In this article we will see what note-taking is, how to improve your design process with it and a range of useful tools to help you in that practice.

What is Note-taking?

Starting with a proper definition of the concept is important to understand better what we are going to inspect.

From Wikipedia we read:

Notetaking is the practice of recording information captured from a transient source, such as an oral discussion at a meeting, or a lecture.

It may look like a simple task but, as a matter of fact, it isn’t so easy. Many people, for example, are not able to write fast, some others are not able to sum up what they hear. It is obvious that when you report a conversation in writing, the relation between written and spoken can’t be 1:1.

In the past there were schools dedicated to teaching how to note-taking fast and with accuracy, there are also a couple of methods of shorthand, an abbreviated symbolic writing method.

Nowadays methods have changed, we use handwriting less and computers and technology more. What has not changed is the importance of note-taking being a useful practice for all those who have to attend a meeting, a lesson or a conference.

Why it is so important?

Note-taking is an important practice for everybody, students, businessmen, and even more for designers.

Designers, and freelancers in general, are often in a situation where they need to take effective notes. This could be a brainstorming with other creative colleagues, where fixing points to sum up decisions is relevant or, even more important, a meeting with a client.

How do you approach the first meeting with a client will affect your future relationship and communication with him. This is the very first moment in which you show your professional attitude and start to create confidence. Taking notes about his project which you are going to create will be the first step for an effective briefing with him. It would be annoying if, few days later, you need ask about some points that you have already discussed. He will look your request as a waste of his time and a lack of professionalism from your side.

On the other hand, if you are able to take your notes with accuracy, by following them you can make yourself more productive, increasing the efficiency of your workflow and reducing work revision times.

In addition to that, you can review your notes every time you need to refresh your memory about yours TO DOs and the way the client will get them done. Your tasks will be well defined and you won’t miss a thing.

How to be ready for note-taking

We have seen how note-taking is important in our future relations with our clients but how we can be ready for that?

Firstly prepare yourself with all the tools that you may need. If you are going to use traditional tools bring enough papers and more than one pen so that if one fails you have a backup one. Find a way to collect your papers and remind yourself, number pages so that you can after re-build the logic of the meeting later.

If you are going to use digital notes be sure that you have fully charged your device and that you already have all necessary applications installed. Practice with the device so that you will look professional when you use it, be aware of eventual problems which may occur.

Listening is the keyword that you always need to have clear in your mind at the meeting. Be proactive with the client and ask questions. Take your time to write down your notes. Particularly if you are having a one-to-one conversation, your client would like to be sure that you are writing all information needed and will slow down the conversation in a natural way. Anyway there are a few golden rules that you can use to improve your note-taking process.

Improve your note-taking process

There are a few tips that you can follow to take notes in a more effective way.

Use short and to-the-point sentences. Listing to the main points will let you be faster and more focused on catching your client’s main points avoiding useless information. You can also use abbreviations and symbols that you can easily recognize.

Pay attention in clearly dividing your TO DOs and comments from what the client has said. In this way you will be able to immediately recognize the points that come first.

Help yourself by using mind maps and diagrams. Many designers use mind mapping to brainstorm and generate new ideas. They help you to associate ideas, think creatively, and make connections between different elements. The approach is completely different from taking notes with an ordered list. The hierarchy is not based on a top-down model but, on the contrary is radial. Experiencing mind mapping you will take advantage of the creative side of the brain finding a better solution.

By using mind maps, you can quickly identify and understand the focus of a subject. From that starting point you can identify the other information and let them fit together. Mind maps are so useful because they not only show facts, but also the overall structure of a topic and the relative importance of other parts.

Sketching your notes and focusing on nodes you will be able to visualize them better.

Avoid summarizing during the meeting since it could be distracting both for you and the client. The only thing that you need to do at the moment is take a few but meaningful notes.

Once the meeting is over is now time to review your notes and summarize all the contents. If you have written them on paper you may want now to rebuild them digitally. You can copy them with a word processor or by scanning them.

