Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either. After a few hours I was able to come up with a really nice design, but the most important thing, the whole process was an excellent way to improve my Illustrator techniques.
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Elena Savitskaya a Graphic and Web Designer, based in London. She comes from a Marketing Management background and when it comes to Graphic Design she has her own definitions of goals that designers need to achieve. In her opinion, it’s not all about “pretty graphics”.
My yearly project. New 2010 free wallpaper for your desktop guys Next year is a year of the tiger, my year so wish me luck, hopefully it will be a better year for me than it was in this one.
The book suggestion of the week is a must have for those willing to design nice web sites and pretty much anything. It is called Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (Voices That Matter) and as the name says it is all about grid systems or the principles behind it.
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