• 5 Easy Steps for Creating an Ergonomic Office Environment

    by The Pro Designer on September 8, 2010

    in Freelance,How To

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    So what does it take to have the perfect ergonomic office. Here are 5 things you can do to achieve this: -

    1. Get a comfortable chair

    The best chair type for an office is the standard clerical style chair, as opposed to the high back reclining chairs. Your chair should provide sufficient support to your spine and body, as well as being comfortable. [click to continue…]

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    Top Ten Reasons for Taking the Time to Blog

    by The Pro Designer 2 September 2010 Freelance

    If your website is struggling to get seen or heard, then maybe it’s time you think about bringing blog features and facilities to your site. Below are ten great reasons as to why you should be thinking about blogging as part of your strategy to break into the online market.

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    Air Jordan Logo – Famous Logos

    by The Pro Designer 1 September 2010 Logo Design

    Air Jordan is famous for bringing about change to the sport of basketball and the footwear of basketball players. The brand was produced by Nike and was first introduced in 1985. The ‘Air Jordan Logo‘ was originally designed for and endorsed by famous basketball player Michael Jordan. However, his unique style quickly grabbed the attention [...]

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    6 Important Steps for First Time Freelancers

    by The Pro Designer 23 August 2010 Freelance

    There are a number of stages an designer needs to go through when considering a career as a freelancer. This post will walk you through each step, telling you how and when to complete each step; helping to ensure that your start as a freelancer is a successful one. The more successful you freelance career [...]

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    Auto Advertising That Is A Cut Above The Rest

    by The Pro Designer 23 August 2010 Advertising

    Automobile Advertising is very big business and the lengths that advertising agencies go to capture your attention is outstanding. So I have put together a list of some of the very best auto advertising from around the world. With so much money spent on these campaigns I thought you would be able to draw some [...]

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    Top Tips For Multilingual Web Design

    by The Pro Designer 21 August 2010 Usability / Accessibility

    If you want to make your website available to the widest audience possible, you need to consider going multilingual. Over 78% of global web users do not speak English as their native language. This fact, when considered alongside research by the Common Sense Advisory which found that non-English speakers are six times less likely to [...]

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    Thirty Five Awesome, Fresh Portfolio Sites

    by The Pro Designer 18 August 2010 Design

    It is the eternal trade off; the number of work examples visible on the portfolio page verses clean, uncluttered looks and pertinent information.  It’s important to give an overview of your work, and also and indication of the depth of your portfolio, but how is this best done on a single page? Let’s look at [...]

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    The Creative Digital Art of James White – Must See!

    by The Pro Designer 15 August 2010 Graphic Design

    As a designer we can all appreciate the work of others, and James White is no exception. This guy does awesome work and I bet you will just love it as much as I did… A little bit about James – He is a digital artist and graphic designer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. [...]

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    Growing the Plums to Become a Professional Freelancer

    by The Pro Designer 12 August 2010 Freelance

    A recent conversation with a friend of mine, an experienced and talented web developer, got me thinking. He’d been huffing and puffing about his boss, and how his commitment to the company was unappreciated. I asked him a simple question, “Why don’t you freelance?” He looked at me and sighed, somewhat heavily. “I don’t have [...]

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    Funny Storefront Signs That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

    by The Pro Designer 11 August 2010 Advertising

    It is always important to try and keep a sense of humor when looking at certain things, and these funny storefront signs are the perfect example. Just imagine going down to your local and coming across a unexpected funny storefront sign, what do you do? You whip out you camera and you take a photo [...]

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    Perfect Examples of Beautiful Black and White Photography

    by The Pro Designer 9 August 2010 Inspiration

    Colorful photographs and designs are so eye-catching and capable in helping a design stand out from the pack, however black and white can also have that impacting effect if done right. The black and white photography which is shown below, concentrate on the lighting, composition, its perspective and how the picture is shown in context [...]

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    Amazing & Beautiful Cloud Formations That Fill Our Skies

    by The Pro Designer 8 August 2010 Inspiration

    Every single cloud formation is attractive and unique, in its own special way.  Clouds fill our skies above and are a large component of our lives; even if most of the time they often go unnoticed. However every now and then, someone is able to capture true beauty with their camera. This post shows some [...]

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    How to Handle Three Common Kinds of Design Clients

    by The Pro Designer 5 August 2010 Freelance

    Throughout your freelancing career, you will work with and for a number of interesting individuals. However, you will notice that there are client trends that can be categorized into many different groups. Just as consumers have particular habits which makes the fall into particular groups, so do clients.

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    by The Pro Designer 2 August 2010 Advertising

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    MTV Exploding Logo

    by The Pro Designer 1 August 2010 Logo Design

    Check out these really cool samples of the MTV logo exploding. MTV focuses on music fans in their teens and twenties. It features deep, original content including special music premieres and exclusives, shows, original programming for specials like the VMAs, community games and messaging, and so much more. MTV.com is consistently ranked the No. 1 [...]

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    50 Tips for Effective Time Management for Freelance Designers

    by The Pro Designer 30 July 2010 Freelance

    This long list of quick points really summarizes a lot of the points made throughout the site, and it’s here to help you understand why time management is essential to being a successful freelancer designer, as well as how to effectively implement management techniques into your everyday working life. Following the points below will allow [...]

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    85+ Twitter Logos That You Will Find Inspirational

    by The Pro Designer 27 July 2010 Inspiration

    As we all know twitter has exploded on to the social media scene and with that success, it has yielded many people and businesses capitalizing on the name. So what I have done is put together a list of some of the very best twitter logos I could find, so check out these 85+ inspirational [...]

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    How to Design a Clean Website Layout in Photoshop

    by The Pro Designer 24 July 2010 Tutorials

    Ever been daunted by designing a website layout? Not sure where to start? Well in this tutorial I will show you the process of creating a basic website with grids in a ‘Web 2.0’ fashion. Just a note though, this tutorial does require you to be acquainted with Photoshop and know simple things like drawing [...]

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    How To Handle Clients Objecting To Your Fees

    by The Pro Designer 21 July 2010 Freelance

    You’ve come across a project, you’ve assessed the requirements of the project, and you have sent a proposal to the client, which includes the reasonable fees. The client contacts you, thanks you for your interest, and then informs you that in order to consider your proposal they would need you to reconsider your cost. Every [...]

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    Giants From Above – Check Out these Giant Photoshopped People In City and Urban Settings

    by The Pro Designer 20 July 2010 Inspiration

    Today I came across some really huge people in small city environments, well small to some. These amazing photoshopped images are really cool and each image really gives you a realistic view from this unreal image, plus the city /urban setting they are on really has a great impact. I hope you can draw some [...]

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