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12 Mar 2018
Social media dimensions cheat sheet
For my clients, often times i need to create avatars and banners to publish on their social media channels.
As these dimensions often change, i created a file in Adobe Illustratior with different art boards for the avatar dimensions and the banner dimensions.
I save those in the client directory as a reference and export file. I explain this file and i offer this Illustrator file for download together with the color palette.
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07 Feb 2018
The era of the algorithm
Inspiring talk by Josh Clark about the next era and outcomes of algorithms in our lives.
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22 Nov 2017
Inspiring talk by Tina Eisenberg aka Swissmiss
This year at the Adobe MAX conference, Tina Eisenberg aka Swissmiss gave this inspiring talk:
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20 Aug 2017
Christoph Niemann: How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces
In this 99U talk, illustrator Christoph Niemann shares his three biggest fears: the fear of not being good enough, the fear that our work will be irrelevant, and the fear of running out of ideas. Each of these cripple our process in different ways, but as Niemann explains (complete with hilarious illustrations), there are solutions we can apply to each.
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18 Aug 2017
BULLSHIT!
Harry Frankfurt is an American philosopher and author of the New York Times Best Seller "On Bullshit". Although first conceived as an essay over 30 years ago, his theory on bullshit is more relevant than ever before.
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03 Jul 2017
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SVG stroke made from beads
06 Feb 2017
SVG stroke made from beads
A cool pen made by Yoksel on Codepen: create SVG strokes made from beads.
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Powers of Ten
09 Jan 2017
Powers of Ten
Watch Charles & Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten, the 1977 Film That Put the Scale of the Universe into Brilliant Perspective.
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11 Nov 2016
Decorative Stitch Brushes
For a client project, i created decorative borders in Illustrator. When this project was done, i decided to create a new collection of these decorative brushes for use on any vector element.
The brushes are made for vector border work, they have a shiny and decorative look and feel. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations.
The brushes are made for vector border work, they have a shiny and decorative look and feel. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations.
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Tutorial: How to Make Seamless Pattern Repeats in Adobe Illustrator
14 Sep 2016
Tutorial: How to Make Seamless Pattern Repeats in Adobe Illustrator
Ever wondered how to create seamless patterns in Illustrator? This short video gives you short instructions on how to accomplish this.
Video is by TheVectorLab
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08 Sep 2016
Drawing a map in Illustrator
I'm currently in the drawing process of a map in Illustrator. In fact, it's a series of maps. The maps need to be in good print quality and also available online in a pdf.
I searched for a good solution to cover both needs. Obviously, you go to Google Maps and take a screenshot of your map and location but this results in poor quality as the screenshot has a low resolution. I found some work arounds - i tried "my maps on Google" but the quality for print is not what i was looking for, it was poor quality and poor adjustment options.
So i decided to draw them myself in Adobe Illustrator with the Google Map as a template layer as a starting point.
I found some good, short video tutorials on how to create roads, rivers and labels in your maps:
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