Select Page

5 Logo Design Tips

by | Mar 23, 2010 | | 15 Comments

The following logo design tips are not in any methodical order as all 5 tips should be considered simultaneously from the start of a project to the end.
The 5 tips below are only a suggestion for an effective approach towards logo design projects. There is not really a right or wrong way to design logos but hopefully the following will help.
read more…

Free Personal Web Server. Host Your Site Yourself

by | Dec 4, 2009 | , | 18 Comments

When I hear terms like: “Apache” or “SQL” All I can think of is: “ouch, not again, I haven’t trained in that yet”. I don’t immediately understand  developers’ jokes either. For instance, jokes like “there is no place like http://127.0.0.1” (127.0.0.1 stands for localhost–your ‘home’), I have to Google it first.
read more…

Ultimate Photoshop Crash Course – Part III

by | Nov 30, 2009 | | 6 Comments

Hi there! I’m happy to bring to you the third and last part of our Adobe Photoshop crash course. Remember that this is a basic and fast course for people that aren’t used to the software, but are interested in starting to use it. Today we are going to see the (much anticipated) retouching tools, painting tools, type tool, filters and a lot of  extra tips. Get ready!
read more…

30 Covers in 30 Days, Part 2

by | Nov 11, 2009 | | 8 Comments

We return you now to a NaNoWriMo challenge already in progress. Chris of Fwis is still working hard to design 30 Cover in 30 Days. Below, his first 5 covers and Part Two of our ongoing interview.
Enjoy!
read more…

30 Covers in 30 Days

by | Nov 2, 2009 | | 13 Comments

Every year, thousands of people voluntarily put themselves to the ultimate literary challenge: to write a novel. Last year, 21,683 did.
It’s called NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month. Now an international phenomenon, over 100,000 writers, professional and amateur, have signed up at NaNoWriMo.org and pledged to do the seemingly impossible. If you can write 50,000 words in the 30 days of November, you win.
The challenge has already inspired spin-offs, from the sanctioned Script Frenzy (100 page screen- or stage-play in April), to NaNoEdMo (edit your novel) and 24-Hour Comic Day (write and draw 24 pages in 24 hours). Now designer Chris Papasadero, co-founder of design firm Fwis, has taken on his own challenge.
Papasadero is going to design 30 book covers in 30 days. Novelists who post a title and synopsis of their story are in the running for selection by the NaNoWriMo team. The plan is for one lucky novel to be transformed every day this month. As every past participant knows, November isn’t always kind to those who take on big projects.
Snap2Objects will conduct weekly interviews with Papasadero during November, to follow his progress and see how this ambitious venture fares. Read More for this week’s interview, and come back next week for part two!
read more…

Ultimate Photoshop Crash Course – Part I

by | Oct 22, 2009 | | 12 Comments

Hi everyone! We have good news for you. We’re making a Photoshop Crash Course (and soon an Illustrator version as well). In a few simple and fast articles we’ll help people with no knowledge of Photoshop learn the basics, so you can start editing and creating!
read more…

Michael Jackson Artistic Tributes

by | Jul 31, 2009 | | 13 Comments

This blog could not escape the MJ madness. This is just a simple tribute for this amazing artist, who, even when he is not among us (maybe having a drink with Marylin in a secret mansion), is still inspiring and moving us.
These are some fan artist tributes from around the web to the one and only Michael Jackson.
read more…

Huge Roundup: 150 Amazing Wallpapers

by | Jul 20, 2009 | , | 10 Comments

There’s one thing that every computer user loves: wallpapers. And we, the designers, also love to make them. We’ve selected some of the greatest wallpapers on the internet for you, categorized as 3D Illustration, 2D Illustration, Photo Manipulation and Typography. There are 150 on this list, so… help yourself.
read more…

25 Tutorials using 3D in Adobe Illustrator

by | May 29, 2009 | | 10 Comments

The Illustrator 3D tool can do amazing things, but it’s still a mystery for many users. Thinking about that, we collected 25 tutorials from beginners to advanced to help those who want to start using this feature and those who want to extract more from that.
read more…

Photography in colors: Black and white

by | May 6, 2009 | | 4 Comments

The last article for the Photography in Color series is, ironically, the achromatic photography: Black and white. The absence of color, different than the previous articles, creates powerful images, pften intense and dramatic. Sometimes the lack of color can be more interesting than a colorful image, leaving all the glamour to the black and the white. Now, enjoy photography in (no) colors.
read more…