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Participate in the logo contest scheduled on February 2010!  IamaSource.com is looking for its logo!

This is a great chance for designers freelance to get some money, in fact winner is going to be rewarded with €2500!

IamaSource.com Logo Contest

IamaSource.com looks like a brand new site for creatives who is looking for the best creative talents to receive the design of their logo.

They’ve chosen the crowdsourcing idea, who is getting more and more popular in order to get a lot of proposals and great results from a global community of designers. All Tuwidesigners are invited to participate in the contest and tell us their experience!

Looks like before the start of the contest there will be a registration in witch they will give some tips to the first designers, so don’t waste your time and partecipate in the contest early!

Geishas (芸者, Geisha) are traditional Japanese artist and entertainer, whose skills include various arts such as music, song and dance. The geisha were very common in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and still exist, although their number is gradually decreasing.
Despite this, geisha has become a figure much represented in the design. This figure in fact has the ability to unite itself in modernity and tradition of japanese culture, therefore, is a strong image when used in the right design context.
Among the entries we’ve been very impressed by those of Rubens Cantuni, with the design of a chubby and ironic geisha.
Good inspiration for your work tuwidesigners
As always expect your suggestions to expand our gallery!!!
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Today we offer a collection of the best fragrances packaging. Develop the design of a precious fragrance bottle is a really interesting process. The bottle must represent in its design the perfume that contains. Its lines, geometric or soft, must recall the aroma of perfume. The approach of the designer will be obviously different if the scent is addressed to a woman or a man. In this gallery we collected only the women’s fragrances. soon we will see the difference with the scents targeted to men.

To be a good designer you must sometimes have a good nose:)
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Here is a collection of 20 designers websites made through an excellent use of graphics and CSS.
This gallery is certainly a good inspiration for your works and the making of a great website. As you can observe, the use of CSS can achieve very interesting works.
We remind you that you can analyze the code present in each site through the useful Firebug; this plugin will let you know the structure of a css website.
Enjoy this gallery on Tuwidesign!
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Tuwidesign was applied for a printing t-shirt project about a Summer Festival Event.

Our responsibility for the project is to provide two models of t-shirt:
- one model is for people working for the event;
- second one should be designed for selling it.

As Daniel says in his article, t-shirt printing is becoming more and more a great way for communicate your brand, your belonging to a group (tribal marketing concept) and it is considered as a universal symbol expecially for warmer season! Nevertheless, if the printing t-shirt project comes off in a bad way, your brand could be put in a bad light  in front of your customers, so it is needed to pay a great attention in order to develop and get a key advantage in relation to your competitors.

Here there are some tips from Daniel, that Tuwidesign surely will follow…
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Here, Tuwi Design found out a great article from HeatherInk. She gives some really useful tips in order to build a perfect design portfolio.

This is addressed to every young freelancer that need a strong portfolio.

Turn a nice protfolio in a great one could be easier following this few suggestions:

Quantity: no more than 10-15 pics

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Despite of the continuous growth of web, magazine and press  still remain strong and popular. Magazine, in fact,  keep the secret of the beginning of knowledge and here we can see 10 best magazines that a  graphic designer can’t miss from getting inspiration from.

Web Designer

http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/

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Do you think drawing is essential to be a great graphic designer?

The way design is actually executed seems to be a crucial point of this discussion.

Some of the designers can draw and some can’t. People use the skills they have and you can definitely make your way as a designer without strong drawing skills. Although this, if you have those skills it can give you extra flexibility, for example matching colors, drawing a sketch when an idea comes out, developing a concept that is in your mind but not on the paper…

Drawing is important but it can’t be the only thing needed to be a great designer.
Communication and design skills are foundamental as well and creativity and imagination surely can’t miss.

“To stand out and be refreshingly different at whatever cost - that’s the message we’re getting from today’s logos” and this is the message of LogoOrange Design Group.
A very interesting analysis of the recent design trends of logos creation process. LogoOrange identifies 10 main categories: Psychedelic Pop Backgrounds, Origami, Tactile Logos, Arabesque, Classic Modernism, Pictograms, 80’s Geometry Lesson, Typographic Logos, Street Art and Puzzle Patterns.

Below check out the eco-friendly totally-new Veuve Clicquot champagne box.
The Design Box it’s made of paper. Paper only. Less than 5% coverage with inks, glues, and solvents. And no plastic film. And micro-grooving is used to reduce the amount of paper in the packaging. The paper is approved by FSC an organization that operates under strict environmental standards, ethical and social issues.
The DesignBox will be presented during the Salone del Mobile in Milan and will be on sale starting next June.
The project is developed by Tom Dixon, Front Design and 5.5 Designers.