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Free – Illustrator Scribble Vectors

Posted 04 Mar 2010 - No Comments - leave yours now!

We all scribble and doodle, but do we ever use them? I figured that I might try to start so here are a set of my scribbles that I’ve turned into vector shapes, I hope you will find them useful.

This vector set is free to download.

I hope they are useful to you. I’ve made the set available as an Illustrator CS2 file and an Illustrator 10 file.

To download the CS2 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Scribble Vectors – Ilustrator CS2 .ai file

To download the Illustrator 10 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Scribble Vectors – Ilustrator 10 .ai file

These vectors are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only thing I ask is that if you do find them useful let me know. I’d love to see your final results, and then display them within this post.

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How to be a Happy Designer

Posted 01 Mar 2010 - No Comments - leave yours now!

Design is one of those jobs that you should care about if you want to be good at it. The general impression is that if you are a designer you must be doing pretty well for yourself, this may be the case for some, but on the whole it’s a difficult industry. Especially if you are starting out.
Long hours, constant rejection and limited jobs in a competitive market are just a few of the pitfalls that we all battle against. The biggest obstacle can sometimes be that most people don’t properly understand what a designer does.

Some jobs you simply must love to be able to tolerate. I know people that have very tough jobs with stupidly long hours and meagre pay. Despite this they seem to love what they do. For example my brother is a chef, it’s a very unsociable sort of job with awkward hours, the pay isn’t great and it’s hard graft but he loves doing what he does. I won’t lie to you there are times where he questions weather it’s worth it, but he sticks with it because, to him, there is something special about what he does.
This is the first step, you have to figure out what you want to get out of your job and your life.

In one of my earlier blog posts I asked you, what is the best thing about your job? This gave me a little insight into what is important to people in their work.
Personally I cited my sense of achievement when I see a design progress from my thoughts to sketches and it’s eventual use. For others it was the simple exchange of ideas, how they never stop learning and simply earning a living doing something they enjoy.

The key to being a happy designer is to work to a set of personal principles that make you believe in. It might be that the work itself is enough, the act of creating probably gives us all a buzz, but can that sustain you over a career that might span a lifetime?

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