UPDATE 1/1/12: We have our winners!  First place Big Kahuna Prize goes to graphic designer Stephanie Malone @smalonedesign and our Comment Contest winner is photographer Ben Goode.  Congratulations, guys!  Thanks again to all entrants, and all partners that made this contest possible. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for a great free collection of small, simple icons to link up to all of your favorite social media sites?  Here is a very clean and well rounded icon pack that I just found from Komodo Media.

Here were the icons I found useful, and you might also note that I created one more for the Behance Network, which was missing (in case anyone needs it).

This an online seminar I’ve been looking forward to. #CreativeLIVE has been broadcasting some free live workshops (available for purchase after the original airdate) for a while now. I just thought it was worth mentioning that today was going to be Jeremy Cowart’s turn, offering a workshop on Experimental Portraiture. Jeremy is a dude you might be familiar with. He is the photographer that started Help Portrait. Watching his live interview the other day with Chase Jarvis on Chase Jarvis Live, we learned about how he has a background in graphic design, later making the switch to full time photography (I can definitely relate to that). Pass this along to a friend – I’m sure they would appreciate it. The live broadcast starts at 10:00 am PST.

Creative Live really is a great resource for creatives of all kinds.  They cover classes on photography, Photoshop techniques, web development, application development, and more.  Check out the course calendar and make sure you enroll for the upcoming classes you’re interested in.  If you don’t work for yourself, then you might just be able to convince you boss to let you get away from your daily workload in the office.  Once they hear that it’s free, how can they say no!?

Sometime I just let these play in the background, and I listen is as I work.  You just might pick up a few new ideas or tidbits that you will find helpful to apply in your own stuff.

UPDATE: Be sure to also “tune in” today, 12/03/10 for part 2 of the workshop.  Yesterday Jeremy did a lot of experimental studio portraiture, some Q&A, and plenty of critiques.  You can also chat about what is going on with all of the other viewers, which is pretty cool.  It lets you interact live with what is going on, and even possibly allows you to get a question in for Jeremy to answer live.

Here’s a fun and challenging little color hue game that any graphic designer or photographer will get a kick out of.  I took the Munsell hue test as fast as I possibly could, and my score was a 4.  Not perfect, but close enough I guess.  The closer to zero you can get, the better.  This is also a good test to see how well your monitor is calibrated.

Feel free to post your score in the comments below!