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28 Apr 2016

Bister Brushes

I was experimenting with scanned drawings in Illustrator, and this resulted in a new collection brushes I created. These can be used to add some bister borders to illustrations.
The brushes are made for vector border work, they have a bister, brown ink look. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations. This is a set Bister Brushes and all illustrations come with the brushes applied.

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30 Mar 2015

18 Scatter Brushes

I was experimenting with scanned scribbles in Illustrator, and this resulted in a new collection brushes, this time these are scatter brushes. These can be used to add some texture in a flat background, like a sky or a sea.
The brushes are made for illustration work, they have a pencil, handmade feeling. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations. In the set are 18 vector Scatter Brushes and 5 illustrations in PNG with the brushes applied.

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10 Feb 2015

Handdrawn Ink Brushes

For some time now, I have been working on brushes to give a handdrawn pencil effect on vector drawn illustrations. I have created a bunch of brushes in Illustrator. In case you are looking for a handdrawn, ink brush, check out the brushes i created.

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08 Feb 2015

Wasco Brushes

I have been working on Wasco brushes to have an effect on vector drawn illustrations. I have created some wasco brushes in Illustrator. These brushes are meant to have a handdrawn look and feel on your illustrations.

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14 May 2014

The history of Adobe Illustrator

Back in time: the first time i created a logo (sort of) on a Mac with Adobe Illustrator was late in the nineties in a friend's studio. It was my first experience with Illustrator and since then it has captured me till today in my daily work. My friend had her own studio at that time and I was eager to learn how she made all these beautiful stuff so i asked her to introduce me to the basics of drawing on a computer. It took me some time to learn these drawing skills and i am still finding new ways to accomplish certain drawing tasks but it quickly became a tool that i use on a daily basis. In that period of time, i used Freehand and learned most of vector drawing in that tool, later on i switched to Illustrator. I was watching these wonderful short movieclips about the history of Illustrator and want to share them with you - i particularly like the story about the logo and the Botticelli "The Birth of Venus" painting in the Chapter 2.

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09 Apr 2014

Creating text effects in Photoshop

In this tutorial, i'm showing some text effects that can be applied using the effects panel in Photoshop. First, i'm giving some research tips and references, next i'll show the final result of the text effect and give step-by-step instructions on how to apply the text effects. Resources, fonts and textures that are showcased in the effects are listed at the end in References.

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14 Mar 2014

RetroInk

RetroInk is a massive Illustrator pack with a bundle of Graphic Styles from RetroSupply. These add-ons can be used for textures, for type, brushes, swatches etc.. I bought this huge Illustrator Kit from Creative Market and am experimenting with it now. It looks a great way to spice up your designs.

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05 Feb 2014

Mike Monteiro - How Designers Destroyed the World

I like to watch this talk by Mike Monteiro from Webstock 13 titled "How Designers Destroyed the World". It's a great inspiration directed to designers and the responsibility that comes with design. Mike Monteiro also wrote an absolute must-read book "Design is a job" published by A Book Apart.

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24 Jan 2014

Apple - Mac 30 - Thirty years of innovation

Thirty years ago, the Mac put the power of technology in everyone's hands, launching a generation of innovators who continue to change the world. This video celebrates some of those pioneers and the incredible impact they've made. Apple - Mac 30 - Thirty years of innovation

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06 Feb 2012

A car lettering design in Illustrator

In this little tutorial, i'll guide you through the design process of a car design i made for a local company. Because this company bought some cars, they wanted a design on the car that related to the website and to the companies "corporate identity". So, i made a design in Illustrator based on the logo with a gradient in it and some other repeating elements. Starting from this artwork, i searched for the right car model and downloaded the vector file.

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07 Oct 2011

15 textures for download

Over time, i collected a folder full of textures that i scanned. Some of these textures are available for download now, the file format is 1600 x 1200px at 72dpi in JPG. You can download 1 collection ZIP at the bottom of the page. Hope you enjoy them!

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11 Nov 2010

Optimizing a corporate brochure for web

Lately, i've been working on print related projects. Designing Adobe © InDesign templates for posters and leaflets and brochures. One question that keeps returning from clients is: can you optimize this design for web use? Although I constantly explain the differences between print design and web design, the same question keeps coming back: but can't you do some optimizing, so that we can use this design on our webpage? Or: can we put this leaflet on our webpage?

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