September 2009
20 posts
5 Tips to Study By – An Extended Creative... →
During this month’s Creative Discussion on Learning vs. Being Taught, Su commented about these techniques her professor taught that really aided in her studies and even stayed with her to this…
The Creative Critique : A Concept Feedback Review →
Being members of the creative community, we are always looking to improve our designs and hone our skills as we refine our craft. One great way to strengthen your designs is through constructive…
Interview with Ingo Ramin of ‘247 media studios’ →
We are very excited to be interviewing Ingo Ramin, CEO of award winning 247 media studios whose works have been featured on July’s edition of Web Designing – one of Japan’s leading design…
Your Clients Problems Are NOT Your Problems →
A number of years ago I designed a web site for a client that was both with her and her customers – everyone was happy, but this wasn’t one of those, “Everyone lived happily ever after” stories. As…
Friday FUEL Fix (09/18/09) →
Well Friday has come again, and this week on FYC we wanted to do a little something special to cap off the week and send our readers off to their weekends with a little something extra. So we put…
Tips for Your First Freelancing Job →
You just got your first freelancing job. You’re excited because you’ll be able to put into practice all that education and a pay check will be waiting for you at the end. However, this raises a…
Upcycled Designs Showcase →
We were recently contacted by an enthusiastic member of a growing sect of the design and art community, Niels Craens, whose environmentally conscious mindset has crossed into his creative side….
Fuel Your Blogging Launches! →
Another fantastic FUEL site has been added to the Network today with the official launch of Fuel Your Blogging.
About the Site
Your loyal readers hang on your every word. You have a bunch…
From Client Contact to Design – A Group Interview →
About a month ago we were contacted by Ricardo Chiappe (@6omma) with a query to put to the design community. So we sent the question out as a group interview through the channels and we heard…
Win Tickets to The Good Web Conference! →
Win a pair of tickets to The Good Web on September 25th, Visual Arts Theatre in New York City. The Good Web brings together marketers, brands, and causes to share their secret ingredients of…
The Good Web Conference, NYC →
The Good Web brings together marketers, brands, and causes to share their secret ingredients of success for building awareness and participation around movements they believe in. thegoodweb.org…
Moodboarding Methods for Web Designers →
There used to be an art teacher at our high school, and they strongly insisted that you made a moodboard before starting a new project.
We’d collect research, examples & notes looking at the…
Free and Open Source, Cross-Platform Solutions for... →
With so many freelancers making their way through the vastness of cyberspace, we wanted to take some time to throw a few resources their way. And not just any resources. Free resources. And not just…
7 Things to Consider When Designing for a Pro... →
As we all know design is everywhere, even on a football field. If you are a sports fan, which I am, it can be very rewarding to work for a professional sports team and also very challenging.
BEST OF: FYC Flickr Group Showcase of Artwork (4) →
There are currently 1018 members in the Fuel Your Creativity Flickr Group, and we wanted to show our support for their labors of love this Labor Day with another installment of our FYC Flickr…
Billings Review and Giveaway →
As far as freelancing goes, there is only one area that it less fun and no where near as exciting as the overall work, and that is the accounting side of the coin. Freelancers generally all face…
Creative Discussion – Which Is Better, Being... →
With the luck we are having engaging the creative community here at Fuel Your Creativity, we see no reason to not continue the on-going dialog with our online friends and colleagues. The creative…
Inspiring Environs : A Creative Discussion #2... →
About a month ago, we posed a query to get the creative community talking, and boy did it work! With the discussion’s second installment we turned a wondering eye towards the places that the…
A Month In The Creative Community: An August... →
Another month has worked its way off the calendar and into the past, pushing the year towards its end, which means that it is time for the Fuel Your Creativity monthly roundup of the best that the…
HTMLRockstars Launch + 4 will WIN a copy of Snow... →
HTMLRockstars Launches Today
To help celebrate with our good friends at HTMLRockstars (formally known as CSSRockstars) we are giving away (4) copies of Snow Leopard.
HTMLRockstars…
Qualifying Clients over the Phone like a Pro (Even... →
From talking with freelancers for years I’ve found that qualifying clients is one of the most difficult challenges they face, in fact, most freelancers just skip this part of the sales process…
August 2009
22 posts
Get Inspired Wallpaper →
File Type: JPG Number in Set: 8 Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 320×480 (iPhone) License Type: Creative Commons 3.0 Author: Matt Mehlhope
20 Beautiful High Contrast Photos →
Rob and I have always landed on the side of photography enthusiasts, and if we had a better camera we might have actually graduated to the amateur shutterbug status by now, but alas, that has yet to…
How To Analyze Graphic Publicity →
This post is a translation of the original, which appeared on Fuel Your Creativity Espanol.
Constantly we see advertising hits in all class of means and formats, it is impossible to escape…
Don’t Stick With What You’ve Been Taught; You’re a... →
What is Creativity?
