Here is the lucky winner of our Awesome Banner Giveaway From U Printing

The rules for the competition were simple, leave a comment and stand a chance to win. Today we announce the lucky winner.

WINNER: Andrew

Well done to the Winners

winners notified today by email

The next giveaway will probably be within the next few weeks so stick around.

The rules are simple :

1. Leave a comment – with a valid email address so we can contact you with the prize .

2. Subscribe to us via RSS - Its 100 % free – you’ll get updated with the latest articles : )

A little information about our giveaway patron :

Digital Room Banner Printing

Digital Room

“Digital Room is your online banner printing service and solutions provider for high-quality prints that perform to your demands. Our banner printing technology helps you achieve wide-format prints that are sharp, clear and vivid, easily capturing the colors and the clarity of your images unto durable vinyl banners.

Make visually exciting banners that engages the interest of your audience. Make use of your digital photos and easily print them online. Translate your digital art unto larger than life proportions and create multi-functional prints.

Accomplish all of these and more at Digital Room where your designs are easily rendered as colorful and high-resolution banners for your business, commercial, and even academic activities. The multitude of uses you can explore and apply your vinyl banners are as far and wide as your imagination can take you.”

Digital Room

For over 25 years, we’ve catered to small and medium sized businesses nationwide. Powered by brand new fully automated in-house Komori presses and CREO direct-to-plate, we offer faster turnaround with minimal human error and lower overhead cost. This allows us to provide customers with consistently high-quality printing at the lowest possible prices.

We are a division of U-Printing Network, with offices and facilities based out of West Los Angeles, CA.

Today we have a giveaway for all our US readers , which is most of you anyway

Giveaway Prize:

24×36 Vinyl Banner w/ Grommets for One (1) Winner

Specifications: 1 Business Day Turnaround

Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only

Please be noted that giveaways should be announced/end on the 13^th of May.

Someone has to win so if your the only one who enters you will get this prize just follow the rules

The rules are simple :

1. Leave a comment – with a valid email address so we can contact you with the prize .

2. Subscribe to us via RSS - Its 100 % free – you’ll get updated with the latest articles : )

A little information about our giveaway patron :

Digital Room Banner Printing

Digital Room

“Digital Room is your online banner printing service and solutions provider for high-quality prints that perform to your demands. Our banner printing technology helps you achieve wide-format prints that are sharp, clear and vivid, easily capturing the colors and the clarity of your images unto durable vinyl banners.

Make visually exciting banners that engages the interest of your audience. Make use of your digital photos and easily print them online. Translate your digital art unto larger than life proportions and create multi-functional prints.

Accomplish all of these and more at Digital Room where your designs are easily rendered as colorful and high-resolution banners for your business, commercial, and even academic activities. The multitude of uses you can explore and apply your vinyl banners are as far and wide as your imagination can take you.”

Digital Room

For over 25 years, we’ve catered to small and medium sized businesses nationwide. Powered by brand new fully automated in-house Komori presses and CREO direct-to-plate, we offer faster turnaround with minimal human error and lower overhead cost. This allows us to provide customers with consistently high-quality printing at the lowest possible prices.

We are a division of U-Printing Network, with offices and facilities based out of West Los Angeles, CA..

Winners announced 13th May Good Luck Everyone .

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The new design here at Digital Art Empire has already helped to increase the community interaction and general positive energy around the blog.

I’ve been able to make many online friends and acquaintances who have design blogs too ; they have all been refreshingly open and friendly .

I’m really grateful to the community of designers and bloggers who read my blog and help to make this site work . These are the people who I talk with regularly and help to make the community.

In no particular order thanks : )

Creative Fan

My Ink Blog

Rich Works

Smashing Share

Web Expedition18

aext.net

Web Design Fan

Design Informer

Web Design Mash

Creative Overflow

Circle Box

AcrisDesign

Little Box of Ideas

Fudge Graphics

Pixel Cloud

If I missed you out sorry , please leave a comment and we can connect : )

At the start of my journey I set out to see what would happen, having had some great successes making video tutorials for my You Tube channel I had high hopes, which happily I can say have been met.

After blogging part time since September last year and more seriously devoted since the start of this year I have seen a steady and faster than expected growth in the community here.

