Designer. period. exclamation point! I used to call myself an interior designer, an environmental designer, so many labels that just never seemed to fit. Everything seemed so limiting. I just love good design be it interiors, furniture, products or graphics. Good design is more than just physical items, its also systems, information management and how people interact. Design is exciting because life itself is design driven. Design generates value. In this world where the future is only a day away, it is designers that are leading the way forward. Perhaps Sir Ernest Hall said it best, "Design is about demonstrating how beautiful something can be. It has a very profound capacity. Design is a way of changing life and influencing the future."

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Just Ask A Designer | Online Interior Design

Saturday, February 13, 2010

FREE Photo, Illustration and Drafting Software

If you need general photo editing tools try using Google Picasa 3.6

http://picasa.google.com/

Free License. Free Download. Links to your online Picasa Account.

Picasa is free to download, and Picasa Web Albums provides 1 gigabyte of free storage -- that's enough space for 4,000 wallpaper-size photos. Edit to perfection. Improve almost any picture with Picasa's one-click fixes for common problems like red-eye, color, and lighting. Or, use tuning and effects to make your best photos look even better.Beautiful web albums. Show your photos at their best. View full-screen slideshows, see your pictures arranged on a global map, enjoy video playback, and more.Sharing made simple. Publish your favorite photos online with one click. Create stunning online photo albums to share with friends and family, or public albums for the world to see. Get notified when your "Favorites" post new photos.

FREE Productivity Software

FREE SOFTWARE

Here's a list of programs that are free/open source. I have all the microsoft products on my computer and I have to say keeping up with licensing and the latest version is a pain in the ass and needless to say very expensive over time. My switch to these programs has been gradual but I have to say I am VERY happy with them and today I am Microsoft free. (Except for Windows) Plus they all are fully compatible with the paid versions so you can easily share, import and export files. NOT a problem. I don't even miss them. I'm tempted to erase everything Microsoft but I'm just not there yet...maybe next week. LOL

Keep in mind everyone is targeting microsoft and they are doing it by offering competitive alternatives for FREE hoping you will pay for other services they offer. So take advantage. And all are compatible with MS Windows and Mac OS X computers.

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