format (ttf). Download and install DfontSplitter. Open the application.