current observations

Year: 2011

  • Seeing the blues

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    I’m not a blue person – I think I’ve said that before. So it strikes even me as odd that this was my desktop wallpaper choice for January 2011. Have you seen these? They are courtesy of Smashing Magazine and I think I might submit my own design before the year is out but I…

  • Flickr three :: vintage

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    All photos by Andrew @cubagallery. This man’s work takes  .  my  .  breath  .   away.

  • First pass with my vintage design

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    The one thing that has pretty much eluded me with designing is how to create a complex repeating pattern. Not that this attempt is complex but I wanted a brick pattern a per my scribbles. I found a great tutorial on creating a repeating hexagon pattern and applied the technique to this. What you’re looking…

  • Creating my own kind of vintage :: first take

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    I took this image from a fabric for sale at Retro Age Vintage Fabrics and saved it to my iPad. One of my favourite tools on the iPad is Adobe Ideas – it’s incredibly fun to draw with (whilst standing in the kitchen waiting for lentils to cook) and better still it’s free. I love…

  • A little bit vintage

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    Happy New Year friends… I know it’s the 3rd today and I’m a bit late but I’m really not a fan of January 1st. I’m not sure why that is but I’m always happier when the 2nd rolls around. I’m going for a few changes on my blog front – nothing too drastic but I’m…