At Abduzeedo, we have a posting place called “Typography Mania,” where we feature many amazing designs that were created by playing with Types. Inspired by that, I decided to use Pixelmator to create an abstract image made up of spheres and lights. I then used Blendings to mix this abstract effect within a text area to achieve the effect I wanted.
In this tutorial, we will play with brushes, blendings, hues, and saturation, as well as a few basic filters.
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Justin Maller called Pump. Justin Maller is an Australian freelance illustrator and art director based in Brooklyn, New York. He has been creating digital art for over ten years, and has produced professionally in both a private and studio based capacity for the last four. He is represented by Jeremy Wortsman of the Jacky Winter Group.
For more information visit http://justinmaller.com/
The book suggestion of this week is about typography and it is an essential book for those starting out their design career or interested in learning the elements of this trade. The Elements of Typographic Style is the perfect book to start 2012 improving your design skills :)
