In this intermediate-advanced illustrator tutorial, we’ll learn how to make a 3D newspaper icon in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial is based on the news icon in my <shameless plug> Formida icon set </shameless plug>, and was made in CS3.
more
On a recent web design project, it became necessary to drop a newsletter sign-up area in a rather space-restricted footer. Instead of try to cram the form fields into the footer itself, or redirect the user to a sign-up form page, I opted to drop the form into a lightbox – or to be specific – a greybox.
more
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. more
With Christmas right around the corner, we Illustrator users are sure to get a pile of requests for holiday artwork. This tutorial was inspired by a set of candy cane icons I recently made for an upcoming project.
Big web page headers are in design vogue at the moment, so I thought I’d incorporate one into my new site, keeping all links and content below the fold. After I’d dropped the header into the template, I ran into an annoying problem: every time a user clicked a link, the view would bounce back to the top of the page as it reloaded, forcing the user to scroll all the way back down to the content area.
more