Almost the same if you have taken your notes digitally. Save them in a format that can be easily read from many devices, save them in the client’s folder and on a cloud service so that, just in case, you can always have access to them.

Always keep in mind that you may have need to access them also months after you have filed them. Properly name and label the files and place them all in your client’s dedicated folder. You will be sure in this way that you can always recover them in the future.

Useful tools to write, record and store digital notes

If you like the paper feel and the old-fashioned way of taking notes with a pen and notebook well, I partially agree with you. I love the smell of the paper and the ink which goes on it! Unfortunately there are some bad side-effects of this. You may need to have your notes but you have not brought the notebook with you, you may lose some of the papers and have incomplete notes of your meeting or, even worse, you may leave a couple of papers on the table of the meeting because you were on the run and collecting your things a couple of them slipped out under the table.

Having a professional way of note-taking, filing, and storing allows you to have a more efficient workflow process. Fortunately new possibilities have been opened by tablets devices.

We will take as an example the iPad but don’t worry! Almost the same applications, or different but with similar features, are also available for Android. Bear in mind that these are only a bunch of applications dedicated to increase the efficiency of note-taking. You only have to find what fits better with your needs.

Writing and sketching

There are a lot of note-taking apps, but they don’t all support the same features or offer equal functionality. Some let you sketch and draw directly, with your finger or with a dedicated pen. Those are the best choice to maintain as much as possible the feel of using a pen and a real notebook. Some examples can be applications such as Penultimate, Paper, Bamboo Paper.

Most let you integrate the memos with photos and Web clips and, the most important thing, allow you to save and store the notes on cloud services like Dropbox.

Recording

On some occasions, when meetings are expected to be long and technical, full of information that as a matter of fact you can’t remember nor shorten, a digital voice recorder could be a good idea. I suggest you not overuse note recordings since you will later need to re-listen to them all and this could be really time-consuming. If you are thinking about recording the meeting ALWAYS reveal this to your client and ask for his agreement. Explain that you want to be sure of catching all details to produce a more effective briefing. You will generally get the agreement but be ready to receive a negative reply too.

Evernote is a note-taking service which, together with all the other services which it provides, also allows recording audio notes.

Both Audionote and Noteability, by synchronizing notes and audio, automatically indexes your meetings.

Storing

The best note-taking apps focus on not only making notes, but on finding and sorting them later as well. Once again one of the best apps is Evernote, accessible through web, smartphone, tablet and desktop/laptop.

Other ways to store your notes are obviously all those cloud services which allow you to upload your data on and have it always available everywhere.

A report to the client is a healthy practice to do

Once you are back into your office and you have had time for reviewing, organizing and storing your notes, prepare a report of the meeting for your client on the basis of your notes. This is a very important and winning rule. When you take your notes during the meeting you may assume a point of view or understand some ideas in a way which do not correspond to that of the client. Discovering misunderstandings at the very beginning of the design process is important to avoid a waste of time and future complaints.

Providing a report of the meeting will help you to put your notes in order and organize your ideas. The report will show to the client your professionalism making him happy. It is a way to keep him informed about how you are going to proceed with the project.

Moreover, he will be able to review what he said and eventually add some points. This will be a mutually convenient time to clarify any and all points of ambiguity. Highlight to him your doubts and ask for any further details you may need before starting your work and he will be able to add some points.

It could happen that the client thinks that he has asked for something in a way that, as it turns out, is different from what he actually said during the meeting. If you have submitted to him a report and he has approved and already revised it with further additions, you can support your argument showing him that you already have followed the established agreement. As you can see a report to the client is a healthy practice to do.

To sum up: 7 rules for effective Note-taking

Using what we have said in this article, we are now able to come up with few key rules for an effective note-taking practice during our meeting with the client:

1. Prepare yourself choosing and bringing the right tools.
2. Don’t try to note EVERYTHING but just the main points
3. Use bullet lists to highlight the main points during the conversation
4. Separate the client’s notes from your own TO DOs so you can get them instantly
5. File your notes properly
6. Store your notes where you can always have access to them
7. Send a report of the meeting to your client and get his agreement on the contents

Those rules will help you to have better communication with the client and a more efficient design process.

