I’ve been keeping busy with work and have been doing a lot of traveling (besides to work) in the past month, so I haven’t made any posts in a while. Lately, my free time has been spent on another design for Tucson Labs. Here’s a shot of the mock-up in Inkscape. It has similar […]
Right now there is a very popular trend on the web and in print media to use a pinsrtipe pattern for a background image. Today I’m going to go over how to create a pinstripe pattern in Inkscape and hopefully it will give you an idea of how to use and make patterns for Inkscape. […]
Most web design pros wouldn’t even consider the possibility of doing their work without industry standard tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks, let alone on a platform such as Linux. Nonetheless, professional results can be achieved. I’m not going to be using this site as an example, in fact I’m not going […]
Don’t let the build number scare you. While the latest version of Inkscape is only at build number 0.45.1, it’s stable, feature rich, and above all else, it’s a very powerful program for creating vector artwork. Another notable feature is that it’s an open source program released under the GPL and it’s free. Inkscape can […]
I’m calling the new style for the site the “Super Mario Theme”. I think it’s appropriate given the look and feel of the site even though there aren’t any mushrooms. The aim in the design was basically use a dark background with pastel colors, and the rest kind of just took shape as I played […]
So I finally left Gifu behind, and now I’m living the high life in Ageo. The high point is that it’s near Tokyo, about 40 minutes to Shibuya on the good old Takasaki line. The low point would be that it’s in Saitama, and there’s not a whole bunch to do besides go to Tokyo. […]
Tucson-labs.com has a new look. It’s now powered by Wordpress 2.3.1 and is hosted on top of a mountain in Tucson. Things are likely to be a bit rocky over the next few week, as I’m still integrating all of the features and getting the site design finished up.
