In marketing these days, it’s getting more and more difficult to connect with consumers using traditional advertising methods. People have begun to tune out billboards, commercials and print ads…
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You gotta love creatives. They talk about things like kerning and swoon over beautiful fonts. They can have tattoos, doodle on everything, have refined tea tastes and listen to everything from Sinatra to The White Stripes…because they can…
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Creating TV scan lines is a useful Photoshop effect. I use it any time I create a blog post header that features video content (like here or here). To create this effect you’ll create a pattern in Photoshop that you can then save and re-use in future projects. Here’s how…
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I get asked a lot about how I accomplish certain effects for the graphics on my web site. I thought today I’d walk you through a very basic explanation of how to use multiple layers and effects to add texture and depth to an image. The example we’ll use is the header graphic I created for last Friday’s Valentine post. I chose this image because it’s a good example…
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So much has already been done when it comes to music videos. That’s why I always get a kick out of seeing something new and different. Check out this creative video from Fujiya & Miyagi Ankle Injuries album.
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Over the holidays I was in the grocery store doing some shopping when something caught my eye. In the pop (or “soda” for you West Coasters) aisle I spotted what I thought was a new drink by Pepsi. Upon looking closer I realized this wasn’t a new drink but an entirely new logo and bottle [...]
Continue ReadingRight now, the year 2016 still sounds far enough away to feel “science-fiction futuristic” but the Olympic committee is already reviewing applicants for the 2016 Olympics. Here are some of the logos submitted by candidate and applicant cities.
Personally I would love to see the Rio win since the Olympic games have never been hosted anywhere [...]
My friends over at The Plow decided that simply talking about poverty wasn’t enough unless it was also accompanied by action. For Blog Action Day last week they released a series of printable posters centered around this simple message:
DO SOMETHING.
Sell what you can, give what you have.
What a great message that sums up exactly what [...]
This came in the mail today. It’s the upgrade for the newly released Adobe Creative Suite 4. I’m a true geek when it comes to new software or application upgrades. I pretty much spend most of the day digging through it and assimilating all the new tools, options and features into my design-geek-consciousness.
I am [...]
Yesterday I posted some pictures of the jack-’o-lanterns we carved. We had fun carving them but these guys took it to a whole new level.
Here’s a few Star Wars-themed pumpkins that will be gracing the porches of some geek homes this year.
This one is my personal favorite – the death star jack-’o-lantern! I think I [...]
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