Sink or Swim

Designing mockups today for a receipt printer company. I don’t say this a lot but I feel like I’m on fire! Normally, I need about 4-6 hours to design 2 mockups but I’m only on my 2nd hour and I already finished one kick-ass layout, if I may say so myself. I have these quotes to thank for.

I need to print these out and paste them on my wall so I can be inspired all the time.

Just something to keep the creative juices flowing whether you’re a photographer, designer, painter.

Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources.

And below are few wonderful examples of this technique which will leave you breathless. You can check the full collection here.

Check out these shocking advertisements that I found here.

The shock factor is very effective, although a bit disturbing. And as mentioned from the blog post, viewer discretion is advised!

Just what kind of graphics does a motorhome insurance banner ad have? I didn’t get any high-res photos of the verhicles so I’m working from scratch. Luckily, I found some really nice ads using typefaces only so I’m a little inspired to do some minimal graphic work. See them below and tell me if they don’t speak a thousand words.

I have an important task today and that is to review the engagement rings that my soon-to-be engaged friend (he hopes) wants to buy. I told him to ask his girlfriend’s friends, not me because they probably know what she likes. Aside from that, I’m not exactly the best person to ask when it comes to jewelry but since it has to be a surprise, I have no choice but to help him out. I don’t like it and she may hate it but a friend’s gotta do what she has to.

Having said that, I’d like to share with you one postcard from PostSecret that is related to this.

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail
in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard

I can’t stress out more how happy I am that I finally converted from Windows to Mac. There are CONS obviously since there are plenty of shortcuts and applications from Windows that are not applicable to Mac. However, the PROs outweigh them so much you wouldn’t mind the little things anymore. I’m not going to blog about the merits of moving to Mac as this might turn out to be one of those Why Mac is better than Windows type of post. Instead, I’ll just share some of these really nice wallpapers that I grabbed from here. You can use these for your Windows desktop too, of course.

Someone is into arts too. I’m so glad she got that from my side. All she can think about is create art projects and draw cartoon strips and scenes.

 
Which is why her dad bought her this. A book on how to draw. Perfect for a budding young artist.

Lately, I’ve been using scrapbook elements for designing web sites. It’s perfect for those who want out-of-the-box designs and provide a feel that they can touch something. WordPress themes with similar concept are also getting popular so I’ve decided to do a roundup of some of them. See below for what I found online. source