Graphic Identity

Design Process of Danielku Logo

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:01:00 +0000

A month ago, I was working on a brand identity project together with Daniel Keller. He is a music producer, blogger & audiogadget lover from Switzerland, who is also the owner of this project :D. I'm so happy that after long brainstorming process, the re-brand of Danielku logo is finally here.

I just want to share the design process with you and I would love to read your feedbacks too :)

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The Design Concept

The idea was to bring a simple logo that correlates to Danielku slogan: "Music in Colors". As a start we think of a colorful music note. There were some facts to develop the basic concept into raw sketches: Daniel loves house/electro/dance musics and he produces music with drumpads.

Visual Concept Throughout the Sketches

We tried to deliver the design concept with different arrangement of type, slogan text and the illustration part of the logo. Nevertheless, the music note could be very much closer to the basic idea compared to all which had been brought on using raw sketches. So we were focusing more to it.

The First Digital Stage

We made some alternatives for the head, stem and the flag of the music note. Some questions noted, such as: how the color would be shown on the music note's head? Should the music note be better appearing in Y axis or arranged diagonally? Where is to put the music note? The right proportion of it? We were also experimenting with the current logo trends: 'varidots', sequential layer of shapes, and also mosaic technique.

Simplifying the Alternatives

In the next stage, we went back to the main root, and start thinking about another possibility to combine the colored music note idea with the electro music vibes concept. It could be colorful, and playful at the same time. "Tetris" game was the great inspiration as it represents the digital lifestyle. Daniel gave a helpful feedback at this stage, that a colorful pixelated music is a great descriptive concept to develop, simple illustration and we've been hoping this concept can also be flexible to deliver its visual message behind the brand attributes.

Choosing the Font for the Logo Text

This stage was a bit tricky. We tried to use several fonts and the colors for the texts as well. I designed a set of custom vector font for this logo by the way. But for technical reason, we have dropped the design and we decided to use Advent Bold for the main text and Advent Regular for the slogan text.

Final Logo Design

The refining process didn't take too much time. Because the logo stays simple from the beginning. The important part is to make this logo works good in all kinds of media (web & print) and in black/white version.
The music note pixels are colored based on this color scheme:

Color by COLOURlovers
In the final process, the flag of the music note was altered so it resembles the "f" character, as the slogan changed to: "Media in Colors". Daniel wants to keep his brand in good flexibility for his various creative works in music and also Flash animations. The pixel boxes make this logo becomes modular in each pixel unit. The avatar is using the head part of the music note, and it slightly shows "d" character. The ideas are mixed together and the result is a colorful monogrammed music note with consistent flexibility :)

If you want to see some more details about the Danielku logo, and with better presentation graphics of course. You can visit my Behance portfolio page.

COLOURlovers: It's Coffee Time!

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:36:00 +0000

It's Coffee Time
Originally uploaded by pninaN

To be honest, I'm not a real coffee addict. You know, even many people believe that drinking coffee is unhealthy, still there is the goodness of coffee if you consume it in a decent way :P

But we are here not only to talk about how energizing to have few cups of coffee in your daily creative activities, because I also wanna share 10 color palettes from COLOURlovers ... and it's Coffee Time!

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These could be another goodness of coffee. The Coffee Theme color palettes collection could be useful for your design inspiration. Add me to your COLOURlovers circle and tell me which one is your favorite color palette ;)

Brown Water

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee With Love

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee Lovers

Color by COLOURlovers

My Morning Frapp

Color by COLOURlovers

Nice hot Capo

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee Ma'

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee Break

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee and Merlot

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee Cream & Mint

Color by COLOURlovers

Coffee Mocha

Color by COLOURlovers

Be sure to check this design set also
Coffee Latte Card

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Free Folder Menu Tabs

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:07:00 +0000

Hello . I come back again with another Free Design Box files. A set of Folder Menu Tabs in PSD file format.

The set includes 10 different sizes and 10 gradient variations menu tabs. They are sleek, and there's a shading effect layer for each tab.
You will have multi-layered and well arranged menu tab vector shapes based on color choices.

