After writing my blog the other day about the Behance creative network i received a message from one of the sites team thanking me for blogging about it!
The guys at Behance obviously care about the members of the site, so if your a creative and your not signed up to behance yet then sign up asap!
I received an application pack for the Yellow Jelly Graphic Design Competition today.
Basically the premise of it is you have to redesign the logo for Icon Eye, i think it’ll be pretty cool to do and if you win the competition then you get some decent exposure!
Have just seen the new Mainframe Showreel, all i can say it is totally awesome, i would love my work to be as good as this!
This week i’ve managed to create a rough mock up of my new portfolio site, there’s still a few tweaks to be done on it but the basics of it are there.
After the previous post i used a grid to design the latest website and i think it shows, theres a much stronger structure in the layout of the site.
Designing websites with grids eh? I’ve been reading alot about the use of grids when designing websites recently, and have found an excellent resource at http://www.designbygrid.com/.
I’ve even tried designing a few websites with some basic grids and can honestly say that i think that it helps greatly. I’ve been reading some blog comments on other sites where people suggest that using grids can limit creativity. I can kind of see where there coming from but surely the use of grids in graphic design and typesetting for many years shows that grids don’t limit creativity but probably help.
You have to know the grid before you can break the grid.