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1. don’t upload anywhere in the net

Choose your trusted sites ring wisely: you need to show and get known not release free images!

2. use a watermark

A watermark is a smart way to stitch our name inside our work, without spoiling them; in other terms, we still let our final image completely clear (or at least, most of it) but it is signed irreversibly with our name. This can lead to steganography, but it is a completely different story…

Some ideas of watermarking
Here I show a few links about watermarks, so you can better understand the power of this technique.

a - This is also a good tutorial for GIMP about watermark creation

b – this is another blog post about the subject

…But this one is basic!

Check it out, learn it, tweak it and thank the ones who wrote it.

Hope you enjoyed the reading.
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It’s an amazing typographic print showing the relevance of national domains in a geographical display – a soon-to-have gift for sure!

I thought about what does a good wallpaper, and I realized that it’s the watcher’s taste – WOW! You found the Sun, man!
I must admit, it’s pretty obvious, but not that much if you get into Google or Yahoo and type “wallpaper” – actually, if you type “wallpaper“ you get the most known design magazine- : I stepped into a jungle of cars, girls (:-O ) and ugly PS effects,  so I felt the need of a guide to it.

up to now I can just point you out this

and here you can visit the site form where I found it – no author, though.

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first edit: here‘s a collection list of beautiful wallpapers

I was asked to deliver it in a couple of days, due to some heavy deadlines, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t walk through the whole path. On the first day I wrote down ideas (unfortunately my scanner is…actually I don’t own a scanner – I use the work one – so I can’t upload the brainstorm page) and focused on the ones that fitted best: speed, football, agility, impacts, quickness… Then I went through the font choice, and picked up  a bold one, to convey the idea of a powerful product; in the end I chose to mix name and logo because – though a font-less logo has been created too – I felt that the name and the logo had to work together, for a better understanding.

Active colours were a natural choice, to carry the idea of a restless game

This is the result

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Ok…Picture this: you had your project done, the Client really enjoyed your work…now wrap it up in the right way! There’s a big difference between a present in a rugged newspaper sheet and a nice box with shiny wrap-up,  paper; the same for your works: you have to show them in a proper manner.

Here is where style guides come into help; a style guide is a document – from a couple of sheets up to regular book long – where designer/s describe how the logo have to be used.  Yes, you must explain how your idea has to be used: it sounds weird but it is so.

You can handle this task with a couple of minutes – if you prepare a template! – or weeks, depending on your Client needs or your will; here is a sample of one of my first StyleGuides

page 1 - the logo

This first page is about the logo itslef – it lacks of measurements, spacing and postion hints, some may say, and the may be correct…It depends on you – and your Client!
Just remember to be consistent throughout your document with layout and background, so that you will not be confusing.

I suggest you to read this post: it is, somehow, inspirating.

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This blog has had a new start, and, to stick with my promise, I want to share my experience in changing my life, starting with my job; don’t expect too much – I’m not a pro, and right now I don’t want to. I just want to take back the control of my time…

So you want to be a graphic designer, is it? Good! But why? I mean, if you can focus on your motivation, then you have the answer… Graphics is about creativity, imagination, freedom of choices, inspiration but also technologies and tecniques, strictness, deadlines… Got it?

Each problem has – at least – two sides: choose the one you like the most and come along with the other.

On this very first post about starting our first steps in graphic design world, I suggest you a couple of links

1. Designer Daily this is about news, trends, and inspiration in general
2. David Airey this guy is my Guru

So far, is enough.

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