Last year we published a tutorial showing how to create a nice badge in Photoshop and Illustrator. Now we decided to do the same, or similar effect using Pixelmator and its new vector tools. The result is very good and there are some nice techniques to overcome the lack of some more complex shapes.
So in this tutorial we will show you how to create complex shapes in Pixelmator and add round corners to it. After that we will show you how to make it look like an old badge using textures and some basic filters and blending.
The wallpaper of this week is a painting by Tara Babando, an artist based out of Montreal, Canada. She is a fashion designer by day and a painter/ artist by night.
For more information about Tara, you can always check her website at http://tarababando.com, her Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarababando/) or follow her on Twitter http://twitter.com/TaraBabando
Desktop Version
The book of this week is not a design book per se but it's an incredible book. I have just finished it and I got so much valuable information that can be applied in my day to day job as designer. The book is called Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond by Paco Underhill.
