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More Designer Resources…

by Spike on Jul.11, 2009, under Design

I came across two more useful resources today. The first is an online image editor, the second is a color palette generator.


Aviary’s Phoenix

Pictaculous creates several color palettes based on an uploaded image.

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Cool Designer Resources

by Spike on Jun.26, 2009, under Design

Just thought I’d share a few of the links I’ve picked up along the way. These sites all have something really great to add to your design arsenal.

Please to enjoy…

Vunky Search Cool Search Engine for finding Photoshop tutorials
Morgue File Free Stock Images
Amazing Textures Free Textures
Public Domain Photos Free Images
EveryStockPhoto Stock Image Search Engine
DesignerFolio
Tutorialized
Art Morgue
National Geographic Great Images (for Inspiration Only!)
iStockphoto
Photoshop Freebies
Slide Rocket
Kuler Adobe’s answer to the question “Which colors should I use on this project?”
Adobe Exchange
Pantone

Font Resources:
Font Picker
Your Fonts
Identifont
Fontstruct
What the Font
Urban Fonts
Simply the Best Fonts
Fontspace
Font Bureau
DaFont
Acid Fonts
Abstract Fonts
1001freefonts

Logos:
Brands of the World An invaluable resource
Logo Instant Great ideas for logos
Logo Shak Tons of Sports Logos
SportsLogos.net

If you know of any resources not listed above let me know in the comments section below!

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Designer Pet Peeves

by Spike on Mar.16, 2009, under Design, Life

It’s time to blow off a little steam…
 I love receiving customer provided art as a pdf or an eps. However, what I hate is when I request the artwork to be vector, and I receive a pdf (or eps) with a bitmap saved inside! I once tried to convey this frustration to my wife. I came up with this comparison.
“I went to McDonald’s & ordered a chicken sandwich. Unfortunately they brought out a hamburger. I explained that this is not what I asked for, and they quickly returned with a chicken sandwich on the tray. I sat down to enjoy. But when I opened the chicken sandwich wrapper, what do I find? The same hamburger has been placed inside the chicken sandwich wrapper!”
You see, the wrapper represents the file type, the chicken is vector information, and the hamburger is raster information.

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Vunky Seach & GiniPic

by Spike on Feb.24, 2009, under Design

Found two cool sites for designers today. Vunky Search and GiniPic. Vunky is a Photoshop Tutorial Browser. GiniPic is a downloadable search engine that searches sites like flickr, photobucket, deviantart, facebook, as well as images on your computer simultaneously. If you get a chance to check them out let me know what you think.

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DJ Earworm – Music Mashups

by Spike on Jan.28, 2009, under Design, Entertainment, Life

Now this is the type of music I listen to when I’m designing…

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Font Picker

by Spike on Jan.20, 2009, under Design

Another great resource for designers. Font picker is free for Mac, PC, and Linux. You can also use it directly from the website. Simply type the text you want to proof, then X out or check off fonts to reduce the list till you narrow down your options to the best choice for your project. Give it a try, let me know what you think.

Font Picker – finding the right font for the job.

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FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts

by Spike on Jan.20, 2009, under Design

This looks like an awesome resource. Even if it’s not that useful, it could still be a really fun exercise for designers.

FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts.

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Menu Boards for Baskin Robbins

by Spike on Jan.18, 2009, under Design, Proofing

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Friday Night

by Spike on Jan.16, 2009, under Design, Life, Site

Wow! I’m a party animal… After sitting in front of my computer at work all day, I come home and spend Friday night… in front of my computer! But hey, now I have more images in my gallery, and some cool new features on the rest of the site.

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Spike is back!

by Spike on Jan.07, 2009, under Design, Site

After changing hosts, I decided it was time for a long over due site revamp. I’ve completely thrown out everything from the old site & will be periodically rebuilding it from scratch. So check back periodically, or add me to your rss reader.

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