Posted in harp on technology on November 27, 2009
For three months, I lived on an island. A retirement island, with marshy sweetgrass vistas and bike trails dominated by socially-appropriate metaphors for poo (PLEASE REMOVE ANY DOG LEAVINGS AND DISPOSE OF HORSE EXCRETIONS).
Oh, and Papyrus, the web designer’s nightmare. Papyrus in every coffee table bookshop window, on every photo gallery awning, and on the logo of every locally-grown bag of backwater pecans. We turned it into a snarky scavenger hunt. “Look, honey – pralines. From ancient Egypt.”
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Posted in free brushes, give stuff away on
This set contains vintage Christmas-themed brushes pulled from uncopywrited Project Gutenberg books dating from 1800-1920. The majority of the brushes show scenes from a Victorian Christmas, and this set includes brushes from popular holiday books.
Brush sizes range from 200px – 2500px, but mostly weight in at 400px-700px.
Happy Holidays.
Posted in free icons, give stuff away on November 23, 2009
I was just mucking around with a few ideas, and ended up with a set of 1950’s icons that aren’t really cohesive enough to sell as a set, but which I figure someone probably has a use for.
The set includes: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry milkshake icons, roller skates, jukebox icon, and a martini icon.
The roller skate icon was based on a picture by pro photographer Jon Helgason.
Posted in Inkscape & GIMP, teach you something on November 20, 2009
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use Inkscape’s Extrude functions and the gradient palettes to create a 3D RSS icon. You’ll need to know how to work with color, fills and strokes – I won’t be going over those basics again here. If you’re brand new to Inkscape, please consider first checking out my Color & Gradients Tutorial for Absolute Beginners, which will show you how to use the Fill & Stroke Manager.
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Posted in free icons, give stuff away on November 19, 2009
18 64×64px .png format marketing themed icons.
