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By: Dennis Salvatier | May 8th, 2012 | 6 comments
When you think of mortal enemies you think of legendary foes like the Hatfields and the McCoys, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty, Batman and the Joker. Design also has a mortal enemy that’s come to power in the last few years and it is called crowdsourcing. Many well known companies are participating in this method [...]
By: Wes McDowell | May 1st, 2012 | 16 comments
Google has updated its ranking algorithm again. This time around, they are focusing most heavily on penalizing sites that use “over-optimization” and sneaky web spam tactics to generate links. The official name is “the Penguin Update.” Coming on the heels of the latest “Panda Update,” Penguin is a more fine-tuned version that is targeting those [...]
By: Jason Newcomb | April 16th, 2012 | 9 comments
When I first got out of college, I’m embarrassed to admit I considered myself a Rock Star designer. I sort of figured that I’d land a job within a week or two and be the next Saul Bass within a few months. Then I started working in the newspaper industry. As a layout and ad [...]
By: Wes McDowell | January 16th, 2012 | 7 comments
Over the past few years, I have gotten to know a handful of good, solid, informative and entertaining podcasts dedicated to issues of today’s graphic designer. I anticipated the days when a new episode would come out, because I genuinely enjoyed listening to people I respected talking about design. Then for one reason or another, [...]
By: Wes McDowell | January 10th, 2012 | no comments
As a part of our ongoing efforts to be a design community resource, The Deep End has just launched something that we are very excited about: a daily website design award. We will be taking submissions from you, our readers, then we will choose one winner each day. We will be judging the sites entered [...]
By: Wes McDowell | December 13th, 2011 | 1 comment
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Original article by Peiter Buick for Smashing Magazine. Read original article here. Designers seem to fall into two different camps. The sketchers and the ones who take their creativity straight to the computer. I used to say that I belonged to the latter, but more and more, I find myself starting out the old fashioned [...]
By: Wes McDowell | December 9th, 2011 | no comments
One of the things that I got most excited about in my beginning design days was the day I got to go and pick out my portfolio. I did my research, saved up and got the portfolio book of my dreams. Aluminum cover, screw-post bindings, and at a large 11×14, I thought it was pretty [...]
By: Wes McDowell | December 2nd, 2011 | 2 comments
Nearly half of all internet users are using a mobile device to access it. I just read a report predicting that by 2015, mobile users will overtake people using PCs. So you can bet this mobile website thing isn’t going anywhere for a while. Designing for mobile devices comes with its own set of issues: [...]
By: Wes McDowell | November 18th, 2011 | 3 comments
As a designer, how much education do you really need? When people wonder about that, they are often thinking about two totally different things. First, do they need a degree? Secondly, do they need some sort of formal education? As a largely self-taught designer, I have grappled with these issues in the past, and I [...]
By: Wes McDowell | November 10th, 2011 | 1 comment
With every new year, we see new design trends emerge, and old ones fade away. Now that 2011 is wrapping up, its time to look ahead into the ol’ web design crystal ball and see what 2012 has in store for us. Web Fonts & Typography In past years, little attention was ever paid to [...]
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