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Personal Re-brand for 2010

I was recently working on my logo for Brisk Studios and I was having trouble and was tired of my current “brand”.

I wanted something fresh and bold. Something that would be to spread across all the branding types of media like business cards, website, letterheads, etc..
With today’s designers and the charity of their [...]

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FREE Wordpress Theme – Squared 2

I’m happy to announce today for download the release of my first custom Wordpress theme called Squared 2!  It still has some little minor things including no support for IE, but I’ll let the the wordpress dev’s take care of changing that.

You can see a live demo here.
So without further ado your download link:
Download Squared-2
Any [...]

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Custom Photography Blogs

Custom Photography Blogs is going live on Aug. 31st and I can’t wait  to proudly announce it on Monday. CPB is started by Jane Johnson who is a creative and passionate photographer who knows that every photographer wants their own person blog that they can express their photos and creativity. Just like she does.
I’m the [...]

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Open Apps on Startup

If you frequently listen to music, surf the web, get your email, or chat with friends, you may want your computer to open those applications every time you start up. On a Mac, it’s simple to do. Select System Preferences from the Apple menu, then:

Click Accounts (in the System row of the System Preferences window).
Click [...]

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Are You Pushing Me?

Part of my passion for design is being challenged and pushed beyond my current abilities, whether it’s in design, coding, or typography. I think we’re at our best when we’re inspired by a challenge or stretching. There are several influences in my life to that effect. One is a very talented designer and photographer, [...]

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The Life Blood of My Design

Picture this: Your driving along the coast on a warm summer’s evening, windows down, and fresh air blowing on your face. You turn a corner and the most beautiful golden sunset hits your eyes. What do you do? You stop to fill your mind and breath in the visually magnificent once in lifetime sunset. Next, [...]

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Best of the Links #3

Week 2 of my favorite links from around the web. Be sure to check them out.
1. Patternhead
2. 110+ Awesome Resources for Popular Adobe Products | Spoonfed Design
3. 101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1 | 1stwebdesigner
4. 65+ Hand-picked Free Fonts for Serious Designs | Fonts | Design
5. 50+ Freebies Every [...]

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Best of the Links #2

Week 2 of my favorite links from around the web. Be sure to check them out.
1. jQuery Plugin: Scroll to Top
2. 10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1
3. Diving into PHP by Nettuts
4. WP sIFR wordpress plugin for custom fonts
5. 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I
6. Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow
7. Download “Imprezz”, A [...]

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Best of the Links #1

Week 1 of my favorite links from around the web. Be sure to check them out.
1. The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes | Smashing Magazine
2. The Simple DVD Ripper for Macs | Ripit
3. Dynamic Content Gallery V2 | Studiograsshopper
4. Freebie – Grunge Corners and Edges Photoshop Brush Pack | Arbenting
5. Slickr Gallery (AJAX Flickr [...]

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Amazing & High Quality PS Brushes

152 Hand picked Photoshop brushes.

1. Burnt Negatives Brushes
2. Stars
3. Unreal Brushes
4. Border & Corner Brushes
5. Grunge Brush
6. Phobia Brushes
7. Border-Corner-Frame
8. Grungey Lines
9. Grunge Stroke Brushes
10. Halftone brushes
11. Halftone 2 brushes
12. Risingsun Brushes
13. 9 Grunge Brushes
14. Vector Line Brushes
15. PS Splatter Brushes
16. Decorative brushes
17. Scan Line Brushes
18. Equalizer Brushes
19. Floral Brushes
20. Flowers First
21. Vine Love Brushes
22. [...]

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My Fav 5 posts from my Fav 5 sites

Smashing Magazine:
1. 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
2. 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
3. 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
4. 50 Photoshop Tutorials For Sky and Space Effects
5. Grunge Style In Modern Web Design

Tutorial9:
1. School of Photoshop
2. 250 Hi Res Splatter, Spray, & Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
3. 99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures
4. Mysterious Lighting [...]

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The Best iPhone Wallpapers

Links to the Wallpaper sites:
http://www.iphonepixels.com
http://www.thememyphone.com/
http://www.iphoneatmo.com/
http://www.sciphone.net/

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25 Road and Street Wallpapers

A great collection of road and street wallpapers.  All found at interfacelift.com and Flickr

Estrada 21 – By edinhobaiano

Delta Works – By Cornmeister

Double Rainbow – By TheReal7

Transatlanticism – By John Baccile

Welcome To Hell – By Jakobp

Gates Of Gold – By dmc

Iron Gate – By Macindows

Spaghetti Junction – By Chris Gin

A Crossing Way – By Vitor Isaia

Sunny [...]

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CSSEdit 2.6

CSSEdit offers unrivaled real-time styling of absolutely any web page. Even when your dynamic Web App is powered by a complex database or makes use of advanced AJAX, you can style and analyze it without the hassle of uploading or refreshing.
Design beautiful, innovative and fast-loading web sites… with a beautiful, innovative and fast app.CSSEdit’s intuitive approach to style [...]

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6 Reasons Why IE6 Must Die

Written and posted by on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 by David Walsh
Internet Explorer 6, released on August 27, 2001, was a package of problems right from the start. Within a year of release, Microsoft silently declared that IE6 would not make enough money for them to support as closely as a browser should supported. [...]

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8 Reasons Windows Users DO Switch to Mac

Oct 09, 2007
If you made it through my first article, entitled “8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch,” you may be a little annoyed with me by now. I admit the article certainly had a negative tone, and that was the focus. But now, we can focus on what IS working to get Windows users to [...]

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8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

by Steven Leigh from applematters.com on Oct 02, 2007
Let me say it right off the bat: Macs running OS X give the best computing experience on the planet. It’s not that Macs are perfect, but compared to everything else, there is nothing like the Mac experience. With that in mind, it’s difficult for many Mac [...]

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