Senior Graphic Designers occupy a high-level creative position in our company. He/She is expected to be able to take full creative, and production responsibility for any project. He/She will be responsible for the concept, design and production of communication assets and various other branding and marketing-related materials. The qualified candidate should have a hands-on approach and positive, quick problem-solving attitude and must have strong Graphic design experience and an online portfolio.
- Strong "concepting" skills are a must
- Outstanding creativity
- Demonstrate an excellent sense of design, layout and typography
- Speedy skills - able to turn jobs around quickly and accurately
- Have excellent interpersonal and communicative skills
- Must be comfortable following direction
- Be able to balance great design with rigid deadlines
- Ability to produce results independently and in a team environment
- Highly organized and able to work with multiple projects
- Ability to handle shifting priorities and deliver multiple projects on time with high-quality results in a fast-paced environment
- Careful attention to detail; ability to work with minimal supervision
- Work closely with Creative and Marketing teams
- Client interaction required
- Ability to help clients define and solve the most complex communications problems
- Strong business understanding and financial skills of relevant work
hr@tagbrands.com
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Junior Graphic Designer - TagBrands - Lebanon
The Junior Graphic Designer must have the ability to interpret core project objectives/requirements and develop creative concepts. Produce solutions to provide high quality design materials for publishing products.
- Responsible for assisting in conceptualizing, designing and the completion of collateral material for corporate projects including company brochures, and any other collateral or advertising material, as assigned.
- Responsible for assisting in conceptualizing, designing and the completion of collateral material for specials, as assigned.
- In addition to creative responsibilities, the designer will be the primary manager of graphic vendors, such as printers, photographers.
- This position also requires administrative duties, such as archiving print material, handling logo requests, developing and maintaining filing system, etc
- Responsible for the concept, design and delivery of a wide range of graphic design solutions
- Develop creative concepts through discussions and planning sessions with team members.
- Identify new trends in design and form for delivery of materials.
- Elevate the creative thinking across the organization
hr@tagbrands.com
- Responsible for assisting in conceptualizing, designing and the completion of collateral material for corporate projects including company brochures, and any other collateral or advertising material, as assigned.
- Responsible for assisting in conceptualizing, designing and the completion of collateral material for specials, as assigned.
- In addition to creative responsibilities, the designer will be the primary manager of graphic vendors, such as printers, photographers.
- This position also requires administrative duties, such as archiving print material, handling logo requests, developing and maintaining filing system, etc
- Responsible for the concept, design and delivery of a wide range of graphic design solutions
- Develop creative concepts through discussions and planning sessions with team members.
- Identify new trends in design and form for delivery of materials.
- Elevate the creative thinking across the organization
hr@tagbrands.com
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
HTML codes for the ASCII
or simply put, how to get any symbol, letter etc. to show up properly on your website.
Writing simple blocks of text into your site is no problem at all, but what happens if you want to use symbols or letters such as; ¢, ¥, ¼, æ...
On some platforms such as Blogspot, you are in luck, you can open your character map or search the web for the symbol you want to use (which is a huge waste of time) copy/paste it and there it is. However you won't be so lucky if you decide to hard-code your website which will result in these symbols appearing jumbled up when you put them online. So here is the solution for both coders and those who don't want to waste precious time looking up the symbol.
Go to this link: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
Look up the symbol you want and copy either the html-name or html-number (both works) and paste it into your code to wherever you want it to be.
This next part is for those who will use it on Blogspot: While you are on the "New Post" or "Edit Post" Screen, where you have the title box and the text box, there are 2 options towards the top-right end of the text box; originally you always have Compose selected. Whenever you are going to paste one of these codes, select Edit HTML and paste it, then return to Compose and it should be there. You can keep on writing normally back in Compose and switch back and forth whenever you want.
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ajax/javascript/flash image galleries
Here are some really good and popular image galleries that you can use in your web pages. All of them are free, however some do have Creative Commons licenses, so read carefully if you are thinking of monetizing your sites in future. All websites contain step by step tutorials on how to setup and customize the galleries, however most of them will require you to get your hands dirty, meaning you have to go into the code.
