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10 Antique Postcard Textures | Valleys In The Vinyl | Textures, Inspiration, & Exploration Enjoy this set of 10 vintage postcards. They will add some genuine age and personality to your work, as well as the potential usage as templates. Each one is super hi-res, with the average size of 2700×4000… File Size: 35.6 MB Shading with CSS text-shadows Last Thursday in New Orleans I attended a glass gilding workshop with John Downer and Leonard Otillio, part of TypeCon 2011. It was excellent, and I cannot recommend the experience highly enough. As a web designer, it felt great to use physical materials. And to be around John and Leonard, such careful stewards of their craft, was an education I could abstract; it’s easy to see opportunities for similar craftsmanship in the subtle and practical details of web typesetting. During the workshop I picked up a few sign painting terms that were new to me, and relevant to web designers as browser support for CSS text-shadows becomes more widespread. Check out these various shading techniques on the demo page I made to accompany this post. Bello Pro with a relief shade The drop shade is a technique with which web designers are already familiar. Freight Sans Pro with a two-toned close shade News Gothic STD with a slightly blurred, two-toned printer’s shade Like this: Like Loading...

Childrens Story Posters | Square Inch Design Blog Classic Children’s Stories Vol. 1 Also available without text Related Work / Peter Pan Beauty & the Beast Jack & the Beanstalk Gulliver’s Travels The Little Mermaid Sleeping Beauty Chicken Little The Frog Prince Cinderella The Emperor’s New Clothes Enter your email address to subscribe to my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Recent Posts © 2014 Sinch Art & Design. ©2013 SInch - All Rights Reserved - Sinch is the intellectual property of Square Inch Design. The League of Moveable Type Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena Draw on any webpage. Share thoughts. Move ideas. - Markup Cartoon Retro Cartoon Retro 12 Apr 11 Apr Federico Ribas 11 Apr rdaskas:Bruce Timm (1996)When I worked at Warner Bros Animation a few of us would collect old Playboy magazines in search of Erich Sokol illustrations.If you dropped five or ten bucks on an old Playboy and there was not a Sokol this was usually the reaction.Bruce drew this for me after one of our lunch time outtings,I think I gave him a page I already had. 11 Apr drawblr:Original Tezuka Astro Boy page.(Source: huffingtonpost.fr) 10 Apr rdaskas:SAMURAI JACK(2004) AcrylicCartoon NetworkScott thought it would be a cool idea to use the white of the board for the desert sand color.It took some planning ahead but worked great.Layouts by Justin Thompson. 10 Apr rdaskas:SAMURAI JACK(2004) AcrylicCartoon Network 8 Apr vinyl-artwork:Mud - Flower Power & You’re My Mother, 1968. (45rpm)(via hannahsfollies) 3 Apr 3 Apr wellnotwisely:Christophe Blain 3 Apr Next >>>

40+ Beautiful and Fresh Free Fonts for Download Whether you are reading a printed newspaper, magazine, web article or just surfing the Internet, an important element that draws your attention at first is the font. A well-chosen font is fundamental as it has to be distinctive and attractive, to catch the reader’s eye and make him want to read the given information. A well-selected font is an important key to the success of the project you work on, especially if you want your content to be read. Surely, designers know that there is countless number of free fonts available, so finding the ideal font for you can be very difficult, unless, you already know what you are looking for. The variety of fonts can make you go crazy and makes it difficult to decide whether you are looking for a classic font or something that is original and fun. Hopefully, this article can make your search a little bit easier. Infinity Blox Banda Regular Otama e.p. Creatica Broken Records Dock 11 Alpha 63 Pompadour Numeral Set Linden Hill Fanwood Lato Hyperbola Bigmouth Copse

Illustrated Ladies Brought to you by Mallory. Also check out Illustrated Gents. Archive Older → Theme by Andrew edjbrown: Doin the mess around! elizabethbaddeley: Dasha and the Sandpipers. toon-books: Who needs friends when you’ve got Terry Gross?” Elise Gravel lydianichols: Vet, cat lady, or both? lpeng: my final piece for thesis~ colors might change and other things will be added so here’s a work in progress? imaginarythingsafterdark: peter pan / chapter 8 / the mermaid’s lagoon / alexander vidal hellohowdyhiya: This is going to be a “Please give me some work to do” postcard. naomiwilkinson: Here’s a swamp queen I designed for a pack of Top Trumps that have been designed by members of Puck for Pick Me Up which starts in just over a week! (Source: joshuacatalano, via cindylikesgifs) (Source: studiopilar, via cindylikesgifs) soulist-aurora: Mwah! (via cindylikesgifs) levaduraa: Proceso. :) (via cindylikesgifs) nanlawsketch:

How to Create a Tasty Web 2.0 Text Logo The best part of using Adobe Illustrator especially when creating logo design is that all your works are saved in vector files. Which means you can adjust the size of your logo without sacrificing the quality of your design. Today, you will learn how to create a logo design with adobe illustrator. This tutorial may help you to create a logotype for various kind of food products and concepts: candies, juice, cereals and so on. The sort of type treatment used in this tutorial is ideal to bring to the consumer an incredible need to eat and drink! Final Preview Below are the steps to create a crunchy and nice logo, clean and legible (like the logo above). Step 1 Start with choosing the right font. Once your word written, vectorize the text. It”s important to have a single form to proceed, so we”ll have to clean the uneeded anchor points. Step 2 Once selected, press Cmd + Shift + G to ungroup, select the Make Compund Shape in the drop down list. Step 3 Ads Step 4 Step 5 Now choose your colors. Step 6

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