ImJustCreative is Graham Smith

Links for 2008-12-02 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

socialmedian: Addicted to Mediocrity
A blog post about how mediocrity has slipped into graphic/web design, and development, hindering creativity and the design process.
Free WordPress Theme - Versatility Lite | Think Design - StumbleUpon
Website review of Free WordPress Theme - Versatility Lite | Think Design in Weblogs.
How It Sucks to Be a Designer and Remain Creative | WeAreJustCreative
Are You Freelance Material? | Fuel Your Creativity - Design Float
Are You Freelance Material? | Fuel Your Creativity
What Does True Freelancing Cost? Pt. 2 | Arbenting
Here we are once again on our quest for the costs to freelancing, and after the reception part 1 received the pressure to really deliver on the next installment was compounding. Luckily, the added pressure just made it that much easier to completely phone this one in! Totally kidding. I really am trying, so if you don’t like it, it’s totally on you.

Links for 2008-12-01 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Addicted to Mediocrity | this is aaron's life
A blog post about how mediocrity has slipped into web design, and we development, hindering creativity ad the design process
Addicted to Mediocrity | this is aaron's life - StumbleUpon
Website review of Addicted to Mediocrity | this is aaron's life in Graphic Design.
COLOURlovers :: Palette / Urban Army
Urban Army color palette by imjustcreative. Palette created with the help of the iPhone, CliqCliq and my gunmetal jacket and dark grey gloves.

Links for 2008-11-30 [del.icio.us]

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

i'minlikewithAndy | the web design corner of the universe (well, mine anyway.)
Remaining Competitive in the Design Market | I'minlikewithAndy
I don't know if a lot of you guys have noticed lately, but the Indians have been invading the web development, graphic design, and print media markets. I have
Remaining Competitive in the Design Market | I'minlikewithAndy - Design Float
Remaining Competitive in the Design Market | I'minlikewithAndy - I don’t know if a lot of you guys have noticed lately, but the Indians have been invading the web development, graphic design, and print media markets. I have been looking on freelance websites and even on Google, where Indian design firms are prov...
Introducing Desjardins Neue FT
Introducing Desjardins Neue FT | I'minlikewithAndy
I got bored today and decided to create a glyph font that would be high quality and blended with my own glyphs for screen production. This font is
Olive - A Web Application for Web Designers | Client Management App
Your bestest Creative, Geeky & Logo Book lists for new post | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
As design and logo books are so damn cool and I have so dog damn many, I'm always stressing about what book's I might be missing out on. So this post is just to ask you what Books you love the most. Preferably to do with the usual creative, geeky stuff. No romance novels or self help books.
Stellar Storm: Free December 08 Wallpapers | fudgegraphics | for lovers - Design Float
Stellar Storm: Free December 08 Wallpapers | fudgegraphics | for lovers - Every month I give you a new Calendar Wallpaper. The idea behind the monthly calendar wallpaper series is that you don’t have to open a program to find out what day/date it is. Just look at your desktop et voila. Furthermore the wallpapers should i...
Stainless for OS X Leopard

Your bestest Creative, Geeky & Logo Book lists for new post

Graham Smith — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:47:12 +0000

As design and logo books are so damn cool and I have so dog damn many, I'm always stressing about what book's I might be missing out on. So this post is just to ask you what Books you love the most....

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Links for 2008-11-29 [del.icio.us]

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Identi.ca Ubiquity Command
Twitter / Your Favorites
Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time
Designers Discuss the Benefits of Running a Blog | The Design Cubicle
Last week I asked a few of my readers what they would like read more about or less of on design blogs. While I received a wide variety of answers, one in particular stood out to me – How do designers personally benefit from their blogs and how does it benefit your graphic design business and reach outside the design community?
Designers Discuss the Benefits of Blogging | The Design Cubicle - Design Float
Designers Discuss the Benefits of Blogging | The Design Cubicle - In this article 6 talented, successful and some of my favorite bloggers/designers offer excellent insight how blogging personally and professionally benefits their design careers.
socialmedian: Maybe as designers we can all agree on what back-up microblogging tool we should use in the unfortunate case of twitter passing away. (via FriendFeed)
One Uber Identi.ca List for Creatives & Geeks | WeAreJustCreative
Since the last Uber list, for Fleck users I have been focusing several other Micro-Blogging platforms. The main one namly being Identi.ca. I signed up to this sometime back, and felt it had potential but was missing some basic functionality. That aside, it had a very loyal user base which is continuing to grow at speed and more importantly, Identi.ca itself is rapidly progressing in functionality.
How Google Analytics Shows Me Who Visits My Blog (and Why It’s Important) | by Ari Herzog
The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 2 - Logo Design | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith - Design Float
The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 2 - Logo Design | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith - Now the tricky part. Not to say that coming up with a decent relevant name isn’t tricky, because it most certainly is. But as a designer, creating your own logo design can be a challenging task, it’s a precious challenge.

