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Trump Tariffs Survival Guide: 3 Ways Small Businesses Can Adapt
Update: As of April 24, Donald Trump said he could re-impose “reciprocal” tariffs on certain countries within two to three weeks, signaling a potential escalation in global trade tensions. Trump…
You're Not Alone: Confessions From Real Entrepreneurs About Business
Being an entrepreneur can feel lonely and frustrating sometimes as there are many times when we all feel like no one gets us, there's no sympathy to go around or even that we're alone in our…
2012 Journey
The year 2013 is now a matter of hours. A full year of 2012 has gone by us so quickly, a lot had happened and we feel that we achieved so much this year. We're hoping the next year will bring greater…
Start The New 2012 Year Off Right By Knowing Your Past
Welcome to the new year. 2012 has so many awesome revelations for us all and so many exciting paths to walk. The Mayan calendar ends, the world is also 'supposed' to end and it's our time to put our…
Add Pinterest Pin It Button To Blogger Post
Last time I wrote about how to add Pinterest Pin It button I designed to Wordpress Page and Post, today since I realize that other Pinterest addicts who happen to love blogging as well are using…
Chykalophia Group Is Ready For Action!
It's been a long time coming and now it's finally here, the official Chykalophia Group website! We've got pretty portfolios, great web forms and best of all ...we've got an awesome, action packed,…
Every Pixel Matters
When you’re starting to set your goals, you want to have it perfect right? So does everybody else. The first time I decided to resign from the company I’ve work for and go freelance I imagined that…
Graphic Design Compilation of Halloween Artwork
When October comes and all the leaves are changing colors it awakens the Fall season and of course the Halloween season. I'm pretty sure you have seen a lot of Halloween theme artwork for the pas few…
Support Pink - Designs for Breast Cancer Month
Breast cancer has become an international awareness of which happen annually in October. With so many foundations, organizations to companies trying to support the cause of Support Pink, I found some…
Ecommerce Store Design: 5 Tips to Help you Sell More
Clunky layouts, dreary aesthetics and a confusing user experience can ruin the online shopping experience. Understanding how to effectively design your ecommerce site can go a long way in building…
Add Pinterest Pin It Button To Wordpress Page & Post
I was working on one web design project for vintage event/theme rental company, Intaglio Vintage of which you have seen the teaser on my Facebook Page. And since Pinterest has been very common for…
Custom Wedding Invitation Set - Letterpress Print
Last February I held a custom wedding invitation contest for future brides and grooms who are still planning for their upcoming wedding. One of the winners for the contest is Carly & Kirk with their…
Guest Author: Huge Freebies Collections For Your Future Design Projects
Being an active web and graphic designer is excellent. However, there are times when you have too many projects to handle and wish you could save time with some graphic templates. Imagine if you have…
You Start Here On Xheight
A month ago, founder of Lovedsgn David Bushell reached to me. He got a new blog idea where designers can learn and read the insight xheight authors experiences and advices about life and design. The…
Pin Favorites Digitally: Pinterest
Few decades ago, I would create a scrapbook full of many clips, pictures, and other stuff I daily found interesting. Today, in this digital era, I barely have time to do that. I tried bookmark, but…
Guest Author: 30 Creative Clothing Ecommerce Website Designs
There are many e-commerce sites being published online in every minute. Ranging from the small in-house company to the giant company, all of them are trying to compete and and sell their product…
The Winners: Wedding Invitation Design Set
Before I announce the two lucky winners for Chykalophia Wedding Invitation Design Set giveaway, I'd like to thank you every couples who have enter and joined this giveaway. I really enjoyed reading…
Chykalophia Now On Etsy Shop
Good news for all Etsy fans out there! Chykalophia on Etsy Shop is now open. My Etsy shop will only focus on print design material. Ranging from Custom Wedding Monogram/Logo, Business Card Designs,…
Guest Author: Twitter Design – Inspiring Twitter Background & Resources
If you are a freelancer like me, you will probably find social media sites these days are your best friends. Facebook and Twitter are the most common social media sites being used to promote…
Giveaway: Wedding Invitation Design Set
Wedding is the word which made some people jump happily for you and congrats you right away. To some other it means serious (mostly for all the guys). Though, however it means to any other people is…
Guest Author Post: 15+ Design Related & Project Management iPhone App for Designers
Technology in smart phones these days are amazing. It has helped us with a better communication by using the 3G technology and stay up connected through wireless internet using the data plan. What's…
Guest Author Post: 45+ Amazingly Creative Papercut Artwork
Derives from the Greek term for the ancient Egyptian writing material, paper as we call it today is being used for many purposes. From writing a simple note to advertising media, the paper it self…
Guest Author Post: How To Create A Logo Guideline For Your Client
Working on a logo project sometimes can be challenging especially when you are working on a fresh start up companies who needs an identity for their product or company. Despite the process of how a…
Guest Author Post: 15+ Community Based Portfolio Websites to Showcase Your Work
Being involved in a creative industries like graphic or web design requires talent and good marketing, especially if you are a freelancer. With the common internet connection and social media these…
60 Awesome Digital Artworks For Your Inspiration
Digital arts these days are amazing. Most of the advertisement you see on the billboards, posters, or even flyers are using this design technique. It's pretty, artsy and just stunning. In this post,…
Guest Author Post: 20+ Inspirational And Informative Resources For Logo Creation
Being a logo designer and finding ideas to design a stunning yet effective logo is not an easy task. Sometimes we have to check out what logo trends are going on in the current year, and seek the…
Guest Author Post: Upcoming and OnGoing Web Design Trends of 2010
Trend is a set of rules we somehow follow, not as something we designers obey. It is more like a guidance to help us set new ideas whenever we create a design. In the web design industry, we realized…
Guest Author Post: Designer Quotes – Mindsets and Inspiration
There are many ways to get inspired these days. For designers, looking through design pieces around the internet help them grow their ideas for current or future projects. Though sometimes when…
Guest Author Post: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design
Whenever you visit website these days, every single one of them is trying to compete one and another. Despite the difference of products or services they offer, their mission remain the same: to…
Guest Author Post: 35+ Unique Product Packaging Designs
Whenever we're going to buy a product, especially the new ones we will directly pay more attention to the packaging of the product it self. Product packaging has tremendous power to grab our…
Guest Author Post: Get And Give Design Feedback – Sites + Tips
Whenever we as designer working on a design project, we often find ourselves staring at the designs to look for the flaws. Most of the time we need others opinion or critiques to help us improving…
Guest Author Post: 15 Famous And Successful Logo Redesigns – What Has Been Improved?
