November 26, 2008 cartab's blog

WebTech#2: Complete Server Solution

Hello everyone, this post will be the second in the Abducted by Servers series. In the last post, we went

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Money Style Illustration in Photoshop
Money Style Illustration in Photoshop
Last Saturday I went to the movies to watch Wall Street Money Never Sleeps. It was a nice movie, even though I was expecting something much better in terms of story and special effects, there were some cheesy ones, however in the end during the credits the design they created a really nice animation with money illustration, I don't know the name of the effect in english, but I loved it, so I came back and decided to try to do that in Photoshop.

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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: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
The book suggestion of this week is a very inspiring one for those in love with vintage typography, it's called Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age. It's definitely a book for when you need some extra motivation and inspiration. About the book Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting.