graphic design

Worst Powerpoint ever – even worse?

I really thought I had found the worst Powerpoint ever presented by a CEO that should know better. But Seth Godin has found a worthy contestant.

fun, graphic design, marketing, presentation

Final Cut Studio 2

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digital creation, graphic design, mac, sound design, video editing

1 000 Amazing Circles (actually 9 743)

In November 2005 I promised not to mention Amazing Circles on my site until member number 1 000…. I broke my promise. Twice. I admit.

Screenshot: The latest creations in the Flickr Amazing Circles group
But now there are 1 002 members in the Amazing Circles Flickr group, and member number 1 000 is JJjunki from Tsukuba, [...]

digital creation, flickr, graphic design, photography, updates

Photoshop CS3 better icon

Adam Betts has made a replacement icon for the new Photoshop CS3.

asides, graphic design

How to make a rainbow in Photoshop

Easy and well-illustrated tutorial on how to make a rainbow in Photoshop. Notice that there are two pages, as the rainbow looks like crap after the first page. ;.)

digital creation, graphic design, howto, mac, windows
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Make your own iPod nano ad

You need Adobe After Effects and this cool tutorial from Creative Cow.

asides, digital creation, graphic design, howto, ipod, mac, windows

Podcast icon

Remember when RSS got a new icon some time ago? Within weeks and months, everybody agreed to use the new icons from Feed Icons.
I don’t know if this is old news, if anyone has suggested something like this before blah blah blah. But this is a very nice icon representing a podcast:

I think it’s brilliant. [...]

graphic design, itunes, rss
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A year of free instruction videos

Enter your e-mail adress here, and you’re in the draw to win a one-year premium subscription to lynda.com’s Online Training Library, worth $375. There are videos for Final Cut Pro, After Affects, Photoshop, Flash, Mac OS X, Windows XP and a whole long list of other apps.
The videoes are excellent, and be sure to use [...]

asides, graphic design
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Time for Shake

Apple just lowered the price for Shake to $499. So now you can have the high-end compositing program that was used to put together Lord Of The Rings for less than the price of Photoshop CS2. No excuse anymore…

asides, digital creation, graphic design, mac, video editing

Redesigned – again

I got tired of the old look, and installed the Fauna Wordpress theme. I also have created a logo, and a new header.

The logo is supposed to combine two things:
A stylized sun – something you need on a brilliant day (and here’s why the site is called brilliantdays.com), and a stylized Ø – the [...]

blogging, graphic design, site messages

Adobe wants our feedback

Go ahead, make a wish…

digital creation, feature requests, graphic design

iTunes for your fonts

LinoType FontExplorer is out of beta. It’s a great product, it’s like iTunes for your fonts. And it’s free.

digital creation, graphic design, mac

Chaoscope

This wonderful picture is made in the Windows freeware Chaoscope by Ralph Abraham.

Does anyone know if there is something similar for the Mac, or if it is possible to port it to OS X? See more pictures made with Chaoscope here and here.

digital creation, graphic design, windows

Buy a bigger display

Eric Mack wants a bigger display for mindmapping. I have some thoughts on this: I have been using displays of all sizes from 14″ to 30″ the last year. And there is one single rule that works: The bigger the better.
I’m sure people will switch to much bigger displays in the years to come. [...]

digital creation, digital lifestyle, graphic design, productivity

Promax BDA newsletter

Promax is a worldwide organization for people doing promotion and marketing in electronic and broadcast media. BDA is an association of broadcast and multimedia designers. Together, Promax BDA has over 4000 individuals or organizations as members. So I take it as a big honor that the latest newsletter use on of my so-called amazing circles [...]

digital creation, flickr, graphic design, marketing, media