Alright, today we want to talk about an amazing tool that I use constantly finding new ways
to use this tool when it comes to graphic design, it's called Graphic River and its
graphicriver.net I believe.
Here we go, there it is and it's by the people who brought you themeforest and videohive
and a few other videos that we've already made and tools that you've already used frequently
but I haven't really gotten into graphic river until recently when something happened that
I found and went "oh man, this is fantastic."
The first thing is that the design of logos can be a very expensive exercise but what
these guys have which I love is they have logo templates that you can use, in particular
I like the idea of having sort of a retro logo and I was able to for a couple of dollars
as you can see here buy a collection of retro logos that we were then able to use, they
come as Photoshop templates in this case and you pretty much just put in your own name,
put in your own tagline and suddenly you have your own logo.
In this case a kind of retro looking style, and here you can see some more again vintage
typography to give sort of a certain look and feel and the other one that I did was,
I think I called it retro badges which gave me again some fantastic logo collections.
And again if you have a look at their on these it's a little bit crazy, 9 badges for $4 that
you can use as a quick template logo either for you own business or for a particular project
that you're working on, here are some more.
So that's the first thing that I found but the next thing is we do something at Tim Levy
and Associates quite frequently called a "pitch book."
If you type pitch book into this, unfortunately nothing will really come up apart from some
PowerPoint stuff and we're not massive believers in PowerPoint.
However, it turns out that there is a particular group of people who are constantly doing pitch
books the way we see it and that is designers.
Young designers love to do portfolios of their work so that different people can see how
fantastic they are as a designer.
Well it turns out you can buy these portfolio templates, goodness gracious so attractive
for usually a couple of dollars.
So if look in here you can see this particular portfolio $12 and it gives you an 'In Design'
file that basically allows you to put your own copy in, your images in using this layout,
using these fonts and you wind up with a fantastic little pitch book, a little portfolio book
of what your business is about.
And we do use them especially to pitch, especially slightly larger value clients and projects,
so we build them for our clients to often use them in fundraising and things like that.
Here is another one with a good design.
But the real feather in the cap of this came sort of by mistake, and I'm just signing in
here so I can pull this one up out of one of the collections that I made.
The real amazing thing here is when we saw that one of these portfolio designs or what
we would call 'pitch book' designs actually came for an ipad. $15 and this gives you 30
pages with multiple layouts.
I should say dual layouts of the horizontal and vertical ipad layout for portfolio.
I went ahead to think about it another way, and you can see where you insert your own
materials easily here.
The great thing about this is 'In Design' now has an automatic ipad app generator, so
once you fill this thing in, I believe you can basically press go and it will build an
app for you that makes this into an interactive app as the portfolio of your business or the
pitch book for your business which we are starting to play with.
So all good reasons to spend a little bit time at this website graphicriver which just
takes the amount of time and money to design things down staggeringly.
What you then need is a designer who would work with these templates, of course we find
them in the usual places: fiverr, elance, etc.
Feel free to have a look at some of our other videos with that in mind; finding a terrific
designer.
Alright, that has been a little video on graphicriver.