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Vector Vegetables

Tim Lawrence — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:22:02 +0000

My most recent design. I got the idea from an article in the Wall Street Journal that used similar looking vegetables as a graphic for the article (can’t remember what the article was about.) I used Illustrator to create these.

Top Ten Crayola Colors

Tim Lawrence — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:32:13 +0000

I’ve been reading a few books on Infographics, or Information graphics, which are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. I’ve always been more of a “picture” person myself, and find that infographics easily relay information to the viewer. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather look at a picture to quickly find the information I’m looking for instead of reading a bunch of text.

In light of my recent interest with infographics, I decided to create one based on a census that Crayola conducted in 2000 to find America’s favorite Crayola color. Over 25,000 people participated and below are the results broken down by kids, adults, women, and men. Who knew blue was such a popular color across the board?

See the results for yourself here.

The Patriot Watch

Tim Lawrence — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:09 +0000

I was flipping through a magazine the other day and came across several watch advertisements. I thought, how hard could it be to create something similar in Illustrator? So I tried it…here’s the result. The design is based off an actual watch called the TimeWalker from Montblanc.

Then I took it a step further and created a simple magazine advertisement…

Illustrator Postage Stamp

Tim Lawrence — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:34:37 +0000

Today, I thought I’d do a design using Illustrator. I have to be honest, I really don’t use the app all that much. It’s not that I don’t like it, I just never have the time to learn what it can do. So I went tutorial surfing today to get the learning process started!

I came across a pretty good site that has some good beginner and intermediate stuff. The site is vectordiary.com. The stamp tutorial in particular was the inspiration for this design. After going through the tutorial (10-15 mins), I decided to make my own stamp and put a little twist on it. Since I like to cook and I love BBQ, I thought I’d use a photo of Jenni out in the backyard grillin’ up some ribs.

Here’s the finished design. It’s hard to see, but I added some artistic filters to the image on the stamp so it looked a bit more drawn. I also gave it some depth by tweaking the final image in Photoshop using the Warp tool and adding some shadow. It could probably use a bit more work, but I think it turned out pretty good.