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Creative Bliss Day 12: Inspiring Poster Featuring Gandhi Quotes
Want instant inspiration that looks great, too? Download a free poster featuring Gandhi’s 10 fundamentals for changing the world.
Creative Bliss Day 10: Develop Identity for Fictitious Chocolatier
Are you enjoying the exercises that accompany this web series, 30 Days to Creative Bliss? “Creative Workshop,” by David Sherwin, is a HOW Book that provides 80 challenges to sharpen your design skills.
Crowdsourcing Design: Pro or Con?
Is crowdsourcing an unfair business practice, or an unstoppable movement that’s not to be feared? Two design-industry experts weigh both sides of the argument.
Master Your Use of Color
Take your trove of knowledge even further and master color and trends by better incorporating it into your design work. We’ve assembled our leading resources of books and conference sessions and workshops on the topic into this ultimate collection.
HOW eBooks for iPad
A New Way to Be Inspired Jim Krause’s best-selling, globally popular “Index” series and Eric Smith’s inspiring “Live Now” are coming to the iPad! These eBooks use an all new fixed-layout design, these are built specifically for your …
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30+ Gift Ideas for Designers
HOW editors and designers are feeling fully enveloped in the holiday season. View their holiday gift guides, chocked full of goodies for the color fanatic or packaging obsessed designer on your list.
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Tags: Color, Designer gifts, holiday gift guide, humor, packaging, technology
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2009 HOW Conference Roundup
Get a brief recap from the HOW Blog, plus see all the tweets from conference goers. The 2009 HOW Conference in Austin, TX, was truly memorable. Follow a link to the forum to post links to your own blog posts from Austin.
Ideas at Hand
Stop. Step away from the computer. It’s time to get back to pen, paper and paints, to get your hands dirty with a little creative exploration. The HOW staff did just that—and we hope our experiments fuel your own creative play.
Designers’ Hourly Rates: Are You Charging Enough?
Are you charging enough? This hourly rate survey revealed some regional trends in what designers are charging for their work. Check out these useful statistics on how designers should price their design work. Information was collected in a survey of design professionals.
Screen Stars: Aesthetic Apparatus
Michael Byzewski and Dan Ibarra—the duo behind the St. Paul, MN-based Aesthetic Apparatus—have dominated design awards with their poster design and screenprinting. HOW interviewed the two men who rolled up their sleeves, donned ink-stained overalls and made a name for themselves in the world of handprinted poster design.
