Client : Local Publisher
Title : Boomer Wrigley’s - Becoming A Good Citizen
Size : A3 layout page Ad
Type : 9 collumns comic strip
Generator : Adobe Illustrator CS
Born in London in 1967, Ive studied art and design at Newcastle Polytechnic before co-founding Tangerine, a design consultancy where he developed everything from power tools to televisions. In 1992, one of his clients - Apple - offered him a job at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Working closesly with Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, Ive developed the iMac. As well as selling more than 2m units in its first year, the iMac transformed product design by introducing colour and light to the drab world of computing where, until its arrival, new products were encased in opaque grey or beige plastic. Reported by maczter
Linotype is having a EURO 15K prizes contest among the invited designers around the globe to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous legendary Helvetica™ typeface.
The contest goes through voting the best posters among the best of over a thousands posters in round 1 (November 6th - November 16th) and the best 200 will proceed in the second round (November 22nd - December 7th) for another voting to declare the final winner on January 2008.
If you’re a fan of Helvetica™ typeface.. then make your votes NOW!!
Here are the list of my votes which I think was the best suit my taste..
But amongs those, this one was my favourite! by Teguh Budi Octavianto
I’ve pimp my WordPress login page.. this the new look.
This actually is a plugin to display a custom images on the wordpress login screen anyway you like by Ben Gillbanks.
and big thanks to my buddy Zie for keep me updated on this one!
I’ve got this forwarded by one of a powncer from San Francisco, Ariel. W last few week and thought might want to share with you guys who love cup cakes..
and this one was my favourite.. Punk cup cakes.
See more of this cute + thrill cupcakes at crazycupcakes’ Flickr.
Confidential Tariff 2007-2008
Client : Insight Borneo Incentive & Tours
Size : A4, (52 pages)
How to create a Lens Blur effect on the background of you photo.
How many of you out there owned a digital SLR camera? Well this tutorial is made for you who don’t have which are really crazy to have one.. and I’m one of them., soon I’ll get my own CANON 400D, perhaps. One of the most common function in digital SLR cameras today comes with Lens Blur, where you focus on an object infront while the background become blurish. But did you know this technic you can also create when you dont even have a DSLR camera, the answer.. Photoshop! Here I’ll share with you on how to create Lens Blur in Photoshop.
STEP 1 : First thing is to find a perfect photo, if you got your own photo collection captured with any digital camera or cybershot, just use it. In this tutorial, I choose this photos of my lovely beauty beloved wife which was taken at the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park near my place.
STEP 2 : Secondly you need to check if the photo is in ‘RGB’ mode. To do this go to (Image>Mode>RGB color) and then, go to your ‘Channels’ pallete (Window>Channels). Here you’ll see RGB channels which indicate the photo is set to RGB color mode. Now, create new channels by clicking the ‘Create new channels’ icon at the bottom of the Channels pallete. At this point, you’ll have a new channels call ‘Alpha 1′ with Black background color.
STEP 3 : Still on the Channels pallette, click the ‘eye’ icon on the RGB channels and you’ll see the entire photo change to reddish tone which indicate that’s a visual representation of the alpha channel.
STEP 4 : Now select a nice soft ‘Brush’ tool on the tools pallete (or press B) and set the fill color to White. While on the option toolbar at the top of your screen, set the Brush Size according to your desire (not to big and not to small) for this tutorial I choose 170, then set the opacity to 50%.
STEP 5 : Now gently paint the area you decide to focus. Means, I decided to focus on the middle part where the whole figure infront will be clearer while the background will become blurish. As you paint, you’ll see the middle part become clearer which means anything is red tone become blurry.
STEP 6 : At this point you should have you photo to be something like this.
STEP 7 : Lastly, comes the interesting part.. on the ‘Layers’ pallete, go to (Filters>Blur>Lens Blur) and ‘Lens Blur’ pallete will appear. Set the source to Alpha 1, then click Invert and adjust the Radius to get the blurry effect you desire. The more Radius you set the strong blurry effect you will get.
There you go! Checkout the photo in BEFORE + AFTER and see the Lens Blur effect, amazing isn’it!
Now go and snap more photos (it’s okay if you’re using only cybershot) and practice this simple tutorial using various types of photos till your friend wondering when was you bought a new DSLR camera..
He! He! Enjoy + Play, till next week then..
