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This is intended as a series of short articles about the trials and tribulations of becoming a designer. It’s probably one of the questions I get asked most when I give talks or attend seminars, “What do I have to do to become a designer”. There is no easy answer to this question, I have [...]

I had a client that had a .com and a .co.uk domain name both pointing to a single hosted website. Having previously only had the .co.uk domain name I had only included an api key for that domain

There has been an upsurge in the innovative use of vinyl recently, not least for laptop customisation. Taking that one step further Hu2 Design have created some amazing avant garde interior design elements using die cut vinyl.

They have just about every room in the house covered and the art is not just decorative but useful too, from eco reminders to directional signage.

Myows stands for “MY Original Works”

It’s an easy-to-use app dedicated to providing a full suite of copyright solutions, from registration to management.

Myows has been created for designers, photographers, bloggers, writers, musicians and anyone who creates copyrightable work.

All in one place, online, for free.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine.

You can submit an image to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

If you are a designer or evan a wannabe Smashing Magazine is a great source of design resource and inspiration.