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Mar

Welcome Designers who Blog readers!

By nubloo 3 Comments

Categories: News

Designers who blog features Nubloo.com

Designers who Blog readers, welcome to Nubloo!

On Friday, Nubloo got featured on the Designers who Blog website. To all who just clicked on to us, I’m very happy to say:

Hi, come on in and take a look!

We’re a blog by designers, for designers and people in the creative business. Here, you will find a variety of posts about the things we like: design and creativity. We’re creatives ourselves, and this blog is our forum for expressing the things we love to do.

So who are we?

Nubloo is mainly run by yours truly, a creative person in the design business. My name is Robert Augustin and I started sketching, drawing and doodling back in school, somewhere around the 6th grade, mostly to the nuisance of my dear teachers. That quickly became my passion and today, 17 years later, it is what I do for a living.

When I say we, I mean our small team of upcoming creatives. Our command center is Effex Medien, a young and innovative design studio located in South Germany. While I’m traveling throughout the world, mainly between the premises of our venture and the U.S. East Coast, where I am with my wonderful fiancée, I come across many inspiring styles, people and insights, which I like to share with the readers of this blog.

As for you, our new readers,

just take a look around and see if you can find something you like. For instance, you could start with our 5×5 Secret Rules in Design and Advertising series. Or, if you feel lucky, you can also just use our tag cloud to the upper right and take a pop at the category you crave most.

I hope you like what you find here. Because if you do, you can then leave a comment on our site - we appreciate your feedback very much!

For our readers who know us already, I highly recommend taking a look at our new friends at designers-who-blog.com. The site is run by Cat, an expert in the design business and a very talented writer. Her blog features designers from all over the world (now us, too!) and is really worth a look.

Thanks for poppin’ in and enjoy your stroll at Nubloo.com!

Mar

The Vibr8 Bros. on Pixel Fonts & Shapes

By nubloo 3 Comments

Categories: Techniques and Design

Illustrator tutorial: how to avoid blurred pixel fonts

Have you ever worked with pixel fonts? They are nice & neat and can add a lot to your designs - if you know how to handle them.

And that’s the point: if you’ve used pixel fonts in your designs before, you may know that they need your attention to a larger extent than usual fonts. You need to set their position, alignment, size and line spacing correctly in order to make them look sharp.

On our sister site, the Vibr8 Bros. demonstrate exactly how you can make those cool pixel fonts work for you. Not only that, they also explain two more ‘cases’ regarding blurry pixels - issues almost every designer had to fight with at one point or another: Shapes using pixel borders (strokes), and 1-pixel lines. I’m sure you’ll find that information very useful!

In their newest article, How to avoid blurred Pixel Fonts & Shapes, you will find what you need to know about the above, with illustrated examples. And if you’re interested: at the end of the article, the Vibr8 Bros. explain exactly why paying attention to the little things is so important. Yes, pixels!

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Mar

A Guide to Design Presentation: How to Sell your Work

By nubloo 3 Comments

Categories: Selling

Photo by Chas Redmond

If you’ve read my last week’s post about business relationships for designers, you know that in my experience, it’s of the upmost importance that you lead your client to the most significant design you’ve come up with. Why? Because when it comes to design, you surpass your client’s qualification. So it’s up to you to pick the best design for her needs. Because as a professional, you know which design will lead to the expected results - in contrast to your client, who is much more likely to be biased by personal taste.

Small business owners and first-time design buyers usually fall into this category. Read on…

Mar

The 5×5 secret Rules in Design and Advertising - Part 5: Business Relationships

By nubloo 6 Comments

Categories: Creativity and Design

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This is the fifth installment in the 5×5 secret Rules in Design and Advertising. So far, I’ve covered the following parts:

Set 5: The Rules of Business Relationships

In the 5th and final part of the 5×5 secret rules in design and advertising, we will deal with the part where you have to generate an income from your work. It’s a fact that a designer’s job comprises more than just design. You know this, especially if you’re a freelancer. As for thrilling experiences, if handling clients wasn’t a part of your job, you’d have to start getting into free-fall parachuting instead.

Accordingly, our first rule of business relationships is the following. Read on…

Feb

The 5×5 secret Rules in Design and Advertising - Part 4: Personal Matter

By nubloo 3 Comments

Categories: Creativity and Design

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This is the fourth installment in the 5×5 secret Rules in Design and Advertising. So far, I’ve covered the following parts:

Set 4: The Rules of Personal Matter

A job in the design field is certainly different from any job they tell our kids about at school. I covered this in my previous post. But what makes a designer successful in his job? What do you need to know as an up-and-coming, young talent starting off in the business - be it working for a company, or as a freelancer?

Welcome to the 5 Rules of Personal Matter in Design and Advertising. Read on…