Logo Design Contest - Quirky offers a unique opportunity for designers to work on real projects and even earn money for their work. Check it out. While you are there, help me out and vote on the product I submitted. Thanks!!!!

Design your own products on Quirky

Quirky.com is the perfect place for college students to get experience and to make a little money doing graphic design. Get noticed, get out there and earn influence designing logos, creating products, submitting product names and subtitles.

Oor maybe a copywriter. The idea guy or gal with passion for the pitch. A 100% dive in, sink or swim kind of mentality who is always itching for a challenge? Maybe you’re just in that place, where you are getting you’re feet wet. the portfolio building process, entry-level job hunting process and you need something real.. A real idea you can buy into and design. Or maybe you are just a fucking genius who likes a random challenge?
A really good opportunity to get some real life experience designing logos

Free Floral Brush Kit for Illustrator

JPEG Pattern Pack for Photoshop

Free Download Elegant Pattern Pack

I’m so excited to announce that Adobe recently posted an article about the work I did for Illustrator CS4.  Check it out.  There’s free orgcharts, symbols and brush sets now available that will blow your mind.

The Joy of Charting

Contributed by Brenda Sutherland, Illustrator Team Rowing Captain

Last Friday Terry talked about some of the exciting new libraries and How To’s that we shipped with Illustrator CS4. I wanted to take time today to focus on some additional new CS4 Sample Art Files that show how Illustrator can be used to create visually intriguing, creative flow charts. Yes, you heard me right, I did say “Visually Intriguing” and “Flow Charts” in the same sentence!

Jennifer Willis is one of those rare designers who doesn’t cringe when taking on information graphics. Instead she has found a way of infusing her creative style into flow charts, while obviously having a great time doing it. Jennifer uses a variety of symbols and arrowheads that she creates. This adds a personal touch that reflects not only the designer but the client as well.

 

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Illustrator CS

Download Free Seamless Diamond Pattern 

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Download Sick Brush Kit 2.zip (1,513 kb)

Now you can do it yourself and create some really funky stuff. I’ve had so much fun with these. I’ve included the entire illustration so you can see how it was done.

“Looks Distorted!” If your result looks really distorted try flipping the brush. To do this:

• Double click the selected brush in the brush pallet

• Check Flip Along (or Flip Across)

• Click OK

• Click Apply to Strokes

Note: If you’ve used the brush already you may want to create a duplicate from the fly out menu and then flip the brush. That way the change does not affect the rest of your work).

Saving as a Brush Library - To save the as a Library:

• Select Save Brush Library from the Fly out menu.

• Save.

If you are looking for the first 4 parts of this set they currently reside at my sister site, www.jlwdesign.com.

This video wasn’t long enough, so we made it double-spaced.

New Royalty Free Vector Graphics from Go Media.

Buy the Entire Set 11 Package

(all 7 individual packs) with one low price and one download. You get 161 high quality and detailed vector pieces. If you buy all at once, you save a ton! You are getting a $105 value for only $52 bucks!

Included in the set are Hand-Drawn Skulls, Doodles, Trees 2, Birds 2, Suits, and Type Explosions, and International City Skylines.

Skateboard Skulls are Back - Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8 Sk8

Based on the original Sk8 Skulls set, I’m pleased to post that the second set of hand drawn vector skull symbols and skull patterns are available to download.  In case you don’t remember the original set check out this the Ryan Sheckler repeat design to refresh your memory:

Download Now Sk8skulls.zip (5,292kb)