PSD file example (demo) to use the folder-like menu tabs is also available. Therefore you can set a box under the default state of it, along with the shading shape for each tab. I use Arial font for the demo file.

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You can resize or rotate these tabs to fit your design needs. Choose a typical size of tabs or even combine any different tabs to put together on your website with just easiest way to do it

All of Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files before you decide to download the files.

Leave your comment as I always love to hear more feedbacks from you

Graphic Identity - Tabs in Colors.zip (9.3 MB)

Graphic Identity - Tabs Examples.zip (5.17 MB)

Be sure to check this design set also
Fantasy Floral Vectors

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A Fully Customized TweetMeme ReTweet Button for Your Blog Post

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:21:00 +0000

The thumbnail for this post is using Birdies~Cute Free Twitter Icons

Just few weeks ago, I added a TweetMeme Button to Graphic Identity Blog post. As you know already, that Twitter has became a big community to exchange links about latest news, pictures, blip of songs, and of course a blog post. These exchange is made happened by some ReTweet actions chain.
If you have a particular blog and you are familiar enough with this ReTweet term (or you can make it short as "RT"), then you may want to know about how to add a TweetMeme ReTweet Button to your blog post. It will track the number of RTs made for each blog post.
Actually the instruction to install the TweetMeme Button is clearly stated on Tweetmeme Help page. But I just want to let you know that I've combined several codes all together, so you will know that it is a fully customized TweetMeme RT button.

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First of all, let's try to understand some options that make TweetMeme button as a smart RT add on for you blog.

Custom RT @username

tweetmeme_source = 'talktweetmeme';

By default the RT button will direct you in the format of "RT [@tweetmeme] [blog post title] [link]". If you want to see different format as if the RT comes after you, just change 'talktweetmeme' with your own Twitter username. This is pretty good because not only your blog post is spread out via RTs chain, but the other Twitter users can check your Twitter profile when someone RT your blog post and probably become your new follower :).
This is the example of how the customized code like:

tweetmeme_source = 'graphicidentity';

Your Blog Permalink URL

tweetmeme_url = 'http://yoururl.com';

As it is intended as a RT for each blog post Permalink. Be sure to add your Permalink (permanent link) of your blog post with an exact CMS link format code. I'm using Classic Blogger Blogspot CMS, so I included ‹$BlogItemPermalinkURL$› to have a correct blog post link in the RT. Here is how the code will look like:

tweetmeme_url = '‹$BlogItemPermalinkURL$›';

If you are using New Blogger Blogspot, there is a great tutorial to get the right permalink posted by Chetan. He is also my nice Twitter mate :)
Wordpress CMS users won't find any difficulties with coding to install this add on, because TweetMeme has provided a TweetMeme Button Wordpress plugin.

URL Shortener Service

tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';

The TweetMeme button add on allows you to use any URL shortener you like. The default option is: bit.ly URL shortener. Long URL won't help other Twitter user to RT your blog post right? :D
If you prefer to have tr.im as the URL shortener, just change the "tweetmeme_service" parameter as shown here:

tweetmeme_service = 'tr.im';

Button Styling

tweetmeme_style = 'compact';

The last options to complete the customization steps could be the button styling. Some of you may like a compact button. For that you just need to include the code above. Don't include this code if you want more bigger button.
Here is another tutorial, written by AllBlogTools.com to style your TweetMeme button if you are a New Blogger Blogspot user.

The next step is to to save all combined codes to your template. Please remember that I'm using Classic Blogger Template. So here is the codes that I've included in the end of Blogger HTML post tags, just before the comment tags:

‹script type="text/javascript"›
tweetmeme_source = 'graphicidentity';
tweetmeme_url = '‹$BlogItemPermalinkURL$›';
tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';
tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
‹/script›
‹script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type="text/javascript"›
‹/script›

If you wanna know where your TweetMeme code is supposed to be added in New Blogger Template? Just visit this Anshul Dudeja's tutorial post to find out.

