A while ago I got an email from Taxi inviting me to check out their 100th issue celebration. I poked around the site a bit, particularly reading all the quotes on design and I found one particularly intriguing by a guy named Ross MacDonald.
“Often the ‘perfect’ font is too big or too small, or won’t fit […]
Toon over at Estetica Design Forum (you’ll remember him from his great article on Is There a New Trend in Logo Design? here on Creative Curio last month) initiated a neat project among a few of the forum members who also run design blogs. You saw the interview Alex from Crazy Leaf Design blog did […]
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I just wanted to share some of the ways I work with Illustrator, some have been useful, some didn’t produce much, but people “tick” differently, so heres a couple of ideas.
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Dingbats
Font dingbats can be an excellent source for finding vector artwork. Here are […]
Mistakes happen. Some even say you should make mistakes faster so that you can learn from them! They can’t be completely avoided, but if you know what to look for, you can learn something without the pain of living through the aftermath.
A while ago , I posted Three Devastating Mistakes Every Designer Will Make and How […]
Some of you may know that I’m not a traditionally educated designer or Web developer; I learned everything from the Web and it has so far taken about a year and half to master Illustrator to such a degree that I can teach others. I’m not a particularly good designer and I can’t present 40 pages of illustrations on Flickr that is a Bible for other designers, but knowing the tools of your trade guards against sleepless nights wondering “How do I make a grungy brush with flower patterns…?”
If you didn’t realize by my lack of responding to your emails and comments, I’ve been quite out of touch these last few weeks. First I was on vacation—a wonderful Caribbean cruise—and then I was at my company’s sales convention. I missed so many great articles while I was away, not to mention connecting with […]
Andi “Toon” Creffield is a friend I met on Estetica Design Forum (formerly graphic-design-forum.com). He invited me to join the forum around the beginning of this blog and I have enjoyed being a member and networking with other designers from around the world. Toon has worked in the web and print design industries since 1999, […]
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