Bianca Gubalke

Custom Book Cover Design

Bianca Gubalke — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:30:54 +0000

Custom Book Cover Design

Custom Book Cover Design is a vast term that encompasses everything to do with the creation, design and make-up of a book cover and then an attractive presentation thereof if done so on the Internet.

Custom Book Cover Design

Every graphic artist – and primarily those specializing entirely on Custom Book Cover Design – have their own style and ideally publishing houses etc choose the style that goes with the topic or theme to cover.

Someone specializing in Childrens Books and the related cover designs is not necessarily the ideal fit for a sober or minimalistic scientific book, but one doesn’t always exclude the other. In a world of ’specialists’ and’ field experts’ we tend to label people, actors and artists: one gets the comedy roles, one is the bad one and another the princess or the angel… always… which is sad as firstly Life just isn’t like that – meaning we all have everything within us and as characters we continuously oscillate between opposites of good and bad, light and shadow, happiness and pain – and as such many artists have a wide panoply of talents that just need to be stimulated and get a chance to explode… or a public platform for expression.

A Platform for Expression and Branding

The Internet is such a platform for Expression! And Branding!

The Internet offers anyone a virtual environment to express themselves and brand their name. It is up to us to take this chance and show who we are, what we are working on, what we enjoy and excel at, where we would like to go or what we work on becoming. No fear, no farce, no false pretences!

Not surprisingly, the Internet with its vibrant Social Networks like FaceBook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter and others “in incubation”… has become an exciting field for recruiters to discover and be inspired by the new, the wild, the expressive, the promising – beyond boring admin, doubtful paperwork and other charade… to see and acknowledge the “who I AM NOW”… take it or leave it… as this is who I am right now and for the rest I just move on with the FLOW!

Web Design Consulting

At Web Design Consulting we have a wealth of knowledge, talents and skills that we can merge into any web design project – perfectly tailored to your specifications and requirements. Please get in touch with us via the comment form or the Contact Form and experience speed, ease and absolute dedication to the task at hand.

Alternatively, check out more Attractive Book Covers in our brand-new SHOP HERE (. . . still under construction).

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Powerpoint Presentations

Bianca Gubalke — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:44:29 +0000

Powerpoint Presentations

Powerpoint Presentations are a great way to create a digital photo album, photo book or photo gallery online.

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Powerpoint Presentations

The new Microsoft Office 2010 Beta offers terrific features and effects to change, manipulate and give digital images a more personal, artistic or compelling look while presenting it in an attractive and professional format. Ideally, sound or a narration are added, even video… however, in terms of mere presentations to showcase a product or a service or anything of educational or informational value one should never forget that a powerpoint presentation is a means to an end or rather a tool: nothing can replace the presenter, the voice, the personality behind it all. . . that’s what drives it, what gives it its soul and makes a presentation compelling, persuasive and memorable.

While good quality pictures always pull, the text should be minimal. Here as with everything in web design and artistic expression it’s about finding and developing one’s own style.

But before we get there, it’s important to familiarize ourselves with the various features and learn the techniques. Once we know what’s possible we can let our imagination flow and add to it what it needs to express what we want to say and how we want to say it.

Like anyone else when getting a new program, I have been playing and experimenting with the “Classic Photo Album” feature using digital pictures I took on Noordhoek beach over the past few months. In fact, this is the very first exercise I did and I am looking forward to doing some more using sound and music.

Web Design Consulting

Compelling PowerPoint Presentations for business and individual purposes will be offered in WP Best eShop and we are looking forward to discuss with you your needs at Web Design Consulting.

We will soon be back with more . . . given we’re not grilled, cooked and fried in this incredible heatwave before!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Bianca Gubalke — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:01:18 +0000

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Working with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta is real fun and brings professional results when edited and published correctly as I will show you in a moment.

