February 2012
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Guys. Everlane is cool. You should join. →
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Bold & Justified: The Huge World of Typography... →
I was lucky enough to work with a great community, COLOURlovers, in launching their marketplace! I helped them by designing an infographic about the great big world of typography. You should check them out!
Comic Sans is installed more on PCs. Why so serious Linux & Mac? That just one of the many things we discovered while looking into the creative history of typography aka fonts. They play a...
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January 2012
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Updating Icons
One of my latest tasks for Placeling was to create a gas station icon to fit in an existing set of icons.
The original icons:
Fairly obvious requirements in order to fit the style: beige colour scheme, some perspective, hint at retro feel. Per usual, I started in the sketch book.
With a little feedback, I decided that just the handle was the way to go. I thought it turned out alright.
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Illustrator course on matygo
Just finished the syllabus for the crash course in illustration that I’m teaching on matygo.com! Learn the power of Adobe Illustrator in 8 weeks. Check it out!
This course teaches how to create beautiful digital illustrations using Adobe Illustrator. Through a series of interactive worksheets, learn the purpose and power of Illustrator’s vector graphic capabilities.
What you...
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The best advice I can give you, is Paula Scher's...
Back in my days at the Art Institute, I took a class in Art Direction. Our first assignment was to pick an art director who we admire, get up in front of the class to tell them what makes our art director awesome, and what we should learn from them. I picked Paula Scher. The advice that she gives in her TED talk, is arguably the best advice that I’ll ever receive as a graphic designer. Have...
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Gas Station Icon
Working on a “gas station” icon for this set:
Turns out there’s a lot of different types of gas pumps… {I’m leaning towards the one in the top right corner}
Thoughts? Comments? Concerns?
Placeling: City Guides: Toronto →
You know those designs I’m always posting? Get a better idea of why they’re great, when you hear it from them.
placeling:
We’re back, and this time with an eclectic guide to Toronto.
As always, you can get this guide - plus all future and past guides - on your phone simply by following the Placeling user citysnapshots.
If you’re using the app, just search for the user...
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December 2011
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okaydudenobingo asked: Hey there! Liked your copy now inspired later post. great line about giving up our organic ideas. do you think that designers of all levels should be worried their work is getting passed around too much? I mean only one re-blogger is needed to remove the identity from a piece. Granted I only really use tumblr for browsing for inspiration and looking at funny shit so I'm not a big...
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Freelancer Lesson: There's never too much...
Figuring out the ins and outs of freelancing is not something that happens over night. How ever you got started, either making the plunge all at once, or dabbling until it took over, you wake up one morning, completely overwhelmed. All of a sudden you’re trying to market yourself, maintain old clients while finding new clients (which is about 100 emails a day), managing subcontractors,...
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Walk Through: Sketch to Digital art
I was working away on a logo/illustration hypertiny (check them out, they do cool things) and it occurred to me that this would be a great example to take a walk through in converting a sketch to digital art. Here we go.
Okay, so maybe the first step is a bit tricky, but if you can get through this part on your own, I’ll walk you through the rest… Take out your sketch book and draw...
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Copy Now, Inspired Later
Daily, we as designers try to create something genuine and compelling, that both suits some mood or feeling that we’ve seen before while remaining original, and maybe even pioneering. Unfortunately, breaking grounds is not a daily activity that anyone can maintain, and more often than we might like to admit, uninspired days show up.
Naturally, we all turn to magazines, books, movies and...
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November 2011
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Is it flattering to become the Growlab mascot?
Another illustration before the night is done! One of the founders of Sunnytrail (one of the companies in the GrowLab cohort) has the tendency of saying unexpectedly awesome things, that have led us to believe that he’s an evil genius. I’ve somehow been convinced to draw the t-shirts?
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It's been an icon-full day: New Matygo Icon Set
Holy cats, I think I may run out of icon-magic after this week. More icons for you! Matygo is launching their market place, I’m lending a hand. And of course, every icon needs a home..
Thoughts? Comments? Concerns?
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Find People Icon
Well, if you keep up with my tumblr, you’ll know I was having some trouble with the “Find People” icon. I couldn’t decide if it should be “FIND people” or “find PEOPLE.” I came up with some sketches emphasizing each direction, but none of them really captured both.
I got some great feedback from Dylan Patty & NightofReason (thanks!!) But...
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Trouble with "Find People" icon
Guys. I can’t decide what’s more important about finding people, the Finding of them, or the people? ie. is it *FIND* people, or is it find *PEOPLE* I’m working on an icon to fit with this set.
So. Here’s what I’ve got…
Close up of the contenders…
Thoughts? Comments? Concerns?
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Working on some assets for matygo: Easy as 1,2,3
First, you sketch …
Then you digitize…
Then you give them a home :)
Seeeeeeee…?
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First Round of the Placing Webplates.
Well, I’ve already started iterating on these - but I forgot that the best part of posting things is watching them evolve! So, to that point, I thought I would post the first round of the Placeling webplates *PRE* feedback. I would love to hear your thoughts. Oh, I should preface this with that the illustration in the footer is intended to change with each page … the illustrations have...
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Placeling is available in the app store! {For... →
You know that app that I keep posting plates, and icons, and illustrations ect ect for? Well, you can finally use it! It’s still in the beta, so it won’t look quite like my plates yet (it’s tough to implement…) but consider it your sneak peak.
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