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Finally printed out my current fav design on a 24 x 36 mounted poster - Combining my love for Typography and Photography, Font-O-Genic is born. Using Photoshop’s Displacement Tool, my tweets and words reflecting design are wrapped around the subject’s body. The trick is creating a displacement map from the original photo. The video tutorial for this project is one of my highest ranking videos on Vimeo.
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Check out the wine label I created - ChaiONE likes to give wine bottles to their new clients, and needed a custom wine label. I created a clean and simple label in Illustrator. It simply states, “Looking forward to working together - Team ChaiONE”
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Design bundle worth checking out from @envatophoto (great value for 20 bucks)
- Product Mockups
- Graphics
- PSD Add ons
- Print Templates
*AND A LOT MORE*
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In this video I show you how to change the color of your shirt mockup / template. Also, learn a cool trick for giving your shirt mockup a little something extra.
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Lessons of a Designer (L.O.A.D)
#2 Don’t take criticism with a grain a salt. Don’t take them negatively. Everyone has different views and opinions, and see things - - the WORLD differently. The smart thing to do is to ALWAYS listen to criticism and take them into account.
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“I don’t like how you have to keep scrolling down the site. It’s annoying”, says the friend of one of my clients.
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“Well, I like it! I think it’s great and it should stay how it is”, responds my client.
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“Hmm. Well your friend is annoyed by the scrolling. Which means another potential customer of yours could be annoyed by it as well, turning them away from your site. What annoys one could annoy many. So it may be best to take the scrolling out.”
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“I see your point”, my client says nodding their head and smiling.
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“WEeee may like it. But the end goal is not to please our taste, but attract customers and draw business….”, I respond.
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So the Moral is:
“Learn from criticism, analyze it, and apply it successfully. Don’t get bent out of shape about it. Seriously, if you are a creator of anything, and plan on showing it to the world…you’re going to get criticized. Rather you want to be or not. Everyone has an opinion….and many are going to voice it”
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Feel free to contact me about anything. I’d love to hear from you…
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Life Lessons of a Designer
#1 When uploading files to an FTP site, the file names cannot have spaces in them or they will not upload. ’ First time I uploaded a site. A full 25 page site with more than 50 graphics. I named my files and graphics that I used on the site, using spaces. So of course uploading the “finished” site failed. ’ It took me hours, like 2. To go and rename all the files with underscores instead of spaces. Then update each file and graphic on all 25 pages with the new file names. ’ That my friends, is one lesson that has been imprinted on my soul. Now when even naming files tht are not for a website, they could only be getting saved to my document folder: “I still make sure NOT to name my files with spaces, and use underscores instead” ’ I’ve been scarred LOL.
