Category Archives: Graphic Design

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Hardware — Stuff used for graphic design, web development, and multimedia

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Posted by Dwayne on July 3, 2010 – 11:01 am
Filed under Graphic Design

I often won­der what oth­ers are uti­liz­ing to cre­ate their works in the way of hard­ware. Soft­ware is pretty much the same across the board i think for most in the way of basic graphic design. I mean, for page lay­out there is Inde­sign and Quark, right? I mean, why would any­one use any­thing else? I there any­thing else? Back to the point, hard­ware. I like to start some projects off with a pen­cil and paper. Usu­ally tak­ing notes about the pur­pose of the project I am about to under­take and then to make sketches — quick wire­frames or what not.

Here is my list of Hard­ware devices:

Mac­book Pro 15 inch — Core 2 DUO 2.5GHZ — 4GB RAM

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    Model Name: Mac­Book Pro
    Model Iden­ti­fier: MacBookPro4,1
    Proces­sor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
    Proces­sor Speed: 2.5 GHz
    Num­ber Of Proces­sors: 1
    Total Num­ber Of Cores: 2
    L2 Cache: 6 MB
    Mem­ory: 4 GB
    Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Wacom Intuos — 6x8

Pan­tone Color Cue (used on occasion)

Exter­nal mon­i­tor — 19 inch — Samsung

pen­cil (mechan­i­cal type)

Sketch­book (leather bound)

For Audio -

    Presonus Fire­pod firewire record­ing audio interface

    SAMSON tube pre amplifier

    Fender P-Bass guitar

    Fender Squire Strat guitar

Yep, that is pretty much it. These are the main tools, hard­ware wise, I use on a daily basis to do research, pro­duce, and cre­ate graphic design and mul­ti­me­dia works.

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Design Proposals and graphic design contracts

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Posted by Dwayne on June 24, 2010 – 11:55 pm
Filed under Graphic Design

Before any design com­mis­sion of any real rel­e­vance gets off the ground, a design pro­posal and design con­tract is usu­ally in order.   After pro­ceed­ing hap­haz­ardly into design work with­out one, I can tes­tify that I think I would have rather taken the time to set some para­me­ters in writ­ing.  Really this applies in gen­eral com­mu­ni­ca­tions about agree­ments, busi­ness or work.  I would also ven­ture to say that it prob­a­bly ben­e­fits both par­ties in the long run. Why? When things are set in writ­ing every­one knows what to expect. If they for­get they can always go back to the writ­ten con­tract, email or pro­posal and get clarification.

For the designer or devel­oper it pro­vides a task list or blue print that can help to keep the the project on task. For the client it can pro­vide a guide to the design or devel­op­ment process.

This is a tes­ti­mo­nial.  For new design pro­pos­als, or any other work or agree­ment for that mat­ter, shoot off an email that out­lines what you your under­stand­ing of the project or agree­ment might be.

By the way, im not a lawyer.  If you really want sound busi­ness advise you might want to con­sider one before going into busi­ness agreements.

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