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Distressing Techniques in Adobe Illustrator

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Simon from Studio Ace of Spade here. Jeff Finley asked me to compile a list of some common distressing techniques as a supplement for his eBook “The Designer’s Guide to the Apparel Industry.” Distressing graphics is a pretty integral part of designing t-shirts. This tutorial will demonstrate three easy [...]

Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – September 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

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Go Media’s Flickr Pool Showcase – September 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hello there! My name is Simon. You’ve probably met me electronically through the links I post on the Go Media and Arsenal Facebook pages: I sign ^SBH. Anyway. The good folks at Go Media and I were thinking that there’s a need to showcase all the goodness that the contributors [...]

15 Over-The-Top Business Card Designs

Friday, August 28, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Business cards are one of the elements of corporate design that should be pushed beyond just graphics, and converge with several processes to become what they should be: a memorable, collectible and impressive piece to be carried away everywhere. The following are perfect examples, and have overcome the graphic-only [...]

122 Raster & Vector Wings

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Lately I’ve been reading a lot about lucid dreaming, keeping a dream journal, watching Waking Life, and generally trying everything I can to take control of my dreams. The first thing I’m going to do in a dream – FLY! Us ground dwelling humans seem to be pretty consumed [...]

12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This is an article written by guest author Sean Hodge from AiBURN, a blog about design, creativity, inspiration, tutorials, and vector graphics. Introduction Lettering and Typeface design is a creative endeavor that requires constant sources of motivation, influence, and inspiration. If you dream of painstakingly designing the next amazing [...]

2007 Top Lists

Monday, January 7, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A few of us at the office came up with some “top lists” for 2007. Read and enjoy and let us know what some of your top picks for 2007 were! Jeff Finley Top Albums of 2007 (no particular order) Shorebirds – 7″ Andrew Jackson Jihad – People Who [...]

Great site for Shirt Design Inspiration

Monday, October 8, 2007

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: There’s a cool new site out there called Emptees that’s showcasing the art of t-shirt design. There doesn’t seem to be a commercial slant like Threadless, and it’s more of basically a hub for inspiration. Some great artists are posting their designs there and it seems to be taking [...]

5 Links for Design Inspiration

Monday, September 24, 2007

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Every designer probably has a large amount of sites bookmarked for inspiration. Some may be other designers, design portals, tutorial sites, etc. We all get our inspiration from different forms. But here are a few designers that I enjoy. I have a ton of bookmarks for designers I like, but I thought these 5 were [...]