Most of you that visit here often know that I have a soft spot for
geometrical shapes. In this post you'll get plenty of those and you'll have the option to download it as a
wallpaper for your shiny new
iPad 3 with the retina display.
Time to talk about color inspiration today. Each image in my
Inspiration Stream contains a color that is handpicked. No ingenious automation process in action here, as I want to have full control over this. I even try to choose my colors so I end up with an interesting palette at the top of each page. Even though, each time I add a new image to the gallery, the colors move one position per page as the images move one position as well. Still, I try to watch that the neighboring colors are in harmony.
With the
Waalse Pijl/La Flèche Wallonne race going on today it seems like the perfect timing to combine my passion for cycling and the love for vectors. Just like we did with Neil Stevens aka
Crayonfire and his
Tour de France Series.
The graphic design enthusiasts that read this blog have put their pencils down on their desks and finished their entries for our contest. Here are the results…
Last year
Bart De Waele from
Netlash bSeen asked me if I would be interested in designing a theme for their
Fork CMS. Designing themes is something I always enjoy doing because of the creative freedom that comes with these kind of projects, so it didn't take me all too long to accept this great challenge. Here is another short behind the scenes story of my design adventures…
The true inspiration seekers will have noticed some illustrations in my
Inspiration Stream from the
All Day Everyday Project. A fun project with a mission to design something cool everyday. A fun way to escape from a bit of client work. I bet you'll find what follows inspirational.
To announce the new year in our yearly email newsletter I created this
2012 header that you can also view on
dribbble or download as a
wallpaper. Some people asked me if I could write a tutorial on how I created this effect. Not a bad idea, as this is perfect tutorial material. It's rather simple to create really. The hard part is actually finding the right colors. This will take some experimentation, and maybe you might need to do a bit of browsing around to spark an idea. Just in case you need a little push, there is always plenty of
inspiration to be found here ;)
As some of you might know, music plays a major role in finding my daily inspiration. Last year I wrote a short article about which
albums inspired me the most in 2010. These albums are still helping me a lot in finding that inspiration sweet point, but I thought it could be fun to renew this short list of favorites...
Around end of October of last year,
Vitaly Friedman of
Smashing Magazine asked me if I would be interested in contributing to the new
Smashing Book #3. There were a few options on how I could contribute, but since my days were already filled till around the Summer of 2012, it was clear to me that I could only find the time to design the cover. After a little doubting on my end, as I was a bit concerned about the timing, I decided to take on the project. This was just a too good opportunity, as the briefing basically said
"Do your thing. We want your design". It would have been foolish to say no to such a fun creative challenge.
It really has been a while since I last organized a creative contest. Last one was in 2008, where I asked people to design a poster on the topic of
"What is Graphic design". The result back then of people entering via the
Flickr pool was truly beyond my expectations. The quality of submitted artwork was high and I had a hard time picking out
10 winners. Today, I have good news for graphic design enthusiasts who are looking for a cool creative challenge… I've partnered up with
Easy Readers to organize another poster contest!