Links for 2008-11-28 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Control Yourself » iPhone clients for Identi.ca
Submit articles and posts to WeAreJustCreative (WAJC) | WeAreJustCreative
WeAreJustCreative (or WAJC) is a audio & visual community ‘giving’ weblog. Simply, you can submit anything that you have designed, coded, composed, directed, developed or written, sketched or jotted. This includes computers, digital art, real life art, photo’s of pottery, paintings and sculptures, clothing, lego. Anything creative. Anything you are happy to share with other like minded creative types.
SplitTweet - Multiple Account Twitter Management | On.eTi.me
10 Reasons to Start Using Google Reader | The Design Cubicle
10 Reasons to Start Using Google Reader | The Design Cubicle
I found Google reader to be the more productive and user friendly choice, plus I was already using Gmail so it all made sense. If you are new to RSS or considering switching your current feed reader, here are 10 reasons why.
imjustcreative - Identi.ca
Freelance logo & graphic designer. 20+ years experience. Knowledgeable in web design, branding, typography, marketing, social media & SEO
delizzy - del.icio.us Bookmarks Search Engine
Search del.icio.us bookmarks. Searching delicious bookmarks. delicious Search Engine.
Study Shows Brand Building Online Works
R27 CREATIVELAB | Rajesh Pancholi |: Graphic design: Use your eye not the rules!
One week for one portfolio - R27 Creativelab | WeAreJustCreative
R27 is a creative studio specialising in high quality design for print and online media. Stay connected with our thoughts, work in progress and most importantly creative projects and comments from our peers that grabbed our attention.
One Uber Indenti.ca List for Creatives & Geeks | WeAreJustCreative
Since the last Uber list, for Fleck users I have been focusing several other Micro-Blogging platforms. The main one namly being Identi.ca. I signed up to this sometime back, and felt it had potential but was missing some basic functionality. That aside, it had a very loyal user base which is continuing to grow at speed and more importantly, Identi.ca itself is rapidly progressing in functionality.
CSS-Tricks
Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Prevent iPhone Text Enlargement
WordPress Coda Clips Collection — WPCandy — WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tips, and Tricks
WPCandy - The Best of WordPress Tips, Tutorials, Hacks, Themes, Plugins, and many more WordPress resources!
Inspiration in Neutral | Arbenting - Design Float
Inspiration in Neutral | Arbenting - The latest installment of Arbenting's inspiration in color series. Inspiration in Neutral focuses on images with a neutral color theme.

Links for 2008-11-27 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

louisgray.com: Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS
Identi.ca Users See Service as Choosing Cause Over Community
I want your creative business logo for forthcoming post | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
Sometimes you try to tweet a message or request to be just efficient, and/or lazy, but ultimately it creates more work as it leaves so many questions unanswered. So taking a leaf out of Darren Jones (Daz) approach and blog the request instead. I want that creative professionally crafted logo that you designed to brand your own business
The Best UK Designers and Geeks on Twitter - Part 1 | WeAreJustCreative
If you want to be on this The Best UK Designers and Geeks on Twitter - Part 2, then all you have to do is either leave a comment below or email me with your Twitter ID and Twitter Bio.
DearIE6 - So Long
The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 2 - Logo Design | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
I seem to be a little different here with the process of designing logos to a lot of people I know. Although I use a notebook for ideas on domain names, tag lines and post ideas I rarely pencil sketch any logos that come my way.
jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative | Christoph Schüßler » Informationsarchitektur und so
Stumbleupon Traffic Guide
The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 2 - Logo Design | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith - Design Float
The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 2 - Logo Design | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith - Now the tricky part. Not to say that coming up with a decent relevant name isn’t tricky, because it most certainly is. But as a designer, creating your own logo design can be a challenging task, it’s a precious challenge.
Project Deploy* | Choose, Bookmark, Deploy
Individurls
Toodledo :: Your To-Do List
Vintage Logos - a set on Flickr
thecauseisthehabit.com
Day 2: Customization Day! | One Day for Human Rights
SECOND DAY, I have decided that every day at 11PM Mountain Time to close the daily statistics for One Day for Human Rights, and do a quick update on the

The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 2 - Logo Design

Graham Smith — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:51:50 +0000

I seem to be a little different here with the process of designing logos to a lot of people I know. Although I use a notebook for ideas on domain names, tag lines and post ideas I rarely pencil...

