Every Builder needs a hammer or something equivalent to make their everyday work and / or life easier and more enjoyable. In the past year, I’ve signed up for both free and paid tools and services that have made my life easier as an independent Graphic Designer, while also getting rid of a few from last year [...]
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In a sea of Designers: My ‘best’ advice
Just yesterday a third year design student had contacted me asking for one piece of advice I would provide to her and other fellow graduating students. Here is my response in long form: In a sea of Designers It’s almost 2011, the web is crawling with great talent by the day (just check out Dribbble’s [...]
My Design Swap: A Day in the Life of Dan Mall
A few months back, Trent Walton (@TrentWalton) and Yaron Schoen (@Yarcom) asked if I’d be interesting in contributing “a swap” with another designer for their new project, Design Swap. For those unfamiliar, Design Swap is a way to “build closer friendships with other designers online by letting someone design on your website, whether it’s a [...]
Designers Sketchbook Showcase
We are often fascinated with the end result of a project that we often forgot how a design originated and morphed into the work that is shown. Personally all of my designs, whether its a logo or the layout of a website, always start off in my sketchbook. Sketching helps to get the brain working [...]
The Top Design Blogs Best Posts in 2009
Yahoo has a nice little Site Explorer search that allows you to request a specific website URL that displays results of the highest ranked articles/pages on a specific website. Based on my Twitter list “Top Design Blogs,” I searched each of the blogs in this list in Yahoo’s Site Explorer and compiled a Highest Rank [...]
Some Highlights and Future Goals
2009 has been a great year for The Design Cubicle. In the past 12 months TDC has close to 2 million amazing visitors and approximately 5,000 comments on 151 articles (an average of 33 comments per article with a rate of 3 articles a week)—ranging from freelancing tips, logo and web design articles, typography insights [...]
