9 Changes to Boost Your Business
1. CHARGE BY THE PROJECT, NOT BY THE HOUR You’ll be amazed at the difference in profit that you see when you decide to charge for your design work by the project instead of the hour. As one wise...
View ArticleSocial Media Growth Infographic
Say what you will about the tidal wave that is social media: it’s over-hyped, a fad halfway through its 15 minutes, that surely won’t be around in a few years’ time. But take a look below at the steep...
View ArticleMacro Photography Showcase
Macro photography can be quite amazing because of the photographer’s ability to turn an ordinary object into a beautiful photograph with different textures than one would normally see within the...
View Article7 Advantages of Being a Small Business
As you probably picked up from the previous examples, there are some definite advantages that solo professionals (a.k.a. freelancers) can offer their clients that traditional companies usually cannot....
View Article5 Examples & Traits of Successful Website Landing Pages
As much as I am jealous of outstanding website design, I have to showcase some samples of it for all to see. It’s so important to capture a feeling for the user when browsing the web. Not only do...
View ArticleCreative Desktop Wallpapers
The Donut Project is probably one of my favorite creative blogs to follow, with great authors and funny/interesting posts almost daily. The creativity ranges anywhere from hilarious short films, to...
View ArticleSouth Park As Stop-Motion
South Park was originally set up as a stop-motion animation show. However, the only episode done entirely stop-motion with construction paper is the very first episode. Since it took nearly 4 months to...
View ArticleSteve Jobs’ Other Amazing Companies: NeXT & Pixar
Steve Jobs died Wednesday at 56, had invested an important part of his life into two other companies: NeXT and Pixar. After Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985, he founded NeXT, a company focused on...
View ArticleDigital Art & Graphic Design Paintings
Digital production techniques in visual media Lillian Schwartz’s Comparison ofLeonardo’s self portrait and the Mona Lisabased on Schwartz’s Mona Leo. An example of a collage of digitally manipulated...
View ArticleHow To: Get Apple iCloud
Apple rolled out iOS 5 to owners of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices today. Among its most significant of its 200 new features is Apple iCloud, which lets users wirelessly sync apps, music,...
View ArticleThe Value of Design in Education
This guest post is contributed by Lauren Bailey. I’m all for determined do-it-yourself careers. There is something almost awe inspiring about strapping on your boots and thrusting yourself into a...
View Article9 Samples of Night Photography
Night photography is an interesting craft that lets people see the beauty in darkness. Or more to the point, it enhances what light is available, creating a magical connection between light and dark....
View ArticleTypography in Art
Typography is a wonderful part of design and art, turning simple words into stunning compositions. Some of the best typography artists know that choosing the right font and format are just as important...
View ArticleThe Website Redesign of DC Media + Design
Friends, DC Media + Design decided that since the small potatoes company turned 1 this past September, it was time to grow into a new and more sophisticated look. Please visit and enjoy the new...
View ArticleInnovative Virtual Grocery Shopping
Why shop in an overcrowded supermarket when you can shop for groceries using your smartphone…Enter: virtual grocery shopping! In an attempt to grow to number one grocery retailer in Korea – without...
View ArticleCoffee Cup-a-Day for 30 Days
One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by creative-thinking, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours,...
View ArticleTribute to Mustache Movember
It seems appropriate to celebrate design in the current trends of the month…specificall MOvember. It is a time when all dude’s celebrate their manly facial hair by growing (or trying to grow…) a...
View ArticleSpecial Website Launch!
Today marks the day that a very special DC Media + Design website is LAUNCHED! Although all websites I build are dear to my heart, this one is especially so because it features my late grandma’s...
View ArticleBacon Ipsum & Other Funny Ipsums
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type...
View ArticleStaying Passionate as a Web Designer
This isn’t something we have any control of, nor should we shy away from the fact that we can simply lose interest in what we’re doing. That’s life. What we can do instead is try and recognize the...
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