Today we had to do a title for our favorite movie. I can’t say for sure what my “favorite” movie is, but The Jacket is certainly on the short list. While it is not for everyone, I think it is fantastic.

This week we used the 3D Effects and had to do a logo. I was working on a tire but every time Illustrator 5.1 rendered the logo on the tire it would crash. I finally gave up and made this bottle of Crash Cola.

  I don’t know how I ended up on a nursery rhyme theme this time, really. It just sort of happened and I went with it. The lesson this week was about type and included a number of different ways to make type more interesting. Star Light uses three techniques, it uses a Text Style for the letters, a Graphic Style for [...]

Back in 2005, long before the iphone and ipads, I built a CarPC that ran some front end software called RoadRunner. This software allowed anyone to make their own screens as jpegs and map the functions of the computer to those screens. After copying several of the available layouts and simply recoloring them to match the car lighting [...]

The Illustrator class project this week was to make two fruits. For this I went down to the local grocery, picked up an orange, set it on some apples and took a picture. For the shape I started with ellipses and then adjusted them to fit the shape I needed by adding points and controlling the [...]