I need help coming up with Design Blog Topics for 2012. As 2011 is coming to a close I have managed to get my website up along with a wonderful portfolio. I have managed to build a small following on Twitter and a little bit of one on some of the other social networking communities [...]
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Die a designer: 10 steps to a long career | .net magazine
Discovered another amazing blog article this evening. It is entitled Die a Designer: 10 steps to a long career and as the title suggests gives 10 steps to making sure that you continue to remain relevant as a designer, even 30 or 40 years into your career. Unlike many of these X Steps type articles, [...]
SEO principles from … | Learn Graphic/Web Design
Hey folks, here’s a great article I came across today from Web Designer Dan Dumitrache on his blog, Learn Graphic/Web Design SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is definitely one of the most popular topics on the internet these days. However, it is not the purpose of Learn Graphic/Web Design to analyze this topic in details but [...]
25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career
25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career. Here are 25 classic fonts that have stood the test of time in the design world. Some of these bad boys date to the mid-late 1800′s. Give them a look and see which ones you can use for your own design projects.
Create an awesome human disintegration effect in Photoshop
Check out this really cool Photoshop tutorial from Ahsan Zaheer http://ahsanzaheer.com/blog/create-a-powerful-human-disintegration-effect-in-photoshop/
Flash Animation project hits snag
So I have apparently hit a bit of a snag on my Flash animation project due in just under two weeks. Apparently I’ve been approaching the break-down and rigging of the character all wrong. Going to have to start mostly from scratch on getting her set up, rigged and animated. Up side? I haven’t done [...]
25 Time saving CSS3 tools& Apps for designers - Wsblogz.com – Web design magazine
Wow. I fully expect these to make learning CSS3 a good bit easier. 25 Time saving CSS3 tools& Apps for designers - Wsblogz.com – Web design magazine.
Capstone Project – new direction
So after talking things over with my instructor last night, I have chosen to alter the direction my ITT Capstone project was headed. For personal and story reasons, I have decided to put production of the Shadows of Umbra comic on hold for the time being and focus my school project on web design. The [...]
Shadows of Umbra – weekly update
So, it turns out I’m not so hot at the everyday update thing. Realized very quickly that most of what i was doing on a daily basis is very boring and would not amount to much from an update perspective. So I’m going to back off and try to update at least weekly, sometimes more [...]
12 Creative Design Elements Inspiring the Next Generation of UX | SEOmoz
12 Creative Design Elements Inspiring the Next Generation of UX | SEOmoz.
SIEGE – post con report
SIEGE, the Southern Interactive Entertainment and Game Expo, was held this past weekend in Atlanta, GA. Overall, I had a much more productive experience with SIEGE than with AWA this year. Over the course of the weekend I was able to meet some very interesting folks working with companies such as Kaneva, Digital Roar, Tripwire [...]
Shadows of Umbra (SoU) – ITT Capstone Project
This is something I’ve been promising myself I would do, so here goes. Currently I am finishing my Associates’ Degree in Visual Communication at ITT here in Greenville. I have a Bachelors’ and a Masters’ Degree but after the layoff in 2010, I decided to go back to school and get some hands on time [...]
AWA – post con
As promised, AWA 2011 post-con wrap-up. Weekend started off rather poorly; I honestly should have known it wasn’t getting any better. Left Greenville at 6:30 am heading for Atlanta. I eschewed filling up the tank on my way out because it was cold and I had close to half a tank – it ought to [...]
AWA – post con (short version)
OK, just got back from AWA this evening. This is going to be the short version of the Post-con report as I need time to distill the longer version. Essentially, in terms of business, this weekend was a bust. I made a whopping 0 sales and did a poor job of getting my name “out [...]
M’Diro – My New Web Design Project
As of some time last week, I have become the new Web designer / webmaster for the M’Diro Project. Thus far I have transferred over all of the older pages and re-skinned a WP Template for it. You can see the new project and follow it’s progress here.
American Graphic Design Awards
So. in June I entered a magazine ad layout project in Graphic Design USA’s “American Graphic Design Awards” in the student category. Yesterday I received a rather large envelope in the mail from them – I have been chosen as one of this year’s AWARD WINNERS! The award winning piece will be featured (along with [...]
3ds Max Design Hero Competition
CGarchitect.com 3ds Max Design Hero Competition. Must seriously consider putting something together for this.
3D Environment Competition 2011 – Winners
So, as you know, I recently entered E-On and Cornucopia 3D’s 3D Environment Competition for 2011 using the Vue software. As of late last evening, the winners have been announced and frankly, there were several surprises. Go take a look for yourself. e-on software – 3D EC 2011.
Sea Cavern
Posted a new image to the 3D Environment gallery this afternoon. This one is a stalactite and stalagmite filled grotto cavern. With this particular piece I was trying for a somewhat wet look to the rock formations and ended up with a surface that sparkles in the mysterious lighting. See the Image.
Cornucopia3D Environmental Competition
Click here to see my entry. As promised, here is a link to my entry into Cornucopia 3D’s Vue Environmental Competition 2011. There are 230 entries total which will be whittled down to 12 finalists to be announced on Monday 9/5. Three winners will be announced on Thursday the 8th.