Are you curious about what other designers in your field - and in the industry overall - are taking home on pay day? Now you can see if you need to increase or decrease your rate of operation with clients or finally ask for that raise. Take the HOW Design 2012 Salary Survey.
Reading is transitioning from print to the screen. For many, the convenience and transportability of devices like the Nook, Kindle, iPad, and even smartphones outweighs the pleasure found in the tangible aspects of a physical book.
Get ready to use the Internet in a whole new era: the era of custom domains. But let’s start at the beginning.
Illustrator guru and Sessions College instructor Mike Hamm is an interaction designer at Expedia, Inc. when he's not sharing his software expertise online. Because Expedia is one of the leading travel booking sites with booking services for flights, hotels, cars, and much more, Mike's role is a challenging one, requiring him to create effective graphic designs in...
I’m sure you are all familiar with Groupon, the coupon site that offers outstanding deals on nearly everything. But sometimes, I must admit, I do get a little tired of seeing deals for trips to the salon crowding my inbox and wish that their preference system limited the deals that are shown to me a bit more stringently. Well...
As the market for mobile devices grows, the need to design compatible Web sites has grown too – and quickly. It didn’t take long for Web designers to realize that they needed an efficient way to make their clients’ sites accessible in a slew of different devices. And so was born responsive design.
On a hot late summer day I sat down with the staff at NoD to talk about the future of our online design magazine. We’ve been publishing since 2006, and with a wealth of content contributed by an array of writers and editors over the years, it seemed a good time take stock of our strategic direction and our...
Below is Part 1 of an excerpt from an upcoming Graphic Artists Guild White Paper PDF about common copyright myths and misconceptions. Anyone working in the graphic arts industry needs to have a working knowledge of copyright and what it affords the graphic artist, but before discussing some of the most common myths and misconceptions, a few basic facts...
At the end of September 2010 Creative Everyone was launched by Daniel Howells, founder of London based digital agency Kulör, and Mike Sullivan director of Glasgow based design and communication studio Mister. Together they have designed and built Creative Everyone to be “a single, go-to guide to all the most interesting creative-oriented events guide.” Creative Everyone has now established...
As Founder of London-based web design and development agency, kulör, digital guy at YCN, and founder/curator at siteInspire, Daniel Howells has been building quite a name for himself over the past few years. Notes on Design spoke to Daniel this week to find out how a Psychology degree, jobs in account managing and investment banking led him to a...
