September 08, 2008 Francisco's blog

The future of magazines

Some of you may have already seen the news about the new issue of Esquire magazine containing E-ink on the

Featured Tutorial

Lost in Space Typography in Photoshop
Lost in Space Typography in Photoshop
Last week I was checking out some of the Typography Mania posts, and got really inspired to try something new. So I decided to create an abstract composition with light effects and apply that as a texture of a text, everything done only using Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create an easy and super quick text effect in Photoshop. We will play with Brushes, Blend Modes, basic filters like Blur and Liquify, and also text.

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Wallpaper of the Week #38 - Eighthourday
For the Wallpaper of this week we have another vibrant design, this time from Katie Kirk & Nathan Strandberg the designers behind Eighthourday, a design boutique as they say from Minneapolis, Minnesota. As usual, we highly recommend you to check out their website and get some inspiration from their really cool work.

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Symbol
Book Suggestion: Symbol
The book suggestion of the week is called Symbol and it's a great book for those willing to learn more and improve their design skills on symbols.