In April I made a cake topper for my brother-in-law’s birthday party while my wife made the cake. Here is the step by step on how I did it: It starts with making a wire armature; I made this one out of a clothes hanger. Luckily this is all the armature that the worm required; […]
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Category: art
Years ago I when I was at my first full time graphic design I was at a company called Ace that made and sold radio control cars, boats, planes, and other accessories. Our meager design and marketing team of four was swamped making catalogs, logos, stickers, ads, and packaging, so we hired a new marketing […]
“Fake jade artifacts can be divided into 4 catagories:- Grade A, intends to fool experts. Grade B, intends to fool unaware collectors. Grade C, intends to fool new collectors. Grade D, intends to fool tourists.” –found online when I was searching for info about jade.
I spent 2 hours in a fabric store yesterday and it was awesome. Lemme ‘splain! We were shopping for fabric for costumes. I don’t know fabric–I have always avoided any kind of textile work because it seems tedious to me–except for that one time I made a Nightcrawler plushie. So we’re trying to find fabric […]
n., “According to ILM founding member Lorne Peterson’s book on the Star Wars model shop, Sculpting a Galaxy, a greeblie is defined as ‘Miscellaneous mechanical details that add realism to a prop, model, or set.’” from Norman Chan’s article at Tested.com
This is a pretty graphic-heavy post. When I first start working on a logo, I trial several fonts in Linotype FontExplorer, then I try them out in Illustrator to see which ones I like best, looking for things like readability, tone, and flavor. This lets me see which fonts I might want: […]
We saw Pixar’s Brave last weekend. It was OK. I didn’t love or hate the movie; it was just fine. Really, it just seemed like pretty much every other Disney princess movie: I’m a young princess, I don’t want to do any thing I don’t feel like doing, I am willing to do bad things […]
In the February 2007 Spline Cast, Spline Doctors Andrew Gordon and Adam Bergen interviewed Brad Bird, where they posed this question: SD: On that kind of same path, what is it that separates good CG animation from absolutely amazing CG animation, in your opinion? BB: Well, you know, are we staying purely on the topic of animation, or […]
Heather and I both agree that Sherwin Williams Paint has probably one of the creepiest professional logos: It totally looks like they want to dump blood all over the earth. I don’t think Sissy Spacek would approve.
Superheroes and superheroines can wear a lot of colors: red, blue, yellow, and to a lesser extent, green. Sometimes black* or white or silver or gold. Villains corner the market on most of the black, as well as green, orange, and purple. Funny that heroes use largely primary colors, while villains largely use secondary. But […]