Category Archives: Digital - 2D

Design Reviver, a new great design resource

Design Reviver is a spankin new design resource that I recently found. This one is worth watching.

Content Aware Image Resizing

This cool new technology presented at Siggraph 2007 could be useful. But, it has the potential to create as many problems as it does solutions if the wrong person picks it up. I am sure that Eric would love someone doing this with his images.

Perttu Murto

Perttu Murto is a 20-year-old Finnish graphic artist, and his portfolio ‘Overmode‘ is nothing less than breathtaking.
Perttu Murto: Crazy Talented - Josh Spear
I always enjoy seeing some nice work!
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Free Fonts Site

searchfreefonts.com is a decent free fonts site. It has been handy for me today, so I thought I would share.

Make a Blue Sky, the Easy Way

So you have a photo with a nice white washed sky. This has probably been done before, but I accidently discovered a great way to make a white sky blue yesterday. So here is the image I received for a site which looks OK, but it would look better with a nice blue sky.

First I [...]

How to Ruin a Good Design

This is so true. It seems to happen to me all the time. Content Management sytems can be the worst for wrecking a site. I have found that the more control the client is given the worse the site looks. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for letting the client control their own content, [...]

Color Conversion Formulas

This may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but when you need this it will come in handy. easyrgb.com has a nice list of color conversion formulas making it easier to translate CMYK to RGB, RGB to HSL, and many more.  easyrgb.com has posted the color formulas in case your application needs [...]

More work from me…

This is a design that I recently did for a client that they did not seem to care for. This is funny because here I was thinking they would love it. I was excited about this design. The content area still needs some tweaking, but this was the first sketch. Oh well, I guess [...]

Great Logos

If you want to see a wonderful collection of logo work and you have some time to kill, then you should see these excellent logo examples by Miš i Pile.
Miš i Pile, located in Croatia, has a wonderful portfolio of unique logo work for companies around the world.

What the Font?!

So a client brings you a business card and wants you to use the logo on it for an ad, website, poster, etc. Then you ask, “do you have a digital version?” - answers no, “do you know what font was used in your logo?” - answers no. I can’t tell you how many [...]