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Upgrading

Lately I've been spending a fair bit of my free time working on upgrading my Photoshop and Dreamweaver knowledge and I've learned a lot. I've been using Photoshop for years but have found so many more things I can do with it. As a result I've updated my logo, created a funky t-shirt design and I'm redesigning/recreating my website. 

this was my old logo

This is my new logo

One of my new favs in Photoshop is playing with brushes. There are loads of free-to-download brushes on the internet - like the ones at: Brusheezy. After looking through their hundreds of brushes I've come up with loads of ideas for my own. So that's the next thing I'll be focussing on (creating my own brushes). 

I'm a designer. Use me better.

Ben Terret, a Graphic Designer in London, gives a speech to lay out his case for how he thinks designers, and the design industry, can help with the challenges facing us.

"Let's be honest, all the Green/Sustainability stuff can get a bit heavy, can't it?"

to read the speech/article click here

Green design

Leaching it of any meaning

The following is an adaptation of a speech given yesterday at The Applied Green conference by Michael Johnson (of the London-based design company johnson banks). 

What can design do? How can branding help (or hinder) climate change?

to read more click here