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Graphic Design Compilation of Halloween Artwork

Ari Krzyzek — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:02:10 +0000

When October comes and all the leaves are changing colors it awakens the Fall season and of course the Halloween season. I’m pretty sure you have seen a lot of Halloween theme artwork for the pas few weeks. Though it’s not over yet. The “scary” day is still coming until you finished on checking up on these Halloween theme artworks I have specially selected. From the icons to the poster prints. From the scary ones to the cutest. Take a look and of course… “Happy Halloween!”

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Beauty & Creativity of Interior Graphic Design

Ari Krzyzek — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:12:48 +0000

Almost everything in this world wrapped up by designs, shoes design, clothing design, glasses design, and on and on. Any designs. Human eyes loves to see beautiful things, from panoramic view to graffiti’s wall in the streets. The topic in this post will be more specific to Interior Design, but wait. I’m not going to write about Interior Design, it’s more to the graphics. When I search about interior graphic, it seems to be also categorized under interior design. So let’s see more about this.

Interior design is basically creating the usability inside the room, whether it’s the usability of a chair, sofas, tables, beds, bookshelves, or other interior elements. While as you know, graphic design plays more with color, illustration, and typography. When you combine both of these fields in one, it will create an amazing stunning room. Creative agency, restaurants, hotels, spas, or other businesses who really concern about design for their company impressions spend a lot of money to hire both of interior designer and graphic designer for this matter. But of course the result will be worth it.

I have selected beautiful and creative interior graphic design for this post for your inspiration. Take a look and be amazed :)

Feel jealous to see those rooms with such a pretty designs on their wall? Why not creating yours or grab some from these shop and put them on your wall. Post your decorative wall on the comments below, I will add it to this post if possible ;)

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Designer Signature Through Their Artwork

Ari Krzyzek — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:40:26 +0000

Despite of graphic design being visually similar to the general idea of Art, its creativity within is absolute. Designers are able to visualize their ideas with or without following the rules in design principles. Some decided to follow it completely, while some other are following what they believe either ignoring it or in between. Through their concepts, every designers create unique look and feel of which are significant to their works. This what make them special, also easily be identified among others.

Illustrator

The obvious example in graphic design in term of this matter is the illustrators. I personally admire them. They have the skill to created what they are imagine into a visualization. Traditionally or digitally, illustrator work are amazing. It doesn’t mean that other creative under graphic design industry have ordinary work. Not at all, it is only transparent that illustrator works are easy to be identified. Take a closer look on their details, the drawing lines, the nuance of color, and sometimes the theme.

Pesic Vesna

Diela Maharani

Jared Nickerson

Typo Artist

They are similar to illustrator, except it could be said that they are addicted to alphabets and trying to make them look unusual, different from the existing ones, and make them able to speak the message and information (mostly) without the help of illustrations. Typography composition will be the main key. For them the alphabets are the illustration.

Vladimir Tomin

Adolfo Correa

Nacho Gallego

Icon Designer

Icons has been used since the ancient time in country like Egypt, and others. With one single drawing, icon could drive a perception, and make their audience understand their meaning without further instructions. One icon designer are unique in spite of various icons around the globe these days.

Gert Jan

Paul Davey

Teekatas

Web & Graphic Designer

As for graphic designer who focus on the print or web design, their signature will be seen on their layout, some could be seen through their use of colors, or even their concepts. Although it’s harder to see the difference between one web & graphic designer to another, if you take a moment to observe their work and their design potential, you will begin to see their value in the industry.

Marcel Pirosca

Jacques Pense

Burak Kaynak

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Senorita iPhone Theme: Behind the making

Ari Krzyzek — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:18:32 +0000

Apple says:

It’s three devices in one.

iPhone is more than just a phone. It combines three devices in one: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device. All that and more makes it the best phone you’ll ever use.

I’d say:

It’s irresistible! : )

Like most of other designers who believe the iPhone is the unlimited Smart Phone, I’ve always wanted to get one of these since the first generation came out. I ended up buying the second generation, the iPhone 3G. For the first few months, I played around with how to change the all black wallpaper, and changed it with my (of course) own picture or my designs. After a while, my curiosity began to grow more and more. Yesterday, I decided to create my own iPhone Theme. How I want MY iPhone to look and feel. And today, I’ll tell you how I made it. Not a tutorial per say, but more like a documentation.