Ajax Galleries
Lightbox (most popular, slick and cool design)
Javascript Galleries
Highslide (personal favorite, very customizable, probably requires the most coding among these)
Flash Galleries
Will be updated... Check back for more soon.
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bitmap/pixel fonts
http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php
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Now that we are beginning to speak about image based menu items - the above link will take you to one of the best collections of free bitmap fonts online.
(Note: Since bitmap fonts are based upon an exact pixel count they need to be used at the exact specified size which you will see all the way to the right on the red bar above the font preview. (Typographic point sizes correspond to the pixel size at 72 ppi screen resolution by the way). So, be sure to have the right size - anything less or more will make the font break up in really ugly ways. )
(Also: Remember to set the anti-aliasing value to "none" from the pull down menu on the font palette, as shown in the screenshot below, since this value is what will give you the crystal clear sharpness that you want from a bitmap font. )
(Also: Remember to set the anti-aliasing value to "none" from the pull down menu on the font palette, as shown in the screenshot below, since this value is what will give you the crystal clear sharpness that you want from a bitmap font. )
image based menus
Look on the left column right here on this site and you will see that the pages menu now has image buttons with rollovers instead of just plain text ones. This was done with a code generated here:
So easy it is almost ridiculous!
Once you have the code, go to Design and add an HTML/CSS gadget to one of your columns, paste the code, save - and you are done! (Tip: Needless to say, you can make more than just 3 buttons. The generator gives you 5 to begin with anyway. However if you have even more than that, simply copy paste the lines from the script and change the image and destination URLs in the added lines. )
Some other nice stuff too on this site by the way, such as a pull down menu generator, a pop-up window maker, a story generator - gotta love this one! :-), lots of image effects, text effects, and and...
http://javascript.internet.com/
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
for slideshows...
Absolutely fabulous!
All you need to do is go to http://web.photodex.com/ and create a free account. This is an online version of the famous proshow slideshow application. These people are simply the very best in their field, so naturally what they have now developed for the web stands head and shoulders above all the competition as well. There are beautiful themes to choose from (I didn't even touch the one which I used, it was that nice to begin with), but you can customize them as well. Add music from your computer or their library. Again, I was lazy, used their music...
Once your show is done, you can get the embed code and paste it straight into the HTML editor of your post here. (Or wherever else you are creating your site, of course). And another neat thing, which I just discovered is that if you edit the show at photodex it will automatically refresh itself to the new version wherever you have linked it to, since the original URL doesn't change.
(Tip: The show is rendered 640 pixels wide and unless you post column is wide enough for it, it will hang off the side if you do not resize it properly. Simply resize by changing the values from inside the code, just like you do with images. )
All you need to do is go to http://web.photodex.com/ and create a free account. This is an online version of the famous proshow slideshow application. These people are simply the very best in their field, so naturally what they have now developed for the web stands head and shoulders above all the competition as well. There are beautiful themes to choose from (I didn't even touch the one which I used, it was that nice to begin with), but you can customize them as well. Add music from your computer or their library. Again, I was lazy, used their music...
Once your show is done, you can get the embed code and paste it straight into the HTML editor of your post here. (Or wherever else you are creating your site, of course). And another neat thing, which I just discovered is that if you edit the show at photodex it will automatically refresh itself to the new version wherever you have linked it to, since the original URL doesn't change.
(Tip: The show is rendered 640 pixels wide and unless you post column is wide enough for it, it will hang off the side if you do not resize it properly. Simply resize by changing the values from inside the code, just like you do with images. )
A free account has its limitations, obviously - such as that you can only use 15 photos per slideshow, your videos (yes! you can in fact embed videos into this!) have to be below a certain length, and your upload space is limited to 100MBs in total. And also I do not think that you can have HD.
I splurged and got a yearly plus account since I know that this is something that I will probably make quite a bit of usage of on my many blogs, but to start out with the free plan certainly gives you enough to play with as well.
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