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Looking for inspiration as well as things not to do? This article covers all the fads, good and bad, of 2009 and explains them. What more could you look for? Overall not a great resource for designing a logo, but useful in that it offers places to start. Again, the comments provide an interesting counter-point to the article, and should definitely be considered.

Seven Ingredients of Good Corporate Design

Another astounding resource from our friends at Smashing Magazine, this article outlines all the basic ingredients that need to go into the corporate design of a company, including the logo design. While not specifically about logos, this article provides the broader view that directly effects logo design.

Illustrator: Posters, Live Trace, and Seven Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could do.

tknight — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:12:20 +0000

How to Make an Eco Friendly Vector Poster

In this tutorial, they explain how to create an illustrated poster and how to set up your own crop marks in a few easy steps. This tutorial is aimed at the beginning Adobe Illustrator user. Creating this poster is relatively easy, so let’s get started!

Illustrator Quicktips: Live Trace

Here’s a basic explanation of the Live Trace function in Adobe Illustrator. Using Illustrator’s Live Trace function, bitmap and rasterized images can quickly and easily be converted to highly malleable vector objects. Zoom In Online Pro Producer Matthew Hendershot demonstrates the Live Trace workflow, outlining all of the options available for creating traces. This movie doesn’t give a specific tutorial, rather it includes the principles and foundations of the function. Neat!

7 Things You Didn’t Know Illustrator Could do.

Have you ever just started playing with Adobe Illustrator and wondered just what this program could do? Here’s a good place to start, with 7 interesting features of Illustrator featured on the Attitude Design Blog. Interestingly enough this was posted way back in June 2007 and since then they’ve also added another article like this: 7 More Things You Didn’t Know About Adobe Illustrator. So really, you get two great articles in one. When you get to the bottom of the first article click on the next! Enjoy!

Photoshop: Paths, Brush, and Pen

tknight — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:59:08 +0000

How to Use Type on Paths and Shapes in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to use type along paths, and inside of Shapes. Using these techniques, type can morph to take shapes that would ordinarily be very difficult to create and modify.

How to Make a Photoshop Brush

A quick, deceptively simple walk through to making your own photoshop brushes. For the next time that you make an image that you think you’d like to use again, here’s how to save it.

Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

I don’t know about you but I found this pretty exciting. Brought to you by the wonderful people at psdtuts (a sterling resource for web design as well as graphic design) this article includes such tasteful nuggets as Functions, Keyboard Shortcuts, and an Exercise File that will allow you to practice all you’ve learned. Neat!