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31/10/2011 Comments Off
What deserves to be disposed of faster than rotting pumpkins that a herd of mangy neighborhood cats worship intensely while they inhale fumes reminiscent of sewage, the plague severed fish parts, mold, dead rats, and garbage from last Halloween.
A bit of fun for Halloween by OrangeCoat.
23/10/2011 Comments Off
We asked a handful of people we respect what they love about the web. Here's what they had to say...
20/10/2011 Comments Off
A quick look at some useful working techniques to establish a smooth workflow when creating your designs for the web.
14/10/2011 Comments Off
One of my favourites in Illustrator: pathfinders :) The pathfinder tools are among the most powerful design tools in Illustrator as they allow you to combine several shapes in different ways, combining, intersecting and dividing them. Just having a play and experimenting – you will hopefully have lots of new ideas for different graphic directions.
So here are 2 handouts to wet your appetite.
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14/10/2011 Comments Off
let’s have some fun with Illustrator – to start off with -a few tutorials to help you get started :)
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13/10/2011 Comments Off
Before we move on - let's take another look at the float property and make sure we're all happy :) At the bottom of this post is a list of great articles and tutorials, some date back quite a while but this technique still applies and the more you practise, the more confident you will becoming in using floats. A quick exercise to start off with.
Consider this typical page layout:
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