News

Goodbye – Steve Jobs Passes Away Today

by Danny Cruz| Follow Danny @sixstringsensei on Twitter HERE

Steve Jobs Passes Away

Never have I stopped everything I’m doing to write about someone passing away, until today. Mr. Steve Jobs, who died today Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 56 years old, created the platform on which my livelihood flourishes every single day. Mr. Steve Jobs, I salute you. We designers salute you. You were an inspiration to us all. May God bless your family and give them strength through these hard times. You will be missed and the face of the digital world will never again be the same. -D

{ 4 comments }

A Post About Whatever the Heck I Want!

May 29, 2011

Yes! Right now I’m writing a nice post about whatever the heck I want! I don’t care if it does well.  I don’t care if it ranks well on the search engines.  I just want to write for the sake of writing. It’s Sunday.  The very day before Memorial Day.  I participated in a regatta [...]

Read the full article →

What is Twitter and How Does it Work?

April 14, 2011
Thumbnail image for What is Twitter and How Does it Work?

In recent weeks I have released a number of Twitter tips articles based on my own experience.  Most of the information in these articles is intended for people with some level of experience with the service.  I do realize however there are thousands of new people joining Twitter every single day.  Somebody has to take [...]

Read the full article →

New Twitter Followers – Reasons Why it’s Harder to Get Them Now. Part 2

March 31, 2011

Photo by: Johan J. Ingles (This post is part 2 of the article, New Twitter Followers – Reasons Why it’s Harder to Get Them Now. Part 1 Here. It’s based on an exchange of emails between the author of this reply, Jane and myself.  It offers quite a bit of insight on the situation on [...]

Read the full article →

How to Succeed on Twitter – The Personal Common Sense Approach

March 24, 2011

After the big interest shown on last week’s post about new Twitter followers… (Read the article Twitter Followers – Why it’s Harder to Get Them Now here) I decided to write a follow up. In this follow up article I’ll to teach you what I do in order to have success on Twitter. You can [...]

Read the full article →

New Twitter Followers – Reasons Why it’s Harder to Get Them Now. Part 1

March 17, 2011

Photo by: Johan J. Ingles Recently, I had a discussion with a friend about what seems to be a loss in momentum of acquiring legitimate new followers on Twitter.  The email also brought up the current issue of the saturation of Facebook pages.  I felt the information was too interesting to keep to ourselves so [...]

Read the full article →

Consider this a Warning!

March 3, 2011

Consider this a warning.  Well, more like a call for your attention; an alert.  Today is Thursday.  Also the first week of May 2011. What’s so important about that?  Last month was my 10th wedding anniversary.  I managed to pull something off that most people cannot.  And I’m happy to say that thanks to that, [...]

Read the full article →

Graphic Designer Salary – How Much Should You be Earning?

February 7, 2011
Thumbnail image for Graphic Designer Salary – How Much Should You be Earning?

There are various books published yearly, some very well known, that attempt to offer the professional graphic designer a comprehensive guide as to how much money they should be making. While I encourage you to read up on your industry and these books are a great option, I’d like to focus my attention on website [...]

Read the full article →

Promo Videos for RavX Cycling Lights

January 23, 2011

This is mostly a graphic design blog, but as many of you already know, my interests are many and I stray from the topic sometimes.  However, video filming and editing shares a very close relationship with graphic arts.  I recently created two promo videos for RAVX Inc. to help promote 2 of their new cycling [...]

Read the full article →

How I Created the Art Wave for the Surf Theme

May 2, 2010

I just updated my site’s style switcher and added the first of 3 styles.  This one is for the surf theme.  I’ve got 2 more coming…  Dirt and snow.  You might be wondering how I created the wave that sits below the header.  It was a small sketch I drew this morning.  I then scanned [...]

Read the full article →