I love reading various different design blogs as it fuels my creativity, gives me inspiration and a source for research in future projects. So besides the major ones like Smashing Magazine and PSD Tuts, I am listing 10+ creative design blogs that are in my RSS reader that you may be unaware of.
Whenever I begin creating a new design whether it is a Print or a Web Design, one of the first things I always research are Photoshop brushes. As a designer I believe that having both a solid font and Photoshop brush collection is essential for any design. Even the design for Eric’s Empire involved several different brush sets. Continue Reading…
Chain letters have recently been circulating around Facebook. For the most part I find about 99% of them to be annoying and I never fill out any of the questionnaires or surveys that go around. However, I recently come across one in my news feed that I really enjoyed and being a designer I thought it was a fun little creative exercise….it works too! The above picture is what I came up with my album cover. The directions are below feel free comment your results. Check it out!
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More… Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 – Post it to FB with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in. (you can untag yourself if you don’t want this photo up)
