creating patterns with photoshop

Patterns Patterns Patterns!

Check out the following websites for pattern inspiration:

1. Spoonflower.com - custom digital fabric, click on the "explore" tab to see what patterns people are uploading
2. purl soho - wonderful fabric designs
3. volksfaden - awesome fabric site from denmark
   
4. contemporary cloth - online fabric store
5. etsy.com - fabric by the yard search

These sites contain tutorials for creating your own patterns in photoshop

1. Graphics District Tutorial
   
2. Instructables Tutorial
3. Pixblix Tutorialblog
4. Moe's Realm Tutorial
5. Janee Pattern Tutorial, 2, 3
6. creating custom pattern sets (about.com)

Here are youtube.com clips that you may also find helpful (may not open at RBHS):

1. Create a photoshop pattern (masterinstructor)
2. creating symmetrical patterns / using offset (YNMyesnomaybe)
3. radial patterns in photoshop using kaleidoscope (mehdi plugin)

Here are some tips on using mirror images in photoshop:

1. Photoshop essentials mirror image tutorial
2. using the clone source/stamp tool for mirror images
3. mirror images video tutorial

Did you run across other interesting or helpful sites related to patterns? Please add a link and short description as a comment to this post so that it can be shared with others. Thank you!

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Politically inspired typography

About the website: Spelling Change was developed by a group of creative professionals to spread awareness and passion about the Obama campaign. Its goal is to encourage one-to-one communication by creating tools that help people get out the word on issues that are important to them.

Artists and designers were asked to create a letter of the alphabet inspired by the Obama campaign. These letters were then printed on t-shirts and distributed to photographers, who shot Obama supporters from all walks of life wearing them. The result is a living alphabet that shows the incredible breadth of Obama’s appeal and a widespread desire for real change in Washington.

Now, you can use this living alphabet to create emails, t-shirts, posters, bumper stickers, and postcards personalized with your own messages of hope and change. You can also design and upload your own letter, becoming part of a creative community fueled by a shared passion to change America from within.

Regardless of your political affiliation, the website is a cool idea. Check it out here.

POSTER POWER

Use the following links to guide your artistic research for our poster design project.

1. International Poster Gallery: TONS of posters online
2. NY Times Op Ed Article: Influence of logos on poster design
3. Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice, & Environment (1965-2005)
4. Manifest Hope: Artists & Designers creating work for the Obama Campaign
5. Miniature Gigantic War & Iraq Poster Exhibition: lots of designer links here
6. Shepard Fairey: Controversial Contemporary Poster Artist
7. Create a Fairey-inspired design in Photoshop & Illustrator here
8. AIGA Article: "Design as integral part of nonviolent political resistance"
9. HUGE list of Poster Design links
10. Some like it Red: POLISH POLITICAL POSTERS 1944-1989 Complete archive is here
11. Article on Obama's Contraversial Berlin Posters
12. Posters of Discontent (Current Exhibition at Eastern Michigan University): Large list of Designers w/examples and links
13. ID Magazine Article: Posters Prep us for November
14. Images of Labor Poster Series
15. Intute Humanities Poster Links List
16. Seattle Tehran Poster Show
17. Clever UK Labour Party Poster Designs
18. Great insights about the history of posters
19. The Good 50 x 70 poster project
20. Up Against the Wall: International Poster Design (free online book)

ALSO -- CHECK OUT THIS POST from my Intro to Art Blog

Oh, one more -- Craig Foster (he's the guy whose work is pictured above)

google logo mania

Meet Dennis Hwang, the creator of the google logos. Go here for offical google examples.

Visit logoogle.com for more examples -- authentically google, and some fake logos.

Try your hand at designing your own google logo. Here's the template.

For next week -- you will need to obtain a library card from the Columbia Public Library. Here is a link to the application and the process: http://www.dbrl.org/about/card.html

Links to children's book illustration...

Caldecott Award Winners
Amazon.com Children's Books
Picture-book.com Artist Portfolios
Early Illustrators of Children's Books from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Nocloo.com (BIG ARCHIVE OF EXAMPLES!)
The Children's Book Council - large list of links to individual artists' pages
Childrens Book Central
Female Childrens Book Illustrators

Drawergeeks inspiration

investigating book cover design

Check out these great links on book cover design:

fwis design
how to make a fabric book cover
war of the worlds book cover changing over time
Best Covers of 2007, 2006, 2005
book design blog
book by its cover blog
bad book covers
caldecott winning books