Between working on the computer for others and working on the computer for
himself, Todd finds time to wreak havoc on stage with his band, Cybil and spend
a few quiet minutes with his girlfriend who he can neither see nor hear
because of his previous activities.



on life:
Live fast. Have fun. Die old, wrinkled and content.

on design:
Take your design seriously, but not yourself. And get rid of that ego...


    

Designer.
Typical designer coming to this page, just as many other web designers, print designers and other design professionals is looking for inspiration. This exhibition of works of world's top designers helps many to cure the inspirational blocks and considered to be one of the best design resources on the net. Other resources we recommend are Web Page Design for Designers - Resources, webmonkey, Design Is Kinky
International Design Agency project helps many in the areas of web design, art, typography, flash animation other creative solutions, who work both as freelancers and as lead designers and art directors for international advertisement agencies and design houses, not to mention great number of design shops all around the world.
The other great source for the designers would be design magazines and design books. Among design magazines we would like to suggest Communication Arts mag and HOW design. There are others. The great number of books for any topic related to design services. It would be better to go to such sites as Amazon, and search for the design books of interest especially for your area. Also one has to remember that different design magazines encourage and organize annually design contests and publish design and advertisement annuals. Illustration and interactive ones as well.
There more and more designers now days concerned with questions of usability, user centered design, infodesign, informational architecture and, of course, experience design, which are considered to be essential for building a successful on-line brand representation, creation of user friendly web site. There is a great number of books and information on the net regarding it. Future development of this site could be happening to address this areas more.
Also most of designers are interested in related areas such as web development, web hosting, Internet consulting, usability, e-business consulting, navigation ,experience design. The most often questions is where to host the site and what content management tools to use.
Even such hardcore tech professional as programmers, information architecture experts, intranet developers, copywriters, marketing and branding professionals can find something for themselves if they search for information.
Typical web designer is working freelance! Posting his resumes and portfolios on different freelance sites such as elance, they can attract a great deal of work from there, or at least hope to do so. It's great to have help of included resume builders and such programs, but we are yet to see some sufficient project management tools to come to live.
And finally we all like to use and looking for royalty free stock photographs, clip art collections, free graphics, free fonts and so on. We use software from such publishers as Adobe, Macromedia, Corel, for example Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash. It's also great to be able to find some tutorials and howto on ll aspects of graphic design.
It's important to create useful navigation, interface design, but that would give your site nothing if its' lacks in brand support. First of all you have to take care of corporate style creation, logo and basic color schemes. Content is not on the last place in site creation as well.