As we realize that we are now living in the Brand Era, where everything is branded and labelled we are more concern to companies we believe can help us, shops where we can get our supplies, or…
Guest Author Post: 25+ Sites And Resources To Learn Typography
Typography has been practiced and used in our daily life. Range from handwriting in a pocket notebook to the big advertising billboard. It’s sometimes typed using Times New Roman in 12 points for…
Inspiring Graphic Design Magazine - Round Up
Everyone needs inspiration, it doesn't matter in what department are they involved with in their everyday life. Though, for creatives like graphic designers, interior designers, web designers, and…
Guest Author Post: Tips and Inspiration on Creating a Great Website Footer
As most of us know, there are three important parts of a website’s design: the header, the content, and the footer. None of these should be ignored when creating a web design. Sadly it happens in…
Guest Author Post: 35+ Warm VS Cool Color Website Designs
A website resembles the identity of a company, a certain community, or even a person. Thousands of websites live out there on the internet these days, and their number increase every single second.…
Beauty & Creativity of Interior Graphic Design
Almost everything in this world wrapped up by designs, shoes design, clothing design, glasses design, and on and on. Any designs. Human eyes loves to see beautiful things, from panoramic view to…
Guest Author Post: 4 Distinct Types of Website Illustrations
There are many elements that designers can consider in creating a website design. Readable text, suitable icons, graphics, background colors or textures, and illustrations. Our eyes are much more…
Design in Fashion Industry - Nancy Zhang
Fashion inspirations may come from anywhere. There are hundreds or perhaps thousands of fashion styles in this world. From the beginning time, colonial time, the 80's, the 90's, the vintage style,…
Guest Author Post: 35+ Beautiful Examples of Creative Collage
With numerous graphic design software these days, creating aesthetic artworks is just a matter of artist’s or designer’s ideas, creativity, and concepts. The basic idea of design is to unite the…
Designer Signature Through Their Artwork
Despite of graphic design being visually similar to the general idea of Art, its creativity within is absolute. Designers are able to visualize their ideas with or without following the rules in…
Guest Author Post: Designing for iPhone
For most Apple lovers, having an iPhone or iPod Touch can be very useful and exciting at the same time. You can transfer your music playlist, take pictures or record a video, or keep e-books to read…
Design In Fashion Industry - Laura Laine
Design hold a great role in visually marketing any kind or type of product. This also applied in fashion industry, yet it has greater impact unlike in other industries. Fashion is commonly the key to…
Get Inspired By Your Desktop Using GeekTool & CandyBar
Inspiration comes from anywhere. With the technology we have today, it is only a matter of quality to feed your brain with selective inspirations to keep you going with new ideas. From browsing for…
Guest Author Post: 40 Creative Twitter Status Designs for Your Inspiration
This is my first post as a guest author for 1stWebDesigner.com. For you who is not familiar with the 1stWebDesigner.com yet, here a little bit about who they are. 1stwebdesigner is a design blog…
Senorita iPhone Theme: Behind the making
Apple says: It’s three devices in one. iPhone is more than just a phone. It combines three devices in one: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device. All…
Valentine in Designs
Love is in the air, or so people said and keep talking about since the beginning of this month. Well, how can they ignore the day of love when almost every single person worldwide planing and…
Photography Vs Graphic Design
Being a part of graphic design community and get involved with the creative mind and creations within it is enjoyable. The more creative artworks I see, the more blurry and difficult for me to…
Frespiration! #1. Coming Up Soon!
With the fresh New Year '10 spirit, we are proud to announce the upcoming inspirations all over the globe. We call it, Frespiration! We want these collections to be share to other creative people and…
Design Concepts: Review and Get Reviewed!
Every designers are taught to think about the concept first before creating any designs. Although some designers get inspired for the concept along when creating the design itself. The point is, you…
Begin to Make Website for Designer
For most Print Graphic Designer, design and create a website would be a challenging task to do. As much as we enjoy ourselves working on the artwork and layout for it, those principles on print…
Selling logo on IstockPhoto
Various stock photos and illustration are sold on the net, everything you need for your project and saving more budgets for most freelancers. After releasing the audio stocks at the beginning of this…
Be Awesome at Work?
Most designers nowadays are split into two categories; one prefer to go freelancing, and other prefer to work for a company. Despite those two categories, we all want to be great on our work. We…