I’ve been digging around the web for some free flash slideshow examples for my wife. This one looks pretty slick… I can’t add music to this kind but the interface works really well.
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Tag: design
Cake Illustration…
An illustration I did for a poster for my work’s United Way charitable campaign bake auction. I had a lot of fun with this. It started out more as an “I wonder if I could do this…” illustration and turned out better than I expected.
I really need to get back into drawing more…
Vox Hunt: I Love Logo
Show us a logo you really love.
In my humble/professional opinion, these two logos are among the best I have ever seen. At the very least they are at the top of my list.
The WWF logo (no, not the World Wrestling Federation)…
Not only do I believe what this organization stands for, I LOOOOOOVE their logo. I think it’s a wonderful balance of positive and negative space — Oh. My. Yes. The negative space. It’s simply not that easy to create a logo that relies so heavily on negative space that reads as well as this one does.
Mother & Child, by Herb Lubalin…
What can I say… I know I posted this one before but I’m just blown away by it every time I see it. This Mother & Child was a logo for a magazine that has never been published. It was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1965. And remember, back then it would have been DRAWN BY HAND.
I love logo design.
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Hmmm… I wonder if I should a “steelie’s Top Ten Logos” list.
Might be fun.
Show and tell…
I design this a couple a weeks ago and I was kinda proud if the way it turned out, so I thought I’d share. This Jennifer & Child was a logo was designed for a collegue of mine who has recently gone on maternity leave. I wanted to design something nice and clean. I remembered the “Mother & Child” logo designed by Herb Lubalin in 1965 and decided to make it a bit of an homage to one of my most favourite logos ever.
Herb Lubalin’s piece is amazing… almost every design student I’ve ever met has looked at this in awe. Of course I wasn’t able to copy what he had done entirely for my collegue’s because she didn’t have an “O” in her name to be able to place the child in a womb. Still… I’m happy that I was able to use the “&” as a baby and the letter “e” in her name. Not nearly as clever as the original… but a decent homage nontheless.
Oh, and keep in mind that the original was drawn by hand.
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But, I was hoping to be done by now…
Well, here I sit at my computer desk STARTING on my work “this evening” (overtime) that I was hoping to be done by now… It 12:50 AM here and I’m just waking up after having fallen asleep on Little “L’s” bedroom floor… after struggling to get him to bed… after only having gotten one hour of sleep the night/morning before…
Note to first-time parents of babies or young toddlers:
Your child WILL someday become aware of the fact that you really want them to become potty-trained and WILL someday use this to thier advantage to stay awake waaaaaay longer than they ought to. This MIGHT seem cute for a while but WILL invariably/eventually wear on you…
Ugh…
Now I have to start working on something that has to be done for tomorrow/today…
Double ugh… with fries… burnt ones…
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A very prossible change in steelie’s path…
Okay…
Ever have one of those days that makes you feel like your life is on the verge of changing forever? That something wonderful has been deliciously crafted to help your dream become your real life? Things… wonderful things, have been in the works without my knowing… until yesterday that is.
I’ve been kinda disillusioned about my job (or line of work) for a while now… I keep asking myself, “How am I helping people?” As a graphic designer, I don’t feel that I help anyone… not directly anyway. In no hands-on way do I help anyone… and I mean really help anyone. In my ideal little world, if I continued to be a graphic designer my entire life I would somehow be financially self-sufficient and I would do graphic design for free for nonprofit organizations, small companies that need strong design work but cannot afford it, or something of the sort… I like being a designer. And I’m good at it. However, the more I do it the less I feel like I’m Contributing.
Right now, I’m working at a job that I’m not hugely fond of to provide for my family… “taking one for team.” As of yesterday, within a year from now, I’m not sure if I’ll be a full-time graphic designer anymore. If I can manage it, I’ll likely be still working here part-time but supplimenting my income by doing something for more amazing…
I’ll be training and teaching Parkour. I’ll be training and teaching Parkour… in a program that uses Parkour as a physical disipline to help troubled youth. I’d be helping troubled youth who are at risk of failing out of school or on the verge of getting expelled get their lives back on track.
Could you imagine?
I’ll have more time to write/post about it later… I just had to post something while the life-buzz is still hummin’.
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steelie
A very prossible change in steelie’s path…
Okay…
Ever have one of those days that makes you feel like your life is on the verge of changing forever? That something wonderful has been deliciously crafted to help your dream become your real life? Things… wonderful things, have been in the works without my knowing… until yesterday that is.
I’ve been kinda disillusioned about my job (or line of work) for a while now… I keep asking myself, “How am I helping people?” As a graphic designer, I don’t feel that I help anyone… not directly anyway. In no hands-on way do I help anyone… and I mean really help anyone. In my ideal little world, if I continued to be a graphic designer my entire life I would somehow be financially self-sufficient and I would do graphic design for free for nonprofit organizations, small companies that need strong design work but cannot afford it, or something of the sort… I like being a designer. And I’m good at it. However, the more I do it the less I feel like I’m Contributing.
Right now, I’m working at a job that I’m not hugely fond of to provide for my family… “taking one for team.” As of yesterday, within a year from now, I’m not sure if I’ll be a full-time graphic designer anymore. If I can manage it, I’ll likely be still working here part-time but supplimenting my income by doing something for more amazing…
I’ll be training and teaching Parkour. I’ll be training and teaching Parkour… in a program that uses Parkour as a physical disipline to help troubled youth. I’d be helping troubled youth who are at risk of failing out of school or on the verge of getting expelled get their lives back on track.
Could you imagine?
I’ll have more time to write/post about it later… I just had to post something while the life-buzz is still hummin’.
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steelie