In this tutorial I will show you how to create a beautiful golden text in Pixelmator. It might be useful for your next Christmas design. We will use basic tools and gradients to mimic gold with this super easy technique. I also have writen a tutorial showing how to create the same effect but for Photoshop, you can find it at PSDTUTS.
The wallpaper of this week is an artowrk created by Neil Hanvey, a designer, illustrator and web developer from Hereford, United Kingdom. For this wallpaper Neil shows us a design to support the victims from the earthquake in Haiti, the design is called "Hope for Haiti".
For more information we highly recommend that you visit Neil's Behance profile at http://www.behance.net/neilakoga or his Deviant Profile at http://neilakoga.deviantart.com/
The book of this week is not a design book per se but it's an incredible book. I have just finished it and I got so much valuable information that can be applied in my day to day job as designer. The book is called Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond by Paco Underhill.
