Steven Snell over at Designm.ag has great post about freelancing full time.
Also check out the sites related posts to freelancing and home office work at the bottom of the page.
It’s also worth combing through the article as there are a few linked gems hidden amongst the test such as the online financial tools for freelancers.
…unless you’re bald.
A marvellous site dedicated to nothing else other than the grid system from a design point of view.
More information and examples than you could throw a ham sandwich at, tons of links, and a cool looking site.
A grid yesterday:
One sentence, is a list of one line phrases, sayings and waffle.
The hardest part was explaining why my black eye just so happened to look like a chicken’s foot.
Totoro Forest is an urban forest located just outside of Tokyo. And, like a fine vintage cheese, no matter how hard you try to keep it intact pieces keep getting nibbled off the edge.
Totoro Project was the brainchild of Japanese film maker Hayao Miyazaki has helped raise over $3million to help but the forest so it can remain in it’s untouched state.
Hundreds of amazing pieces of art have been created for auction to raise money for the cause.
Then you’ve come to the right place!
No, not here. But I do have a link for someone clever who can teach you how and all it will cost you is a smile.
It’s at webdesignerwall and it is at the moment a work in progress, but judging by the quality of his other tutorials, it should be mint.
His blog is a bit on the webby side and shuns paper too much for my tatses, but, credit where credit is due, and you don’t really need paper that much when you are a web designer apart from trips to the toilet.
The tutorial page can be found here.
Can’t believe someone hadn’t thought of this before.
A tiny utility that shuts down your mac keyboard (leopard only) only leaving control-Q functioning so you can turn it upside down, spray it with nasty solvents and scrub away with a wire wool pad without worrying that you might be opening up 35 applications.
32k of goodness here.
A fan curated gallery of the art of Pixar. The guy who runs it is limited somewhat by the images he can use (mainly promotional stuff), but the quality still shines through.
And in my opinion, Ratatouille is the best animated feature of all time. So there.
Rats and stuff here.
Most Photoshop tutorial sites usually have a gem of a technique floating amongst pointless turds. Or the gem is totally lacking, allowing the turds to jostle for the position of king turd.
This site is different.
A chap with a set of tutorials, the majority of which actually make you think, ‘hmmm, I could use that some day’.
He is called Dennis Plucinik and his stuff can be found here.
The tutorials are marked ‘advanced’, so thickos and those who think Photoshop is neato, may want to give it a miss.
