about 1 month ago - No comments
Freelancers, designers, wahms, tell me… What are your best work hours?
For the past week, I have been really focused on working on my network of blogs and on generating quality content. This means that a single blog post can take anything from 4-6 hours to do from start to finish.
Sometimes I work on them for [...]
about 2 months ago - No comments
Graphic River is one of the Envato marketplaces.
A unique group of websites that cater to the graphic designer, and creative techies in general. There is something for every level of designer, and even digital scrapbookers.
Each piece offered for sale is vetted before it’s allowed into the marketplace to ensure that it meets with appropriate standards, [...]
about 2 months ago - No comments
Most designers will know, that the urge to create is mostly overwhelming. A bit like ones desire to say, breathe, or maybe eat. But not necessarily in that order! So this morning, I find myself just having a go at making a blogger background.
I think I may have spent exactly 2.6 seconds making this one, [...]
about 5 months ago - No comments
Standard Rates For Graphic Design
By Marcus Peterson
Graphic designing is a profession where the raw material is creativity and the output is art. Calculating the work done in terms of money most of the times becomes an arguable issue. The fiscal calculations of a project depend on many aspects, though rough but different standards are established [...]
about 6 months ago - No comments
Every now and then I come across a truly helpful site, and this one feels like I just hit the motherload!
As a freelancer myself, I’m constantly on the lookout for ways to improve my workflow, increase my clientbase, market myself more effectively etc.
Every post is just loaded with information on various types of software [...]
about 6 months ago - No comments
Because I couldn’t ignore the top half of the planet, in all my smug Springiness from yesterday.
Because it’s about 13 deg Celcius outside and I’m not feeling very Springish today.
Because Design is a totally obsessive pastime that I could not and do not wish to stop doing under any circumstances.
I give you, the Northern Hemisphere [...]
about 7 months ago - No comments
One of my favourite websites at the moment, is Smashing Magazine. They are part techie, part designer, and just about everything they talk about I find absolutely fascinating, and very inspirational.
Today they did a post about the Bauhaus school of thought.
It took me RIGHT back to high school art class when I first studied the [...]
about 7 months ago - No comments
Durbanites, here’s yours!
<center><a href=”http://www.macnessa.com/2009/07/free-blog-button-for-durban-bloggers/” mce_href=”http://www.macnessa.com/2009/07/free-blog-button-for-durban-bloggers/” target=”_blank” title=”MacNessa Design”> <img src=”http://www.macnessa.com/images/durbs.gif” mce_src=”http://www.macnessa.com/images/durbs.gif” border=”0″ alt=”Durban Blogger”/> </a></center>
Let me know if anyone else out there wants to proudly display their Town/City/State/Country and I’ll do it for you!
MacNessa Design. Top Notch Graphic Design for Web.
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about 7 months ago - 4 comments
Help yourselves folks. If you need help placing the code onto your blogs let me know, and I’m happy to help.
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about 7 months ago - No comments
This is something that one should always remember.
My mom always had a saying (in another language) which directly translated means, “Cheap buying, means Expensive Buying.” Referring to the fact that often buying cheap, ends up being expensive in the long run. As a Mac fan, this is SO true when it comes to buying PC’s. [...]
