Yesterday, I covered the first 10 steps in creating a blog mockup in photoshop, today I will be wrapping it up with steps 11-20. When we left off, we were had just finished the header and were ready to move on. If you didn’t do yesterday’s steps, do so now and then come back. If you are ready to move forward, let’s move onto the...
Many people I meet with about designing a site have an idea in mind of colors they want, or a layout that they like. The problem is that they have a tough time putting it into words, and I have often heard, “I just wish I could show you a mini mockup”. A lot of times, they will come to our first meeting with a...
Quick story first: my parents have a poodle (Bella), who fell in love with a tortoise (Douglas) that friends of theirs had as a pet. So my parents friend gave Douglas to Bella as a pet. (yes, the poodle has a pet tortoise). Anyway, my parents left in their RV last week to go to Arizona for 2 weeks of relaxation, site-seeing and golfing. While...
You are only limited by your creativity and your talent. Neither of which have limits if you are willing to learn. ...
What turns your attention? What catches your eye? Do you give yourself a chance to stop and admire whatever it is? For me, designer shoes advertisements and incredible photo manipulations are my weakness. Here are my two favorite of the moment:Peter Lippmann for Christian Louboutin, Winter 2010 Fishy Island by Eric Johansson ...
1. Twouble with Twitterers: yeah, ok, so I may be this bad sometimes…2. Redesigning the Stop sign – if a marketing team was in charge of designing a stop sign…definitely true for some of the large agencies.3. Font Fight – for the Web Geek in all of us (first shown to me by Creative Whirlwind)4. Hulu and Dennis Leary – bliggity blogs, facey spacey’s, tweety...
8 hours of Photoshop, graphic design and images = difficulty getting my mind focused on writing. The designs that I created today were great (if i do say so myself…) but I was having a lot of trouble pulling myself a way to write. And even when I did, the most writing I could do was on twitter (and even there was hit or miss). After...
The last few months have been tough for us all (and I don’t even want to think about tomorrow…) but so far, I am surviving. It may be just barely, and it may not be the most fun, but it is still surviving. Although it isn’t exactly the first of the month, it is the first Monday and therefor the first day of this month that...