Wikipedia describes Creativity as this;
“Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind…
Fuel Your Illustration Launches! →
About the Site
You’re masters at visualization. Magicians, if you will. Illustration is an art form unlike any others and we recognize that. Fuel Your Illustration is here to pay homage to those…
Interview with Tomás Fliess →
We recently had the opportunity to interview Tomás Fliess of NNSS Visual Universes. This talented designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, focuses his expertise in the Identity, Print Design,…
Time Management Tips for the Busy Freelance... →
Staring blankly at a half completed design concept for a batch of new business cards is a freelance designer struggling with a major case of creativity block. Lost for ideas, the designer taps at…
Designing the Look : A Make-Up Artist Showcase →
When it comes to designers, those who specialize in make-up, making the body their canvas and intensifying or erasing the body’s natural expressions, are amazing artists that deserve a nod or two of…
What Makes Art, Art? Perception, Interpretation,... →
There is a saying that many have subscribed to for generations, and have accepted it as fact. That saying is the familiar pearl, ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ We understand,…
Where Am I? Wallpaper →
File Type: JPG Number in Set: 8 Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1260, 1920×1200 License Type: Creative Commons 3.0 Author: Rob Bowen
Minimalism has…
Fuel Your Interface →
You interface designers have your work cut out for you. Bigger and better and uber creative websites are cropping up everywhere these days. It always seems as if one form is niftier than the rest,…
Recycled Vinyl Showcase with a Spinning Hat... →
It really is not much of a secret that Angie and I have been accused on occasion of airing on the side of the tree-huggers, and if it was a secret, well it’s not much of one now. But we got to…
The Triumph of the Creative Spirit – Ed Wood →
A little while back, Janko and Adelle got together to bring the community a discussion of what exactly they thought creativity was. And in ‘What is Creativity?’, they talk about the potential…
SixCentral Launches →
The freelance world got a little more exciting yesterday, with the much anticipated launch of the new client and proposal organization, management, and automation application SixCentral. Not that…
Finding Fonts: Free and Premium Resources →
And now for the adventurous story of a tiny little fish, searching through the great big sea…wait, that’s Finding Nemo, this is Finding Fonts, not exactly the same thing… And now for something,…
20 Retro Wallpapers to Spark Inspiration →
We thought it was time to take things back a few years, and flip the dial over to the retro side of the gage for a wallpaper showcase that is sure to inspire. We are big fans of the retro stylings…
Inspiration from Across the Design Spectrum... →
As we continue in our goal of inspiring minds, through inspired designs, we have compiled another inspirational powerhouse of a post. Once again, widening our focus beyond just one type of design,…
Interview with Michael Stinson of Ramp Creative →
We were lucky enough, here at FYC, to be able to have the opportunity to ask a few questions of Michael Stinson recently, the creative mind behind Ramp Creative and much more. This talented visual…
Creative Discussion – How Does Your Environment... →
Still striving to engage the creative community here at Fuel Your Creativity, we continue the on-going dialog with our online friends and colleagues. The first edition of the discussion was a huge…
A Month In The Creative Community: A July Roundup →
Having always been about raising up the community, the roundups we used to do, when we were Arbenting, were favorites of ours because it gave us a chance to do just that, by showcasing wonderful…
FYC Ultra Grunge Wallpaper →
File Type: JPG Number in Set: 9 Sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1260, 1920×1200, 320×480 (iPhone) License Type: Creative Commons 3.0 Author: Rob Bowen
July 2009
24 posts
An Ode to Odosketch! →
‘O’ – is for the Pwning! Which you are about to do…(when it’s spelled correctly, not like the chatspeaking crew.)
‘D’ – is for the, uh…yeah, the doing! That I previously mentioned to you.
The…
Beating The Creative Blocks – A Creative... →
Earlier in the month, we posed a question to the online creative community, in hopes of getting a bit of an open discussion and dialog going with our readers and passers-by. We had an amazing…
Featured Interior Designers Dupoux Design →
We knew we wanted to feature an interior designer for an upcoming Featured Designer post, so we began searching the web for candidates, when we came across Dupoux Design. Immediately, we knew two…
Google Your Creativity: A Logo Showcase →
We have all seen our share of inspiring logos, and for those among us who haven’t, check out the related posts at the bottom of this article, and you are sure to get an eye full. On your way down to…
Battle of the Bands – An Extended Creative... →
So after we started the Creative Discussion – How do you beat the creative block, we realized that one of the main things that so many people go to for re-ignition of that creative fire, was…
HOW Designers’ Bootcamps →
The HOW Designers’ Bootcamps are a series of in-depth, seminar-style workshops designed to help you grow your design business, finesse your career, perfect your marketing efforts or move smoothly…
15 Cool Snowboard Designs →
Extreme sports are very exciting and dangerous at the same time. I still remember one of my friend used to be obsessed over cool roller blades produced by Salomon. Well, I personally do not skate or…
50 MORE Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration →
So a little while back, Adelle did an inspiration post on logos, 50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration, for anyone who happened to miss it. We felt after all this time, it was ripe for a follow-up….