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Made with Gimp

much recommended on Metafilter, and it’s an excellent book – don’t be put off by its awful cover! (I nearly was! You’d think a book that teaches design would look great…) I’m picking up some really simple design principles that have great impact on how a design looks – I now have a much better idea why my first website design looked so amateurish, and have good ideas as to how I can make it look the way I want it to – I’m no longer relying solely on trial and error. Highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand the basics of design! :)

I bought David Dabner’s Graphic Design School

My aim is to work through the book, one unit per day. I’ll follow the exercises and practice the principle introduced in each unit every evening, then attempt to observe and/or apply the principle the following day. Not sure how this will work out, but it should be an interesting experiment!

Just graduated a graphic design program actually. Not so hot with brochures and logos all the time…but 3-D and Photoshop are awesome…once you know what you’re doing you can do pretty much anything with these things!

re downloaded adobe cs.. my friend is gonna teach me so that i can rock as much as she does!! best thing is were doing it over voice chat so we are both on our own systems :)

This year I joined the Yearbook staff at my school. I was on staff for design. So much thought goes into each spread. It is such a problem solving job. Seriously, you must do it! Now, it does take a while to learn the software. We use InDesign and Photoshop. We work on PC’s and Mac’s. Personally, I prefer Mac’s, but some people prefer otherwise. This year, we used a variety of brushes, and our theme called for about 1 pika between each picture , all that were clumped together. We decided that this year, our book would be clean. Meaning = lots of white space and “Breathing room.” It gets the concept through to the viewer much nicer. REMEMBER people…Less is more when it comes to Graphic Design.

i have finally done a basic course in graphic designing and its so easy. now i can do so many things on my own instead of relying on other people..

I’ve received my first set of books for the Adobe ACE courses and I have already finished 3 of the 13 photoshop lessons (yay!). I’m so excited about all the doors this could open in the future.
My plan is to become a Visual and Digital Design ACE Master. Which means I have to pass 6 of the 8 ACE certifications that Adobe offers.

I never seem to stick to anything so we’ll see how long this lasts… but for now I’m very excited and driven!

I’ve always loved it. I do it on the side for the place I’m working currently. ...all I need to do now is get PAID to do it. :)
I’m working on getting Adobe Certified since schooling is too expensive right now. An online bachelors degree is $90k from the Art Institute! Are they crazy? The job barely starts around $40k.
Wish me luck! The program is a 1 year self study… here’s hoping I can follow through with something for once.