Ergonomic Office Lighting for Designers

Author: Daniela Schär \ March 28, 2012 \ Articles \ 0 Comments

An optimal lighting in the workplace not only enhances the personal well-being, but also promotes health. For evaluating the overall illumination, light intensity, direction of light, shadiness and glare, light color and color rendering are fundamental parameters. In this context, lighting ergonomics provides important guidelines in order to avert the

10 Design Related Ebooks you have to Buy and Read

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 17, 2010 \ Collections \ 10 Comments

Reading should be second nature if you want to obtain new abilities and wisdom. Here is 10 design related ebooks that you should purchase and read. They will not only bring you a lot of new knowledge and wisdom, but they are books that you will be able to keep

You are a Designer if you have Photoshop

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ June 17, 2010 \ Articles \ 18 Comments

I just got a copy of Photoshop CS4 about 2 months ago and going hand in hand with my art classes at school, I have built up enough experience to design your professional corporate logo and brand identity. I have experience in the design and art field and have a

Drawing In Today’s Digital World

Author: Josh Medrano \ February 17, 2010 \ Articles \ 20 Comments

One of the first elementary tendencies kids acquire is to pick up whatever we find and use it to draw. Unfortunately, what we choose to draw on might end up being the wall or furniture, yet there’s a fortunate possibility that our illustration might make it onto paper. Now here’s

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

Author: Franco Averta \ February 8, 2010 \ Articles \ 4 Comments

Welcome to my first guest post here at Creativeoverflow. Today we are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. In this

20 Poster Designs to Inspire You

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 20, 2009 \ Illustration, Inspiration \ 3 Comments

Posters, oh we gotta love them. We see posters every single day of our lives, driving to work you will see some sort of election poster or a ad for a business, shopping will have you come across posters from Aids to food. Advertising isn’t taken lightly nowadays and that’s

50 Sleek and Creative Business Cards

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 20, 2009 \ Collections \ 18 Comments

Designers sometimes neglect all the potential inspiration that are available online and then moan that they don’t know what they want exactly. Well I am here to solve that problem with some Business Card Inspiration. 18

Facebook has a Facelift

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 19, 2009 \ Articles \ 10 Comments

Facebook is the most popular Social Networking site in the world, Since it has started out in 2004 the design/interface has changed quite a lot, improving functionality and performance. I came across a new project created by Barton Smith, A interactive Designer from Sydney, Australia this layout that he has

Desktopography 2009

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 18, 2009 \ Articles \ 4 Comments

Designers and developers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors. 4

Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 18, 2009 \ Tutorials \ 35 Comments

Every Designer definitely needs a Business Card or Information card of some sort, even if it’s just a piece of paper with your name and number on, ok well not just a piece of paper. A designer has to brand him/her self with uniqueness to catch a clients eye. Some