The growth after the start of 2010 has been doubling every month, and I put this down to publishing every day and writing good quality articles and tuts that get stumbled and tweeted. So, points to note if you own a blog are, consistently publishing and writing attractive content is a formula for success.

Over the weekend we had a massive traffic increase with 20 thousand visits over Saturday and Sunday , our monthy total was 62 thousand – this isn’t our usual stats as you can see , but they say you should celebrate all you victories. Most of this traffic came from stumble upon

The plan is to continue to write original tutorials articles and inspiring showcases whilst broadening the topics to include more 3D,code and web programs.

The new design –

I’d like to thank Kailoon for his amazing support whilst getting this site together and ironing out any little glitches

There will be a User link feed setup in the very near future so I’ll send out an email to all those who blog.

Header

The header is simple gorgeous , and reflects the quality of posts you can expect at DAE.

Sidebar

Nice large Rss & Twitter buttons with FB and email subs too. If you haven’t already please take this time to sign up – its absolutely free .

Footer

I really love the footer area and may well enhance it some more – it has our Flickr group and pulls posts from categories. Theres also a scroll to top button and link to our freebies.

Under the hood theres a php script called timthumb that auto resizes images making my life a lot easier.

The new logo

I wanted to say ‘Empire’ with the new logo , that was my overriding objective because it’s the unique selling point that no one else in the design/blog sphere has.

I originally had in mind a triangle and pillars like a Roman temple or forum , I took this idea to concept feedback and was reminded  to keep it simple. So after much drawing and redrawing I chose the wreath, which I think simply and subtly says ‘Empire’

Have your say – thoughts and feedback.

I look forward to hearing what you have to say , please feel free to point out any glitches – There are known issues in IE 7 and below – and some database errors that are being ironed out as I type . Overall I’m very happy with the design and will build up on the  success I have seen humbly and steadily : )

If your reading this then there’s a high probability that your are either a freelancer, self employed with your own company or you are employed within a company & working in design, development or something connected with digital art.

All these tools have been chosen to help you with your design life. You can think of it as a kind spring clean with tools to help you be more efficient stay organised and do things you may not even be aware of.

I hope you find these tools useful please retweet and remember to subscribe to our RSS.

Thank for the image  Obskurantist

Dabbleboard is a convenient web-based collaborative drawing tool that’s designer-friendly. Create web layouts, design user interfaces, or draw freehand with other fellow designers

E-mail large files – fast, easy and secure!

Test Everything helps you to run 100 tests on your website to validate and check for errors.

The most popular web development tool for Firefox

Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time – Use the most advanced JavaScript debugger available for any browser

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they are not in use.

Grease monkey scripts – home to thousands of free scripts that enhance the sites you already use

Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

Freelance folder is a very useful sight dedicated to freelancing that has often helped me to stay organized and motivated .

Afer the popularity of our previous brush sets 15 Free Space Brushes – Galaxy Nebula & Planets & 9 Unique and Exclusive iPod and iPad Brushes for Photosho it looks like Ill be doing a weekly brush set because you like them so much.

These are all amazing bushes at the highest possible size, 2500. I’m sure you’ll enjoy using theme for a variety of projects. Please retweet this and be sure to subscribe via RSS. If you would like set of brushes with a particular theme please leave a comment or email me and I’ll be happy to get them made.

Thank you to the following photographer’s russelljsmith / Lincolnian (Brian) /ruurmo /Swami Stream /tomooka /Per Ola Wiberg ~ Powi ~ back

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I recently made some fractal brushes for Little Box of Ideas . They had a good response so I thought I’d make some for you guys too .

These are all made at 2500 pixels and should work in photoshop CS and above. If you enjoyed use them please feel free to link to them but please don’t redistribute as your own.

It looks like we’ll be publishing a new brush set every week so if you have any requests for brushes leave a comment saying what type your interested in or email us. Please retweet this and be sure to get out RSS feed.