I hope you will find this tutorial useful and a RT is much appreciated! ;) Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Photoshop Pen Tool Resources

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:05:00 +0000

Pen Tool is a powerful tool in Photoshop that every designer should master. It is not difficult to understand how this tool work, but it would challenge most of us in its practical uses. Here are some resources links that may help you to figure out some Pen Tool tricks and its best practices for your creative design.
Feel free to drop another links in my comment box if you have another favorite Pen Tool resources to share. Thank you ;)

Pen Tool graphic is designed by Markus Nielsen

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Creative Tip: Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet by CreativeTechs.com
A simple PDF file cheatsheet that shows how easy Adobe’s Pen Tool to be used across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (CS2/CS3) .

Photoshop Pathing: How To Use Photoshop Pen Tool by MakeUseOf.com
A very quick tutorial for pathing out a simple object from its background.

Making Selections With The Pen Tool by PhotoshopEssentials.com
It is a very good tutorial especially if you are a Photoshop beginners. Because it has lots of informative visual & textual explanations to create selection and therefore very easy to follow. The points of explanations covered:

Pen Tool & Path introduction
Turning A Path Into A Selection
Handle Directions Control
Drawing A Curve
Moving An Anchor Point
Combining Straight Paths With Curves
Practical example of how to select an object with curves

Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide by PSD.tutsplus.com
A very comprehensive tutorial that has many visual examples, tips, best practices and instructions about Pen Tool. You'll find explanations of functions, keyboard shortcuts, cursors, mouse & keyboard controls and option to use Pen Tool. The tutorial also provides you the downloadable Pen Tool Exercise file so you can follow the guides to create precise paths, using the hints and shortcuts covered in this article.

Photoshop Pen Tool Guide by Tutorial9.net
It is a well explained basic Peen Tool tutorial. The tutorial shows you how to create simple shapes with the help of Grid and snapping in your work canvas.

How to use Photoshop's Pen Tool by MelissaClifton.com
In the end you'll learn how to cut out an image with the pen tool and then creating custom shapes from the work path.

Create your own Gmail theme

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:47:00 +0000

I've been using "Shiny" theme for months. It is a theme provided in Gmail theme settings, which has glossy Web 2.0 style design in every corner of it. But then I want to see something different, because I always checking my Gmail everytime I'm online, I thought it would be a great idea to create my own Gmail theme in simplified look. I wanted to have custom Gmail theme that has similar color schemes as my Twitter background. A Dark grey-scale theme with soft green color in some parts.

Wanna try to create something like mine? I'm using the web-safe default color schemes, so all you need is do the same thing as I did on your Gmail theme setting dashboard and save it. If you don't know how to create your own Gmail theme, just read this Gmail Help answer page for a start ;)

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Custom Gmail theme dashboard settings
When you hover on some parts of Gmail section boxes with your mouse, you'll see a tiny button in every corner of each box. Click the tiny arrow so you can see the Color pickers in a drop-down tray.

Main background

Frame

Sidebar frame

Button bar

Messages

Box

Box content

Selected message

If you follow this correctly, you'll have a custom Gmail theme like this:

Click on the image to make it larger!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone :)

Real-time replies notification using Twitter Web

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:21:00 +0000

Twitter web has been improving its features for better usage. You used to click @your_username at your sidebar to find out who has replied your tweets. But right now you can save your time by making good use of "Real-time results" of Twitter search system. I wanna share this tips to you today, but before that :D, I also want to tell you that Graphic Identity's Twitter background is featured on Twitter Backgrounds Gallery in Brands category. You can give a vote love if you like ;)

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Here is how to get real-time replies notification using Twitter web

I assume you've registered to Twitter, and please do sign up if you haven't.

Once you're logged in, find the search box on the right sidebar and type your username after the "@" character. For an easy example, I'm gonna use this query: @your_username.

Save the search query by clicking the green button on the top of your tweets updates section.

Twitter will confirm this and you can also check your Saved Searches section at Twiter web sidebar to make sure that you have saved your search query using your own Twitter username.

You can remove this saved search later if you don't need it anymore.

It is so simple and every time you send tweets, Twitter will give real time reply notification, like this:

I only just click the "Refresh" link (you see I have 4 new replies right there) and there it goes, Twitter web will show the real-time replies of @graphicidentity.

