Top Job Boards for the Freelance Designer in Need of Dynamic Work

July 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Resources

As a designer, we are always in search for possible clientele to keep our portfolios expanding as well as to keep food on the table. With a plethora of freelance job boards available, it becomes difficult to select a few great ones as our methods to reach clientele. Furthermore, we gathered the top 15 freelance job boards based on reliability and decent compensation or payout.

FreelanceSwitch

FreeLanceSwitch

FreelanceSwitch has to be one of the best freelance job boards out there in terms of quality. All job listings posted go through a review process to assure each job meets a quality standard as well as the compensation provided to agreed contractors is rather reasonable. While the tab to apply for jobs is seven dollars a month, it is definitely worthwhile, as you will not find the same quality listings anywhere else.

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Need FREE photos for your designs? – 10 Great Places to Start!

July 2nd, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Graphics, Resources, Various

If you’re an artist, designer, blogger – you most likely will run into the need for photos or textures. If you don’t have the budget to go to paid stock-sites, the good thing is that the free options out there are getting better and better!
In this article I’ve had a look at a whole bunch of free alternatives to save you some time and money.

Remember to read terms of use before using pictures though.

Here are 10 awesome places to start that can provide you with pretty much any kind of picture you want.
We hope these websites can be helpful for you – in your designs, when practicing your Photoshop skills and so on.

These websites are meant to give you a good variety of free photos. There are many, many more where they come from. If you start with these you should have most topics covered.
Enjoy!

Stock. XCHNG

Almost 400 000 pictures at the moment. This website is a favorite with many and I also use most of the pictures in my articles from this website. Most photos are good quality. Registration is required, but it’s completely free. Probably the biggest free stock photo website currently.

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Italian Web Designs Made to Inspire

April 21st, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Inspiration

The beautiful thing about web development is anyone (with the required skills), of any race or ethnicity can design a website and be viewed by the (online) masses. Today we’re going to dive in and take a look at some amazing websites that were developed by Italian designers.

Italy’s Style

Italian web designs tend to use a variety of styles such as photo manipulations, surreal art, and illustrations. It’s the combination of two or three of these that really manages to make the designs stand out. Below you will see even grunge effects and styles being implemented. A large portion of Italian designed websites are Flash based, have several have animation effects.

TheBrainbox – Mauro Gatti’s playground

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