Archive for June, 2008

Adobe are conducting free eSeminars for Australian and New Zealand designers in July – you can register for quite a variety of online seminars catering to web and mobile developers, video and print designers and photographers. I’ve signed up for all the design seminars already, as well as the Creative Fesival which is kicking...
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Secret Anatomy of a Young Girl by Elsa Mora Elsa Mora‘s work just continues to astound me. She is an artist whose work I can fall into for days, and I would never come out except for coffee and biscuits (Scotch Finger, yum). She has just issued a new series of prints based on...
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Dripbook just sent an email announcing that they are coming out of beta! I’ve blogged about Dripbook in earlier entries but for the uninitiated, Dripbook is a beautiful little site offering a really compact and portable portfolio facility. They offer creatives a simple way to package their works on site in the form of...
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Today is Download Day! From my stats I know that half of you already use Firefox, you guys get cupcakes. Before I’ll even consider cracking open my second Tupperware full of cupcakes, the rest of you need to download Firefox. Why do I use Firefox? Firefox renders websites correctly, IE masks coding errors. By...
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Admcom have heralded 2008 as the Year of Creativity and I’ve taken up their invitation to be someone else. Of course, I needed new business cards to complement my new career, and AdmCom delivered with their hilarious business card creator. No more minding my Ps and Qs! I’m removing any guise of censorship on...
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FUNK’D have posted in the Red Bubble forums (and I suspect a few others) about their label competition. Please consider absolutely all the entry conditions before entering a design contest like this. From their website’s FAQ: Do you offer a cash prize? We do not offer a cash prize. The winner will have their...
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This is just a note to let you all know that I’m going to be participating in the Thirty Day Challenge this year. If you are keen to track my progress, please feel free to check out my team’s blog – “Blogging the Thirty Day Challenge” and to subscribe to it in your favourite...
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I just came to the Creature Comforts blog not 15 minutes ago via My Folk Lover (aka the gorgeously talented Catherine Campbell). Ez is celebrating the first year anniversary of the Creature Comforts blog with a huge give-away from contributors like Catherine, Holly Becker of decor8, Lab Partners and oodles more wonderful creative people....
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If you’ve got a Twitter account you might have experienced the really irritating outages that have been happening of late, but never fear! Plurk is here to save you from your dawdling moments on the internet! I got an account a few days ago, and I’ve been addicted ever since. Reasons why you should...
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Resulting Palette/Patterns: I came across pfennigdreadful’s rather pretty colour palette today which was inspired by John McCain’s face, and I laughed for about 15 minutes! It’s true, you can find beauty in everything!
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