How about you? Do you take notes? In which way do you find them useful? Which tools do you use most?

Image Credits

• Image Source: Fotolia
• Image Source: Fotolia

When designing in black and white there is little room for error – the lines have to be clear and precise and when designing a logo without added color, the designer is still obliged to impart the message or style the company or individual wants to portray.

Here we have collected 30 creative and effective black and white logo designs, most of which are black on white with a few that are white on black, but none of them incorporate any other color in the actual logo design.

Creative and Effective Black and White Logo Designs

BlackWolf

Barefoot

F3

La Dinastia

Guardarraya

Northfields Tailors Inc.

Freedom

Circus of Magazines

Mr. Cutts

Chameleon Design

Vineria

Houseclip Housing

Umbrella Prints

Black Note Bar

S3 Spirits

Black Phoenix

Jeremy Harrison

Schwarzwolf Kaffee

Balic Design

Diamond Bookstore

Forestal

Fashion Law Institute

Water Drop

Urban Chic

Hole

Wave

Upside Town

Gravity

North Street Capital Management

Breach Interactive

Conclusion

I hope you have been inspired by this showcase of black and white logo designs.

Which is your favorite? Have you come across any outstanding black and white logo designs that we have missed from this list? Have you designed a black and white logo? Please share your opinions and links with us in the comments section below.

Here we are bringing you a selection of 30 free, high quality sans serif fonts. Please check out the license for each font – they are all free for personal use, but may not be so for commercial use.

Free High Quality Sans Serif Fonts

Champagne & Limousines

4 Files:

• Regular
• Bold
• Italic
• Bold Italic

Harabara

Caviar Dreams

4 Files:

• Regular
• Bold
• Italic
• Bold Italic

Geo Sans Light

2 Files:

• Light
• Light Oblique

Opificio

2 Files:

• Regular
• Bold

Clemente

18 Files:

• Hairline/Hairline Italic
• Extra Light/Extra Light Italic
• Light/Light Italic
• Book/Book Italic
• Regular/Regular Italic
• SemiBold/SemiBold Italic
• Bold/Bold Italic
• Heavy/Heavy Italic
• UltraBold/UltraBold Italic

Homizio

6 Files:

• Regular
• Thin
• Black
• Bold
• Light
• Medium

American Purpose

There are 10 files supplied in this download – 5 fonts supplied in both True Type and Open Type formats. 3 of the files are top, middle and bottom stripes of the text to create tri-colored text effects.

Passion Sans

29 Files:

• Hairline/Hairline Italic/Hairline SmallCaps
• Light/Light Italic/Light SmallCaps
• Book/Book Italic/Book SmallCaps
• Regular/Regular Italic/Regular SmallCaps
• SemiBold/SemiBold Italic/SemiBold SmallCaps
• Bold/Bold Italic/Bold SmallCaps
• Heavy/Heavy Italic
• ExtraBold/ExtraBold Italic
• Black/Black Italic
• Outline Light/Outline Heavy
• Contour
• Accent Outer/Accent Center

Criticized

Libel Suit

This download provides 2 files – True Type and Open Type format of the regular font.

Savings Bond

Planet Estyle

Euro Caps

Media Gothic

Circula

Probert

Almost Serious

2 Files:

• Regular
• Accent

Reason System

RevoPop

Cerbetica

2 Files:

• Regular
• Bold

Surrounding

2 Files:

• Regular
• Bold

Winterthur Condensed

2 Files:

• Condensed
• Condensed Italic

Piximisa

Walkway

31 files:

• Black/Black RevOblique
• Bold/Bold RevOblique
• Condensed/Condensed Bold/Condensed SemiBold
• Expand/Expand Black/Expand Bold/Expand RevOblique/Expand SemiBold/Expand UltraBold
• Oblique/Oblique Black/Oblique Bold/Oblique Expand/Oblique SemiBold/Oblique UltraBold
• RevOblique
• Rounded
• SemiBold/SemiBold RevOblique
• UtraBold/UltraBold RevOblique
• UltraCondensed/UltraCondensed Bold/UltraCondensed SemiBold
• UltraExpand/UltraExpand Bold/UltraExpand SemiBold

Sansation

6 files:

• Regular
• Italic
• Bold/Bold Italic
• Light/Light Italic

SF Movie Poster

8 files:

• Regular
• Oblique
• Bold/Bold Oblique
• Condensed/Condensed Oblique/Condensed Bold/Condensed Bold Oblique

Rawengulk Sans

Castorgate

6 files:

• Regular
• Distort Regular
• Messed Regular
• Rough Regular
• Upright Regular
• Wide Regular

Jolly

4 files:

• Regular
• Italic
• Bold/Bold Italic

Conclusion

This selection includes fonts that can be used for blocks of text, as well as fonts for headlines or titles.

I hope you found some of these fonts worth downloading and adding to your library.

Please leave any comments or links to other free, high quality sans serif fonts that we may have missed from this list in the section below.

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Step 1

Hit Control + N to create a new document. Enter 600 in the width box and 400 in the height box then click on the Advanced button. Select RGB, Screen (72ppi) and make sure that the "Align New Objects to Pixel Grid" box is unchecked before your click OK. Now, turn on the Grid (View > Grid) and the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Next, you’ll need a grid every 5px. Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid, enter 5 in the Gridline every box and 1 in the Subdivisions box. You can also open the Info panel (Window > Info) for a live preview with the size and position of your shapes. Do not forget to set the unit of measurement to pixels from Edit > Preferences > Unit > General. Al these options will significantly increase your work speed.

Step 2

Start with the Ellipse Tool(L). Create a 130px circle, fill it with black, lower its opacity to 30% and make sure that there’s no color set for the stroke. Select this new shape and go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Enter a -35px Offset and click OK. Select the resulting shape and go again to Object > Path > Offset Path. This time enter a -5px Offset and click OK. In the end you should have three concentric circle in your Layers panel (Window > Layers).

Step 3

Pick the Pen Tool(P) and draw a 60px, horizontal path. Select it, add a 1pt, black stroke and place it as shown in the following image. Make sure that this horizontal path is still selected and go to Effect > Distort&Transform > Transform. Enter the data shown below, click OK and go to Object > Expand Appearance.

Step 4

Move to the Layers panel and you will find a new group with the three simple paths created in the previous step. Select it and hit Shift + Control + G twice to get rid of all those groups/subgroups. Now, pick the Pen Tool and focus on the top, horizontal path. Simply click on the left anchor point (to reconnect with the path) and continue drawing a 15px vertical path. Make sure that the Pen Tool(P) is still selected, focus on the two oblique paths and add some extra paths as shown below. The Snap to Grid will ease your work. In the end your three paths should look like in the following image. Select them and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F).

Step 5

Select the first two circles created in the second step, open the Pathfinder panel (Window > Pathfinder) and click on the Minus Front button. The resulting compound path should look like in the second image.

Step 6

Reselect the three copies created in the end of the fourth step along with the compound path made in the previous step and click on the Divide button from the Pathfinder panel. Move to the Layers panel and you will find a group with four new shapes. Open it, delete the bottom shape (the one with no color set for fill) then ungroup the remaining three shapes (Shift + Control + G).

Step 7

Next, you need to add some color for the three shapes created in the previous step. Select them on by one and fill them with the gradient shown below. Also, select the remaining circle and fill it with the radial gradient shown in the final image. The white number (70) from the final gradient image stands for location percentage. This means that you need to select that little diamond icon from the gradient slider and set its location at 70%.

Step 8

Focus on the top, right path with the black stroke. Pick the Direct Selection Tool(A), select the two anchor points circled in the first image and hit Control + J to close your path. Select it, remove the color from the stroke and fill it with R=239 G=192 B=29. Reselect the yellow shape edited in the previous step and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F). Select this copy along with the other yellow shape created in the beginning of this step and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel. In the end your shape should look like in the fifth image.

