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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