LETTERING + GRAPHIC
DESIGN LEARNING
Happy May in 3 days!
We are well into warm weather, full leaves on all of the trees and flowers everywhere here in the south. We were at the store the other day and they had so many beautiful bouquets of wildflower mixes I had to pick one up and incorporate it into this month’s desktop wallpaper 🙂
Happy April tomorrow!
Everything felt very non-stop sprint throughout all of March. Most of it was due to my ocd with getting the ebook as perfect as possible. If I didn’t become a designer, I would have been a writer, so I naturally spend more time than I probably should carefully crafting sentences and evaluating word choices. But! It’s finally out into the world and I’ve returned to breathing once again 🙂 (I made a free preview of the book available yesterday! If you’re interested, click here to download it!)
I’m really looking forward to diving back into design tutorials this coming month. It seems like I’ve been away from them longer than 4 weeks and I’ve missed putting them together. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of prep on an upcoming Intro to Photoshop class. This will be the best quality course I’ve ever done (a real production team-quality!) and it’s hard to keep in the excitement for it, but I’ll have many more details as the month goes on 🙂 I’m also planning my next Skillshare class this month, so if you’re on the every-tuesday email list, keep an eye out because free spots to the class will be heading your way soon!
Until then, pick up your free April 2016 desktop wallpaper to keep things on track in two common formats: 1920×1080 + 1280×1024 both with and without dates. Download link + previews below!
Happy end of February! With our mini vacation/early birthday trip this month, it feels like February has come and gone extra fast this year. We’re both really looking forward to everything coming up in March – it’s going to be our busiest month by far.
Happy February! This month is an extra special month for me because on the 28th, I’ll be turning 30, and saying farewell to my 20’s forever. It’s funny how fast 10 years go by and how fast they don’t. When I was 20, I had just transferred from my community college in upstate NY to SCAD in Savannah, GA, where I didn’t know a single person. I was still working the customer service desk at the local grocery store during school breaks, eating dorm food for the first time, and navigating a new city by foot and by bus with my (very) untrustworthy natural sense of direction.
In last week’s tutorial, I shared how I’ve shown logo options to freelance clients in the past. This week’s video discusses what happens after the logo has been approved by your client. We’ll take the approved logo and save it in file formats for print and web to cover any scenario for your client. We’ll be using Illustrator for all of the formats, and we’ll go over why that is. Below, you’ll find a checklist you can use as reference for your current or future projects. Let’s get started!
Happy Tuesday! This Tuesday is one of my favorite Tuesdays because I’m spending it with my parents (haven’t seen them since Christmas)! They made the 17 hour trek from upstate NY to help me and Spence fix up some minor things that our new home’s inspection report found. So thankful in times like these for a dad with super handyman skills who likes to drive long distances 🙂 Anyway, in honor of things created + performed by hand, I present you with two awesome handmade paper patterns this week!
Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie is a set of 4 geometric seamless photoshop patterns! Download includes all 4 as a photoshop .pat file, as well as 1024x1024px tileable jpgs of each pattern (perfect for websites!).
Recycled paper textures have always been one of my favorite backgrounds to enhance a design. Today I’m sharing 3 of my newest paper textures and patterns as a freebie! The download includes all three textures as a photoshop 72dpi rgb pattern file, a photoshop 300dpi cmyk pattern file and all three patterns as tileable 300dpi cmyk jpgs and tileable 72dpi rgb jpgs.
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