Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25

• Ship ahoy! How to Create a Vintage Ocean Liner Poster | Vectortuts+ http://goo.gl/wLWX #
• Good inspiration… RT @iliketocollect 50 Best Websites To Download High Quality Free WordPress Themes http://bit.ly/aTVS2A #
• Nice post: Portfolio websites using illustration | Web and designers | Complete resource platform for web des.. http://bit.ly/b3hrn8 #
• Good to know: How To Develop A Homepage Layout That Sells http://goo.gl/D5da #
• How to Build a Footer That Doesn’t Stink | Webdesigner Depot http://goo.gl/diXy #
• Brilliant & Hilarious! So You Need A Typeface « Inspiration Lab http://goo.gl/HUPz #
• RT @psdtuts Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster in Photoshop http://bit.ly/bCTdnL #
• 40 Beautiful Free Fonts For Creating Attractive Typography Headlines | Creative Nerds http://goo.gl/Hv3c #
• 20 Free Creative Handwritten Fonts / Fonts / SPLASHnology – Web Design and Web Technology Community http://goo.gl/GUjM #
• RT @1stwebdesigner 50 Free Photoshop Brush Set Lines and Shapes + Tutorial | Graphic and Web Desig.. http://bit.ly/aDOoJr #
• Fox stole Steve Heller's gig! Ooh, Foxy Logo http://bit.ly/cmkl0h via @AddToAny #
• 80 cool guerrilla marketing ideas
  – FrancescoMugnai.com – Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends http://goo.gl/WZJa #
• Swinging cool vibraphones on the Lawrence Welk show! YouTube – Pagan Love Song http://goo.gl/g0Ag #
• Amazing post: Volcanic Lightning, Eyjafjallajökull, and how it works : Starts With A Bang http://goo.gl/JoJW #
• Cool new mid-century architecture & Tiki blog Tiki Architecture http://goo.gl/OCNq #
• RT @Designrfix: The definitive guide to formatting CSS http://bit.ly/d63tZG #
• Interesting Interview with Adobe Chief Privacy Officer about "Flash Cookies" | Web Analytics Demystified http://bit.ly/c1ogQo #
• Cool CG Creature, do Yeti's have horns? Sven Juhlin | Design Inspiration + Visual Art Inspiration | Designflavr http://goo.gl/negN #
• Might be useful. RT @sitepointdotcom Streamline Your Online Social Networking With Skimmer http://bit.ly/aKcRRD #
• Great infographic, but highly disturbing outcomes. The Afghan Conflict – A Map of Possible Scenarios http://www.theafghanconflict.de/ #
• Wrap your tentacles around this cool tutorial! RT @AndrewKelsall: How to draw an Octipus. Oh yes….http://is.gd/bB0ps #
• Stylish Re-Envisioned Movie Posters | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials http://goo.gl/mvdC #
• Great illustrations, poetry & science: BANG! a childrens book of the Big Bang. http://goo.gl/T5CL #
• An excellent sentiment: RT @walaaumedia: "Just go out and make yourself useful" Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) #
• Free Texture Tuesday: Simple Grunge | BittBox http://bit.ly/cBKpWL #
• If content is king, is design queen? What's a bishop? #
• A great history of EPCOT: Origins – Master Plan 5, 1977 | Progress City, U.S.A. http://goo.gl/809Q #
• Very useful article. RT @giaiphapso: Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen: http://bit.ly/dcLaTA #
• Interesting thoughts, but ANOTHER site to keep track of? "Why You Should be a Part of The Behance Network http://bit.ly/a2oTvs (via @Apture) #
• Nice Tutorial! How to Create Bamboo in Adobe Photoshop | Tutorial9 http://goo.gl/YoU5 #
• Cool! Supermarket – Bamboo Type Coasters from acd http://goo.gl/dBWH #
• Good to know. I hadn't heard of The Beauty of Maps, I can't wait to see it. Good post via @Laughing_Lion http://bit.ly/dfqlPI #