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Another awesome giveaway this time its the largest we’ve had so far

500 – 14 pt gloss cardstock, 14 pt matte cardstock or 13 pt recycled uncoated cardstock

Giveaway Prize:

500 Business Cards for One (1) Winner

Sizes:  2 x 3.5”, 2 x 3”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.5 x 3.5” (slim card)

Paper: 14 pt gloss cardstock, 14 pt matte cardstock or 13 pt recycled uncoated cardstock

Specifications: Full Color Both Sides; Offset Press; 3 Business Day Printing

Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only

Business Cards Online -   Here is the UPrinting site

Promotional Printing

How to enter

1 – Follow Digital Art Empire on Twitter

2 - Tweet the post with the tweet meme button

3 – Leave a comment ( the most important step) with your Twitter ID and email address so we know who to send the prize to.

4 – subscribe to our RSS feed (to receive the latest posts and giveaway’s on Digital Art Empire direct to your reader),

* Please follow the rules or you will not be eligible for the competition : )

Thankyou

First of all thank you so much for reading the blog, obviously you are the force that makes the whole thing work and in a sense it really is your blog. We love to hear what you have to say so please don’t be a stranger and join in the community.

After being inspired by Little Box of Ideas and their recent 1 year update  I decided to post the recent changes here at Digital Art Empire ( hopefully soon simple writing DAE will be ok but until people know what the hell I mean it’ll have to be the long version.) So my intention is to make the blog more personal and grow a community with some healthy design discussions.

Posts & Progress

As part of being an active,open and transparent community I would like to share the progress of Digital Art Empire.

For the regular readers you will have noticed as of January this year I have been posting every day, except weekends. Firstly this has increased the readership and exposure for the blog, which always makes me happy.

Secondly this has given me a structure and made the discipline of blogging easier. I also like to think of this Jan 2010 as the actual start date of my blog, even though my first post was in August 09. Back then I hadn’t really planned what I would post and had expected a much easier growth.

You may well have noticed that over the weekend the side bar disappeared briefly then repapered completely transformed. This was because I upgraded the site and the side bar nav was gone, I had been planning to change it anyway so knuckled down and spent the wkend editing it.

The design changes

First of all the for side bar I used a plugin to add clickable images to the sidebar. As you can see on the right of this post, I made them nice and large – from RSS to Flickr.

I took away the old logo (modified it a bit) and made it shorter. Then added the subscribe to RSS / email and social media buttons. Of course if you haven’t already please do subscribe via RSS or email to get the latest direct to your reader or inbox.

Then I added a much improved top navigation with more focused categories. We now have a freebies, articles, interview and inspiration category.

The archives are also completely expandable with all the posts from the very start listed.

To improve SEO I included pagination, you can click through all the pages now. A back to top button on the footer for easier navigation, I use this one myself a lot.

Last but not least the main change, for me at least and the one that was trickiest is the sliding gallery on the font page. After customising it to match the themes colours I added the code and got it running. Let me know what you think.

Having taken inspiration from Creativeoverflow’s Redesign I’m planning on widening the site and having posts at around 680 pixels wide instead of 500.

What the future holds

Im going to continue to publish every week day with some high quality posts like  7 Proven Ways to Boost Your Creativity.

I will also be posting a tutorial every week on friday as I have done this month – please feel free to ask what you would like to see more of either in comments or directly.

I know that most of you who read this blog would like some exposure for your own blog, folio or name. Guest posts are the best way to give your career a boost. If you would like to write for Digital Art Empire please get in contact.

I’ve done quite a few guest posts at My Ink Blog and another at PSD Fan and it really is the absolute No1. way to gain exposure and make some connections. Andrew Houle over at My Ink Blog is an exanple of the kind of client/blogger that makes design enjoyable. Of course you will get a Bio, a link to your site and twitter profile.

Behind the scenes

The running of Digital Art Empire is all done by Ben Rama (me) -they guy writing all this stuff : )

This is me in my profile image:

Logo redesigns are rarely needed if a brand has many years of brand awareness. If done correctly, they are often subtle – retaining the customer appreciation. When done on a already working logo it generally doesn’t do it any justice and is often a disaster.

Here we look at 7 logo redesign successes and disasters
starting with the winners-

Thanks to gtmcknight for the front image Thanks toFamous Logos & Brand new for the logos

Thank you all for reading Digital Art Empire!