In this tutorial we’ll create a set of truly adorable soda shop inspired food icons from scratch and assemble them into a dynamic all-over print, ready for use as a desktop background or within printed media. We’ll build objects from basic shapes like ellipses, rounded rectangles, and triangles, and add a little face on each… [Read more]
The Haptic Script font, a connected brush script type family with a warm, personal, and soft look. Henning Hartmut Skibbe is a graphic and type designer based in Potsdam, Germany. In 2014/2015, he has developed Haptic Script, a connected brush script font family with a warm, personal, and soft look. The family consists of five weights… [Read more]
So good are the top-end Adonis styluses, in fact, that Adobe partnered with the company to make its own stylus for iPad, the Ink (find out whether it’s worth buying here). Paired with its Slide – a short ruler (hence its development codename, Napoleon) – and a small suite of new apps, this is Adobe’s… [Read more]
Simon Bisley on Blizzard and being a geniusBlizzard’s Diablo III’s King Leoric gets Bisleyfied. Simon Bisley is a weightlifting, bass-playing artist whose distinctive style – essentially muscles, boobs and demons – has made him a legend in the world of comic books. Yet his latest project is a side-step from graphic novels: creating artwork for… [Read more]
1. Creating the Background Step 1 Create a new 1100 x 700px document. Set the Foreground color to #760928 and the Backgroundcolor to #3d1722, pick the Gradient Tool, click the Radial Gradient icon in the Options bar, and then click and drag from the center of the document to one of the corners. Step 2 Place the Texture 358 image on top of the Background layer, rename its layer to Texture, then go to Edit… [Read more]
The spot healing brush tool paints with sampled pixels from an image and matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the pixels that are sampled to the pixels being retouched or healed. Note that unlike the Clone Stamp tool, the Spot Healing Brush automatically samples from around the retouched area. urartstudio.com [Read more]
A simplified mathematical approach divides any format into thirds – left to right and top to bottom – under the assumption that the intersection of these axes will be points of focus by the brain. As a format’s horizontal and vertical measurements become more exaggerated relative to each other, the thirds that are produced become… [Read more]
A grid is truly successful only if, after all the problems have been solved, the designer rises above the uniformity implied by its structure and uses it to create a dynamic visual narrative of parts that will sustain interest page after page. The greatest danger in using a grid is to succumb to its regularity…. [Read more]
Sometimes design work is particularly difficult. The obvious, clear design refuses to reveal itself, and the text and pictures just don’t flow properly. The reason might be that the designer has become too attached to a particular element and fails to see that this is what is blocking production of a good design. The solution… [Read more]
