December 29, 2010 aloa's blog

Artwork Feature #2: Pete Harrison - Advent

This is part of our new weekly series of posts. Here we feature a selected piece of art and have

April 11, 2010 aloa's blog

Pete Harrison Website Update

Wirestyle, Aeiko or Pete Harrison,all different names for the same artist. In the past time Mr. Harrison has been busy

November 07, 2008 aloa's blog

Inspiration: Super Combo

My friend Pete Harrison just launched a new project with Olly Moss called Super Combo. A company with stylish new

Featured Tutorial

Reader Tutorial: Colorful Light Effect in GIMP
Reader Tutorial: Colorful Light Effect in GIMP
I was browsing the other day and saw a Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 with a beautiful wallpaper on it and thought to myself "Can I make one that looks like it but using only GIMP?" And guess what? I could! And with this tutorial so can you. Step 1 We first create a new document, you can make it any size, though I used 1600 x 1200. Setting by default Black as your Foreground color, we can ask in the advanced options to use it as our background.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week 170
Wallpaper of the Week 170
The wallpaper of this week is a photography from the Dieter Rams called Less and More. Dieter is one of the greatest industrial designers of our time and has influenced other designers such as Jonathan Ive, the man behind Apple designs For more information visit the SFMOMA Web site http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/434 or the Wikipedia page about Dieter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: The Lean Startup
Book Suggestion: The Lean Startup
The book suggestion of this week is a must read in my opinion, it's The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries. I read this book in a few days and it was one of those books that you know they will be useful and will you help you to improve in your career.