New Design Blogs Added to My Google Reader

I've just posted this on my tumblr visual diary page http://gregsvisualdiary.tumblr.com/. I've been posting crazy here, unlike my other blogs.

http://ffffound.com/ “image bookmarking”
http://www.formfiftyfive.com/ “inspiration”
http://www.fubiz.net/ “daily dose of inspiration”
http://www.graphic-exchange.com/
http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/ “the world’s largest independent design consultancy”
http://www.brandingserved.com/ “fresh works from leading creative professionals”
http://visuelle.co.uk/ “online digital resource”
http://lovelystationery.com/ “curating the very best stationary design”
http://lovelypackage.com/ “the very best packaging design”
http://www.bitique.co.uk/

this is collate

Was trying to find grafikcache.com, but looks like there website is down or something wrong with the domain. A quick google came up with this site thisiscollate.com, which stream of graphic art. A good source of ideas and inspiration. Artists submit there designs which then get streamed, although it's not clear who the artist is, or maybe that info is hidden somewhere I haven't clicked on yet.

I like this above image because of the colours and simple artwork/photo's.

I even found a t-shirt on this site. This one is simple and have some great line work.

Tangrams Excercise

Currently I'm studying Graphic Design, and recently we were given the Tangram excercise. I'm shore I've done something like this back in School many years ago. Basically all you have to do is rearrange the shapes and make shore they don't overlap. There are stacks of combination's to be made. I came up with two, something that looked like a Computer character, with ear's and a tie, and below, which is more of an abstract form. When the other one comes back I'm shore to post it up.

T-shirt window shopping # 2

This T was sighted in T-bar (I'm guessing here in Melbourne central). I did the black and white picks done on a random form, I'm thinking I might do something like this with pics I took from New York.




The above T also from the same shop. I'm really into the geometric forms of this on and the black on grey T.

YouTube Channel Design - Banner Image Map

One of the benefits of being a YouTube Partner is being able to put Image Map with your banner. You can use this with your banner image to put links to other website or links. To do this you could either use Adobe Fireworks or Dreamweaver, but I chose to use a free website Image Map Tool as I didn't want to download or pay for these programs just to do one thing.

The only problem with using this website was with the links, for some reason after formatting the links would move and I had to change where they sit on the image to counteract this. If you look at the above image the links are off a little, then after generating the code they would cover the image (well nearly).

Above my YouTube channels page with the image mapped with links. The white square is where an advert was.

  

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Another Background

The other day I designed this background for Queenie's YouTube Channel, check it out at youtube.com/queenie0111