Adobe Illustrator
2020 is the year I’ll finally do some networking in San Francisco — well, after COVID-19 is under control, and it’s safe to go out and gather again.
I needed a new card to give out at events, so I opened Illustrator and got to work. The final design is modern, closely aligned with the design of my website, and looks great in print.
The fourth version of Princeton Transcription, Inc. features a new, simplified logo, flat design, and illustrations sprinkled around the layout.
Ahead of the Windows 8 release, Ratio Interactive, a design agency in Seattle, WA launched a design contest for Windows 8 apps. It gave me the perfect excuse to begin exploring the design possibilities of the new operating system. For my entry, I chose to design an app for Digital Art Academy.
Painter has a few ways of creating color palettes from images whether it be through color sets, the Match Color command or the stylistic coloring achieved through automatic processes such as in the Underpainting panel. Now, add one more: the Mixer panel. With MXSMaker, it is very easy to convert any JPG, PNG or GIF file, with transparency preserved, into a Mixer Pad file that can be loaded directly into the Mixer panel of Painter 8.1 through Painter 12.
MedCharting is a mockup for an EMR companion application made for small tablets like the BlackBerry PlayBook.
Janné loves texture! There isn’t a more appropriate statement in the whole world. Janné’s site was both exciting and scary to work on. When she first contacted me, she had already chosen colors, moods and textures. The fashion equivalent would have been wearing horizontal and vertical strips with polka dots, paisley, three flower prints and a Sunday hat.
Okay, maybe that last bit was a bit extreme, but there was a lot going on in the initial mood board and the final design does include paisley! It was a challenge to keep everything balanced without the texture totally taking over. In the end, I believe we achieved a good balance while keeping the majority of Janné’s textures. We split them up into each of her sections so they don’t all hit the viewer at once.
The final product is stunning. It fits Janné and she loves it. She commented in a phone conversation that everybody she’s shown it to has loved it too. I’d say that’s a job well done.