• John Nack on Adobe: Videos: Great new Russell Brown CS5 tutorials http://goo.gl/nwcK #
• Really cool! via Sitepoint White House Releases Open Source Drupal Code http://goo.gl/BG3V #
• Good advice for design & life: How to win friends and influence people | David Airey, graphic designer http://goo.gl/tJoJ #
• Great post. RT @webdesignledger: How to Turn Anything Into a Website Design http://bit.ly/blYqyV #
• If you love mid-century modern & retro aesthetics: RT @abduzeedo: Architecture : 50 Years of Brasilia http://bit.ly/9OmpxL via @fabianome #
• Very nice collection of tuts: RT @chrisspooner: 40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials – http://is.gd/bDKpp #
• RT @vectortuts A Personal Selection of Premium Character Design Websites and Resources http://bit.ly/bPKv52 #
• Get your ninja/sumo/dragon/pagoda on! RT @vectortuts Premium Vector Pack – Classic Japan http://bit.ly/aKvaoE #
• A nice collection 16 Red Business Cards Design Samples http://goo.gl/GkNL #
• 9 Causes of Web Page Obesity http://goo.gl/5uwh #
• RT @sitepointdotcom Using CSS Text-Shadow To Create Embossed Text http://bit.ly/d7cRs7 #
• RT @addtodesign 3 Reasons Why You’re Stuck In A Design Rut http://bit.ly/9Cl8A6 #
• BOOM! Eyjafjallajokull Natural Disaster: 13 Jaw Dropping Volcano Photography | DevSnippets http://goo.gl/ynAM #
• Great pics of Earth from NASA Happy Earth Day down there! « Flickr Blog http://goo.gl/TeX5 #
• I never expected tyranny to be so cutesy… Landing page for blocked sites in the UAE – Boing Boing http://goo.gl/wdeG #
• Pretty fun site, a bit like an early 00's CD ROM, but informative nonetheless: The Virtual Museum of Iraq http://goo.gl/dEPS #
• @Bloggs_74 Thanks for the follow! #
• @BaliHaiSD Good write up for you guys, Aloha!: http://bit.ly/dv0b0U in reply to BaliHaiSD #
• Cool, via Bad Astronomy WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR – Whoever did this wins at the internet. http://goo.gl/OFQQ #
• Happy Birthday Hubble! HubbleSite — Out of the ordinary…out of this world. http://hubblesite.org/ #
• A hand article on the esoteric art of Imposition and Printer's Spreads Imposing Order on Your Cards Booklets Newsletters http://goo.gl/8lfv #
• Dumb but funny. YouTube – Judy's Cream Of Wheat http://goo.gl/BQtH #
• Tiny Bubbles,terrific terrible tiki-
  esque video YouTube – The Lawrence Welk Show: Tiny Bubbles http://goo.gl/G4OQ #
• I like the Lego zombies the best. Awesome Zombie Collection @Abduzeedo http://goo.gl/zMUc #
• 40+ Free textures and stock photos websites | Designious Times http://goo.gl/DbDK #
• These will light up your designs: 300+ Free Photoshop Light Effect Brushes | Naldz Graphics http://goo.gl/08Zv #
• Pretty impressive: RT @Krisseck 16 Examples of Stylish Image Sliders http://bit.ly/b4qTuG #
• Brilliant: Chris Ware's cover for their iconic yearly "Fortune 500" issue, his retro-satirical solution was rejected http://goo.gl/9JQ0 #
• My tip: don't work with your kids nearby. 11 Awesome tips to Work without Distraction | Graphic and Web Design Blog http://goo.gl/sCpw #
• Free Textures – 53 High-Res Rustic Metal Sculpture Textures | Think Design http://goo.gl/TBSd #
• 20 Original Solutions for a Musician’s Flash Website http://goo.gl/MoqU #
• UsabilityPost – The Value of Good Design http://goo.gl/wQbM #
• How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development – Smashing Magazine http://goo.gl/s824 #
• Just started listening to Oasis, they're pretty good. My music tastes must lag about a decade behind. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18