Yesterday, I did a short PowerPoint presentation featuring “Wild Things” by Rob ‘n Roll as part of our dynamic Noordhoek Music Scene… and today I created a CD Cover for a “jewl case” but cannot deliver the completed product – as done in the past – as it seems the action script got a bug, so you just see the front cover with the spine… and at over 38 degrees Celsius in March !!! and on a holy Sunday I won’t dig deeper today, thank you very much!

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta on Google Top 10

This is my result after publishing my article on “Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta” – it went straight to Google Top 10 as you can see below and HERE is the original link on Google… although these things are always shifting and I do not know when you actually check it… but right now it’s exactly identical with the screenshot below. Click on it to enlargen it for more ease when reading. Amazing – isn’t it?

Web Design Consulting by Bianca Gubalke

What is important to bear in mind is that while we all go for the look of a website… what happens behind the scenes in terms of search engine optimized website optimization is just as important: we need to be visible on Google, that’s the name of the game.

If you consider getting a high performing website with some elegant web design, get in touch with me here or on Web Design Consulting (Contact Form). . . or check out the different scripts at WP Best eShop.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Bianca Gubalke — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:36:57 +0000

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

I enjoyed creating Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations in the past… and our Ycademy members may remember the many educational slides and presentations I did for Ycademy as well as for some birthdays. So I was very curious to see the changes… and WOW! there’s a serious difference when even just looking at all the many features we now have with the brand-new Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta version – projected to hit the public market in June 2010.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

What strikes us immediately with the new Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta version – besides much more sophisticated templates – is the wealth of graphic features, styles, fonts, colors, effects… I almost wanted to say “after effects”… and all sorts of elements and ways to manipulate and embellish a presentation and give it a professional clean and attractive look. It is truly amazing and a huge time saving especially for those who don’t have or are not familiar with Photoshop. As this is a Beta version, one can expect improvements with issues that are not that optimal yet – like getting the text alignments right fast and easy – but this is definitely a superb program to have.

Noordhoek Music Scene

A steaming night at the hot and buzzing Noordhoek Music Scene a few days ago was just right for me to take some digital photos to use for my first exercise with the new Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta version. You just never know who turns up… and here you see one of the best and most famous percussionists in the world – incognito. I didn’t even tell you :). You rarely see such steam, such passion and simply such great music… and as they were all about playing “Wild Things” I picked up that title. I hope my pictures convey the ambience – it was really ‘wild’! Wild at heart one could say… and simply world-class!

Good Picture Material for Presentations

Good picture material is still the most important element a great PowerPoint presentation consists of – so whoever has the passion to go deeper into this exciting arena needs to focus on that first.

I took the pictures under quite difficult conditions, however, with Photoshop everything is possible – if you have the eye, the skill and the patience. I say this because if one sees the many graphic features Microsoft offers now one could be tempted to think that Photoshop is no longer needed – however, there’s no way around sharp, good picture material – you produce it yourself or you buy it – unless you want to do text slides only, which is of course an option, but possibly a bit boring as… a picture tells a thousand stories and we are living in ‘picture times’!

PowerPoint Presentations at WP Best eShop

It took quite a while to load my 5 slides only PowerPoint Presentation… so far without music or voice… just the slides. In the darkness and excitement I missed the video button on my camera and so it’s pictures only! i will get better!

Please CLICK HERE to have a look. It’s just the beginning, however, PowerPoint Presentations will be a service offered at WP Best eShop in the near future! I just enjoy doing them too much!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Business Cards Online Design

Bianca Gubalke — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:58:34 +0000

Business Cards Online Design

Everybody needs top business cards – so why not turn to a graphic designer for a professional Business Cards Online Design that integrates perfectly with your existing Website or Blog?

Following our Ycademy Workshop last night – where I lost my online connection – I still made a quick Business Card for my Design Blog:

Business Cards Online Design

When creating Business Cards Online the Design is tricky as what shows in a large format may almost disappear when reduced to the actual Business Card size.

