The true heroes of the design world, of Ad Agencies and In House Art Departments are Production Artist. These graphic designers use their skills to correct the mistakes and polish the work of other graphic designers, as well as take their layout, art and concepts and translate them across different media and generate new sizes and formats while keeping things consistent and maintaining their quality.

No matter what level you’ve reached in your career or journey as a designer, there is always room for improvement! Today I’m going to cover a few ways you can improve your design skills and reach your next level.

Melody Nieves is one of my favorite people in the online design community and its was a real treat to interview her and ask her some questions, and more about her blog SexiDesign.com

Herald of Creation was a nice chance to use some of my favorite photo manipulation techniques in an interesting way and combine them with some vectors from Go Media.

Roberto Blake Interviewed by GraphicEssence.com “I’m actually really happy this interview came up and GE had some really interesting questions for me!

With the release of the new God of War 3 video game I couldn’t help but notice a great deal of artwork in the online community that relates to the game. Much of it is quite amazing!

It’s been a while since I had a featured artist on the blog but I’m really excited about this one. Zach Bush is one of my favorite digital artist on deviantart and his work happened to be featured on the cover of the same issue of Advanced Photoshop Magazine that I happened to appear in this month.

I woke up this Monday to find an email in my inbox telling me “you have won”. Now immediately I was set to delete this thinking it was spam until I realized that it had come from ILoveDesign.com needless to say that I was pleasantly surprised!

Touched is one my favorite new pieces that will be featured in my upcoming book, this image was also featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine issue 67 (march/april 2010).

Today’s featured artist has some truly amazing work, particularly some prints available through deviantart.com. Alexiuss is an amazing digital artist based out of Canada with a fantastic array of dark artwork. In fact I have to honestly say this represents some of the best dark artwork I’ve seen in the deviantart community.

At the end of last year 3 pieces of my artwork were featured in Photoshop Creative Magazine Issue 54 along with several other digital artist. In this article I talk about that experience and how it effected me.

Today’s artist that I’ve feature has some work that simply blew me away when I saw it. Her work managed to find its way into my favorites collection fairly quickly. She is 27 year old Turkish Graphic Designer Asli Yeniay Kizilay, and her work is just amazing.

Energetic was a photo manipulation inspired by the song “Energetic” by BOA. It is a high impact club song with a great beat and energy to it and was able to inspired some of my best work. This image has also become one of my most popular photo manipulations on DeviantArt.

In this video I cover a lot of questions that new/young Designers and Digital Artist have asked me, but also address things that are relevant to any designer or artist looking to get more work or recognition.

Today I interview a truly great and talented Graphic Designer and Digital Artist who has been featured in many publications both for his artwork and tutorials. To be quite honest he is one of my personal heroes in the creative industry and possibly one of the most talented Digital Illustrators I have seen! Many of you will be familiar with his work! He is UK Digital Artist David Cousens of Cool Surface!

In keeping with #typographytuesday I have featured a Graphic Designer who excels at the art of typography! Mr Graphics Guy of Deviant Art whom had much of his work showcased in my article 30 Examples of TypographyDesign is a master of typographic design and a great source of inspiration in the Deviant Art Community.