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New logo and identity designed

I have created an identity for IMG Associates who are a China based contract manufacturer and distributer of fine kitchen and bathroom furniture. This is for business stationery, online catalogues, print material and eventually a website. The company is committed to manufacturing high quality products and strives for design excellence in every facet of its [...]

July 25, 2008 37 Comments Filed Under: Design
Tagged With: box, boxes, business stationery, catalogues, ceo, china, contract manufacturer, design, design assignment, design excellence, distributer, headings, high quality products, layouts, lighting, logo, Logos, long time, lowercase, photography, printing, shiny, technique, white space

How to web 2.0 your logo

After I had designed a vector logo for a client, I was asked to web 2.0-ify it. This is what I did. The “Toby Beresford” and the cogs are on separate layers in Photoshop. Individually I set the Layer Styles of Gradient Overlay and Bevel and Emboss. The Gradient Overlays are the same on both [...]

January 7, 2008 9 Comments Filed Under: Design, Logos, Photoshop
Tagged With: background colour, beresford, blue colour, cogs, dark blue, desired effect, elements, foreground colour, gradient, highlights and shadows, logo, opacities, Photoshop, pull down menu, reflection, reflection effect, shiney, shiny, vector logo, web 2.0

Creating a country’s flag inside its map outline

australia-map-flag

Quite often I’m looking for a simple iconic device to represent a country without having to just reproduce the flag alone. So, as you can see above, why not put the flag inside the country’s shape. Also, it’s free! It’s relatively easy to find a country’s flag and shape on the internet and tracing the [...]

October 15, 2007 31 Comments Filed Under: Illustrator
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, australia, australian flag, cmd, diagonals, flag, gradient, highlight, Illustrator, images, inside, Internet, live trace, map, mask, object clipping, objective, opacities, opacity, outlines, overlay, palette, rectangle, reflection, shape, shiny, shiny surface, simple, trace, transparencies, transparency

How to design shiny interface buttons in Illustrator

These little buttons take a few seconds to make in Illustrator and give a nice polished, “web 2.0″ feel to a website or interactive environment. Firstly, when creating this shiny effect in Illustrator remember to make the document RGB. Go File > Document Color Mode > RGB. It won’t work otherwise. Many thanks to Simon [...]

August 27, 2007 21 Comments Filed Under: Design, Illustrator, Internet
Tagged With: adobe illustrator, artboard, beautiful, blur, box, boxes, cmd, colours, curve, curves, design, dialog box, gradient, highlight, Illustrator, images, inset, interactive environment, interactivity, interface buttons, linear gradient, modes, objective, palette, polygon tool, radial gradient, shape, shiny, simple, tool tip, transparencies, transparency, triangle

How to design a cool web 2.0 button in Illustrator and Photoshop

An earlier tutorial on how to make a shiny button in Illustrator using the Opacity Mask feature can be improved upon greatly by adding a sexy brushed steel surrounding ring to your amber jelly button! As previously explained, the shiny “web 2.0″ button look can be made by placing a circle with a linear black-to-white [...]

August 17, 2007 98 Comments Filed Under: Illustrator, Internet, Photoshop
Tagged With: Illustrator, Photoshop, radio button, shiny, transparency

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