Inspiration: Captivating Type Designs

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ March 24, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 5 Comments

I noticed some brilliant type designs over on Behance and thought I definitely have to give them a feature. The designs were composed by Markie Darkie who is situated in Edmonton Canada. The designs are simple and portrait their message through using elements and colors. The designs are shown from

Friday Feature: Giles Dawe Traditional Artist

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ February 19, 2010 \ Inspiration \ 6 Comments

Giles Dawe born 1977 in Bristol, England, lives and paints full time in a small city called Zhuhai in China, a city that inspires his works on canvas and wood. Previously he studied Fine Art in England, Wales and France and then moved to Hong Kong and China since 2003.

Inspiration: Experimental Typography

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ January 24, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 6 Comments

As designers we love to experiment in different dimensions and typography is definitely one of the favorite areas.Alex Varanese Portfolio a Artist from San Francisco in the US has done a exceptional job in experimenting with different shapes and lighting positions to come up with a awesome collection of type

Moleskine Inspiration by Maykel Nunes

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ January 14, 2010 \ Illustration, Inspiration \ 9 Comments

We all have moleskines and we love seeing what other people get up to inside theirs. Here we have one particular artist named Maykel Nunes, he is from Brazil and loves drawing. He Contacted me a while back to tell me about his goal of drawing up 2 pages everyday

Design an Intense Particle Illustration using Photoshop

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 3, 2009 \ Tutorials \ 4 Comments

In this tutorial, I thought I would show you a simple process of manipulating a image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes too. This tutorial will bid you a step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome. 4

20 Poster Designs to Inspire You

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 20, 2009 \ Illustration, Inspiration \ 3 Comments

Posters, oh we gotta love them. We see posters every single day of our lives, driving to work you will see some sort of election poster or a ad for a business, shopping will have you come across posters from Aids to food. Advertising isn’t taken lightly nowadays and that’s

Desktopography 2009

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 18, 2009 \ Articles \ 4 Comments

Designers and developers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors. 4

10 Free Retouching Photoshop Files

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 11, 2009 \ Freebies \ 9 Comments

I constantly hear people moan in every day life about how people make themselves look good in photos. The thing is you can’t really believe what you see in photos anymore, because you will see this beautiful girl on the cover of vogue and you will then see her one

Featuring Ginger Monkey aka Tom Lane – Designer and Illustrator

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 4, 2009 \ Graphic Design, Illustration, Inspiration \ 3 Comments

There is a enormous amount of really spectacular artists out their and I am just showcasing one of them here. Tom Lane a extraordinary Freelance designer and illustrator with quite a high end client base.  3