Keep your window browser active and Twitter will generate numbers of real-time results whenever there are any new updates coming up. Trending Topics seemed having better example to understand how this thing works, as you'll see the number of real-time results keep growing and growing within secs.

I also use Twitter real-time search result to find out how many Twepls who has tweeted my latest blog post. I included my blog post title on my saved searches for this. You can also do the same thing for any search queries to track them just in case you want to get fresh news, trending topics, tweeted conversations, hashtags or to follow your most favorite Twitter mate's latest tweets if you need.

Have fun to explore this new Twitter feature and have a great weekend everyone!

5 Fresh Free Typefaces

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:56:00 +0000

I just wanna share you what I found recently. 5 Free Typefaces that are relatively new to have a look.

FILE™
fontfabric.com always produce typefaces with contemporary looks. Introducing the brand new FILE™ as a new released typeface by fontfabric.com. This typeface is applicable for any type of graphic design.

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Nata rounded 0.1
Nata rounded 0.1 is a Beta version of David Botella' first Typeface. Bulky and round, and also absolutely perfect to use for any typographic designs.

Big Boned
Big Boned is the Alpha version typeface that has bold shapes and it is a result of a playful experimental typeface by networkosaka.com.

Titillium
Titillium is a high quality sans serif typeface, which has professional looks and suitable for display or text purpose. It comes with various font-weight in a set. There is also available Titillium extra-black version to download for free.

Museo Sans
Museo Sans is a derivative typeface of the well-known Museo. Just note its geometric glyphs which is designed with very precise proportion. This typeface has a great ultra balance of structure.

Rolet: A Typeface Design by Simon Page

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:08:00 +0000

It's been a tough week with many ideas on my mind for the next tutorial. Then I suddenly landed on a great spot of Flickr group: Vectortuts Group Pool. My eyes scanned down on some new submissions and this typographic poster design has caught my attention. The typeface poster was designed by a graphic designer from the UK, Simon Page. What's so special about this poster is that, Simon Page has used his own typeface creation, called Rolet. It will be available soon in vector form. Vector typeface has became widely used by many designers recently to present designs that has POP feel and contemporary or maybe even to create an extreme design look. Rolet is an interesting typeface design which has some kind of 2D layered shapes that are twisted, and the twist produced a smart 3D typeface in overall look. Just interesting! Take a sneak peep on this Rolet Typeface Design.

Have your say if you like ;)

Pencil Sketch Effect in Photoshop Action

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:35:00 +0000

This morning I surfed down the net to find pencil sketch effect tutorials. There are obviously lots of different techniques to produce this kind of effect into a photo. I followed several tuts, to compare the results and I felt like I needed to find the very quick one, yet it should have great result too. So, I came across this (relatively old) tutorial post at Jeff Flowers's.com. Written by Jeff Flowers himself :). He wrote a smart tutorial which is very easy to follow about "How To Turn A Photo Into A Sketch".

Source Photo: Danny North on Flickr

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I decided to create a set of photoshop action based on this step by step tutorial. In Step 3, Jeff Flowers set the radius blur into 6px (Filter » Blur » Gaussian Blur), but in this photoshop action, I set it into 15px. Jeff has also noted that: this all depends on your image.

Even you will have instant graphic effect using this photoshop action set in a blink of an eye, I think you would still need to understand how this effect is produced. Because your image contrast will take part on delivering a great result of pencil sketch effect. Sometimes you will have to create this graphic effect from scratch, instead of using automatic photoshop action.

Just hit the play button on two different file of images, and see the result within few seconds. If you don't know what photoshop action is and how to install it, you can read the details at: Graphic Identity Photoshop Action tutorial before you start.

There will be two different photoshop actions in a set:

Pencil Sketch B/W:black and white pencil sketch effect
Pencil Sketch Color: colored pencil sketch effect

Pencil Sketch Action.atn (1.43 KB)

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Random Gradients vol. 1

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:55:00 +0000

Hello I’m here again. Sorry for leaving you for the past couple of months. I was terribly busy and hardly find any chance to update Graphic Identity blog. I wish you guys still be here for more. I really appreciate your visits somehow, and will love to hear any comments or questions on my post.

