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Fine Goods Market

Rogie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:36:09 +0000

It’s been about a year coming. I’m glad to finally announce that my personal goods marketplace, Fine Goods Market, is here! Not only is is sporting icons, overlays and scripts, but to make Fine Goods a thing truly special, it’s sporting some goods to wear — that’s right, it’s sporting premium tee shirts. Be expecting many more icon sets and digital resources to come! Also, pick up the new Basic Social Media free icons here.

I’m sure I’ll have more to share about the process of making Fine Goods, but the proof should be in the pudding, as the store has a few schnazzy design tricks up it’s sleeves, including CSS3 animations, custom scrollbars and more!

Check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for all the support in getting this project live, fellow interwebbians.

Google Plus, Steam, Rdio

Rogie — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:02:32 +0000

I’ve added 3 new icons to my ever-growing set of social network icons, bringing the numbers to over 140 icons!

Here are the new additions:

View on light background • View on dark background

Google Plus
Rdio
Steam

Download?

Ok, head on over to the downloads area to click on your download link to get the updated icon pack and that’s it!

Hope you enjoy the new additions and thank you all for loving my icons!

Fireworks: Making Sackboy

Rogie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:52:52 +0000

Hey peeps, yesterday I made a sackboy icon and today, yes today, you get to watch it all happening! Have fun!

Making Icons Using Alpha Converted Vector Groups

Rogie — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:06:34 +0000

My next Fireworks tutorial, this time on the brand spankin’ new site Method and Craft.

View the Tutorial

The Wonderful World of Illustration

Rogie — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:35:50 +0000

I’ve loved illustration ever since I can remember. Most of all of my inspiration has its roots in Walt Disney’s work, but as I grow as a designer…and yes, illustrator, I am opening my eyes and appreciation to different styles of illustration. I spend most of my time on the web using Dribbble, a site for designers to show and tell, so it’s no wonder that all of my examples will be from illustrators I’ve come to appreciate from that source. I’ll leave the sharing of other notorious illustrators for those more privy to them.

Without further ado, here’s a smattering of illustrators (and some examples) of work that I’ve come to love.

