Business cards and online galleries
Today I want to talk about two really cool sites – one for business cards and the other for online photo galleries. The fist is moo.com. Hmm well the name doesn’t really say it’s all but their product says the…
Category Design Tips
Work doodle
Kiss the Frog Contest I was asked to make a little graphic for the kiss the frog contest our honors program is putting on. I found a cute bullfrog off the creative commons search and attached a sticky note to…
Easy wordle fun!
Make your custom text cloud Today I stumbled on a fun little site called wordle and the concept is simple. You just paste in a bunch of text and hit generate. After that you can choose a color scheme, pick…
Metal up your type
The purpose of design is to communicate a message and therefore I believe special effects should be used only if there is a reason to use them. This means it’s probably rare that you’ll need to create metal type but…
Tangerine Tango Sunrise?
Apparently every year Pantone (the world authority on color) picks a color. For 2012 it’s Tangerine Tango (Pantone 17-1463). You can download the color palette from their website. I was a bit intrigued by the color choice for this year…
Google web font plugin for Photoshop by WebINK
A little while back I posted about free web fonts from Google and how I used them in a small project. I found a nifty free little plugin for plugin for Photoshop CS5 from WebINK that allows you design with…
Vehicle graphic detail
After 40+ years Chapman’s Dog Grooming of Antioch is going mobile! Here is a closeup of part of the graphics I am doing for the mobile grooming vehicle. The image of the dog is high resolution so it’s enough for…