Archive for 2010

• An Icon at a Time: ZooTool

  Jul 28 7 icon, social media, zootool

  Zootool

  Oh business! Three days in a row!?! I’m starting to ooze awesome. Today, I’ll add one new icon to my social media icon set. Why Zootool? Because people voted for it here and tweeted the poo out of it.
  Download the updated pack!

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• An Icon at a Time: Playstation

  Jul 27 10 icon, playstation, social media

  Playstation

  Woohoo! Two days in a row!?! I can’t believe it. Today, I’ll add one new icon to my social media icon set. I decided to add Playstation for selfish reasons. So there. I can do that.
  If you feel like theres an icon you need for your network, feel free to indicate so in the [...]

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• An Icon at a Time: Forrst

  Jul 25 15

  Forrst

  It’s been ages, ages since I last updated my social media icon set. Unfortunately, its not the kind of set that I can just let rot and file it away in some archive. As so many people use this set, I’ve got to press on and add to it as the web grows and as [...]

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• Walken on Water: A Dribbble Community charity:water Campaign

  Jul 18 5 charity:water, christopher walken, dribbble, Love
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• Using Firebug to Live Edit CSS

  Jun 03 24 CSS, Firebug, tutorial

  Working on the Mad Mimi redesign CSS, I take about 5 minutes to show you why I love debugging CSS using Firebug. I’m not sure how elementary this is or how familiar you are with Firebug, but if it is helpful for you, I’ll start creating more Firebug screencasts.

  King out.

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• Rainboxx

  Jun 01 6 icon, Logo, metal, Rainboxx.de, water

  

  Matthias Dietrich is a PHP and Perl social media and web application architect. As a German, soon to be national brand — he wanted a sexy (my words) logo/icon to evolve his brand and propel his business, Rainboxx further.

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• Creating Brushed Metal in Adobe Fireworks

  May 28 10 brushed, metal, steel, tutorial

  Somebody (actually Patrick Schneider ) asked for it, so here it is. In my previous live design session screencast, I showed an icon with a brushed metal texture. People have been asking how, so, here’s how:

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• Designing Rainboxx

  May 26 19 design, icon, metal, rainboxx, tutorial, water

  Not so much a tutorial, this is really a near-live sneak peek into the design process behind the Logo/Icon for Rainboxx. I’ve also posted this work in progress to Dribbble where you can see the first revision. In this video, I “work out loud” and work on creating the insignia on the Rainboxx logo. [...]

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• Using Tweening to Create Patterns in Fireworks

  May 04 17 design, Fireworks, mask, pattern, tutorial, tweening

  Yet another impromptu tutorial, I talk about using symbol tweening in Adobe Fireworks and how this powerful technique can be used to create patterns.

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• The Power of Symbols in Adobe Fireworks

  Apr 29 13 Adobe Fireworks, Symbols, Tutorials

  In this zippy tutorial, I talk about using symbols in Adobe Fireworks and how they can be used as a powerful construct and time saver when using repeatable graphics.

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