Cutting contests were a form of musical battles between various stride [a jazz piano style] piano players between the 1920s and 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisatory competition on other jazz instruments during the swing era. The practice exists in some vestigial form in the “trading” of segments of a tune in jazz improvising.
A desktop featuring a line from the Elton John song “Rocket Man”. I use parts of the Stereoscopic Image tutorial from PSDtuts to guide me on this one.
If anyone would like to use this desktop in any way please feel free.
The widespread hatred for the Comic Sans font throughout the design community is well known. While that particular font is avoided as if it carries the black plague, sometimes a playful comic style font is still useful. Here I’ve gathered 5 well designed and playful alternatives to Comic Sans that are free for personal and non-commercial use with simple, cheap and even noble licensing options. continue reading…
After a long weekend and an extra day off I’m back and picking things up with day 19 of the daily design challenge. This is a dual monitor wallpaper featuring some pipes and gears on a dark textured background. Please feel free to take and use this however you wish.
Daily design challenge day 15. Found a tutorial to create this in photoshop and thought I’d give it a quick try for today’s daily design.
This one was inspired by the great typography designs being posted over on Mio’s blog by Sarah Gaffney. I’m absolutely loving the stuff that she’s posting for the daily design challenge and I encourage everyone to check her out.
This quote caught my eye today and it rings with so much truth that I thought I would share it through the daily design challenge so here’s my day 14 submission. continue reading…
Another daily design challenge, another poster. This is a gig poster done in a grunge/retro style. Sorry about the recurring dog theme but it’s the one thing that continues to pop into my mind when I start out on these challenges with no real direction.
If you’re interested in recreating anything here please check out these tutorials. I used a few different tutorials to help me knock this out. They’ve got some good info and are really easy to follow along. continue reading…
Playing around with retro 80′s style/futurist poster design. It could be better. Maybe I’ll keep playing with it and see what else I can come up with. You’ll want to click on the image to see the full view.
