Pete Linforth's blog

As yuo know I’m a graphic designer part time when not working my day job or supporting my charities. I sell my work through Fotolia and 2012 has started well for me with a number of sales.

Gift Vouchers by Pete Linforth

Quality Audit Control

Dont Panic Button

Stack of £20 notes

Peace

You might or might not have heard of QuiBids a new auction site with a twist. I urge you to sign up, but a bid pack and get into some serious deal making! Check out my two days efforts – prices include VAT and P&P

£25 B&Q Jigsaw Gift Card cost me £4.80

£10 WHSmith Book Gift Cardcost me £4.81

£25 Amazon Gift Card cost me £5.35

£20 Draper Digital Multimetercost me £6.10

£25 Amazon Gift Cardcost me £5.32

£32 Draper Expert 22-Piece Socket & Bit Set cost me £7.28

£15 Sony HiFi Headphones cost me £6.04

£49 Draper 230V Multi-tool Kit cost me £7.36

£10 Argos Gift Card cost me £4.80

Now thats a great deal if ever I saw one!

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In the New Year, as businesses and countries work together to drive our global economy, Suki Kaur, a Young Enterprise Manager based at The Pump in Birmingham, will travel to Ghana in Africa, as a volunteer teacher. Inspired by working with her local community and as part of The Future Leaders programme, Suki will be working at an Underprivileged Children’s Centre (UCC) in Accra to raise awareness of enterprise and business amongst young people, including those living in extreme hardship. Young people in Accra attend the UCC to learn and gain access to education at local government funded schools. Suki will document her experience, with a camera sponsored by Reel Access a community film and media organisation also based at The Pump. Look out for footage of Suki’s adventure in Africa Next Year…! And if you would like to sponsor Suki and Young Enterprise in Africa, please click here to make a donation. Please ask friends, family and colleagues to pass this on.

Your help is much appreciated…!

Very recently got invovled with is local community group who are looking to develop the great work they do for their area. My involvement to date has been purchasing  and hosting a domain name for their group, creating them a new brand identity (very much under development) and producing their first WEB site. I hope to develop the site more as the community group get to see its benefits and contribute content and ideas for further enhancements.

My fotolia account where I sell me business graphics has been on the move once more and I have had a series of sales.

I’ve often wondered where the work I sell ends up so I’ve spent some time digging around the Internet and found a few instances to share with you all.

My Pyr o2 image for example has ended up being sold as a 3d phone wallpaper here, also on blogs here and here

Pyr 02

Zen 04 has popped up a few times as well. This site is all about Geomancy and you can see my image used on that site here and another here and one more here and a few more here , here , here and someone used it for their blog here

Zen 04

This one is a little cheeky use of one of my buttons being sold via Pixmac, rather than buying the image without the protective watermark this person just ripped the image watermark and all. I dont mind I guess but it’s much better without the watermark. Check the site here

Yes button

This is one more in my Zen series used by a coaching and training company here and a blog site on improving yourself here

Zen with water

One of my social media designs has also been used by this web design company here

Networking

And this one being used by a dentist here

Smile box

Tried to focus on a single concept and create a series of images from it. Came up with these.

Turbo gear

Quality audit control

6 Sigma

Thought I’d jump on the band waggon seeing as everyone is starting to get excited about London 2012.

London 2012

It took some time but I’m now off ‘white’ and ranked as ‘bronze’, quite an achievement for a total rank outsider in the business of stock images.

Had some recent sales that helped me get there.

Dont Panic

Membership cards

Software box

Metamorph

Carbon footprint

It’s been a good few weeks for me with my graphic design work. I’ve had a new batch of work accepted and at last moved from a status of ‘white’ to ‘bronze’ so my work is starting to get noticed. Here are just a few of my latest pieces of work.

Turbo button

Gear knob

Power button

Network hub

Pills

Evolution