We’ve made a website for translation company called Germanicon.

Website is very content oriented - it features blog as a main way to communicate with users, but also have strong content management based on Joomla.

From visual side - we tried to depicted the Germanicon as it really is - small translators company, passionate about language and communication. That’s why we’ve designed very friendly and “think-out-of-the-box” layout.

We’ve also designed a logo - with bright, orange color and distinct gray.

Visit Germanicon website

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Germanicon logo close-up

If you would like to learn more about how to draw cartoons, or would just like to get inspired - here are some books fror you.

Ben Caldwell (check his official site btw.) is great and very experienced cartoon designer. He share his knowledge in two tutorial-type books called “Action Cartooning” and “Fantasy Cartooning”.

There are descirbed examples of great cartoon sketches, the whole design process is shown step by step.

You can also find some design tips, commonly made mistakes - and a lot of more.

Those two books helped me a lot in my work - check them yourself, you won’t regret it.

When you’ll have to handle multiple tasks with different priorities, and the clock is running - you need to have something more than yellows stickies to help you.
RememberTheMilk comes in to help.

It’s a web application to handle to-do list.

It’s simple and easy to use - yet extremly effective and flexible.
You can setup different priorities for tasks, add tags, notes - and at top of all - you can share them with others (it’s great with such small business like ours - communication between client, project menager, designer and programmer is much faster - everybody knows what should be done and when).
The only small disadvantage is that you can group tasks in project (not directly - you can add the same tag to all project’s tasks - and than browse tasks by this tag).

Our overall experience with RememberTheMilk is very good - it’s much easier to have the things done with a tool like this.