Star Graphic Design

I have composed a small collection of funny youtube videos featuring Graphic Design topics. These are great for a laugh.

Design of a Stop Sign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU9YeOQm3Y0

If Microsoft designed the iPod:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0&NR=1

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I have finally been able to create a relatively seamless bulletin board pattern to use with Photoshop, so I wanted to share it with everyone. I will have a website coming out soon that uses it, so I’ll let you know when its up. But for now, enjoy this free pattern.

To use this pattern in Photoshop, open the image up in Photoshop and go to Edit > Define Pattern. From there, it will be available in your patterns palette.

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My nerdy Graphic Designer-ness is now evident to everyone that I work with, with the exciting arrival of my new coffee mug. The glorious Kerning/Keming mug from Cafepress!

The full saying reads “keming. (kem’-ing). n. The result of improper kerning.”

Brilliant…

I have just recently discovered the fantastic world of Coda. If you frequently check the CSS galleries then you will be familiar with the Panic Coda website. It is amazingly well-designed, and has been featured on almost all of the galleries out there.

The program Coda, that Panic has developed is an amazing all-in-one web development tool. You only need one program open to do everything.

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When you spend 10 hours a day on the computer as most graphic designers do, you think you’ve seen just about everything on the internet. Yet somehow, I missed this one.

I want to tell you about an entertaining website called Photoshop Disasters. The title says it all. The entire site is filled with user submitted examples of poorly done Photoshop work. It is amazing how some of these pieces have slipped through the cracks and gotten published.

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I have recently come across an amazing FREE icon set courtesy of Min Tran. The set is titled “Milky” and there are currently eight parts available. About twice a month, she releases a new set.

They all reflect the high quality of istockphoto icons, yet they are 100% free. As a designer, the growing icon trend becomes difficult to keep up with and creating detailed icons from scratch can be a laborious process.

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I have created a set of Adobe Creative Suite icons in Illustrator for anyone to use. They are great to put on your website, to show the programs you used when designing.

Personally, I am using them to make buttons and t-shirts to show off my nerdy side. I figured since I went to the trouble to create them, I could share them with everyone. And if you want to buy a set of 1″ buttons for $5, email me.

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As a Graphic Designer, it is essential to have a large list of fonts at your disposal. So I am always on the lookout for new and interesting ones.

I just recently stumbled upon another blog promoting this free font called Earthwards, and I absolutely love it, so I wanted to share it with you. It is apparently still in Beta, so it hasn’t be perfected yet. But it’s working great for me so far.

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