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Top Ten! Illustrators
Under Illustration
Posted By oliver On 05/18/2008
So who's hot and who's not so hot in this months top ten! This time we are covering one of the most popular and fast growing areas of the design industry, Illustration.
Illustration has been growing in popularity and the computer age has really helped it become more than a sketching and drawing art form. You can use a whole bundle of programs like Adobe Illustrator®, CorelDRAW®, Macromedia Freehand®, Adobe Flash® and Serif DrawPlus® (just to name a few) to expand your work to a whole new level. Adding extra imagery, vibrant colours and much more.
Anyway enough of that, lets get down to the nitty gritty of this months TOP TEN!
- Tom Bagshaw - mostlywanted
- Nick La - webdesignwall, ndesign-studio & bestwebgallery
- Roth Aniko - rothaniko
- Ewout van Lambalgen - iwit
- Hayaty Mahdini - artgeex
- Neil Duerden - neilduerden
- Olof Lönnroth - lonnroth
- Nigel Evan Dennis - electricheat
- Catalina Estrada - katika
- Susanne Paschke - susannepaschke
What To Expect
Under Features
Posted By oliver On 05/08/2008
I thought it about time that I presented you with a run down of the features designblocks.co.uk can offer you. So I have compiled this list to help you make the descision on whether to signup or not.
- FREE Membership and Profile System
- Upload of your designs
- Avatars to differentiate you from other members
- Display detail info about you, your works and experiences
- Invite like-minded members to be your friends
- Join a design group you relate to at signup or edit later via profile
- Project progress bars to create suspense before launch
- Link to your website(s) and show/hide email and IM address's
- Much More To Come!!
I hope this is helpful to you in knowing what directions we are committed to undertaking and you decide to become part of the Design Blocks community.
TopSpots by scratchback.com
Under Reviews
Posted By oliver On 05/01/2008
I just found this really neet way to show support for all of your favourite websites and its called TopSpots from scratchback.com. Its an interesting twist on traditional advertising, where you would normally either pay for, for example, a months worth of advertising or £20 worth of clicks/impressions, however, with TopSpots your fans and users will tip you as they would a waiter/waitress.
I was really impressed with this simplistic yet effective idea that I have added TopSpots to Design Blocks and you can now tip us if you feel we are doing a good job.
What do you think about this subject and would you implement it into your website? We're looking forward to hearing from you on this one.
Design Blocks and You
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/28/2008
Design Blocks is a new community for design individuals from a wide range of the arts. It brings you the ability to publish your works for the whole world to see, and at the same time let people know a bit about what makes you tick and what inspires you.
The vast majority of designers don't have the means, capital or time to showcase their artistic content, which is why a free account here at Design Blocks is going to serve you well now and far into the future. Just a simple registration process stands between you and a huge medium to show off your creative abilities, what have you got to loose?!
We hope you join us in registering for a BETA account, which will bring a whole range of user functionality upon the official launch of Design Blocks.
The team and I look forward to seeing you soon.
Oliver Martin
Founder & Lead Designer
Profile Page
Under News and Updates
Posted By oliver On 04/21/2008
Well I finally started to modify the profile page for the website. Soon your user account details will be displayed nicer and hopefully within a week of those changes we can start unleashing some real user functionality for registered members.
Remember signing up to Design Blocks will provide you with a fantastic and free way of promoting yourself to the whole world. We aim to help you in every way possible, what have you got to loose?!