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Links for 2008-11-26 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

popacular - popular delicious bookmarks
BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam on rise after brief reprieve
Case dismissed for old Ravens logo creator - Examiner.com
Penguin H.G Wells / journal / hicksdesign
Hicksdesign is a creative partnership based in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK. We create web sites and user interfaces built with web standards, as well as designing for print (we like branding in particular).
Are you a Social Media or Marketing expert? | On.eTi.me
I was prompted into this by a recent post from a so called ‘expert’ who clearly didn’t think out his post and what reactions would come before he posted!
socialmedian: BackType To Clean Up The Blog/Twitter/FriendFeed Conversation Mess
uberVU - find out what people are saying about the stories you like or publish
The Very First Steps After a Fresh WordPress Install
Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Flutter - WordPress CMS Plugin // Freshout : Philadelphia Interactive Web Development Agency
My Top 10 Tweeple | BPeaseDesign
Blog | Web Content Management Systems | DPCI
A number of friends I've known over my 20 years in media technology have recently lost their jobs due either to the economy or to fears about the economy (there is a difference).
» Blog Archive » -Twitter Freebie and Paddy’s Origami Icons-
Retake Colorburned: 127 RSS Feeds Designers should Subscribe To | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
So after a quick Tweet with @Colorburned we agreed to further the reach of the 127 Feeds that all Designers Should Subscribe to . So here we are, a trackback linkback to the original post, actually the first post under my new site design. We all benefit from the viral like qualities of these posts, especially lists like this that focus on the holy grail, RSS Feed Stats. It gives us a certain morale boost and a buzz when we see out sub stats rise.
Get Your “One Day for Human Rights” Badge | One Day for Human Rights
In case you want to use different colors, please e-mail us and let us know which ones, and we'll e-mail them back to you. :)
Social Web Services and Social Maps | Lifestream Blog

Logo Design and Inspiration Book Review - ‘Logo’

Graham Smith — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:12:15 +0000

I have some number of books, way too many to count. My studio has piles of books neatly arranged and stacked where ever I can find space with a varied assortment of reference books, manuals, bibles,...

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I asked Twitter. What makes a logo designer a professional logo designer?

Graham Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:07:47 +0000

I was so intrigued about the definition of 'professional'. So it seemed a great thing to ask the Twitter community. Through my travels I found much disparity between meanings and explanations of what...

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The 125px by 125px Block Banner Link Challenge - Part 1

Graham Smith — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:59 +0000

An idea for a novel post came about during this observing of some 125x125's. How about having a post where people can submit one style of their own 125x125px block love banner's in one central place....

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WeAreJustCreative gets fresh new website redesign

Graham Smith — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:46:41 +0000

It was inevitable, frankly. I felt so pressured into launching WAJC way before it was ready, just self imposed pressure, nothing more. So rather than spend longer and being more patient, I ended up...

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The ImJustCreative Branding Story - Part 1 - Pre History

Graham Smith — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:49:13 +0000

Then, stuff happened. This freelancer underwent a transformation, but a slow enduring one. During a period of reflection and significant life changes, a new identity was needed. To start afresh and...

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I want your creative business logo for forthcoming post

Graham Smith — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:09:07 +0000

Sometimes you try to tweet a message or request to be just efficient, and/or lazy, but ultimately it creates more work as it leaves so many questions unanswered. So taking a leaf out of Darren Jones...

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(Nerd)Press The Nerdiest WordPress Theme Around - Guest Post

Graham Smith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:49:08 +0000

For about a year now, I've been wanting to have a go at my own WordPress theme, but every time I tried, something got in the way, and the idea always ended up at the bottom of my to do list. About a...

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Retake Colorburned: 127 RSS Feeds Designers should Subscribe To

Graham Smith — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:33:27 +0000

So after a quick Tweet with @Colorburned we agreed to further the reach of the 127 Feeds that all Designers Should Subscribe to . So here we are, a trackback linkback to the original post, actually...

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