I finally managed to create a set of gradient freebie. There are 100 gradients included and they're free to download for personal and commercial uses. I've created random solid colors (no particular style or whatsoever). Because I'd like to experimet a bit, and perhaps next time I could come out with more spesific gradient styles. You can read: How to install Photoshop Gradients Tutorial, If you don't know how to install a .GRD file to your system.

Thank you for my facebook friends (Permana, Yuyun, Jojo, and Snuf or @snufsnuf) who have suggested me with brilliant color schemes and hexa codes for a start ;) You guys are ROCK! :D

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Have your say and don't hesitate to drop me your idea for the next Gradient freebies. Either you like dark gradients, noise gradients, pastel color gradients, or anything. I also actually plan to write tutorial about "Techniques in Creating Photoshop Gradients". Lets hope for it, shall we :)

I would like to remind you that all of my 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But after I found that my previous Photoshop brushes set was hijacked before, please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files.

If you like my Free Design Box post series please give comment before you download them because I will appreciate any feedback from you.

Graphic Identity - Random Gradients vol 1.grd (80.54 KB)

Graphic Identity - Random Gradients vol 1.rar (5.13 KB)

Graphic Identity - Random Gradients vol 1.zip (7.16 KB)

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40 Unique Designs with Photoshop Action Scripts

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (Graphic Identity) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:31:00 +0000

How many of you have learned hard from tons of Photoshop tutorial resources just to know the trick to create an awesome graphic effect? If you are a newbie to Photoshop, sometimes it will take time to understand the whole tutorials. But do you know that Photoshop Actions can do the trick for you? or even the magic :)For you who don't know about Photoshop Action, it is actually a series of commands that you play back on a single .ATN file, and it works on menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on that is automatically done in few clicks.

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We introduce you a time saver but also a very powerful Photoshop Action pack from PhotoshopActionScripts.com. It is an easy software that allows you create amazing realistic 3 Dimensional cover graphics in minutes, such as E-Covers, Book Covers, Music Box, MP3 Player, Gift Bag or CD Covers, and much more.

There are 40 different professional designs that should be very useful for you.
All you have to do is to transform your 2D graphic into HIGH resolution 3D graphic (300 DPI) in just few clicks.

The result of each executed action is incredibly brought to you in high detailed graphic. Have a closer look to this CD-Cover design. Precision matters to your design and you're definitely won't miss a chance to give a try!

What makes this PhotoshopActionScripts different than any other products are:

the compatibility with Photoshop® 7.0 all the way to Photoshop® CS4®
works beautifully in Windows and Mac

You can just visit www.PhotoshopActionScripts.com to watch the demo video and find out how easy it is! Simply the best deal for every professional who puts weight on exclusive design output.

50 Modern & Minimalist Patterns

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:11:00 +0000

Pattern makes beautiful your design, and as I came by to COLOURlovers.com, I just couldn't stop to see tons of colorful patterns that I wanted to search from the beginning.

Finally, I decided to collect patterns that related to Modern and Minimalistic Design and make some groups for easy find. I hope these cool patterns from COLOURlovers.com will help you designing graphic or web project that echoes modernity and simplicity in the visual look.

Give the "love" vote to your favorite patterns, make comment or love Graphic Identity at COLOURlovers.com if you already there ;).

If you want to share your favorite pattern, feel free to drop a link on the comment section guys, and shall we begin the Pattern Parade!

DOTS

Color by COLOURlovers

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5 Top Picked Fonts from Fontstruct

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Fontstruct is a great font website where you can build your own font using simple flash based editor, and then share your font design so everyone can download it for free.
Today, I just want to share some of the Top Picked fonts that belong to wonderful font designers found in Fontstruct.

Enjoy the weekend ;)

mostly by kix

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Bolts by jadaze

Ligne Claire by SquarePeg

madie by funk_king

Unbranded v.2 by aaronamar

Latest Design Resources Round Up Posts

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:39:00 +0000

New year is only several days to go, and before the year will change into 2009, I want to share some latest posts that are ultimately stunning. I hope it would inspire us to move forward in the next year. Let's celebrate for better design community in the internet and wishing you all more success on the year of 2009!

