February 26, 2004
The designer’s dirty little secret
I recently finished designing a mailer for Array Express. The design is based on a wallet with the tagline “Feed your wallet”. It was difficult finding the right photo of a wallet from any of the stock photo houses, so I decided to shoot one of my old wallets I have. It was the perfect old worn-out leather wallet. The photo turned out great and I was able to get exactly what I needed for this design. I thought others might want to use this photo sometime. So I uploaded it to istockphoto.com.
If you haven’t heard of istockphoto, “the designer’s dirty little secret,” than you are missing out. iStockPhoto.com is a the “premier royalty-free stock photography community.” It is a community stock photo library where you can upload your own photos and earn credit to download other’s photos. The upload process is pretty strict, which allows for good photos to be uploaded. Also if you are a member you get one free photo a week. You can’t lose, just don’t tell anyone else about it, it’s a secret.
Blake