Rudolph Wickham: May 2015

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week - Space Invaders

The wallpaper of this week is a photo I took in Hong Kong of one of the Space Invaders artwork. The exhibition was titled WIPE OUT and there were several amazing pieces from this legendary French artist. Invader is internationally known for his pixelated mosaic “space invaders” which he has placed in over 60 cities around the world for almost 20 years. In January 2014, the artist launched the third wave of his “invasion” in Hong Kong 13 years after he first hit the city.The works showed a significant evolution, displaying characters from local culture and classic cartoons, but still in the artist’s immediately recognisable pixel aesthetic.

I define myself as an ULA, an unidentified living artist. I chose Invader as my pseudonym and I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them. Since 1998, I have developed a large scale project, code name: Space Invaders

For more information visit http://www.space-invaders.com/home/

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week - Hong Kong

The wallpaper of this week is photo that I took from my trip to Hong Kong last weekend. The image was taken at night when it was raining. The shutter speed was set to 5 seconds and the outcome was a very Blade Runner style image. I love the colors of Hong Kong at night and this photo gives you a little glimpse of that.

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8 cool and free typography apps for designers

Yes, you can use your tablet or phone for social media stuff and games, that’s what most people use it for. As design professionals, we should also be aware of all the awesome apps that can help you with our work or passion. Check out the apps before for anything related to typography.

1. Fontest

Want to know how your favorite fonts are rendered on Android? Then get familiar with Fontest. It’s a developer and typography tool with six high quality fonts for free.

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2. FontBrowser

Use FontBrowser app for browsing Unicode fonts and keystrokes. It’s for free and you can search the symbols by type, saving precious minutes if you’re frantically looking for a particular arrow symbol.

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3. Fontroid

Fontroid is a world’s first social font service that creates best handwriting font with people all over the world. Get it here.

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4. PicLab

Make it easy to add typography to your photos with PicLab that offers lots of fonts and full control over size, positioning, opacity, rotation, and color.

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5. Tiff

Compare the fonts with this visually contrast tiff app. This app will let you know how the letters look in different typefaces.

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6. Paper by FiftyThree

With the slogan of “Ideas begin on paper”, this app offers a tactile experience via a bunch of bolt-on modules for sketching and coloring, which are useful for getting down font-design notes and ideas. Get this app here.

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7. Quark DesignPad

Quark DesignPad app enables to rapidly wireframe grid-based designs. It’s a necessary tool for people who deal with typefaces and fonts on a daily basis. Get this app here.

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8. WhatTheFont

If you are surfing the internet and found some amazing font on certain website, but do not know which font is it exactly then WhatTheFont is an app for you. You can simply take a picture, upload it and the app does the rest.

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Design deals for the week

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals.

Vintage Fonts and Shapes Bundle

These 4 Vintage Fonts and Shapes Bundles from graphic designer Agung Gumilang are as different from each other as they are fabulous. This set includes: Lakester Font Family, GRIBA typeface, Authentic Vintage Labels, and Vintage Vector Elements and Textures.

$19 instead of $90 – Get it now!

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Lifetime access to 46+ amazing WordPress themes

This Mighty Deal from Themes Kingdom includes life time access to all current and all future professional WP themes to use on your personal or client sites. All include a responsive design and easy-to-use custom admins to change up the look and feel of your site.

$49 instead of $329 – Get it now!

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Bundle Storm V2: The Bundle of Bundles

Bundle Storm is back with another humungous bundle of awesome content. Introducing Bundle Storm v2. This is one of the biggest bundle for creative professionals, jam packed with icons, textures, fractal images, patterns, characters, stock photos and so much more.

$37 instead of $149 – Get it now!

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8 awesome gadgets made with wood

We all love gadgets and the great functionalities that they have brought to our lives. However, most gadgets have a quite cold look-and-feel as they are most of the time made of plastic and metal. In this post we take a look at some cool gadgets that are made of wood and have a more natural look-and-feel.

1. Bamboo Multi-Charging Station, Without Power Strip

This gadget has a room for a laptop, tablet and up to 3 other devices. You can keep all your portable gadgets charged and organized with the Multi-Charging Station. You can get it here.

