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Check it out! My first video tutorial.
In this tutorial I create the following image while demonstrating rounded rectangles and tiled clones in Inkscape, as well as text, masks, pasting into masks, and some shortcuts in GIMP.

It’s taken me a week to find the right way to compress this video to a reasonable size with decent [...]

The I Love Typography wallpaper that I made is up at iLT now. Hope ya like it!

It was inspired by a phone theme that I made, Ampersand, which was inspired by Sunday Type.
Note: there’s a bit of a dodgy artifact where I was masking, I’ve fixed it up and hopefully John will update it soon.

From the title one might think that I have something insightful to say about the art of making a favicon (the little shortcut icon that shows up in your browser’s address bar, on tabs and in bookmark lists). Really, I just want to say two things.
First thing about favicons
They’re damn cool: they make identifying [...]

Wired.com is having a water photo contest.
Sometimes Wired manages to promote some excellent and unique photographs; sometimes they rehash ones that have already been seen.
I’ve entered my photograph Floating in colour. I also have some very cool photos of birds and ducks in water, which I might enter if I have the chance.
Please head [...]

Design ripping is a big topic in some circles. There’s even a whole blog, You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice, dedicated to it. There’s probably other blogs about it that I haven’t seen.
I read YTWWN because, initially, I thought it was well researched. However, it turns out there’s lots of authors and only a few of [...]