Experimenting With Light In Photoshop

Recently I read a post on Abduzeedo called Amazing 3D Typography by Jeff Osborne. I love typography designs and was very inspired by the 3D aspect Jeff accomplished. I decided to give it a whirl and play around with some basic gradients in photoshop to try and achieve a similar affect. The result was a new desktop wallpaper, and although it’s not all that wonderful it was certainly a great learning experience.

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My Dream Office

Every day I see cool gadgets that would be perfect for a home office. From beautifully designed desks, to slick and functional accessories, even the owner of the coolest workspace setup would drool. Here’s a few things I hope to get in my home office.

Space Station

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Free Download: Social Media Icons

As I was designing this blog, I wanted every aspect to be custom. I spent a bit of time designing a few social media icons to use in the footers of my blog posts, and decided to go the extra mile and make a whole set to offer as a free download.

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News Site Design and Why They Have It Wrong

I stumbled across a link to an article today, and when the page loaded I was horrified. The sad thing is that it was from a major source, and the trend is very common.

The site was forbes.com and my complaint is with information overload that leads to messy layout. There are so many ads, widgets, buttons, and other informational pieces that do not relate to the story that I can’t focus on the main content I want to visit. I understand that news sites are driven by revenue but that factor should never overpower basic site layout principles and standard user experience guidelines.

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Creating a Christmas E Card

It’s Christmas time, and to celebrate the season I’ve put together a simple tutorial to design an E Card to send your friends, family, clients, or whoever you think could think could use a bit of Christmas cheer.

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