The ’starving artist’ title gets tossed around so much these days when it comes to the freelance designers or graphic artists struggling to make their mark on the art world. But this year for Blog Action Day 08, these so-called ’starving artists’ are coming together in droves to help reveal the true face of poverty to the masses, so that this pandemic issue may be combated properly. It’s inspiring to see so many working together to leave a lasting mark on the whole world, something that doesn’t happen that often …

This is a new flyer design for 1 Million Mad, a nationwide protest that is being planned for March 2009 in the US. All graphic and copy done by Arbent Creative Designs.

This is a new vector illustration made for an LSD themed poster challenge at a design forum I just joined. I’m still very much getting my feet wet in vector work so I decided to stick with something clean and simple for this design.

This was one of those websites that start off going in one direction then evolves into a completely different animal once it’s finished. I sat one day just staring at the screen for 20 minutes or so, knowing that I hated what was on the screen but not knowing what to do about it. Most of the time it’s better to get away from a project for a while if it’s not going the way you like, but if you’ve done that and are still feeling stuck, try …

And that’s a wrap! ACD’s first official job has been completed, and we proudly present the website designed for the Pike’s Peak Area Guide to Healthy Living. It was more than a rewarding experience, it was a learning one as well. Like we learned to never, ever accept a job with a large scale directory without fully understanding the full scope of the directory…especially, for a flat fee. Oh yes, 270 pages, on a nominal fixed rate. Did it hurt? There is a certain rawness, but the swellings mostly gone …

It might be said that it’s rather fitting for Arbent Creative Designs’ first official, fully from scratch, WordPress theme to have been created for ACD’s blog. Some might also say it’s poetic justice. Especially given the playful and harmonic flow and feel that it embodies. Given that the beginnings of php have only begun to be breached by our design specialist, and at times the foreign look of the pages matched the puzzled look on her face, things went amazingly smooth (as tends to be the case when it comes …