Archive for September, 2008

I am a fan of vector art and illustrator work. As a graphic artist now, sadly I have all but left my paint brush and pencils in favor of Illustrator. I have become much more aware of line and color work, gone are the days where I can use a brush and smudge colors and strokes all over a canvas to cover up my lack of talent. Recently I read a post on vectortuts.com.

The work displayed on the post ranged on work i found amazing, to work I found sub par for a professional illustrator.

It did make me consider the medium a bit more though, and I felt pretty inspired by some of the website examples they presented.

I would love to see a fall back to more illustrator work. I have always thought it shared a commonality with turn of the age graphic design. From the woodcut signs of the middle ages to the propaganda posters of the world wars. The feeling you get from an illustrated piece is like a characteur of life rather than something mundane we see everyday of our lives. Check out the vectortuts.com post here.

Yes I know as if anyone needed another eason to hear this song, but I think this monochromatic (mostly) ditty is fantastically done.

Yet another iPhone theme. I have just recently upgraded to 2.0 on my ipod touch, and I created these themes before I did the upgrade, so they are missing some 2.0 apps such as winterboard and cydia. I will make the updates to the theme though soon. I have to thank some flickr friends for lending me their awesome images to use as backgrounds:

• BURИBLUE for the Ocean
• Rolf F. for the Grass
• Just-Us-3 for City at night
• ێublime ® for the Sunflower

For the designers out there that have some less main stream apps that want to create their own icons for this theme you can grab a template here.