{ Behance }

Number two on my Top Ten List for Designer Resources on the Web is Behance. Behance is a social media website that connects artist and designer from all around the world. Behance can best be described as a online portfolio, it allows you to showcase your work and get feedback from other artist, some as far away as China. On Behane it's all about self promotion, companies as big as LinkedIn, AIGA, Adweek, and numerous others have the ability to check out your work and comment on it. Since Behance is owned by Adobe it's a pretty well recognized website. I highly suggest Behance to any designer or artist because its a great site to find out what other people are creating. If you find someones work that you like you can appreciate it and even follow that persons page and get updates from them. This is the perfect website for anyone who wants to connect with like minded people and share their passions.

Below I have shared my Behance information so that you can follow me and possible appreciate my work. I also posted some photos from Behance for those of you who aren't really that familiar with Behance and what it has to offer.

{ Rachel Rising Behance Link }

This is what the homepage looks like when you first log in to Behance. It will show work from the people you follow and the work that is trending on the site.

This is what your portfolio page would look like, it shows your work and how many people have viewed your projects, appreciation your work, and whose following you.

This is what your work pages look like. It gives a more in depth look at what you have to offer. It can go more in depth as what your project is and how many have people liked it. 

Happy Sharing!!!

{Top Ten List for Designer Resources on the Web }

For a class assignment we had to create a top ten list of anything that could relate back to our blogs. Since this blog is about design I decided to share my top ten websites to use when it comes to finding design resources on the web. In the next couple of days I'll go more in depth on each of my top tens. I've linked each designer resource for easy access and to give you a chance to check them out yourself.For now here is my top ten list. Hope this can be just as helpful for you as it's to me.

{Top Ten List for Designer Resources on the Web }

{1}  Pinterest – social media site used for bookmarking

{2}  Behance -  social media site used for connecting with other designers around the world

{3}  Adobe Kuler- used for everything color related. Helpful for creating color pallets

{4}  Fontshop- a blog connecting font lovers from around the world

{5}  Font in Use – used to help identify typefaces

{6}  Awwwards – award site for designers and web developers

{7}  The Design Encyclopedia – references material for designers

{8}  Typophile – font identify website. Helps connect experts in type with other designers around the world

{9}  Font Squirrel- font downloading website

{10} Ad Club of Buffalo- helps connect designers with other designers in their area. Can be used or job searches also.

{ QR Codes and Scanners }

As I mention in my last post I have been working on rebranding myself the last couple of weeks. I have redone everything, including my business card. Since a business card is one of the most common things in our world it can be hard to stick out from the crowd. This was what I wanted to do. Since I was young I never really followed the social norm, I was always trying to follow my own path. So it was no surprise that when it comes to my business card I wanted to be unique and having something more than just my name, phone number, email and so on. Since I have also always been good with technology I did some research on what is trending in the digital design form. Something that has been around for years now is QR codes. QR codes are similar to bar codes in the sense that they are scanned to get the information. This was something that I found very interesting, with some more research I found that you can create a QR code for just about anything, websites, digital business cards, and so much more. I knew QR codes were just what I was looking for. The next step would be what website to share with my future employers. I ended up picking my Behance page {I'll talk about Behance next week}. And just like that I had a way to make myself stick out in a crowd, the only down fall was that I didn't have a QR code scanner or a QR code generator. With a simple Goggle search I found the generator that creates QR codes with little information. All you really need to know is the URL or the simple contact information. Here's the website for the QR Generator that I use http://www.qrstuff.com/. The last and final step is getting a QR Scanner, this was easy you can download a QR Scanner on all smartphone devices. Most QR scanner apps also double as bar code scanners. So it would be something that I would consider downloading the next time you’re on your smartphone devices. Hopefully this helps, and just to tie in all in I'll upload a picture of code I just made for the back of my business card. Happy QR-ing

{ QR Code for My Behance Page }