Monthly Archives: January 2010

The dribbble jersey collection

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What is Dribbble?

Dribbble allows you to share your work in 120,000 pixels or less with other creative people. It poses the question, “What Are You Working On?” without sounding like a douche bag. The fine folks over at SimpleBits handcrafted this little beauty.

Why a Jersey?

Why not a jersey? It seemed appropriate in light of the whole basketball theme. Sure I could’ve made little basketball icons, but where’s the fun in that. I love to compete, and what better to wear when you compete than a team jersey? You may have seen my post on twitter or even on dribbble already showing off my new “Gold Team” jersey. And that’s where this whole idea started. I’m not saying let’s all divide up in teams to compete to see who’s better, no, I just want to have a bit of fun with my fellow designers. Similar to the design-off Chris Wallace and I had.

What Team Color are You?

Pick any color you want. Just know that I’m captain of the Yellow/Gold team. That’s right, I appointed myself. And I’m happy to announce that Rogie King and Brad Colbow have suited up to join me.

Download The Goods

The jersey collection comes in the 3 different sizes: 48×48, 32×32 and 16×16. I hope if you’re on dribbble already you’ll use them, and if you aren’t well I hope you will still have fun with them. One last thanks to Dan at SimpleBits for crafting such a wonderful space for us to hang out.

Download the dribbble jersey collection

Project 365 Week 03

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It’s that time again. Yawn… Stretch… Zzz…

Is anyone else feeling the end of January being a bit sluggish? This past week felt more like a walk to school in the snow (uphill, both ways). And with the daunting feeling that what I’m doing doesn’t really matter to anyone else but me, I’ve had a hard time staying focused. That statement is completely self-involved, I know, so I want to give a huge thanks to all of you who’ve been following me and leaving your comments, but I’m just being honest.

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Project 365 Week 02

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project 365 week 2

It seems that every day is another challenge to out perform myself. Meaning that each day I get worried that I won’t have any good ideas left by the end of the year. But I’m finding out that once I actually commit to doing a picture the creative process takes over my mind and I no longer worry. Instead I get wrapped up in the moment and let my mind lead me from one shot to the next.

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Project 365

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Project 365 week 01

One of my more ambitious goals this year is taking part in Project 365. Where I will be taking one photo of myself each day for the entire year. If that sounds boring, I assure you it’s not. I think of it as a daily creative exercise to help me (1) learn more about photography and (2) explore my thoughts and emotions and try to convey those in a photograph.

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Hymns

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For Christmas this past year my wife recorded an album of 11 songs to send to my grandparents. So me being the awesome husband I am I created a custom album sleeve for her. Just a simple front and back design that would fit on an 8.5×11 template that we could assemble ourselves. By the way, if you’re looking for a good resource for album cover templates I recommend checking out theses oasis cd templates. They came in quite handy.

So like all good projects, we started with a little brainstorming session and some quick sketches while we talked about what to title the cd. We settled on “HYMNS: by Amanda And Other Songs You Can Sing to Jesus”.

After she decided on the design I went from sketch straight in to illustrator. I used a mixture of live trace (for all the hand-drawn type on the tracklist) and tracing the shapes by hand. As far as choosing a color palette, I wanted it to be something soft and wintery. I did have snow flakes in my initial design, but decided against them when it went to the printer. I think the light gray of the sky and the stark black silhouette of the trees and house do a good job of giving off that cold, winter-like feeling. And the North Star was icing on the cake.

Update

I forgot to post this link originally, but you can stream the entire album over on my wife’s virb page.

centered

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Keep focused. Stay the course. If you have a feeling that what you’re doing is right then don’t look back. If you fail at it then great, you can always start again. There’s never been one right way to do something. But now, more than ever, we are bombarded with choices. And I’m not even talking about the complicated ones, like will you marry me or buying a car, no I’m talking about the day-to-day choices we face. And herein lies the key to staying centered, are you ready for it, it’s patience. Don’t be moved by emotion or by trends, be moved by the Spirit of God. I heard it said today that God is always moving, but He’s never in a hurry. That really speaks to me. I hope it does to you too.

keep it simple stupid

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I was going to write a really in depth post about why I’m unhappy with the way my blog is laid out. But then I thought, who cares? I don’t need to talk about it, I just need to do it. It’s the same with a lot of other areas in my life. If I could just shut up and put pen to paper (so to speak) I could be more productive.