Behold the Lamborghini Embolado concept car created by a design student, Luca Serafini, a conceptual 3D artist also a student in final year of the Industrial Design Course at the University of Parma, Italy. Gives us a sneak peak of the next Lamborghini
Embolado? No idea what it was? Actually its a festivals for people in Spain where they celebrate with bulls running around the streets of Spain, where balls of flammable material are attached to a bullís horns and lit on fire and that’s why it call bull in balls or merely call Toro Embalado. Amazingly super aggressive concept this Italian kid made there don’t you think!
source by Vlad
How to make text become more interesting instead of just boring solid black, here’s one of the technique which I’ll share with you guys which I think very cool..
STEP 1 : Open a new document, (File>New) or press (Mac: Apple+N / PC: ctrl+N). Set the background to White, for this tutorial I name the document as ‘My Text’.
STEP 2 : You need to choose a correct character, normally I use thicker + bolder characters like Arial Black, Myriad Bold, Anja Elaine. I start the tutorial with Arial Black, very common character install on most every computer. Type the word you prefer using ‘Type Tool’ (press T). In this tutorial I choose a word ‘Sabah’.. it’s a name of a wonderful place in Borneo, well this is where I stay. Set the color to Black by selecting from the Characters pallete (Window>Character) or press (Mac: Apple+T / PC: ctrl+T)
STEP 3 : Now, you need to choose 5 different nice pictures to be crop on the text for each letter (depending on how many letters you have on the wording). Here I choose some beautiful pictures from my homeland, Sabah (actually there’s alot).
STEP 4 : Open the first picture and simply Drag the picture using ‘Move Tool’ (press V) on top of the text layer. Name this layer as ‘S’ means the first letter for SABAH and make sure this layer is on top of the first layer.
At this point your layers pallete should look like this.
STEP 5 : Set the picture Fill to 50% (depending how best you want) so that you can see both the picture & the wording. Scale the picture size to get a good composition with the wording, once you’ve satisfied then press ENTER. Move using ‘Move Tool’ (press V) while ‘Scale’ (Edit>Transform>Scale) or press (Mac: Apple+T / PC: ctrl+T).
Tips : While scaling the picture, dont scale up only scale down as you will damage the quality of the picture.
STEP 6 : Click the text layer while pressing (’Apple’ for Mac / ‘ctrl’ for PC) and then you’ll see a line around the wording. Now you need to select only the first letter, to do this, using Rectangular Marquee Tool (press M) deselect all 4 letters (A, B, A & H) except letter ‘S’, while deselect press (’option’ for Mac/’alt’ for PC) and you see a minus (-) symbol on the Rectangular Marquee Tool icon. Now you’ll see only ‘S’ is selected.
STEP 7 : Now, select Inverse (Select>Inverse) (Mac: Apple+shift+I / PC: ctrl+shift+I) and you’ll see the line around the wording is reversed. Then, on the ‘S’ Layer, press DELETE..and see the effect. At this point You’ll see the letter ‘S’ is merge together with the first picture.
STEP 8 : Follow Step 5 to 8 to complete all other 4 letters using a different pictures. Do it carefully take your time. Make sure to name all the layers with A, B, S & H for each picture. After all 5 pictures been crop with all letters, the Layers pallete should look like this.
STEP 9 : Now you see one nice wording with nice pictures on it.. but it still looks not so alive, seems flat! Okay here’s the secret!
On the ‘S’ layer, click the ‘Add a layer style’ at the bottom of the layer pallete then choose ‘Bevel and Emboss’. Set the Depth to 300% (depending how deep you want), Size is set to 5px not to much, while on Shading section, set the Highlight Mode to Normal and Shadow Mode leave it Multiply.
STEP 10 : Lastly, add another layer style by selecting ‘Outer Glow’, set the Blend Mode to Normal and change the color to Black. You can set also the Opacity to be how best you want, for this tutorial I set to 75%.
STEP 11 : Complete all layer style for all the remaining 4 letters. Of course I dont ask you to follow STEP 10 to 11 in order to complete all remaining 4 characters (imagine if you have more than 10 letters to go). Just drag the layer style from the first layer to the second layer..and so on, as simple as that.
Now you have a very nice decorative wording (well.. actually that depends on how creative you make the croping effect with the wordings). Enjoy yourself + Play!!.. till we meet up next Friday.
Now.. this is what I call pictures that talk by itself.
