Last year we published a tutorial showing how to create a nice badge in Photoshop and Illustrator. Now we decided to do the same, or similar effect using Pixelmator and its new vector tools. The result is very good and there are some nice techniques to overcome the lack of some more complex shapes.
So in this tutorial we will show you how to create complex shapes in Pixelmator and add round corners to it. After that we will show you how to make it look like an old badge using textures and some basic filters and blending.
The wallpaper of this week is a super cool image created by Bruno Borges AKA Oit8doi2. Bruno was born in Rio de Janeiro but it's currently based in São Paulo. His work is very colorful with a little bit of te 80s influence like this wallpaper.
For more information visit Bruno Borges visit http://www.oit8doi2.com/
Desktop Version
The book of this week is a book I just got from a friend. It was in my wish list for a long time. The book is called Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information and as the reviews says, it's about our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it.
