Create a vintage label

Here's a tutorial on creating a vintage label. This will give you a nice base, before you add your own flare to your label.

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Some kind of artists featuring ME

My former coworker and friend Dana Calabrese has a blog called "Some kind of artist" and she featured me along with other wonderful artists. Not all are digital artists, some are singers, photographers, or as she puts it "some kind of artist." She has me as a clothing designer for the work I've done for Branded Baron which is cool and I thank her for it. So, Dana I know you're reading this, Thank you!

The other artists are talented and Dana is as well. She's a very creative person and I think right now she's working in L.A. as a photo retoucher, but when she gets in her zone she creates some awesome work. I know she loves photography and she has fun when she works in photoshop as well. Definitely check out her blog, because there are some good posts on photography and art related stuff as well.

See the feature here: http://danaleecalabrese.blogspot.com/2011/11/some-kind-of-artists.html

Coventry Bears by Ink Tycoon

One artist who's mascot I work is Mike Ray from Ink Tycoon. I'm sure if you used iStockphoto and looked for certain illustrations you may have come across his work. His creations are vector and clean, I know, because I had to find an image for a project one time and I ended up using one of his. I can appreciate good vector art and I also like mascot logos. I wanted to share with you his branding for the Rugby team Coventry Bears. You can see the sketch and the final result with the logo on the team jerseys.

 

Sketch

You can see the logo being worn on the left side

Fraser Davidson Interview at Noupe.com

Noupe.com has an interview with motion graphic designer and sports branding specialist Fraser Davidson. Being that I enjoy sports branding, I thought this was an interesting article.

Here is a comment he made regarding on what his process is like regarding sports logos:

"Its important that logos have movement and the feeling that you have captured a particular attitude or emotion"

Read the interview here

15 Free Vintage & Stained Paper Textures

You can never have too many textures in your toolbox, so here are some great textures to add to your design arsenal. These textures were brought to you by Lost & Taken's Caleb Kimbrough. Enjoy.

View Lost & Taken site with a preview of all the textures here
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Photoshop Hidden Gem: Automated Lens Correction

In this tutorial, Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes shares how common lens artifacts like distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting can be easily corrected with Photoshop CS5.

View the video above or watch it on Youtube here

Cap'n America

Here is a fun design I created. I haven't seen anyone parody Cap'n Crunch and Captain America like this, so I decided to combine both of them.  It was fun creating this piece.

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