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- Is “Good Design” In The Eye Of The Beholder?
I’ve seen quite a few articles and blog posts recently discussing “good design” and “bad design”. It got me thinking about the concept, along with the various categorizations and judgments we who operate under the title “designer” place so easily on the work of others. Is not the determination of whether or not an object of design is deserving of the title “good” a subjective one, formed by preferences and/or opinions? Or is there, in fact, a set of standards or guidelines written in stone somewhere that all design can and should adhere to?
- Behind The Avatar #5: Introducing Freelance Graphic Designer Beth Daniell of EDGD
I don’t recall exactly how we started communicating, although I’m sure it was either Twitter or Facebook, but I have recently been enjoying getting to know Beth Daniell of Elizabeth Daniell Graphic Design (EDGD) through a few online conversations and interactions. Beth is a graphic designer who has made the shift to running her own freelance business and using social media to expand her networks and clientele. As we began conversing and sharing thoughts I knew she would be a perfect candidate for my friends and readers to meet, so I asked if she would be interested in participating in this series. She has generously taken the time to answer a few questions and share some insights into who she is. I invite you to get to know her and connect with her yourself so you can go beyond the surface and see who’s Behind The Avatar.
“Over the past 15+ years, I have found the inspiration for my design style through the cities I have lived in, the people I have met along the way and my love for all things unique. My education in various art forms is a concrete foundation for making me the artist I am today.”
- Behind The Avatar #4: David Yarde of HowsYourBlog.com (and more!)
I have been following David Yarde (@dsmy) on Twitter for a little while now and recently started subscribing to HowsYourBlog.com so I could take in his thoughts and insights about writing, blogging and more. David is a self-professed “design junkie” who seems to have a lot of things going on and new ideas springing up all the time. He and his wife Angie (@missneela) run Sevenality, a web and graphic design studio located in the Kissimmee, Florida area. David’s an interesting, friendly guy who I thought would be fun to get to know a little better, so I invited him to be a part of this series so we all could meet the man behind the avatar.
- Behind The Avatar #3: Liz Andrade of CMD+Shift Design
I’ve been a subscriber to the CMD+Shift Design Blog for a few months now. I enjoy taking in the author’s writing style and I’ve found quite a few useful tips for freelancing and web design. I also recently started following cmdshiftdesign on Twitter and have discovered much of the same value. So today I want to introduce you to Liz Andrade, the gifted, humorous, creative and design-community advocate behind CMD+Shift Design.
- Behind The Avatar #2: Meet The Husband/Wife Team Behind AdmixWeb.com
Today I am pleased to introduce you to the bilingual husband/wife team of Teylor Feliz and Holly Lamarche, creators of one of my favorite new discoveries in the design/development blog world: AdmixWeb.com.
AdmixWeb was created in October 2008 with the purpose of providing information regarding all the latest and greatest technologies, topics, and applications available to use in web design and web development and to improve the web through blogs, postings, feedback, and comments. They feature bi-weekly original articles and tutorials on web development, design, freelance, business, and programming.
- 27 More Designers You’ve Never Seen On A List Before
Last week I introduced my readers to the first 24 designers who responded to my request. Since that post another 27 designers have submitted their info and I am pleased to share them with you below. Be sure to click on their image to view their work, and click on their Twitter username so you can follow and get to know them.
- DESIGNERS: Submit Your Info To Be In An Upcoming Post: Designers That Have Never Been On Lists
Are you a designer who keeps hoping to see your name or your work appearing on one of the many lists that come out on design blogs each week, highlighting the “Top Designers of This” or “Ultimate Design of That”? If you’re like me, whenever you see a new list that you could have somehow been included, you frantically scan the post for your name or your work only to be disappointed once again. It’s not a good feeling.
- What’s Your Motivation For Creation?
Over the years I have asked myself this question many times. Whether in music, art, design, writing, or any other context in which something is poured out of me into a work, I am always considering the driving force behind it.
- All The MacDaddy Links In One Place – Updated All Day Long!!!
…a few weeks ago, when @elliottcarlson started following me and immediately expressed concern about the amount of tweets I was flooding him with, he offered to write a script that could be used to dynamically store all of the links I tweet in a database and display them on my site. Within a day or so it was done and then I spent the few spare minutes I’ve had over the past weeks integrating it into a page on bkmacdaddy.com.
- Tips To Bridge The Gap Between Clients And Designers
It seems that one of the most difficult gaps to bridge is the language barrier between designers and clients. Yet I am certain that if one could build that bridge and birth a method of interpretation the two very different species could not only coexist peacefully but would unite in exuberant harmony and exultation. Designers would have a clear understanding of what their clients want, enabling them to produce spectacularly pleasing projects with efficiency and prowess. Clients would be confident that their designer caught the vision and would be ecstatic to discover that the completed design was even better than what they had dreamed.
As a freelance designer, this utopia is one I want to live in.
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