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GMail rolling out themesYesterday

Google has been busy the past few weeks rolling out eye candy for their users. First they launched themes for iGoogle, then video chat for GTalk and now themes for GMail. They look pretty good and there is a good selection of minimalist, high contrast and illustrative themes. They even payed a lot of attention to elaborate footers. See a few more examples below.

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Using Flickr images for freeYesterday

Finding free images for use on your Web site, blog or design project can be a real pain. You could turn to some of the free stock photo sites out there. Some are pretty decent, but most of the images have a distinct "stock photography" look about them. Instead, try using images from Flickr.

Photo by Spoon Monkey.

Before you say "the images on Flickr are copyrighted, so they can't be used for commercial work," think again.

Here's how you can use Flickr images for free, without depriving the photographer of the credit he/she deserves.

Bullet Energy Drink RedesignNovember 18

This is a new project that I did for school. I was told to redesign a energy drink logo. So I chose Bullet. An obscure energy drink with a really cool name. The current design for it seemed to not be exciting enough to me. So I livened up the colors and made everything by scratch. I feel like the top part is a kind of funky. Please critique that. Maybe it's not too late to fix it. This is meant to be wrapped around a glass bottle, whereas the original was a can. It's all vector. My first serious vector work. I'd like opinions for future projects and perhaps a little critique on this current one, even though it has already been turned in. Sorry I haven't posted any new stuff in a long time. Lots of school work. Not enough time to get down to business and work on something for myself. Anyways, critique! :D

- Doug May

Photoshop disasters!November 17

You'd think ANATOMY would be an important tool in a designers arsenal.

BBDO thanks GWBNovember 12

Following up on this earlier post about George W Bush ads.

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