September 12, 2008 Starchild's blog

Inspiration: Jamiroquai

Thanks to Paulo's post, it jogged my memory about what exactly inspires me to design.

Featured Tutorial

Photoshop Quick Tips #1 - Quick Mask Mode
Photoshop Quick Tips #1 - Quick Mask Mode
We've been posting tutorials showing a bit of our creative process turning ideas into reality, either in Adobe Photoshop or other tools. These tutorials sometimes are quite long or we show lots of techniques that beginners can find quite difficult. Because of that we will start posting some dirty quick tips that we use all the time.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week 180 by Saad Moosajee
Wallpaper of the Week 180 by Saad Moosajee and Zane Prater
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Zane Prater and Saad Moosajee, a self taught freelance Illustrator and Art Director living in Denver, Colorado. Saad has worked for clients such as Dell, Tiger Beer, HTC, 361 Degrees, and Computer Arts Magazine. Saad is currently the creative head at the Slashthree Collective. Zane Prater is a 18 year old llustrator currently living in San Francisco. He attends the San Francisco Art Institute, and recently created numerous illustrations for 303 skateboards.

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration
Book Suggestion: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration
The book suggestion of this week is all about illustration and it's one of the books we check out when looking for inspiration. The book is called The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration. We highly recommend that you check it out. About the book