Bobby McKenna

Follow Bobby on Twitter — @clashmore

Michael Spitz

Follow Michael on Twitter — @m_michaelspitz

Mark Weaver

Follow Mark on Twitter — @markweaver

Luke Bott

Follow Luke on Twitter — @lukebott

Adam Brackney

Follow Adam on Twitter — @workerman

Lydia Nichols

Follow Lydia on Twitter — @hulloitslydia

Craig Henry

Follow Craig on Twitter — @craighenry

Scotty Ryfesnyder

Follow Scotty on Twitter — @seescotty

Dan Cassaro

Follow Dan on Twitter — @YoungJerks

Richard Perez

Follow Richard on Twitter — @skinnyships

Dave Perillo

Follow Dave on Twitter — @montygog

Sarah Calvillo

Follow Sarah on Twitter — @sarah_calvillo

Emory Allen

Follow Emory on Twitter — @ocularinvasion

Ryan Clark

Follow Ryan on Twitter — @ryanvsclark

Erik Marinovich

Follow Erik on Twitter — @thebiganimals

Von Glitschka

Follow Von on Twitter — @vonster

Dave Mott

Follow Dave on Twitter — @dmott70

Alan Oronoz

Follow Alan on Twitter — @OronozDesign

Corbin Watkins

Follow Corbin on Twitter — @corbinwatkins

Melanie Matthews

Follow Melanie on Twitter — @BearprintsMel

Brent Couchman

Follow Brent on Twitter — @bcouchman

Su Yin Khoo

Follow Su Yin on Twitter — @ksuyin

Pasquale D’Silva

Follow Pasquale on Twitter — @pasql

Varick

Follow Varick on Twitter — @varick

Joey Ellis

Follow Joey on Twitter — @joeyellis

Bearlogger

Follow Bearlogger on Twitter — @Bearlogger

Matt Kaufenberg

Follow Matt on Twitter — @yaksquatch

Ray Frenden

Follow Ray on Twitter — @Frenden

Kyle Steed

Follow Kyle on Twitter — @kylesteed

Mikey Burton

Follow Mikey on Twitter — @mikeyburton

Brad Colbow

Follow Brad on Twitter — @bradcolbow

Reagan Ray

Follow Reagan on Twitter — @raygunray

Greg Eckler

Follow Greg on Twitter — @greatgreckler

SeanGaffney.cc

Rogie — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:12:14 +0000

Sean Gaffney is a newskool HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/jQuery front end guru. Was that a mouthful? You may not have heard of him yet, but he’s been some of the muscle and brains behind the new Pattern Tap, Blue Sky Resumes as well as Barley’s Greenville. He’s also presented at conferences on jQuery and front end development.

When Sean was growing up, his Dad used to tinker around with radios. He get’s all misty thinking about it and he loves that minimal old world transistor diagram/radiophile vibe. He wanted to tie in his nostalgia for such a style into his new website. One of Sean’s goals as he makes his foray into the world of blogging is to pour out his skills to help the people that helped him learn so much.

It’s been awesome working with Sean and while this project spanned out many moons, we were able to achieve something that he could truly love…and that’s exactly what I wanted to design for him — Something he loved and cherished.

A Testimonial from Sean:

“YOU ARE THE MAN! I mean that, really!!… Thanks bro! You’ve truly blessed me with this project!”

You can view larger images in the portfolio.

Pasting Attributes in Adobe Fireworks

Rogie — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:15:39 +0000

In this screen cast, I talk about design techniques using Adobe Firework’s paste attributes. Simple n Sweet.

Creating Smooth Edges in Adobe Fireworks

Rogie — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:35:36 +0000

In this screencast, I explain my technique for creating smooth edges that eliminate border doubling. This is a great technique to use when employing multiple layers to achieve lighting effects.

King out.

‘Stache Trooper Tee

Rogie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:19:33 +0000

Matthew Smith aka @squaredeye, photo by Chandler Van De Water

Announcing Komodo Media’s first foray into the world of Tee shirt design with the ‘Stache Trooper Tee. On sale now. This shirt was a Komodo Media and Squared Eye collaboration.

Got an image of yourself wearing the tee? Let me know on Twitter and I’ll add it to this post!

Walken on Water Dribbble Rebound Winners

Rogie — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:24:42 +0000

What is all of this?

Dribbble is a website that asks the question “what are you working on?”. Designers post “shots”, a 400×300 screenshot of what they are working on. Optionally, designers can “rebound” another shot. It’s like riffing’ off of another’s work and making something your own out of it. It’s loads of fun.

To help spread the word about our charity:water campaign, I asked designers to rebound my shot. Whatever designer rocked the hardest and got the most “likes” by the Dribbble membership would win $50. Second place won a Stachetrooper tee-shirt. The submissions were amazing and overwhelming. I just want to thank all of the designers for their heartfelt messages, humor, talent and time in helping.

The Winners

Two shots stood out from the crowd of amazing entries, Walken on Water 20/20 by Trent Walton with 104 likes and Walken on Water Halfsies by Matthew Smith with 84 likes.

Walken on Water 20/20 by Trent Walton

Walken on Water Halfsies by Matthew Smith

So, to award the top two, I, Rogie King do grant:

Trent Walton — $50
Matthew Smith — A Stashetrooper Tee

Come and gettem’ boys!

Honorable Mentions

Trent and Matthew did amazing work. Matthew’s message blew my mind. It really made me think — and act on it. But enough about those boys, because the members at Dribbble really did an awesome job and I want to highlight other shots that really rocked:

Walken on Water by Iris Sousa

Walken on Water by Mc Baldassari

charity:water – make a difference by Jesse Dodds

Walken on Water by Greg Eckler

Walken on Water Icon by Jeff “noise” Broderick

W.O.W. / Charity:water by Josh Hemsley

Walken on Water by Aubrey Johnson

Walken 400 by Josh King

Walken on Water by Gavin Hoffman

A heartfelt thank you to all who were involved and used their talents to further this campaign to help others. We couldn’t have done this without you!