Flow Wallpaper inspiration by bartelme.at

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Tutorial9’s first annual giveaway: The Gift of Knowledge

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (Graphic Identity) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:06:00 +0000

Are you ready for more design contest giveaway?

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Giving a knowledge would benefit other people, so why don't you just start to give?

Tutorial9 presents a sweet Gift of Knowledge GIVEaway contest where you can share your own special gift of knowledge through writing & submitting design articles. If your article is great enough and included, Tutorial9 will donate $100 to Save the Children organization. By this means, you give a gift of knowledge to Tutorial9, and at the same time you are also giving to charity. Now, isn't that sweet? :)

You can win TONS of great prizes. Another prizes that worth $5,000 will be also given away by Tutorial9 for the best authors who write articles with best quality.

What to write

Tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, Photography, Blogging, XHTML, PHP, AJAX, CSS, or Web Development.
Write a roundup featuring your favorite books, typography tutorials, or featuring creative blogs.
Write a post that teaches other people how to blog better!
Create a set of Photoshop Brushes, Icons, or a Vector Pack.
Develop a killer Blogger Template or Wordpress Theme!
Write about cool lighting tricks from your Photography Experience.
ANYTHING that teaches, offers new resources for our readers to work with, or shares experiences that will help others is more than likely an acceptable entry.

If you still need some information related to this giveaway contest, just find out the details on the Tutorial9 to enter if you wish to start giving by this event.

Deadline
The Gift of Knowledge GIVEaway will end on Febuary 1st 2009. You can enter as many times as you’d like ($100 will be donated for every accepted entry).

We will surely try our best to join this sweet event. But before we come out with our post, we want to invite you to put your request or suggestion in a comment. It has been a while since our last graphic design tutorials, last photoshop brushes freebies and our article round ups. We're kindda think to design free wallpapers based on our Floral Photoshop Brush Sets collection, or a custom Photoshop shapes that should be very useful for you! :)

Just don't be shy to comment because your comment is a gift to others too..... and don't forget to also participate in sharing your Gift of Knowledge after you read this post announcement :).

Sweet holiday season greetings for all of you!

7 Design Related Video Tutorials

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (Graphic Identity) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:50:00 +0000

»» If you've missed so many resourceful articles or probably want to learn better about designing tips and tricks, then perhaps these video tutorials will help you ;)

Without further talks.. shall we see the round ups of 7 Design Video Tutorials:

Video Screencasts #47: CSS Shorthand

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Votes Love in December 2008

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (Graphic Identity) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:27:00 +0000

Just few weeks to go and we are all will enter the new year of 2009. As time passed by, would you share some votes love for our friends here? :).
Your votes are counted and will help them to win ~ a big thank to you if you've already made your vote.
If you have been nominated for a contest, and need a support, just leave a comment or contact me by email.

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Thomas Ulbricht is nominated for a Shorty Award

Thomas is the creator of:

So far, he has received 5 nominations in design and 1 nomination in tech categories. To nominate Thomas for a Shorty Award, you can just send a tweet. For instance:
@shortyawards I nominate @sharebrain in #design category coz it is a great webdesign resource that should be awarded! (but please write something of your own).
Kindly register to twitter.com if you haven't. Nominations close at midnight, December 31st.

Wireless Cell Accessories is the finalist of Pepperjam Network Store Builder contest

Collin has started a campaign for votes, since his website “Wireless Cell Accessories” is nominated as one of the best job integrating Store Builder™ on a site at Pepperjam Network! Wireless Cell Accessories is curently in second place. If you are not an affiliate of the Pepperjam network don’t worry about signing up, just vote please. Only a day to go guys, your vote will be a big favor for Collin ~ thank you ;)
Whenever you want to know more about Papperjam Network Store Builder, you wouldn't want to miss Collin's latest post that will tell you how to make money with Pepperjam Stores. Cool stuff!

