A few weeks ago I decided to create a camera icon. Usually I would do that in Illustrator or Photoshop, however as I use Fireworks pretty much most of my time I chose to create the icon using it. The cool thing about Fireworks is that you have the vector features found in Illustrator with bitmaps features found in Photoshop, especially layer style filters.
So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a camera icon in Fireworks. I will focus on the lens pretty much, but as you will see, to create a realistic effect it's all about playing with gradients.
The wallpaper of this week is an amazing image created by Adam Spizak and the Artis Navi team. The ArtisNavi is a blog created by Gregory Machon and Adam Navi to be a creative outlet for presenting and sharing some cool and interesting ideas that they found inspiring, promising and sexy enough to share with us.
For more information about ArtisNavi visit their blog at http://www.artisnavi.com/. There's also a case study showing how this wallpaper was created.
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 :)