• Good advice: Presentation Zen: Making presentations that stick http://goo.gl/lqCJ #
• Early animation on an Amiga! Disney Animation Studio (1990) | The Disney Blog http://goo.gl/5Xwj #
• One of my favorite blogs on drawing: Urban Sketchers http://www.urbansketchers.com/ #
• Another cool blog: Animation Backgrounds http://goo.gl/Kca2 #
• A great Flickr group to follow, nice retro goodness!: The Vintage Type Pool http://goo.gl/rZqX #
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Design Something Everyday 20/365: Star Wars Kids

When I was growing up I loved watching cartoons, I still do, but their power seemed much more intimate when I was younger. I watched all sorts, but I began to notice that an entire sub-genre of cartoons became all the rage when I was growing up. It would take  a popular series and re-imagine the characters as either babies or children. I remember thinking that this was rather odd. Perhaps it was my first burst of critical thinking about pop culture.

One example of this sub-genre that I always found particularly weird was the show The Muppet Babies. Imagine the infantilizing of Jim Henson’s brilliant Muppets as diaper clad t0ddlers. Many of my friends enjoyed it,  finding it irreverent, but I always found it rather creepy.

In this vein, I imagined what “Star Wars Kids” would’ve been like. It’s Luke Skywalker embellished with a Wiki Commons image of the home world of the irascible Skywalker clan, Tatooine.

In case you’re wondering here’s the Muppet Babies, in all their glory (please note the Star Wars reference  at the :16 mark, talk about synergy!):

Tatooine Image Link

Design Something Every Day 19/365: MIS Logo

Design Something Every Day: 19/365. A logo I created for a budget and information management software system.

The Golden Calf

A good way to recycle jewelry and other baubles. The Golden Calf: Design Something Every Day 18/365.

The typeface is PR Agamemnon Bold, Top Lining. A cool typeface, I’m quite font of. Created by the talented designer Peter Rempel.  You can download the font at da Font.

Design Something Every Day 17/365: Shavuot Icons

This design is part of a poster I created promoting a Shavuot service held at Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Each of the icons in the poster are symbolic of some facet of the holiday. For example, the agricultural and harvest symbols represent that aspect of the “Festival of Weeks.”

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11

• Cool mid-century blog Boom Pop! http://boom-pop.blogspot.com/ #
• Interesting/Useless fact for the day: The water at the Jungle Cruise in Disneyland is dyed green to provide atmosphere and hide the tracks. #
• 16 Environmental Awareness Posters and Advertisements http://goo.gl/vBtl #
• The beginning was the end! Timelines: Time travel in popular film and tv | Information Is Beautiful http://goo.gl/xOjm #
• Great Tiki Tunes! Don Tiki – Home http://www.dontiki.com/ #tiki #
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Here Comes the Sun…

A little illustration I did in preparation for spring. Though in Seattle with our rain, spring seems very far away.

Design something everyday 17/365

The Essential Approach to Masking with Deke McClelland

Masking an image is one of the most difficult things to do convincingly in Photoshop. If you are interested in effective masking techniques, you need to watch this video! In it you will be guided by PhotoShop guru Deke McClelland and given the best principles for masking in PhotoShop. It’s almost like an entire lynda.com course in 29 min. Most surprisingly you’ll discover that the most powerful principle of  masking is not “dopey selection tools,” but:

…the art of having an image select itself.

If you don’t believe me, watch Master Deke and be amazed…

This video is an oldie but a goody, and came from Photoshop Guru Deke McClelland being guest blogger for fellow  Guru Scott Kelby on his great blog about all things Photoshop scottkelby.com.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-04

• Watch TIKIMENTARY – IN SEARCH OF THE LOST PARADISE on Vimeo! http://vimeo.com/10198434 #
• the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history FedFlix : Internet Archive http://goo.gl/zQfK #
• Take history exams from the 19th Century! University of South Carolina Student Exams http://goo.gl/CWMJ #
• I'm taking the FREE LIVE 5-Week Photoshop to HTML Course in the #creativeLIVE worldwide classroom! – http://bit.ly/psdtohtml #
• Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history http://smarthistory.org/ #

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