July 15, 2008 aloa's blog

Interview: Nik Ainley (Shinybinary)

Nowerdays you'll find Nik Ainley's work (from Shinybinary) almost everywhere in the internet. He worked for great design inspirations and

Featured Tutorial

Simple Roy Lichtenstein Style in Illustrator and Photoshop
Simple Roy Lichtenstein Style in Illustrator and Photoshop
I have been playing with the Halftone filter in Photoshop for the past few weeks and trying different things we can do with it. I also discover the Width Tool in Illustrator CS 5 and it was a great surprise because now we have much more freedom when playing with strokes. So with these two things in mind I decided that I had to create an image using them, and then the idea of a design inspired in Roy Lichtenstein.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #90 - Neil Hanvey
Wallpaper of the Week #90 - Neil Hanvey
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/

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion - Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Gr
Book Suggestion - Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design
The book suggestion of this week is about colors, one of the most important skills for any designer. The book is called Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design and it's not only a very useful book, it's a very well designed one.