An interview with Nadir Balcikli aka Logorado

We sat down with Nadir Balcikli aka Logorado, who has helped Big Colors in a big way. He’s contribution to our logo, Vuveo logo and others that will feature on our site make Nadir an invaluable member of the team. Not only is Nadir’s work is popular on websites such as Logopond, Logomoose and Brandstack, but he is also a great guy and a loving husband who donates his spare time to charity work.

So let’s get to know Nadir:

1. So in less than 50 words describe yourself?

I am a 26 year old married designer living in Ankara/Turkey. The absolute musts in my life are my wife, paper, pen, and my computer. If these were not in my life, I wouldn’t have been telling you these things today. Taking photographs, reading personal development books and watching psychology- thriller movies may be counted as my favorite hobbies.

2. What inspired you to become a designer?

I chose the design sector because I can’t live without create something new and unique.

3. Where do you find creative inspiration?

A classic question. Everything! Nature, environment, people, friends, internet, books, movies… In short, EVERYTHING in my life.

4. If you were not a designer, what would you be doing?

As I said in my earlier interviews, I’d be a photographer. I can’t dream myself doing something that doesn’t require creativity.

5. If there is one thing in the world you couldn’t live without, what would it be?

My wife. ( I love you baby!)

6. Tell us about your design business, what makes you different than the rest?

I have my own style. My colors, lines, uniqueness. These make me different than the rest.

7. Show us your portfolio, and the customers you serve

You can check my portfolio at http://www.logorado.com/portfolio

8. So tell us about your charity, what they do, who they help?

TOCEV.  Their purpose of establishment : To contribute to raise a cultivated, well-educated, generation for the future of Turkey, to give material and moral support to children who want to be educated during all their school life, but who are deprived of education due to the economic insufficiency of their family and who are obliged to work to earn their living, to support them to be harmonic and creative people in our social life.

9. Why is this charity important to you?

Because they are helping to the future of my country, our future is our children.

10. And last question, if you could help the world in one way in your lifetime, what would you do?

Really don’t know exactly but something which makes the people happy.

An interview with Jackie Lam, Bigcolors founder!

It’s the time for introductions of the wonderful people that make Bigcolors possible.  Firstly let’s meet the charming, intelligent and adventurous Jackie. Jackie Lam has been a management consultant for most of her life with successful tenure’s at multi-national consulting firms. She decided to explore a new endeavour and started a not-for-profit organisation that supports charities across the globe.

We sat down with Jackie and asked her some questions about Bigcolors:

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July Theme preview: A wordpress shopping cart!

May we present Eboqa,  our July Bigcolors wordpress theme!  The logo was created by the talented Tabitha Kristen and the theme has been donated by Comicsbox. This is the theme everyone has been waiting for. Inspired by Lego products and the threadless website, this theme is an e-commerce delight with hundreds of options to update and change.

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Our supporters help charity!

Our supporters are the lifeblood of Bigcolors. They have supported us financially or donated their precious time to ensure Bigcolors is a success!

Here are just a few of our supporters who have helped us on this journey:

Chris Wallace and Upthemes

Chris has been a big supporter of charity for many years. His dedication and work on Church websites exemplifies this. He has been an enthusiast of the Bigcolors project from the beginning. We thank him for his work to date, and we look forward to seeing a theme contributed by Upthemes in the coming months.

Inkstruction

Marc David and his team of trainers have donated their time to build installation instructions on all our themes. Quite frankly they are the best in the business.

Media Temple

The wonderful guys that host our website! We love them! They have provided us with non-stop technical support and advice during the launch of this website!

Excitin

The web entrepreneur’s from Hong Kong, Australia and New York helped us with buying logos for our themes last year, as well as donating over $2500. They have donated their time and money to support our business. They even bought domain names for us. We love you guys!

How can you be a supporter?

Easy, you can email us using our support page, leave your details and one of our Bigcolors volunteers will contact you to discuss how to advertise. An advertising spot costs $100USD per month. We have 8 spots available, so please act now and help support charity.

An interview with Kishore Beniwal

Today, we had the lovely opportunity to speak with Kishore Beniwal from DivPlayers. DivPlayers are the creative force behind two of our themes “PopCulture and VidHeat”, with Kishore leading the team!.

Firstly, thank you so much for being part of Bigcolors. We love your support and your love of charity. As part of being part of our site, we want to interview you and understand what makes you tick, your passion, and your love of charity. Read the rest of this entry »

Wordpress E-commerce theme preview Vuveo

May we present Vuveo. Our June theme which has been done by the guys from Striderz, we asked them to help build a Wordpress Theme which has shop capabilities and what they delivered was awesome. Inspired by Lego products, this theme is an e-commerce delight with hundreds of options to update and change.

• Sell all items in this store: Shopping cart, Digital Goods or Catalog mode
• Product management
• Order management
• Shipping options
• Multiple payment gateways including Google Checkout, Chronopay, Paypal and Credit Card
• Grid/List view
• Bulk product upload
• User registration
• Built in multiple product uploader, auto image resize.
• Specify colors, sizes, tax, weight and other specifications per product.
• Coupon codes
• Wordpress Blog and pages
• Store Custom Control Panel
• Great usability and user friendly structure
• Auto-resizing product images and so on

Be here in June when we launch Vuveo! If you have a question, please feel free to ask our support team.

Lights, camera… and Bigcolors Wordpress theme action!

So you may be asking, when is Big Colors launching? Well the good news its only days away. We are tweaking the final touches to our first wordpress themes, which will all be avaliable from our launch date. We are also working on a few free themes to give to the people with the thanks to our sponsors. There is also our store theme which will allow you to setup your own online store.

Some of the themes coming your way are Popculture, a wordpress theme dedicated to superhero and sci-fi fans everywhere. There is also Vidheat, a wordpress video blog posting site which is dedicated for hardcore video junkies everywhere. We are also launching the Bigcolors admin theme which changes the way Wordpress administration works. Tested with all major plug-ins, this theme allows you to tweak the Wordpress Administration Panel for your customers and your blog!

We want to firstly thank the many contributors who have helped, donated and supported the causes that Big Colors supports for the past few months. We really appreciate the support. We will publicly be thanking you (yes each of you!) when we go live!