In my design I used original Helvetica as a font which is perfect for printing and when we look at it 1:1, but not necessarily when reduced by the automatic picture resizer on a blog. So click on it to see the original which is perfectly readable in the normal small Business card size as well… even the fine line of words at the bottom that counts optically as a line but still has a clear meaning to it.

Bianca Gubalke Design Blog

Here is the Bianca Gubalke Design Blog I designed in 2009. It inspired me to create the above Business Card where you see that besides using my usual color scheme… I picked some of the main elements – like the title header, the background and the portrait which have some recognition value and are part of my Branding.

Of course, I did various versions as I would for a customer, who then can make his choice according to his or her priorities and taste.

i may soon be back with another one . . .

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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March Lilies Wallpaper

Bianca Gubalke — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:12:28 +0000

March Lilies Wallpaper

After the fiery sunset at the end of February in yesterday’s post on the Polaroid Look, I present you with the first March Lilies – Amaryllis belladonna – blooming in magnificent soft pinks in my garden and spreading a delicate scent.

Here I translated a digital photo into an attractive March Lilies Wallpaper using Photoshop and an Action Script:

March Lilies Wallpaper

Whether it’s March Lilies Wallpaper or any other product – what counts is always an ‘appetizing’ presentation, something that creates empathy and attracts peoples’ attention… and then guides them to the relevant action pointers.

Web Design Consulting with Semiomantics

If the production of Wallpapers were my main business and “March Lilies Wallpaper” one of my products, I would see to it that I publish regularly about this exact topic and grab Googles’ attention and space. As a consequence, I would eventually reach higher Google Top 10 rankings, people interested in Wallpapers would find me under the relevant keywords and would then click through to the relevant points of action embedded on my website or blog, i.e. Salespage and/or PayPal button.

If your main interest is to achieve Google Top 10 rankings with your website or blog, check out my SHOP (Section Web Design) or get some advice at Web Design Consulting with Semiomantics Scripts used for Author blogs, Business Blogs and others.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Polaroid Look with Photoshop

Bianca Gubalke — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:53:24 +0000

Polaroid Look with Photoshop

Today, everything on the Internet is about Pictures, Images and Media. With the fantastic evolution in Digital Photography over the past years, almost everybody is in a position to take good, sharp pictures.

The question then is to take it a step further – in my example below I created a Polaroid Look with Photoshop.

Polaroid Look with Photoshop

You can either create a Polaroid Look with Photoshop by working your way through the steps – possibly following a Photoshop Tutorial – or you use an Action Script and then go wild using your imagination. Personally, I like a combination of both so I save time, get what I want and then manipulate it for a dramatic effect or whatever I want to convey.

Captivating Web Graphics

With a few mouseclicks and an eye for forms, proportions and colors one can create Captivating Web Graphics that reflect any mood or mission we wish to convey; here’s just another example right from my Studio in Noordhoek, Cape Town. . . waving a last goodbye to the sun who will now disappear behind Chapman’s Peak until November. . . when it will emerge again and bless us with those unique and dramatic sunsets that some may call ‘kitsch’ and many others – like me – just recognize the supreme beauty of Nature and be grateful for it:

This and many other Graphic Design Services we offer at Web Design Consulting or directly at our SHOP. Just get in touch with me and we will give your website or blog a look that talks.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Polaroid Look

Bianca Gubalke — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:46:00 +0000

Polaroid Look

How about giving your images and pictures that good old and so unique Polaroid Look?

Everything is possible with Photoshop – with or without Action Scripts!

Polaroid Look

Captivating Web Graphics can come in many interesting shapes and make-ups – so also in the nostalgic Polaroid Look -, but what will always be of prime importance is that the original picture material is of good quality; in most cases this will be some form of Digital Photography.

