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 #
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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

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

• More design deconstruction from the New York Times! Poster Art for Revival of ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ – NYTimes.com http://goo.gl/IDfX #
• An amazing photo of long lost Dreamland park on Coney Island… Dreamland Twilight: 1905 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive http://goo.gl/qgJs #
• Hilarious audio take on web design & usability from QN Podcast | A conversation I have every month or so. http://goo.gl/PBqX #
• More nuggets of Analytic wisdom! Google Analytics Blog: Web Analytics TV #7 with Avinash and Nick http://goo.gl/emSj #
• Get your Terminator on! Melting Girl in Photoshop | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials http://goo.gl/u3Xg #
• Pretty good, watch it all the way through. Good Is Dead. It’s true. Fall, 2010. http://goo.gl/bDah #
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The Seven Deadly Sins… now with Stormtroopers!

The Seven Deadly Sins. The Cardinal Vices.

Just listing them is very evocative, they drip with poetry and dread and have since they were slowly codified during the early history of the Catholic Church:

• pride
• avarice
• envy
• wrath
• lust
• gluttony
• sloth

The nature of these sins are both replant and attractive. This duality inherent in the human psyche has inspired artists for centuries. We’ve seen the seven deadly sins depicted in many different ways; from the bizarre and fantastic canvases of Hieronymus Bosch to the celluloid terrors of David Fincher. Now we have a new re-imagining of the sins that lead to hell fire made with toy Stormtroopers from Star Wars. And it’s brilliant.

The project is a mini-series by a photographer who goes by the handle Stéfan, who has been, well let him explain it:

Stormtroopers 365 is a photo project starring TK455 and TK479, Stormtroopers in the Galactic Empire Army.

The project began on April 3rd 2009 and should end on April 2nd 2010. Each day during this year, a new picture is added to the series.

The pictures are posted to Flickr.

Here’s a slide show of the 7 Deadly Sins, see if you can guess which sin is pictured. Dont’ forget to check your answers. Also check out the rest his work. It is really funny, ironic and best of all executed with great skill.

7 Deadly Links:

• The 7 Deadly Sins wikipedia page
• The official Stormtroopers 365 page.
• Keep up to date with the troopers on Twitter.
• Get the Calendar.
• Follow the photostream.
• David Fincher’s Se7ven.
• The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch

Survivors get ready to RUMBLE!

Design Something Everyday 16/365

After reading the amazing tutorial “How to Creat a Retro Boxing Poster in Photoshop” from James Davies I was inspired to give it a whirl. I didn’t get quite as faux-vintage as James did, but went in my own direction. Turning it into a preview of some upcoming clashes in Survivor. If you’re a fan of the show you’ll get the gags.