Resources for Designers

Oct 22, 2008 | Asterisco, Resources | 1 comment

My good friend Daniele Rossi pointed me to this amazing tool called Design Resources Search Engine. This site goes right along the line of Blue Vertigo post I made a couple of weeks ago. Browsing around this morning I found a site that goes through the foldings that...

Create Chaos 2008

Oct 22, 2008 | Asterisco | 1 comment

So, this was the view arriving at Miami’s International Airport, just a few hours away (from a long layover) to catch the next flight to Orlando…. my final destination. After getting to Orlando at a very ungodly hour saturday night, I had to get ready for...

Update soon

Oct 21, 2008 | Asterisco

This is just a quick note. Since I’m on the iPhone I can’t do the full post from here as I wanted to post back from Create Chaos Orlando. Tomorrow looks like the ISP will have the service back to normal so the post will go live. Back to life soon....

Mental Blocks and Freelancing

Oct 6, 2008 | Asterisco, Freelancing | 1 comment

Picture this: A client asks you for several designs. You have a crazy week and you have lost 2 days of the 10 you needed to work and when you actually want to get things started, you just stare at the white canvas on Illustrator. That was me this week. After freaking...

Taking a bit longer than expected

Oct 2, 2008 | Asterisco

I’m prepping a nice article about sources for freelancers. There are so many out there that I thought that once a week I’d post one category of the most useful of several categories: Photo, Vectors, Flash and Fonts. Now, this is taking more than I...

Creative Suite Conference – Orlando

Sep 29, 2008 | Asterisco

I’m flying to Orlando for the Creative Suite Conference. I went to the Miami Conference back in February and had a great time. Met a lot of cool people, between the speakers and fellow designers we all had a great time. David Blatner from InDesign Secrets will...