Sure, one can always manipulate and sharpen in Photoshop, however, the better the pictures are, the faster we can work. Besides, a good photo is just a fantastic way to inspire our creative muscles to take it further… we move forward instead of correcting the past … yoo, what a philosophic brain on an early Sunday morning before the second day of our…:

Microsoft Ycademy Seminar

The Microsoft Ycademy Seminar (February 2010) is in full swing and while we focused on the general introduction on MS Office 2010 Beta and in particular on MS Word yesterday, today we will apply what we learned to our specific needs – Business Cards, Letterheads, Brochures, PowerPoint Presentations and much more – giving all these our individual visual touch, look… meaning building our Brand offline and online and thus spreading and consolidating our Knowledge, Skills and Services as provided by Web Design Consulting.

To be continued.. .

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Book Covers for Kids Books

Bianca Gubalke — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:35:43 +0000

Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books… Childrens Book Covers… or Cool Books for Kids – whatever you name it: this topic has always been of great importance to parents who really care when it comes to the education of their youngsters. I’m especially thinking of mothers of all ages hunting for something of value for their kids or grand-kids to look at and read when it concerns Childrens Books.

Here, the first point of contact can be decisive: the Childrens Book Cover Design. Here is one of my Nostalgic Designs, which you can see more clearly in yesterday’s post HERE.

Book Covers for Kids Books on Google Top 10

As part of our daily monitoring routine, here’s what yesterday’s post on “Book Covers for Kids Books” did on Google Top 10 … and this within just a few hours and ahead of 48,8 Million search returns:

Web Design Consulting

For any Web Design or Graphic Design requirements and similar SEO results please don’t hesitate to contact us at Web Design Consulting or go directly to my SHOP HERE.

Microsoft Office Ycademy Seminar February 2010

Interesting how yet another circle closes… and while designing Book Covers and wrapping them up for an attractive presentation on the web is one thing, the other aspect is to prepare the Artwork for Printing.

This and many related topics will be part of the upcoming Microsoft Office Ycademy Seminar February 2010 which will mark the beginning of a new chapter of teachings giving all participants an advantage above and beyond not only most Internet users but also in setting up their Home based business in a professional high-end customer-oriented manner.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Book Covers for Kids Books

Bianca Gubalke — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:43:56 +0000

Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books are not only important for the children who read the book or look at the pictures while the stories are being read to them, but it’s what attracts the parents to consider this book in the first place. There was a happy time in my life when I focused entirely on children in my professional work: especially childrens books illustrations and movies for children.

There are always some pieces one is specifically attached to; this is the case with the illustration I included in this book cover here:

Book Covers for Kids Books

In our fast-moving world Book covers for Kids Books seem like a thing from the past, however, my experience is that children here simply love looking at pictures that were created with love… especially if they are being introduced to them in an entertaining way; they just seem to feel what went in and it resonates. A precious book cover can be a treasure box of bedtime stories and… a wonderful and unique gift idea.

We keep adding more of these items to our new online SHOP HERE; please visit and contact me with your wishes and ideas! With kids there are no limits – and there’s a big kid within each of us… just set it free!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Bianca Gubalke

Custom Book Cover Design

Custom Book Cover Design

Custom Book Cover Design

A Platform for Expression and Branding

Web Design Consulting

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Powerpoint Presentations

Powerpoint Presentations

Powerpoint Presentations

Web Design Consulting

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta on Google Top 10

Web Design Consulting by Bianca Gubalke

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Beta

Noordhoek Music Scene

Good Picture Material for Presentations

PowerPoint Presentations at WP Best eShop

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Business Cards Online Design

Business Cards Online Design

Business Cards Online Design

Bianca Gubalke Design Blog

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March Lilies Wallpaper

March Lilies Wallpaper

March Lilies Wallpaper

Web Design Consulting with Semiomantics

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Polaroid Look with Photoshop

Polaroid Look with Photoshop

Polaroid Look with Photoshop

Captivating Web Graphics

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Polaroid Look

Polaroid Look

Polaroid Look

Microsoft Ycademy Seminar

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Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books on Google Top 10

Web Design Consulting

Microsoft Office Ycademy Seminar February 2010

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Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books

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