I was working in Illustrator CS3 when I came across this new tool called live color. Live color makes it easy to change a very elaborate color scheme into a one or two color design. A task that would be very time consuming is turned into a simple yet effective way to change the colors in your design. Also the really great thing about this tool is that you can take design made with cmyk or rgb colors and turn the design into a spot color layout. So if your client comes to you with some clipart that is done in cymk and asks to have it printed as a orange spot color layout you can have it done in seconds. Don’t tell the client that. Tutorial after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »

With being published in the computer arts magazine it is fairly easy to get a lot of publicity from it. As is the case for Alan Campbell. Looking through his website http://www.emohoc.co.ukI found his work to be unique in away that a lot artists are not with this style. Artists have tried to duplicate this style, but for some the composition more than likely ends up cluttered and meaningless. With Alan’s work he takes the subject then accents the subject with other images. Doing this the subject stays the subject. Alan’s other work include photography, graphic design, and also web design.

In my first official post I would like to let you know that although the site is up I will not be blogging until the 1st of January. So I hope to here from you then. I am very excited to here from the design and student design community. Thanks :: pixl p ::