Today we are going to talk a little about a recent logo design I did but first a little background info. On June 25th Maxine Sherrin, one of the founders of Web Directions, asked me if I would be inte...
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One of the things Ive seen around quite a bit lately is a transparent rainbow gradient effect on a dark background. It seems to me that flashy transparent gradients are in these days. They make me thi...
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A while ago I showed you how to create the Apple command shape in Illustrator where I created this dotted pattern version of the shape in the background. A bit later I wrote about who you can recolor ...
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In the January/February 08 edition of Layers magazine I wrote an article called Get the grunge out. Today I want share that article with my readers that didnt get a chance to read it. Grunge is a popu...
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Its a struggle to find the right application that makes office live a bit easier. For starters I am designer and not a sales person so its only natural that I want to limit the amount of time being th...
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For our next part in the inspiration series we point our direction towards the big white screen. For long time opening credits where just a boring obligated part. Luckily people start realizing that m...
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Today Ill talk about how you can recolor your artwork in Illustrator CS3 using the LiveColor feature. Ive always wanted to talk about this feature, but somehow I never got to actually doing it. I beli...
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Its that time again, when you can vote for the panels for the next edition of SXSWi. Since 2006, Ive traveled to and attended this big event in Austin, Texas. I like going to SXSW, not only because I ...
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About a week ago I received an e-mail from Sam Brown, wondering how to create a shape that looks almost exactly like the Apple Command key icon with an interesting four colored stroke depth effect to ...
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Starting with simple shapes as a basis for your design can give you surprising results. By trying to apply them in a creative way and by experimenting you can end up with an amazing design. Today Ill ...
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Pretty special date today as it is 8/8/8. According to the newspaper lots of people want to marry on this day as well but there is also another cool event if youre into photography. Im talking about t...
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As someone who has a soft spot for typography in general, it is a rather difficult taks to choose my top 10 favorite typefaces. It feels a bit like shifting through all those nice (600 and more) entri...
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Today I would like to share an interesting video (of 4 episodes) about 8 student illustrators and 8 student graphic designers (from the Art Center of Pasadena, California) who designed the magazine sp...
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Sometimes I think what could I create next?. Why not start with just 4 lines and 5 color swatches and see from there? Use the tools at hand and see where it ends up. Surprising results happen when you...
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We continue the exploration of the offline world in search for that spark of inspiration. This time we are going to look at magazines. There are all sorts of them out there and some are better than ot...
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Mobistar today announced that the iPhone will be available at the 11th of July just as originally announced by Apple. You have to ask yourself why all the failing if they can launch it on the target d...
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You think the iPhone launch in Belgium couldnt get any worse? Think again. Mobistar just announced that the press event of tomorrow has been cancelled. The reason you ask? Apparently not all commercia...
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We continue the inspiration series with some very cool poster designs. The reason I started these series is to show that there is so much more out there to jump start the inspiration process. You dont...
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In my post from a few weeks ago, I demonstrated how to create simple organic shapes in Photoshop. In the comments a reader asked me how to accomplish the transparency effect using Illustrator. I thoug...
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A reader showed me this image with the question if I knew how to create this masking grid effect on the photo of this album. My first reaction was Oh SoulsticeMixed Illusions I totally love this album...
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