Brief Background
My main source of insertion for the Inauguration Poster came from the Shepard Fairey “Hope” Poster we have all seen so much of. Here is the final version of my poster.
This is a quick tutorial on how I created the stencil effect for the poster.
After reading through this article over at Vitamin Features, i thought it would be a good idea to answer the questions as a designer who has to work with developers on a very regular basis.
1. Would I be a better designer to work with if I knew coding myself? Do developers appreciate knowledgeable designers?
The [...]
Working at EMU Marketing has been one of the best experiences at University of Oregon, and has given more portfolio material then I can keep track of. After working there for a year I’m looking back and thinking about what I’ve learned.
Pixel perfect
Every pixel counts and the less you have the more each one matters.
One [...]
I’ve been tinkering with a new brush set lately. I’ve wanted a set of art brushes (ink, pencil, pen, ect) that looked real for the most part.
So digging into my old supplies from drawing for and some sketchbook paper yielded quite an awesome array of brushes. You can look at the example above for [...]
This was my first post over at the new EMU Marketing Blog for the office where I work.
One of the project I recently finished up was the poster for the Civil War Lan. This poster had originally been designed as a spin-off of the emu lan 3.0 poster. However the design ended up not working [...]
Sorry but this weeks links post is a little rushed. With several projects including ASDA and the Machine Project. This week I have a few older links and a few newer links that I have been looking at lately.
I found Wordle a few days ago and have been entranced with it ever since. It simply generates some of the best looking tag clouds i have ever seen.
All in all, Wordle generates some great clouds and its free to use and there are very few restriction just a CC Attribution to link back [...]