Get away from the usual Behance and Dribbble stuff and get inspired by the public domain images of yesteryear. Shake off those mental blocks and get the motivation to make something weird and wonderful… using other people’s work 😈
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It’s that time of the year again, where fall camp is in full swing and spooky season is just getting started. Gather round friends while I elucidate, and talk about a couple t-shirts before it gets late!
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Get those creative juices flowing! The design prompt for this challenge is to create a fictional beverage company—liquor, seltzer, soda, or whatever—based on your spirit animal. Really dig into the product lore and use modern tools and methods to craft something special.
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Books that go beyond the story and present their content in an intriguing or clever way hold a special place on my shelf. Here are five memorable books with exceptional typography and layout, and story of course!
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A private commission for a 1999 LEGO Rock Raiders-themed deck of playing cards. Every card features custom illustrations, characters, diagrams, pips, and typography. A very fun project!
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The perspective grid is one of the more obtuse and finicky tools in Illustrator—it’s imprecise, buggy, and asks a lot of the user. Let’s take it for a spin!
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Adobe Illustrator is almost never the last step in a 3D project, but it can certainly be the first. Its new 3D tools have been redesigned to focus on simplicity and quality (and slowness 🥴) and allow designers to dip their toes into the realm of 3D compositions.
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Villainy! A downloadable collection of color swatches derived solely from Disney’s cast of animated deplorables. Is it possible to tell whether or not a character is ‘evil’ simply based on their palette? Find out!
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A process for something I rarely do: architectural room renditions. Streamline your workflow to achieve a precise and beautiful hand-drawn interior design using a combination of free 3D interior design software, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
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This museum diorama has a fantastic mood and my photo edits aim to pull out the wintry feeling one would get when viewing it in person. I used Lightroom exclusively to see what I could do with masks.
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A favorite day trip of ours when visiting Myrtle Beach is Brookgreen Gardens at Huntington Beach State Park. The park is a stunning 2,500 acres of the largest and most comprehensive collections of American figurative sculpture in the country.
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Puzzles from the Past is a mail order puzzle experience of archaeological intrigue. Each experience is a mystery to solve inspired by real life excavations, a collectible artifact replica, and historical materials authored by anthropology/archaeology experts — adventure on!
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Cryptids of North America has been an on-again-off-again project I pick up every year around October. The goal was to illustrate at least one legendary folklore creature from each state in the US. Without further ado, here is the finished North American collection of over 50 cryptids.
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A product shoot! Spooky season is fast approaching and so are the fall colors and festivals. This shot was for a single page magazine ad highlighting 13 choice brews readily available in the greater Charlotte area… also the spider’s name is Charlotte.
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Illustrator variables allow text URLs to behave like proper hyperlinks when saving the document as a PDF. It’s a useful trick to avoid relying on Acrobat or InDesign. Illustrator can be touchy however, so I’ve gathered a few tips to help.
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