January 28, 2009 aloa's blog

Interview: Alex Haigh from Thinkdust

Thinkdust is an indepented design studio founded by Alex Haigh who worked for great companies like Nike, Sony and made

Featured Tutorial

Dark Knight Rises Poster in Photoshop
Dark Knight Rises Poster in Photoshop
A couple of weeks ago I saw the new Dark Knight Rises poster and I love it. The concept was beautiful, using negative spaces to show the Batman symbol. As usual I started to think about ways to do that in Photoshop, then last Saturday I started looking for assets and trying to put together the first concept. After a couple of hours searching for images I found good ones and had a nice start.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #39 - Mayheam
Wallpaper of the Week #39 - Mayheam
The wallpaper of this week is from Mayheam, a young digital artist from Virginia, US. Mayheam has some very beautiful wallpapers on his deviantART page, and as usual we highly recommend that you check his site out.

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping
Book Suggestion: Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping
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.