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2. Wood iPad Cases

These iPad cases were designed to look like a notebook using renewable South Asiatic bamboo cane which is naturally strong to protect an iPad from the daily grind. Get more info here.

Wood iPad Cases

3. Miniot wooden iPad and iPhone cases

Miniot’s cases use the most beautiful wood and the cases are astounding. Get more info here.

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4. Wood keys for the Macbook

This product uses 3M adhesive to attach the keys and it is easily removable and leaves no residue behind. Backlight feature is integrated as well as support for all international languages. Get more info here.

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5. Modo – Modular Desktop Organizer

Modo is a simple and fully customizable solution for your desktop chaos such as iPad, iPhone, pens, clips, chargers etc. for more detail, click here.

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6. Natural sound for your mobile life

This is a compact, powerful Bluetooth sound system with a hand crafted, solid wood cabinet that perfect for iPhone and iPad. Get it here.

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7. Bamboo USB 4 Port Hub

Bamboo USB 4 Port Hub is a polished genuine bamboo hub body, with four USB ports. This USB splitter is a hip way to keep all of your devices connected and charged. For more info click here.

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8. Grass Wood Co.

The Grass Wood Co. is a newly established company specialising in bamboo-based products available for the Macbook Pro, Macboom Pro Retina, Macbook Air (13 inch), iPad 2 and the iPad 3. Get more details here.

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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week by Ink Studio

The wallpaper of this week is the beautiful image created by Ink studio. That's their yearly paper design project an in 2015 they were inspired by nature for their project. As we can see the result is quite beautiful.

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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week by ABDZ

The wallpaper of this week is the image I created last weekend for the tutorial of the week. The tutorial was titled Playing with Lines in Photoshop and Illustrator and you can check it out at http://abduzeedo.com/playing-lines-photoshop-and-illustrator. The work was inspired by similar projects I saw on Pinterest and Behance. The idea was just to learn how to achieve the same effect..

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A collection of vintage and retro patterns for Photoshop

In an era of minimalist design and flat icons, patterns have lost in popularity among designers. We shouldn’t totally stop using patterns though, it is still a great way to give a strong personnality to your graphic or web designs by setting an atmosphere. If you are looking to make your designs feel vintage, take a look at the free Photoshop patterns we share in this post.

1. Tileable vector patterns

These tileable patterns will make you feel like in a vintage house, bringing you straight in the past. The files are downloadable on Graphics Wall in AI, PNG, PAT, or PSD format, with six separate patterns in the pack.

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2. Mellow Mint

Another funky set that features funky colors and disco patterns. You can download it from DeviantArt and use if freely. The author doesn’t require you to credit him, but it would still be a good idea to do it.

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3. Grandma’s flowers

Have to do a design for clients that are all over eighty years old, or simply miss the patterns on the wall at your grandmother’s house? This set on Brusheezy will meet all your needs for sure.

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4. Wallpaper patterns

A collection of complicated wallpaper-style patterns with a vintage look-and-feel. Perfect for classy retro designs. It can be downloaded on DeviantArt.

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5. Vintage textiles patterns

Miss the vintage clothes your mom (or yourself) wore in the seventies? These patterns from Brusheezy should make you feel a little better by bringing you back in time.

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6. Mauve patterns

With this set, the colors only should bring you back 40 years in the past. The shapes are also pretty funky though.

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7. Victorian patterns

These patterns that emulate the Victorian era’s wallpapers is more than simply vintage or retro, it’s almost historical. This set that you can download on DeviantArt is like a time-machine for Photoshop.

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8. Floral patterns

Nothing says vintage like patterns of flowers. This set brings together a bunch of flowery patterns that can give your design a spring or summer look-and-feel. Download it on DeviantArt.

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10 Photoshop brushes for lightning effects creation

In this today’s blog post, we have 10 incredible Photoshop brushes that can be used to create amazing designs for lightning effects creation. These collection are really worthy and free to download. You can use them for your personal use or project that requires lighting effect. Have a look at them below!