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Tom Whalen and what inspires me…

08 Jul

Earlier today I was checking out Abduzeedo.com and saw this great post on Tom Whalen. I love this guy’s artwork and wanted to try to emulate some of his style.

Tom Whalen inspired Rocket

Tom Whalen inspired Rocket

This is just a quick test to try out some of the techniques such as half toning and the grungy texture in the background. Obviously this is no where near Tom’s work, he is a master of illustration and uses negative space brilliantly.

I am however pleased I was able to recreate the 50’s style mood and will be practicing this much more in the coming months.

 
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T-Shirts!!!

02 May
Status Mantra T-Shirt

One for the Facebook fans

Ok…so my big news is that I now have T-shirts for sale!! At the moment there are only 3 but I’m working on some more. T-shirt design is one of those things I’ve always wanted to do. What’s cooler than wearing, and seeing other people wear your own designs? I am in fact wearing my ‘HotChips’ T right now!

They are also available in a few other styles like long sleeve, girly fitted and even hoodie. (I can’t wait to  get a hoodie of my next design)

Anyway check em out at my t-shirts page and watch this space for more designs in the future.

 
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Liane Moriarty Site Launch

27 Apr

Liane Moriarty’s site is now live!! Please check it out at www.lianemoriarty.com.au

Liane Moriarty's Website

Liane’s latest book “What Alice Forgot” has been recently optioned for a feature movie by Fox 2000. Her other novels are also great reads and if you’ve got kids, check out the “Space Brigade” series for some pre-teen fun (written under her other name: LM Moriarty).

 
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Author Sites

22 Mar

Recently I completed a website for Sydney author Jaclyn Moriarty. Jaclyn is the author of the acclaimed Ashbury/Brookfield series of books and also one of my favorites “I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes”  Please check it out and let me know what you think in the comments of this post.

Jaclyn Moriarty Website

Jaclyn Moriarty Website

At the moment I am working on the sister site (literally!…or should that be literary!! Ha) for Liane Moriarty.

Stay tuned for updates on Liane’s site.

 
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I WILL blog!

12 Mar

Ok…even though I don’t think there is anyone reading this on a regular basis, I have decided I want to be one of those blog-like people. Everyday I read stuff on great design sites like Smashing Magazine, Photoshop VP: John Knack’s blog (I have a secret desire to create something worthy of getting posted on John Knack’s blog!) and John Hicks’ journal entries. I admire these people and find the stuff they post to be inspiring and just generally interesting. I want to be like that, I want people to read this blog and go “hey that’s pretty cool”

So my first step is to become a blogger. This means (at first at least) scheduling time to write what I’m thinking. From this week onwards…I…WILL….BLOG!!

 
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Great VDub Fun Campaign

30 Oct

Came across this really nice campaign for VW. It made me smile and it’s really well done.

See more at thefuntheory.com/

 
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Long time…no blog

30 Oct

Ok…so when I started this I intended it to be a resource for me and other for graphic software. Basically I only wanted informative how to style posts. Problem is I don’t get around to doing that often so I’m going to start just posting cool stuff I come across and random thoughts, with a graphical slant. (Having said that MOST things I think have a graphical slant so it shouldn’t be too hard!).

Hopefully I can get into the habit of posting more often.

 
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Cool Video Technologies

05 Dec

Adobe has some cool stuff in the pipelines for instance this smart video manipulation. Hopefully this will come to Premiere or maybe even Photoshop in the not too distant future. Check out the video here

 
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Flash Mo

23 Oct

I love flash games and creative advertising.  The other day while looking at the Movember site, I came across this mini site for Holden promoting their affiliation with Movember. I especially like the adaptation of their slogan “Go Better” to “Mo Better”!

check it out at: holdenmobetter.com.au

There’s also one for Shick who sponsor Movember as well: schickfreeyourskin.com.au

 
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Stormy Ideas

30 Aug

Everyone runs out of ideas sooner or later. It helps to have people around to brainstorm with. Lately I have come across a lot of people who don’t know what real brainstorming is.

Google defines brainstorming as: A group process used to generate a large number of ideas about specific issues in a non-judgmental environment.

Basically it’s bouncing ideas off other people, you can brainstorm with anyone. Collegues, friends, partners and even kids (inocent minds can sometimes trigger a creative breakthrough.)

There is only one rule to this fantastic creative process
THERE IS NO WRONG ANSWERS!!

It’s as much about clearing thoughts out of your head as it is about coming up with new ones.
So give it a go and don’t listen to negative people who yell “Thats not right”, if you don’t get unsuitable ideas out of your system at the concept stage, they may come back to bite you later!

 
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