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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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