At this point, you're almost weirder if you don't use any social networks than if you were a social media obsessive who tweets, Facebooks, Instagram and hashtags the hell out of your vocabulary. It's how weird the world is now. Social networks are real life. But who are the people who make up these worlds? If there are 12 personality types in social networks, which one are you?
If freelancers could invent our own clichés, one might be: no two jobs are the same. Each gig we take on brings with it new personalities, new challenges and new rewards. Despite these differences, most any freelancing gig will fit into one of these twenty types.
Where does the job you’re (supposed to be) working on now fit in?
Have you done each of these kinds of jobs before?
My guess is that most experienced freelancers will have encountered quite a few!
Packages, when well designed, are a great source of inspiration. If you stop to analyze details such as shapes, colors, textures and typography, you will notice that package design is an art and we can certainly learn something from them. Today we gathered 23 examples of beautiful and clean package designs to show you that we can learn a lot from these designs. From color combinations to texture usage and type, these packages are pure inspiration. Make sure to click on the images to read more about each design and its designer.
Do you remember how you used to do your revisions in school and after? Which way was the most effective for you? Do you commit everything to memory, use mindmaps, make a recording of your teacher or lecturer’s lessons or carry around note cards to read on the way to school and back? Well, it turns out that the way one student studies may differ from the way a classmate does because there are different styles of learning we are individually adept for.
When the meaning meets the form and the latter underlines, highlights, and intensifies the meaning, it is called the typography – craft, technique, and art, known to people since the dawn of the history of human civilization culture. Once people noticed that the way the text is written affects the way it is perceived by readers, so they started to design and arrange the types in a particular order, adding decorative elements, backgrounds, and thus introducing the art constituent into seemingly pure technical process of writing words and sentences.
Designers like typography very much and tend to create type experiments now and then because they almost never fail if they put their mind to it. Proof of that is the typography selection that I gathered in this article featuring new typography experiments to inspire you. They are made in different ways, in Photoshop, Illustrator or even hand drawn.
A logo can either be purely graphic, involving symbols and icons, can have text as well, or can compromise of text only. Such logos are called logotypes. A logotype, which is also known as a wordmark, is quite different from the typical logo. It does not involve any clipart or drawings, but instead, it focuses on delivering the message via text only. In logotypes, text is played around with creatively, to mark the identity of the company. Therefore, logotypes are distinct text only typographic depictions of a company’s or brand’s name.
We all use the internet to shop, share articles, do some online banking, or to just catch up with others on various social networks. The last thing we need is for someone to come along and ruin our posts or conversations through unwanted engagement.
Plenty of us have experienced this at one time or another and once it has happened it is hard to avoid. The best way to prevent this from occurring is by becoming familiar with what to look for when interacting with other online users.
What's the ideal marketing mix for ecommerce?
Should you focus on SEO, PPC, image search or social?
And if social…should you focus on Pinterest? Facebook? Twitter?
The answer is: you want a bit of each to match different customer’s shopping style.
You need to look at the mindset of the shoppers using each of those channels to optimize for each of them and improve traffic, conversions and ROI.
At this point, no single customer engagement channel can deliver marketers a complete picture of consumer behavior.
Google knows what you’re interested in, but not what you’ve done. Facebook knows who your friends are, but not what you buy. Pinterest knows what you share, but not how you act on it. Foursquare knows where you are, but not what you like. You get the idea.
There are loads of different types of clients out there and chances are at some point you’ll get to meet all of them. So let’s take a look through some typical clients and see if you recognize a few of your own in there!
