Free book on graphic design / Graphic Design: A Journey by Nicholas Turner

I am just finishing off the final two chapters in my book on graphic design. Anyone interested in a free digital copy when it is released? Just let me know and I can email out a download link to anyone interested when it is done! I offer a 100% money back guarantee with this offer.…

How to say no to free pitching the easy way.

Just say no with Supernice studios A sizeable portion of the design community gets asked to design up pitch concepts, and there is never an easy way to respond as it can take time to write up a response on the problems associated with free pitching. This little website automates much of the process so…

Graphic designers and the Microsoft Office suite of programs

One of the biggest misconceptions of graphic designers is that they use standard business software like Microsoft Word, Publisher and Paint. The software developed for designers is much more specialised and enables them to work with a much higher level of control and output the final artwork to go to a printer/magazine/newspaper. The most common…

2012 Semipermanent Book Entries

Each year there is a call out to designers for entries to go into the SemiPermanent books for the year. This year (2012) was the first year I had entered, and found a couple of samples of my work to go in. I included a range of work as I was unsure what style of…

4 Questions for a Designer that inspires us.

The following is a quick interview of myself by Mason Wood, for a project in his graphic design degree at James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland. So, to answer your questions: 1. What do you believe are the most critical skills or attributes needed to be able to successfully work in this area? You need some…