Step 9

Focus on the bottom path with the black stroke. Pick the Direct Selection Tool(A), select the two anchor points circled in the first image and hit Control + J to close your path. Select it, remove the color from the stroke and fill it with R=45 G=165 B=53. Reselect the green shape edited in the seventh step and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F). Select this copy along with the other green shape created in the beginning of this step and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel. In the end your shape should look like in the fifth image.

Step 10

Focus on the remaining path with the black stroke. Pick the Direct Selection Tool(A), select the two anchor points circled in the first image and hit Control + J to close your path. Select it, remove the color from the stroke and fill it with R=208 G=30 B=34. Reselect the red shape edited in the seventh step and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F). Select this copy along with the other red shape created in the beginning of this step and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel. In the end your shape should look like in the fifth image.

Step 11

Disable the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid) then go to Edit > Preferences > General and make sure that the Keyboard Increment is set at 1px. Select all the shapes created so far and duplicate them (Control + C > Control + F). Select these copies and click on the Unite button from the Pathfinder panel. Fill the resulting shapes with white and turn them into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Select it and make two copies in front (Control + C > Control + F > Control + F). Select the top copy and hit the up arrow once to move it 1px up. Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. Select the resulting group of shapes and turn it into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Fill it with black, lower its opacity to 10% and change the blending mode to Multiply.

Step 12

Reselect then white compound path created in the previous step and make two copies in front (Control + C > Control + F > Control + F). Select the top copy and move it 3px up. Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. Select the resulting group of shapes and turn it into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Fill it with black, lower its opacity to 5% and change the blending mode to Multiply.

Step 13

Reselect then white compound path and go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Enter a -3px Offset and click OK. Select the resulting shape, make a copy in front and delete the original, white compound path. Select the copy and move it 1px down. Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. Select the resulting group of shapes and turn it into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Fill it with the linear gradient shown below, lower its opacity to 50% and change the blending mode to Overlay. Remember that the white numbers from the gradient image stand for location percentage while the yellow zeros stand for opacity percentage.

Step 14

Again, select all the shapes created so far and duplicate them (Control + C > Control + F). Select the copies and click on the Unite button from the Pathfinder panel. Fill the resulting shapes with white and turn them into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Select it, send it to back (Shift + Control + [ ) and go to Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow. Enter the data shown below, click OK and you’re done.

And We’re Done!

Here is how your final result should look.

What’s cool about fractals is that they are infinite, and with all the vivid colors and hypontizing shapes, fractal art images can be quite complex but in an impressive way.

In this article, we are going to share with you a collection of 25 stunning hand-picked fractal art images for your inspiration. Hope you’ll like them.

Ophiucus by killythirsk

Shining Through by jim373

On the lotus pond by Fiery-Fire

Narya by lindelokse

Enchanted by lindelokse

Cold Mornings by magnusti78

Copper Bouquet by AmorinaAshton

Cosmic Carnival by Alterren

Fall…. by Gurly

Mobius Wave by SaTaNiA

Wintertime by judazfx

Old People’s Ancient Story by guagapunyaimel

Spring 125 2012 by Kattvinge

Soap Bubbles by AmorinaAshton

Life’s golden edges by Jimpan1973

Orange is the color of joy by schindlabua

Jellyfish thing by NorwegianAngel

Moods of Spring by AmorinaAshton

Close to Midnight by C-91

74G4-Whispering Moons by AmorinaAshton

Nervous Metallic by slobo777

stock b 88 by SparkyStock

Sweet Dreams by Anystasia

AloriahII by Vibratum

Un Soffio Caldo by lindelokse

Conclusion

The different types of fractals give a variety of sophisticated results, but all of them are incredibly beautiful. Hope you enjoyed the article and found it inspirational.

PSD files can help a great deal in design work as they are supplied with all the layers, making them completely editable by the designer.

I am sure all designers at one time or another have used .psd files, and a decent library or reference to high quality, usable files is surely a great bonus.

