Free Libraries Symbols

If you not used to take a look in the site of Smashing Magazine, pleaase, I relally recommended you do!!

This week they just posted an article with 8 websites that provide free pictograms...is just owsome, just few weeks ago I really wish to know about them so easilly!!

Below is the link for this article!!

Smashing Magazine: 8 Free Pictogram Icon and Libraries and Collections

Hav a great week!!

"Toxic - Garbage Island" A Great Video To Watch

Not only as graphic designers but most than that, as human beings, we have to be concious that we are part of a hole system, an important one I should say, the planet Earth! And as part of it, we have to be responsible for our actions and reaction. By saying that I mean that we always have to question what is going to happen after we use or design something or if you could do something better in our rotine to give a better future to the next generations.

Watching MTV the other day, here in Brazil, I got to this amazing video called "Toxic - Garbage Island" that talks about the huge amount of plastic in our oceans and the sadly consequences that it can cause to the planet.

As we are aware of, has the wrong name...we have only 1/3 of earth here...anyway...the name is the least of the problems that we have to face in nowadays...

So, back to the video, after watching it, I serached in the web to know more about it and I'm not only found the video but a lot more of the crew that did it! Actually Toxic is made by VSB.TV, " an online broadcast network that streams free original content 24 hours a Day", in their words.

So I really recommend you guys to take a look. Garbage Island has 3 parts, where the crew of VBS.TV goes in a reserach boat to look for those huge plastic island that can be found in the middle of the ocean. And how it is damaging our enviroment. The first two part show the search for those islands...and its amazing how many trash they find along the way...very sad. The last part is the most interesing, is where they give an idea of the damage.

Check the video here and next time you design or even use something made of plastic, just rememeber this video and be aware where you put it...

In the end of this video that is a website that I also recommended you to check:

- Algalita Marine Research Foundation

Help to take care of our "Mother Earth"!

A Great Article For Those Who Want To Freelance Around The Globe

Couple of weeks ago, Smashing Magazine publish an amazing article from Danny Outlaw, that you can check here.

Danny is a freelancer that has been working in different places around the world, like Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Aruba.

In this post he give us lots of tips, specially if you want to go freelancing in a third-world country.

Is a short and direct article, and very inspired (at least I got here!), and there are many other links where you can get more about this subject.

Danny suggested one blog for those who would like to know more about it, wich is:

- Freelance Switch

And he also has his own blog about this life style, that in my opinian, and I'm sure I share with lots of others aroud the globe, is so exating! Below I linked some of his blogs:

- Outlaw Design Blog ;

- Freelance Abroad

So I hope you to get inspired as I did after reading this articles! Have a great Sunday!

A Book That You Should Have on Your Shelves

This week I got to this amazing book from Julius Wiedemann, the title is Illustraton Now.

Is a collection with 150 artists from all over the globe, excellent to have as a font of inspiration. And for our hapiness, Taschen has brought a second volume of Illustration Now, wich is as good as the first one, by the way, another excellent book to have on your shelve!

As if 150 artists wasn't already good enough, both volumes have informations about the tecnics used to produced the illustrations and also a small texts written by the artists about their works and ideas.

Below I'll pick five of the artists from the first volume, but i garantee you that this is just a tiny tiny little taste of what you can find in this book!

Melinda Beck
Kumiko Kitaoka
Matt Dineen Mateo
Simone Legno
Bo Lundberg

And here is just a website that have some of the images of the book.