Design Blog Tips: Suggest Topics for 2010 How To’s

I need help coming up with Design Blog Topics for 2012. As 2011 is coming to a close I have managed to get my website up along with a wonderful portfolio.  I have managed to build a small following on Twitter and a little bit of one on some of the other social networking communities [...]

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

Die a designer: 10 steps to a long career | .net magazine

Discovered another amazing blog article this evening.  It is entitled Die a Designer: 10 steps to a long career and as the title suggests gives 10 steps to making sure that you continue to remain relevant as a designer, even 30 or 40 years into your career. Unlike many of these X Steps type articles, [...]

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

SEO principles from … | Learn Graphic/Web Design

Hey folks, here’s a great article I came across today from Web Designer Dan Dumitrache on his blog, Learn Graphic/Web Design SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is definitely one of the most popular topics on the internet these days. However, it is not the purpose of Learn Graphic/Web Design to analyze this topic in details but [...]

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career. Here are 25 classic fonts that have stood the test of time in the design world.  Some of these bad boys date to the mid-late 1800′s.  Give them a look and see which ones you can use for your own design projects.

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

Create an awesome human disintegration effect in Photoshop

Check out this really cool Photoshop tutorial from Ahsan Zaheer http://ahsanzaheer.com/blog/create-a-powerful-human-disintegration-effect-in-photoshop/

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

Flash Animation project hits snag

So I have apparently hit a bit of a snag on my Flash animation project due in just under two weeks.  Apparently I’ve been approaching the break-down and rigging of the character all wrong.  Going to have to start mostly from scratch on getting her set up, rigged and animated. Up side?  I haven’t done [...]

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

25 Time saving CSS3 tools& Apps for designers - Wsblogz.com – Web design magazine

Wow.  I fully expect these to make learning CSS3 a good bit easier. 25 Time saving CSS3 tools& Apps for designers - Wsblogz.com – Web design magazine.

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

Capstone Project – new direction

So after talking things over with my instructor last night, I have chosen to alter the direction my ITT Capstone project was headed.  For personal and story reasons, I have decided to put production of the Shadows of Umbra comic on hold for the time being and focus my school project on web design. The [...]

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

Shadows of Umbra – weekly update

So, it turns out I’m not so hot at the everyday update thing.  Realized very quickly that most of what i was doing on a daily basis is very boring and would not amount to much from an update perspective.  So I’m going to back off and try to update at least weekly, sometimes more [...]

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production

12 Creative Design Elements Inspiring the Next Generation of UX | SEOmoz

12 Creative Design Elements Inspiring the Next Generation of UX | SEOmoz.

J. Michael Koontz - Graphic Design, Web, Illustration and 3D Production