No matter what you think of his politics, U.S. presidential cantidate Barack Obama has a pretty incredible marketing and design machine behind him. One strong example of this is his “O” logo. Simple, attractive, symbolic, it’s undeniably an effective logo.
Another aspect of the Obama campaign that is attractive to a lot of American’s is the grass-roots, everybody can be involved attitude that they’ve been trying quite successfully to convey. In honor of that attitude, and just in time for the Democratic Convention, I thought I would show some really helpful Illustrator techniques by making the Obama logo. In this tutorial, we’ll be going over the Pathfinder, Envelope Warps, Opacity Masks, and Gradient Meshes. And we’ll use a drop shadow!
What’s that? You don’t think we can do it? I have three words for you my friend.
Sound Foam, Wicker, Carpet, Flower Wallpaper, Paintbrush Stroke and many more!
In the pursuit to keep things fresh with our photo editing, VQ and I are trying to regularly capture new Photoshop Textures wherever we are in the world. For the next few weeks, I’ll be in England, so these textures are straight from the UK to you, with love. I hope you find them useful in your designs!
God bless you guys,
Weese
P.S.- If you’re looking for some free brick textures, download them here!
Last month was a really heavy month of work for us, and as a result you may have noticed that we weren’t posting as often. Thankfully, that’s all about to change (hopefully not the work load, just the fact that one way or the other we’ll be posting more often).
To kick things off, we have a very useful vector bird wing.
As always, let us know if you do anything neat with it. Have fun, friends.
In this tutorial I will be going over some of the basic elements to making a game in Flash. This being the first in a short series of tutorials on the subject, I will cover the main game loop and keyboard controls. Read the rest of this entry »
