Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

It’s great to see a worthy cause getting some media attention. It’s even better when that worthy cause is one of my favourite websites, SA Rocks, and it is seen on television sporting one of my website designs.

Congrats to Nic Haralambous, I hope this television feature brings you many new visitors and rocking new opportunities.

I’m a big fan of Threadless.com – an online community based tee shirt company. Over the past couple years a lot of similar sites have popped up and jumped on the band wagon, like Oddica (which I have blogged about before), and the latest one being South African based Springleap.

I’ve always thought there is huge potential in community based e-commerce sites, but I underestimated the sheer size of companies like Threadless.com. I’ve always found it fascinating seeing how an online company operates offline.

This video clip below takes you behind the scenes of Threadless.com and you get to see the AWESOME work place and the incredibly creative staff working there.

I find it hugely inspiring.

Don’t you just love how Threadless oozes creativity, energy and most importantly fun.

I have been flooded with work this past week, and haven’t found anytime to write anything of importance, instead I found some good reading elsewhere. Please excuse the rather lazy post, but I hope the links below provide you with some entertainment. Hey it is friday after all.

PSDTuts

I can’t believe I haven’t found this site before. PSDTuts is FreelanceSwitch’s sister site and brings you some quality photoshop tutorials, presented beautifully. I’ve visited a lot of photoshop tutorial sites before, but this one teaches you things you actually want to know – current design trends.

A rookie guide to digital SLR cameras

“There comes a time in every point-and-shooter’s life when he or she wonders if there is more to photography than a palm-sized block of aluminum stowed away in one’s pocket.” If that is you then take a read over Mike Davidson’s great post. Mike informs you of exactly what you should be thinking about when in the process of purchasing a SLR camera.

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I’m finally getting around to designing a new business card with my UK contact details on it. Up until now I have been handing out business cards with my South African contact information, not very professional, but it does open up a bit of chit chat. Honestly I just haven’t found the time to invest into my own company’s brand image, I am too busy designing for clients. Not a very good excuse, but I am sure most designers will understand my predicament.

I’ve played with a few designs in Adobe Illustrator, but i’m lacking in the creativity department. After a Google search I stumbled on some great links to get the creative juices flowing again.

I even found this brilliant clip from the movie American Psycho. It’s a must watch.

“Something wrong Patrick? You’re sweating.”

Haha I love it.

Anyways, here is a link to some business card designs that are a little more interesting. And here is a link to a Flickr photoset of hundreds of business card designs.

Having second thoughts about your card design?