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Undoubtedly, you have seen Apple's commercials promoting the many applications (apps) you can buy to do a variety of things on the iPhone. What you may not know, is that apps are not just for nifty games and sending digital postcards to your family and friends. There are many apps that can be used to [...]
Spoon Graphics is a blog dedicated to all things graphic. They have some great tutorials and resources posted for photographers, graphic artists, or anyone who enjoys creating in a digital environment. This tutorial shows you how to create light streaks in Photoshop. They also have large resolution light streak files available for download if you [...]
VectorMagic, developed by Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is a free online service that will allow you to take any image and turn it in to vector art. If you have ever had to work with placing a logo that was way too small for your layout, this could be a lifesaver. Once you have [...]
This poster would be a perfect addition to any graphic design office. Even if you can't read the language, I am sure you are familiar with Helvetica. It is a great collection that showcases the history of Swiss graphic design. The high-res pdf generously supplied for download can produce a pretty large poster. Hmmm....I think [...]
This video put together by Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravolo at the Vancouver Film School is a entertaining illustration on how typography is used in design. The placement of text is a key part of what makes an effective visual graphic. If done wrong, the impact and your emphasis are lost. It is a well [...]
Need a color scheme? Want to find the right matte color, or a set of colors for your new web site? Adobe has your back. And, uh, your colors too. This is new from Adobe and is very Kule... or cool. Take a look and play around with this great tool, free for now, and [...]
This is a cool little app that may come in handy. Think of it as Photoshop lite... really, really lite. Gotta tell you though, it is very powerful and at a price point of free, well... kind of amazing too. Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run [...]
While most of the images that we print are prepared in raster programs like Photoshop, the LightJet also does an amazing job on files prepared in Illustrator and Quark. We recently printed a job for Wendell Burnette Architects that they had prepared in Illustrator. They had 30x30's printed and mounted on Infinity Board for a [...]
We can imagine this cool technique for office graphics and lobby graphics. The unique textures that are created with the overlaps would draw viewers in, and the very modern look of the collage would make a strong statement about the company. You could also do some clever mounting and set the whole image up as [...]
