Archive for March 2008

News

Mar 12th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Design, Illustration, On watch

My recent research into new fonts and photo galleries went so well that now I’m working on a new mastheads series. It will appear some time later.
Also I’ve got IE6 on my virtual machine as a birthday present:

It will be “exciting” to fix all my pages to the decent state in IE6 but for now [...]



Illustrator: working with type

Mar 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Design, Illustration

Seems like I’ve solved the problem with saving .ai files for the web when I need to use different pieces with text or few typefaces of different sizes. The basics are explained here.
anti-aliasing on a per-object basis
This is a key. Summarizing: if you need to have your typeface clear, work with the layer style (anti-aliasing [...]



Logo formula

Mar 2nd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Design, Illustration

How would one make a logo? It is quite simple: take a good font, choose right color and you are done. Sometimes you have no need to add anything else:

This is example of logos with letter A obviosly.