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Design Every Day – Week 05

Dusty — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:07:32 +0000

January came to a close with more designing.

Day 24 – Monkey Illustration

Day 25 – Personal Avatar

Day 26 – Graphic Design Art

Day 27 – Photo Editing

Day 28 – Business Icons

Day 29 – More Digital Art – Photoshop Brushes

Day 30 – Typography Puppy

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Design Every Day – Week 04

Dusty — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:43:28 +0000

The results are in from last week’s designs. As you know, I’m designing something every day for 2010. Here they are:

Day 017 – Quirky Header Graphic

Day 018 – Edgy Logo

Day 019 – Robot Gradient

Day 020 – Urban Yuppy Typestyle

Day 021 – Digital Art: Apple Revamped

Day 022 – RGB vs. CMYK

Day 023 – February Wallpaper

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Design Every Day – Week 03

Dusty — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:04:34 +0000

Another week has come and gone, and I’m still designing something every day. My favorite this week is the Ghost Pop Can. You can be the judge. Take a look at the First Week and Second Week posts if you’d like!

It is very interesting to see my style really show through in these designs. I’m trying to diversify myself as much as possible. Maybe next week I can do some things completely different.

Day 10 – Ghost Pop (Soda) Can

I love playing around in Photoshop and manipulating photos. This image is a ghost, made out of pop cans. I utilized the “Multiply” layer style and duplicated/transformed/resized a simple pop can image.

Day 11 – Columns

Remember the Sega game columns? Anyway, this image was completed in Illustrator. I used gradients, drop shadows, and manipulated the colors to create an abstract image of…something.

Day 12 – Type Symbol

Task: Create a symbol using one letter. Can you tell which letter I used?

Day 13 – Portfolio Cover – Vintage

What if there was a Graphic Design portfolio from the 70’s? This is what it would look like.

Day 14 – GaGa Myself

In honor of Lady GaGa, I GaGafied myself. Don’t laugh at me. Ok, go ahead. I’m anxiously awaiting criticism from my friends on this one.

Day 15 – Epic Skate

I’m enjoying ice skating at my local park this year. So I thought I would practice in a warm environment and play around with some Photoshop layer styles.

Day 16 – Space, Not a Final Frontier

Yes, space is always fun to portray through digital art. Here is a combination of a fantasy-feel melded with a sense of outer-space.

Design Every Day – Week 2

Dusty — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:07:05 +0000

If you haven’t the first post in this series, I’m taking the initiative to design something every day. Why? Keep design skills alive, and just maintain the creative juices. Plus it’s fun.

Day 003 – Wallpaper

In this project, I designed desktop wallpaper and iPhone wallpaper with the phrase “Design Is…” Words describing design are presented in a unique typographic way.

Download iPhone – Yellow

Download iPhone – Blue/Tan

Day 004 – Poster

Here I just had fun and created a little “soda-poppy” poster.

Day 005 – T-Shirt

Created this tribal-raccoon-eyes-weirdness design for a screen-printed t-shirt. A lot of “-” in this description-yup.

Day 006 – Digital Art

Here I played with Photoshop layer styles again.

Day 007 – Social Media Icons

I posted this earlier in the week, but this is what I decided that day. It is a different way of presenting traditional social media icons. Feel free to modify as you please.

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Day 008 – Sketch

Just did a little doodling. Sorry for the quality of the pic. My camera phone is a little…iffy.

Day 009 – Illustration

Birdie!

Design Every Day Week 01

Dusty — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:26:11 +0000

Every day in 2010, I’m going to design something. Not being in school anymore, I’m still in that “task” mode. To keep my skills sharp, or to sharpen them, I’m bringing it upon myself to create/design something every single day in 2010. Every Saturday I’ll share what I’ve designed each week.

Day 001 – Color Scheme

I just played around with some desaturated colors, developing two color schemes that are interchangeable. Everything has been about winter, so I wanted to create a spring and fall scheme that, if combined, creates a summer feel.

Day 002 – Type

Here I just wanted to play with lighting and layer styles and what affect that has on type and backgrounds.