Highly Usable PSD Files

iPod Classic

iPod Touch

iPad

iPhone 3G

RIM Blackberry

HTC Incredible Smartphone

Zune 30GB

Macbook

Dell Vostro

Windows 8 Tablet

Plasma TV

TV

Sony Playstation 3 Slim

PSP

Kindle

USB Pen Drive

Headphones

Vinyl Record

Cassette

CD and Case

DVD Plastic Case

Olympus Pen Lite E-PL1

Nikon D90

Polaroid Impulse

Magnifa Pro

Globe Resource

Cinema

Filmstrip with Reflection

Polaroid Frames

Map Markers

Colorful Map Tags

World Map Icon

Lined Paper

Layered Spiral Bound Notebook

Curled Notebook

Ripped Paper Notes

Under Construction Page

Under Construction

Twitter and Facebook Connect Buttons

Windows 8 Logo

Conclusion

I hope you have found some of these files worth downloading, or that you think this article is worth bookmarking for future reference.

Please leave any comments or acknowledgments for the art/artists below.

Typography is a big subject these days, whether discussing the font used for blocks of text, the mix of fonts on a website, typographic portraits or artistic type, it is prevalent all around the internet.

Here we have collected 30 outstanding typography posters for your viewing pleasure.

Stunning Typography Posters

Behind the Black Sky

The Year Was 2005

For The Win/FTW

Typography is Tedious

IPS Skylines

Urban Typography

Sylfaen Type Poster

Posters Collection

Helveticaspace

Encontros 2009

Design Culture Now

Wonderland of Type

Typo-graphic Dope

GraphicDesignIs

French20

Go catch some waves!

We Built a Tunnel

Type Art Invert

Inject Knowledge Question Mark

Anno 2010

The Eternal Night

A Bohemian Bazaar – Definition

Futura

Afrika

Typographic Movie Posters

Type Face Posters

A Wilhelm Scream

Chinese 24 Terms

Blue & Yellow

Always judge a book by its cover

Conclusion

Typography is, without doubt, a very creative and imaginative art form. I hope you enjoyed viewing these examples of typography posters. Did we miss any that you have come across? Please leave any comments or links in the section below.

Since then its rate of growth in membership has been astonishing. In late 2010, the site claimed over 85 million members in over 200 countries with members from every Fortune 500 company in the network.

LinkedIn Concept

The concept is simple and will be familiar to anyone who has used social networking sites such as Facebook or Bebo. Once registered as a member, a user can send and accept requests to link up to other members or to invite new members. The advantages in being able to lay out your professional network are still being assessed by many members but one thing is clear, the site offers an unrivalled ability to look beyond your own immediate network and find people with skills, expertise and knowledge that can represent opportunity for you.

To get a benefit from your LinkedIn membership and make your network work for you, there a few basic steps you’ll need to ensure you’ve taken. Firstly, every member has a profile where they can record their work experience and qualifications. When they start, most people are tempted just to record the bare minimum information like their current job and title but if you want to be found in the system as someone who has certain experience or has worked for a particular company, you should consider adding a brief description of as many of your previous roles as possible. Not only does this make you more visible to anyone searching the system, but LinkedIn will now show you lists of other members you may already know based on your previous employers and links you already have. This helps you extend your network to people that you may not have considered when you first started out linking.

You should also look to keep your current description up to date. LinkedIn allows you to amend and constantly update what you’re up to at the moment. It’s not meant as a blow-by-blow account of your actions like Facebook or Twitter, but it will give people an idea of what your main area of interest is from one month to the next.

Qualifications can be a valuable factor in being found on the website and in expanding your network. In a similar fashion to recording your employers, you can pick out the academic institutions you attended and what qualifications you got there. LinkedIn also then lets you look up other alumni of the same college or university to see if you want to link up. This can be a great way or re-establishing old acquaintances and finding out what opportunities there may be out there with them.

If you’re using LinkedIn to try and find new opportunities, it’s helpful to get some recommendations from ex-colleagues. Just like in any job interview situation, these references can prove invaluable. Even if they only serve to help someone decide if they want to make contact or not, they are definitely worth having.

While having your profile up to date will not make you a success, it’s one of the main ways of ensuring that LinkedIn is working for you. You’ll see from the activity on the site that you will have appeared in searches and LinkedIn even tells you who has viewed your profile. To make this information work for you, keep looking to expand your network. When you make contacts in business, look them up on LinkedIn and make the connection. Having connections will ensure you show up their connections list and if you maintain your profile and keep it up to date, you’ll appear in their home page as having made a change. This makes you pop back into their thoughts every now and again when they see your name and you never know when this could the start of a new opportunity.

Lastly, LinkedIn is frequented by a very large and very active recruitment population. Recruitment professionals have woken up very quickly to the power of the networking platform and actively use the information find candidates and undertake research for their markets. If you can link up to the occasional recruiter, you’ll usually find that they have a very large network of their own. Look for recruitment executives in your field of expertise and link up with them. This opens you network to the recruiter, but also you will be able to see much further across the network of people in your field of work than you could before. Recruiters are fast becoming pivotal link points in the LinkedIn network and will usually be more than happy to make a connection with you if your sector is relevant to them.

Conclusion

Like any network, maintaining contact is the key to making it work for you. As a tool, LinkedIn makes this much more achievable across a wider range of contacts then ever before. The website is becoming the professional networking system of choice for many people and if you’re not a member already, you could well be missing out.

Some artists use existing concepts, such as films, TV shows, console games, etc., and some take characters from their own imagination, drawing inspiration from children, pets, fantasy, etc.

Many of today’s cartoons are based on existing films, TV shows, console games, etc., however, some are straight from the artist’s imagination or inspired by a child, a pet, a situation, etc.

Here is a collection of 30 cartoon illustrations created by skilled and imaginative digital artists.

Creative Digital Cartoon Illustrations

Equilibrist

Balto Mika

Giraffe – Cartoon

Goldfish Cartoon Vector

Miffed Dark Elf

Kishi

Lara Air Shooting

Alien Pirate Cyborg Rabbit

Cozy Owl

We’re Getting Better Man!

Fish Composition

How to Train Your Dragon

Cartoon Super Etendard

Roundeye Dragon

Dr. Who Cat aka Dr. Mew

BambinoMonkey Cartoons

Kool Betty Cool

Fishy Sub

Tetris Girl

Frozen Fish Sticks

Don’t Touch My Popcorn

The Monster in my Closet

Have you seen my bear Tibbers?

Tiago Hoisel Axl

Tourist

Frogatto & Friends

Mythbusters

Fantasmagorias

Welcome to the crew Tinkerbel

Cat, the Dog

Conclusion

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these digital cartoon illustrations, and that they have brightened your day.

Which was your favourite? Have you come across any creative cartoon illustrations that we have missed from this list? Please share your opinions and links with us in the comments section below.

In this article, I’ve gathered 25 amazing food logo designs, that vary from simple and clean to more complex and detailed ones. Check them out and get inspired!

1. Fresh by cspainey

2. Seed by DianaPerkins

3. Watermelon by DigitalOrange

4. tomatopoint by voxsix

5. Funky Food and Bakery… by paloseiffe

6. Happy Bites by itsgareth

7. Iby’s Sweeties by szende

8. Cupcake Castle by CrossTheLime

9. glaze v.2 by atomicvibe

10. Ice Cream Love by tl0928

11. TheWingedDon by Type and Signs

12. Lady Olive by Nekiy

13. Olio (olive) by alex4za

14. MailTaco by revotype

15. Sweet Toof Bakery – FINAL by atomicvibe

16. lollipop by mariaximena

17. My Lolipop Moment by ciderpro

18. Pizza Cone – Pizzaria by thiagolins

19. Stroller Pizza by shtef sokolovich

20. Rollolo by Brandserker

21. Salsa del arbol by alvach

22. Lunches by ByDianaPerkins

23. Trophy Spice by nidji29

24. Gran Food by claudiofrancab

25. snex by umbra

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