Some of you may have noticed if you have bookmarked our homepage (http://arbent.net former home of ACD, or Arbent Creative Designs), that you get automatically routed to here. Arbenting. The blog. Go ahead and click the link if you don’t believe. We’ll wait right here. Okay, that’s enough. Now it’s just annoying.
So, yeah, about that. We did this for a couple of reasons. Neither of which is that we have decided not to pursue a career in creative design. There’s a difference between not getting hired and deciding not to …

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And the iPhone version

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the 2nd in our Tutorial Series. Last week we gave you 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator, and you seemed to like it. So this week, as promised, we’re fixing our Arbenting focus on Photoshop. This will not be the last you see of this series, either, for it will extend over the course of the next four weeks as we bring you installments each Friday on Fireworks, InDesign, After Effects and Flash.

After a couple of weeks of indecisive back and forths, we finally settled on, and got our About Us and our Freelance pages completed and put up on the blog. So if you’ve been wanting to get to know us a bit better, read on below or visit the former link. If you haven’t…aawww, why? Why don’t you like us? We are really cool people, it says so in our bios. Anyways, now there is easier access to the Arbenting duo, either personally (About us), or professionally (Freelance).
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Here is a look at Angie’s entry for the U-Printing International Poster Design Competition. We thought we would post this here to help spread the word about the contest and give those who didn’t know about it a heads up. The deadline is August 29.

Well another week has come and gone, and what a week it has been here at Arbenting. The Stumblers took hold of our 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator post and have really gone to town with it. Which the post has thoroughly enjoyed. Why just this afternoon it was telling us about all the wonderful things you have done with it. All kidding aside, the post received 10k pageviews in a single day!! That blew our mind. The traffic continues to amaze us and we have all of …

When any designer is starting out, the body of work they would normally show off to potential clients to woo and wow them, isn’t exactly there yet. So what’s the poor designer to do? How does one work up a sizable and stunning collection of work? Some say the answer is padding.
Now most people are familiar with some version or another of padding. Some folks pad their paychecks by clocking in too early or waiting to clock out, and letting the time build up while they do nothing. Some …

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We made an iPhone version of this one as well.