Design, marketing, graphics, internet, print, London
I was recently approached by an IT recruitment company to come up with an idea for an HTML email that could also be used in other forms of online advertising, such as banners, MPUs and skyscrapers.
The result was the above which will be used as an HTML email and to be sent out to 20,000 [...]
Many people have asked me this question and, in the absence of a Wikipedia entry, here’s my definition.
The term pre-dates desktop publishing when “artwork” or “mechanical art” meant the material (photography, bromide, film, tranparency) or completed, camera-ready pages that could be photographed with a stat camera to make a same-size film that would be used [...]
How many famous faces can you spot, who are they, what’s the background they’re superimposed on?
I did this to illustrate an article I wrote commenting on the music industry. I used paths, marquees with a feather of two pixels and a brush eraser with a hardness of 0% to cut out the heads. It’s usually [...]
Most pop art pictures in the public’s imagination contain a photograph that has been reduced to only two tones, black and white, for example Andy Warhol’s Marilyn. The best way to do this is to go Image > Adjustments > Threshold in Photoshop. Move the slider until you get the best result.
Flat colours should then [...]
Finding a graphic element to illustrate an abstract or dry subject is a creative challenge. You find yourself being pulled in one direction to beautify your work and in the other to explain the subject in hand.
I am continually searching around for images, illustrations or graphics that will compliment articles with heavy corporate or technical [...]
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