March 10th, 2008

Free mascot design (new mascot added)

by Sergio Ordonez at 1:23 pm on Mascot design, Resources
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Searching in my old CDs and Hard Drives, i found some mascot designs. I made this ones to practice when i started designing; i never sold them… so here they are in case anyone wants to use them .

I will add more designs time to time, whenever a order from SOSFactory fails, I will upload the design for free download.

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January 23rd, 2008

Manual to choose your first graphics tablet

by Sergio Ordonez at 8:03 pm on Resources
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This article is dedicated to the Newbies, we’ll see what is a graphics tablet, what are they for and how to choose the tablet that fit your needs.

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October 1st, 2007

Vectorizing with Silhouette

by Sergio Ordonez at 3:34 pm on Resources
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Here i bring you another of my essentials, Silhouette is a very useful Illustrator plugin to vectorize bitmaps.

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September 24th, 2007

Free: Vectors, Icons, logos…

by Sergio Ordonez at 8:33 am on Resources
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Here is a bunch of resources, free stuff to add that “Wow” effect to your designs. Please read the license of every file before using them, some are free for even commercial use, other just for personal use.

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September 1st, 2007

Which font is that?

by Sergio Ordonez at 6:52 am on Resources, Logotypes
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Do you remember the last time a client asked you to vectorize a logo, you went crazy asking which was the font you used in that logo?. Well, it wont happen again with what the font?

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June 12th, 2007

Contracts for freelance designers

by Sergio Ordonez at 10:56 am on Resources, Freelancing
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Time to take care of those legal issues that worry us, i will show the model of a confidentiality contract (plus many other things) for freelance designers. The second one is a contract exclusive for author rights or copyright.

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May 24th, 2007

Free image banks

by Sergio Ordonez at 8:03 pm on Resources
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Every designer needs to use great photographs to emphasize its design, if you are a begginer photographer and you are interested in making some extra money this can help, here you have a couple of photo banks, normally all of them have a free material section, for others you have to pay a very affordable price.

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May 15th, 2007

Color scheme selector

by Sergio Ordonez at 6:59 am on Resources
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This post is to share with you a great tool I found browsing the net, I really think is great… its a online aplication developed by Adobe genius, its a color scheme selector specially useful for web or graphic designers.

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May 5th, 2007

The Briefing

by Sergio Ordonez at 6:17 am on Resources, Freelancing
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Briefing is a communication instrument between the designer and the client in form of key questions to know their needs at the time of designing any product by order. It will save you time, money and misfortunes. To give the Briefing is the first this you should do, even before the estimate… If you don’t know your client’s needs, how are you going to calculate the time you’ll spend working?

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