As a designer, I have to admit I’m way too picky selective. I guess all designer are like that aren’t we? So, why did I end up with this Senorita Theme? Well I wanted a theme that defines me, that will obviously reflect who is the owner of the iPhone and her character. I spent a while thinking about this. I tried talking to my friends and fiance about what image portrays me the best? I came with no decisions, though I decided not to waste my time any longer and went ahead using my web (original Chykalophia website design) theme.

Basically, what you need are an iPhone (any generation), Adobe Photoshop, Cyberduck (or other FTP program), and a wi-fi connection. Decided the theme concept for your own theme first. Take your time on this, you want your first theme will be awesome, don’t you? :p Once you figure it out, to make things easier, choose an existing theme that is closed to what you desire.

First things first, download the theme to your computer. If your downloaded the theme through Cydia, then copy the theme pack into your computer using Cyberduck (or other FTP program).

Next, let’s say that you want to have your own iPhone Wallpaper design, the Lockscreen, even the SMS background. With Adobe Photoshop, you could easily create your own design for wallpaper, lockscreen, SMS background, and other graphic. Of course, if you prefer to use Illustrator, go ahead, use any graphic program that you’re comfortable with. Other than wallpaper, lockscreen, and SMS background, I also created my own iPhone slider that match my theme. Make sure that you don’t make the slider more than 90 px high. And for the SMS background, you have to remember that iPhone can be viewed vertically and horizontally. So the SMS background size will be a bit tricky. I made it 480px x 480px. See the picture below to find out how the dimension worked.

You see in that 480px x 480px, some of my artwork won’t be shown as it is cropped automatically by the iPhone size when you view it horizontally. You’re done with the designs? Don’t forget to pick custom icons (it’s optional).

You’re almost done. Remember to save the designs and icons you have selected with the exact file name and extension in the theme pack you copied. To change the name of the theme, simply change the name of the folder. You did it? Well, now simply upload it through Cyberduck to your iPhone theme directory (root/Library/Themes/). Open Winterboard on your iPhone after the upload is completed and select the theme you have just created. And, tada…. now you have your own designed theme on your beloved iPhone.

I apologize if the steps I have explained isn’t easy to follow, this is my first documentation/tutorial article, so I hope this helps. :)

*Credit:
Women Illustration : Ari Suardiyanti (Chykalophia Graphic Design)
Flower Graphic : (iStockPhoto)
Icons : Elio Rivero (ilovecolors)
SMS Original theme : iMilk by Jesse (Repo: iSpazio – Cydia)
Album Cover Art : SnowCover (Cydia)

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Valentine in Designs

Ari Krzyzek — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:25:03 +0000

Love is in the air, or so people said and keep talking about since the beginning of this month. Well, how can they ignore the day of love when almost every single person worldwide planing and preparing what to do and where to go on the Valentine’s day with their couple or even what Valentine’s gift will they give to their beloved one. Meanwhile, I picked up some great Valentine artworks in designs as the V-present for you guys. There are special Valentine desktop wallpaper I made, awesome inspiring artworks, nice looking ecards with Valentine’s theme that you could send to your boyfriend/girlfriend, some inspiring and fun Valentine’s products, and of course…. some Valentine’s free resources as well. Take a look at these and Happy Valentine’s Day people! :)

Free exclusive Valentine desktop wallpaper:

Click on the icon below to download “it’s Valentine’s day” desktop wallpaper:

Inspiring artworks:

E-cards:

Paperless Post Valentine Ecard

Valentine Gifts from Vladstudio

Products:

Yummytines

Squarey wants to be your Valentine

Valentine's Cookies

Valentine's Day Chunky Book

A wee little heart

Resources:

400+ Free Valentine Textures and Backgrounds

Free Valentine’s Day vectors collection

Valentine gift wrap

Pink Valentine Key in PSD

Valentine Mega Art Brush Set

80 Valentine 100x100 Bases

Bored In Class

Love Texture

More Valentine Resources:
50+ Beautiful Wallpapers for Make more Romantic this Valentine Day
40 Beautiful Valentine’s Day Wallpapers For Your Desktop
30 Nice Valentine’s Day Wallpapers + Other Resources

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