November 27, 2008 aloa's blog

Inspiration: 20 awesome t-shirt illustrations by Glennz

I was gone for a week but now Im back with lots of cool new stuff. Here's a compilation of

Featured Tutorial

Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshoc CS5
Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshop CS5
A few days ago I went to the movies with Amanda (@amlight) to watch Inception, the new Christopher Nolan movie. I left the movie theater completely blown away. The story is simply amazing and the director leaves us confused all the time, especially in the end. Anyway I'm not here to talk about the movie, but instead about how it inspired me to get on Photoshop and try something. Then I saw the posters of the movie and boom, there it was, a really cool effect to create a tutorial about :)

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week 195 by Bram Vanhaeren
Wallpaper of the Week 195 by Bram Vanhaeren
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Bram Vanhaeren. Bram is 20 years old and studies cross media design, after 2 years freelancing together with his brother. He's been developing his style since his first pen tool experiments in Illustrator about 5 years ago. Bram's style ranges from simple illustrations and typography to mixed media artwork.

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context
Book Suggestion Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context
The book suggestion of this week is Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context. This book is really inspiring, there were some amazing illustrations and you can spend ours checking them out. Another amazing thing about this book is that you can always go back and there will always be something new.