Pink.fm In The Finals of Open Web Awards

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap, yet it is also a powerful community. This amazing web service just made the way to the 2nd annual Open Web Awards 2008 finals in Social Networking Application category. Drop your vote by submitting your email address and click the vote button on the OWA widget here. The first and final voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th, so hurry up please because time is running fast :D

Exploitation & abuse of Indonesian women domestic workers

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:01:00 +0000

We all know that poverty are the basic problem that leads to bigger problems, a social problem. Poor people are trying hard to survive by doing anything they can think of. As Indonesia has been one of "third countries" that facing these problems, many Indonesian women had also face to reality to work as domestic workers for more family income. But not all of them are lucky enough to get descent job. Indonesian women domestic workers, either who work as a migrant or local employment are often become the victim of human rights abuses. Although, Indonesian government have set legal remedies to protect them, but the violence has been happening still and the effect is remotely limited. In many cases, several of them are reported dead by serious violence, received beatings, tortured everyday in several years and because they choose to die or try to run by jumping from the top of building. They are forced to work beyond the limit only for $100 salary per month, and sometimes without pay for several years. We can just say this situation as what "a modern-day slavery" is all about.

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There is no guarantee of their safety, including denial of their rights to health, education, an adequate standard of living and freedom of movement. They are also at risk of trafficking and violence. The lack of awareness and enforcement of the law has resulted in domestic workers remaining vulnerable to violence in the household as their working environment.

I am still hoping that women domestic workers from anywhere in the world, will get a better chance to work in the most proper condition. They are human beings... and they are the same as we are... so by writing this post I stand up for Human Rights to stop slavery, abuse and more humanity issues that follows. Will you join me?

If you see anything suspicious in your neighborhood that subject to abusive act of an employer to his or her domestic workers, please call your local authority or the police to make a report. This will help the domestic workers to gain their freedom back or might save their life if they have worked in a horrible slavery situation.

Another Related Resource Articles:

Malaysian woman jailed for abusing Indonesia maid

Big News 2 Indonesian Women To Physical Abuse by multimillionaire in New York

Indonesia's abused migrant workers

Indonesia Exploitation and abuse: the plight of women domestic workers

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This article is written as a contribution to One Day for Human Rights. If you care enough, take your part in small step to make a difference! Write a blog post to bring awareness for Human Rights today or sign the petition.

A friend of mine, Andrew of additivedesigns.com has also participated in this social event. He would giving away a poster to one person, chosen at random, who has done SOMETHING in honor of Human Rights. Read the detail on Andrew's latest blog post to find out :)

Design You Love: Group Writing Project

graphicidentity.blog@gmail.com (A u d e e) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:31:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, I've participated on a design event at Designer Daily’s first Group Writing Project. As Mirko has announced the winners, still I want to share another entries of Designer Daily’s Group Writing Project which should be interesting read for your weekend. They are grouped by categories. Correct me if I may has grouped these following articles in wrong categories please ;)

Thank you Mirko who has put this event and gathered all of the participants in a such fun group writing project :D

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

A few things we can learn from Andy Warhol by Pixel Pixie.

La Gruyère insolite… by Ronald Sautebin.

Beer commercials: From the men in beige to the Man in Black by Kate.

3 sexy journal designs by Kyle Steed.

Paper Inspirations by Lauren Marie.

It’s such a creative logo by Angie Bowen.

“We made history” by Lyonel Kaufmann.

Saul Bass by Julia Spangler.

11 pre-launch group writing projects logos by Jacob Share.

TYPOGRAPHY

Type in Québec city by Ni Hao Ma girl.

Font we LOVE by Mohd Rafie.

Street spirit, Belgrade CityScape by Danica Radovanovic.

WEB DESIGN & INTERNET

My 5 women web designer heros by Kat Neville.

Symbaloo by Netter Report.

GOODIES DESIGN

The Alchemy Goods Urban Messenger Bag by Peter Bihr.

Hooray Cardboard Furnishings by Will Anderson.

FREY WILLE, or Amazingly Designed Jewelry by Anca Foster.

DESIGN GADGETS

Logitech MX500 – ancestor to Revolution by Rarst.

Apple’s MacBook laptops are a perfect design study? by Cory O’Brien.

DESIGNERS BIO & PORTFOLIOS

Design and Designers That Inspire by Aaron Michael Irizarry.

My Daily Dose of Imagery by Ken Dyment.

Christopher David Ryan by Mitternacht.

Rui Viera by A u d e e.

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