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Adobe released details this week about Creative Suite 4, its first update to the impressive lineup of design and editing tools since Adobe CS3 launched about 17 months ago. In no particular order, here are some articles from around the blogosphere. More »
Admit it, effects are cool. Drop shadows, gradients, glows, bevels and the like can be a lot of fun and are ridiculously easy to apply to your designs. However, once you discover the powerful effects waiting inside today’s graphics suites, it’s easy to get carried away. Take a look at the sample logo below:
It’s a pretty simple, text-based (font: Segoe IE) logo with only 2 colors. In some cases, this logo may be exactly what the client is looking for, but for most applications (especially the increasingly bold and bright internet) you need something that pops off the page a bit. The answer? Effects. More »
Right now, artistic designs are very hot! With CSS becoming the standard, designers are becoming much more important part of the internet world, allowing the awesome effects that were once reserved for print designs.
This tutorial will teach you how to quickly create a “grunge” effect for your photos using ONLY Photoshop. And while you might not need a grunge image, it will show you how to create a vector mask which will give you a tool to create numerous effects easily.
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Opinions are bound to vary on such a crucial and potentially controversial subject but … when do you think a design is done? Sure, there are goals to be met, clients to be appeased, but at the end of the day it is the designer who decides when something is actually finished. Is it alright to simply meet the expectations of someone else or do you need to have your own goals continually in mind as well?
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Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.
The design process is always something of a mystery to people new to a program. One great way to start learning how to use a design program is simply by watching someone at work. Now, try this on for size: approximately forty hours of using Illustrator all compacted into a few short minutes. The artist considers this part art, part music video, and it is certainly all kinds of interesting.
Tags: Design, illustrator, stop-motion, video, Web Design
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