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Disc Sport Icon Design

Published on August 19, 2009 in design. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Illustrator, design, disc golf, disc sport, dog disc, flying disc, freestyle, frisbee, graphic design, guts, icon, sketch, sports, ultimate, vector art.

A set of flying disc sport icons I created for Flying Disc Magazine. These icons were created as part of the redesign of Flying Disc Magazine (of which I was also the designer). The client wanted to expand the magazine further out from the original focus on disc golf to include additional flying disc sports. We needed to figure out a way to indicate that different magazine articles and columns were associated with the different sports.

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Zen Of The Pen

Published on October 31, 2008 in productivity and resources. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Bezier, Creative Suite, free, graphic design, how-to, Illustration, illustrator, PDF, Photoshop, reference, software, technique, tips, Tutorials, vector, walkthrough.

Sharon Steuer’s free ”Zen Of The Pen” PDF is an excellent introduction to the inner mysteries of the vector pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

The pen tool is one of those obscure graphics programs tools that everyone tries once, and then gets so confused by that they never get any further with it. And understandably. It looks like a fountain pen, but it doesn’t act like one. Click and “draw”, you get weird “handles” sprouting out from a dot. Ignore that, and some annoying rubber band line gets stuck to your pen tip, all distorted out of — not even a straight line! Right there most Illustrator users think to themselves “this program sucks”.

But they couldn’t be further from the truth…

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12 Realities of Pricing Design Services

Published on September 30, 2008 in business. 0 Comments Tags: business, client, design, freelance, graphic design, pricing, resources, tip.

Vandelay Design has a great article discussing pricing issues for freelance creatives. The article talks about design services, but it can apply to illustrators, cartoonists – probably any freelancer out there.

More than just a nuts & bolts calculator, the post gets into the nebulous about preceived value, psychology of clients and more. Nothing needing a PhD, but some nice brief insight into the process.

A good read and some good links at the end as well.

12 Realities of Pricing Design Services | Vandelay Website Design.

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The Designer’s Toolbox: Free Print & Web Design Resources

Published on September 27, 2008 in resources. 1 Comment Tags: business, design, forms, free, graphic design, resources, templates.

The Designer’s Toolbox looks to be a handy one-stop shop for free templates, specs, dimensions, and information for standard postcards, envelopes, CD/DVD layouts, HTML characters, and more.

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Free Photgraphic Textures: Texture King

Published on September 26, 2008 in resources. 0 Comments Tags: design, graphic design, resources, texture.

Texture King looks to be a great free resource for photographic texture images for your design projects. I downloaded a random file and found it to be 300 PDI @ 3″ x 5″, so the files are of a decent size to use in your print projects, and perfect for web usage.