Digital*Impulse

So yesterday I didn’t really have much to do, and I was supposed to go see my little brother, Lucas, as it was his birthday.
Since I was on my own for the weekend and the bus service in this city is atrocious on weekends (it’s little better on weekdays, but not by much), I decided it might be a good idea to jump on my bike and ride there.
I’d been meaning to take a good long bike ride for a while now, since I’ve been considering starting to ride to work.  So I saw this as a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone –I get to check my overall fitness, and visit family at the same time. 

So I checked my Giant XTC mountain bike over to make sure all was in good working order, packed some essentials (repair kit, water, energy bars, digital camera, etc.) in a backpack, donned my cleat shoes, helmet and gloves and headed out.

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Ok, as promised, here’s the very first tutorial for Adobe Fireworks based on the Official Digital*Impulse Desktop Wallpaper I posted up earlier. A couple of things you might want to do before you begin this tutorial:

• Find a nice, thick font you would like to use for your logo. This tutorial will work for almost any typeface you can think of but I tend to think thick fonts look better.
• Have a base colour for your project in mind before you begin.  Believe me, it makes things easier than changing your mind halfway.  I’ve settled on a red colour for the entire composition, so don’t be put off by the blue colour that I start off with. 

Final Image Preview

Here’s a look at the final image we’re going to create.  At the end of part 2, I’ll make available a finished fully-editable copy of the Fireworks PNG file.

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Phew…! 

It’s been a while since I last posted on here, hasn’t it?

Well, I got somewhat discouraged at WordPress and some other stuff and the headaches it was giving me affected my creativity but I think I’ve managed to get that all worked out now.  In addition, my sister’s family came to stay with us for a while so the house was a somewhat busy (and noisy!) there for a while.  ;P  My younger brother also graced us with his presence, so it was somewhat of a family get-together.

And on top of that, I’ve been working on some icons for the 2008 GUI Championships. Read the rest of this entry »

So yesterday when I got home I found Pily had picked up my parcel from the post office (and didn’t think it necessary to tell me about it before I went to pick it up myself [thanks Pily ]).  It was my chair!!

I had bought it last Saturday on DealsDirect.com.au and had arrived at the post by Monday.  :o  How’s that for fast delivery?

I’d been hunting for a chair like this for months and whenever I went into local retail stores, all the chairs of this type started at the ridiculously ludicrous price of $600+, with one specimen waaaaaay less featured than this one going for $799 at Domayne!!!!  I was like, WTF! 
So when I saw this one on DealsDirect going for $220, I just had to snap it up.  Actually, I’d been waiting for them to restock this item for a couple of months, and had settled on this one until they got the other one on again.  Coincidentally, I sold the other chair to my sister since their chair has totally and utterly had it.

So anyways, I got home and got the (huge!) box from the car and proceeded to try to put it together before I had to go out again for dinner.

A few minutes into the assembly, I remembered I should’ve got some unboxing pics but since it was too late for that, I got a couple of pics of the assembly and then the finished product.  I’ve yet to get in-action shots.

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Announcing the first design project to be made available publicly on the website:  the Official Digital*Impulse Desktop Wallpaper.

I had a piece with this kind of composition stashed away in my WIPs folder on my drive for a while and never really found a real use for it until now.  I thought it would make a great submission to make freely available here. Read the rest of this entry »