Lucas Cobb Design

Graphic design dates back to newspaper design, which was mainly created through a Linotype machine, but the Macintosh computer in 1984 revolutionized the world of graphic design. Discover the origins of graphic design with information from the creative director of a design firm in this free video on graphic design.

Expert: William Fridrich
Contact: www.fridrichphotography.com
Bio: In addition to being creative director of Wm. Fridrich Design, William Fridrich has 35 years of experience as a commercial photographer and an extensive portfolio of personal work.
Filmmaker: Albert Hedgepeth

Graphic designers make different amounts of money depending on what company they work for, how successful they are and who their clients are. Calculate a graphic designer’s salary, which can range from $40,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, with information from the creative director of a design firm in this free video on graphic design.

Expert: William Fridrich
Contact: www.fridrichphotography.com
Bio: In addition to being creative director of Wm. Fridrich Design, William Fridrich has 35 years of experience as a commercial photographer and an extensive portfolio of personal work.
Filmmaker: Albert Hedgepeth

Understanding Exposure from Lucas Cobb on Vimeo.

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Here are fifty-five great examples of the dying art of film photography from the 70′s. Make sure you study the subject placement in these photos and how that placement evokes emotion in the capture. Notice how most if not all these photos give you a glimpse into who the subject really was. Put yourself in the subjects place while you are out taking pictures and you can capture great moments just like these.

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Did you know that most picture-taking situations have at least six possible combinations of f-stops and shutter speeds that will all result in correct exposure? They may not all be creatively correct photographic exposures, but they will all be correct. More often, only one or two of these f-stop shutter speed combinations is the creatively correct motion-filled exposure.

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Like many of you I listen to music while I design. These are some of the top tracks that really get my creative juices flowing. I’d like to know your thoughts on listening to music while you create. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Does it help inspire you or is it just an annoyance or distraction?

If you like to rock out to music while designing like I do, let me know what music inspires you in the comments. This is just a little taste of my music library and I may post a few more in the future, who knows. I’ve also placed a link to the album if you want to pick up one or two songs to inspire your designs. Enjoy!

Scorpians – Rock you like a hurricaine | Get the CD Here

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Walls not only do have ears, they can speak too. At least they could. Just like the animals they lost the ability. But unlike the animals they lost it only recently. Billboards muted their voice. Relentless decay took off immediately.

Weather-worn as they are, slowly falling into oblivion or victim to road widening, overgrown by ivy, hidden by modern attention seekers, nice panels are only very rarely seen. Worse still, in most countries none are painted anymore. All of these images are from Charleston, South Carolina. Though the art is clearly history, it is being lost and this saddens me to no end. Enjoy these as they are all that is left in the oldest city in America, this dying art may have been lost, but it is not forgotten.

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With WordPress 3.0 being released only a few weeks ago, many great resources have been put together! With all major releases there were some minor teething problems but with this round-up of well written resources you will learn about what 3.0 has to offer, from WPMU integration to custom post thumbnails.

Here is a round-up of our favourite WordPress 3.0 tutorials, resources and videos.

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Here is the list you have all been waiting for. All the best places online to submit your design articles too for free and best of all there is no registration / log-in on any of these sites saving you submission time. I’d say a complete submission run with this list will take you 30 minutes and you can’t beat the quality traffic you get from these sites nor the precious back-links to your site. I have also included a radio button incase you want to take a break. Just check off the sites you have already submitted to or where you left off and come back later and continue submitting. It’s that easy and enjoy the list.

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Team jerseys identify players on the field of play and distinguish them from other players. Their colors can draw feelings of joy, pain, fear, disgust and anguish depending on the outcome of play. Jerseys are worn for specific reasons and play a crucial role in the play of a match. Here are a few World Cup Soccer Jerseys to gather inspiration from. Look at specific team colors and imagine what they illicit in other players minds. What do they stand for for that specific country? How does colors I use in design speak about my work? Enjoy these jerseys and this years World Cup.

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