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Create Character Driven Book Cover Art Using Illustrator and Photoshop

A two-part tutorial inspired by my “Let’s Go To Monster School!” illustration is out on Vectortuts+ and Psdtuts+.

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Introducing Icon Kitchen

I have opened up shop! Icon Kitchen is my pet project. Mmh…finger-lickin’ good STOCK ICONS at palatable prices.

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Create a Recycle Bin Replacement Icon (Bathtub)

I published a fun tutorial on Instatuts.

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Interview on Andy Law Design

One of my clients, Andy Law, has interviewed me for his blog.

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You think I’m a woman. I’m not!

All non-Italians see my name and think I’m a woman. I’m not!

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Introducing EDITABLE MESS

Great news everyone: I just opened my sketchbook on Tumblr!

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Cute Little Factory Redesign!

After three weeks of intermittent designing and one week of obsessive coding I present my new blog. The immediate changes are: a wider layout, bright colors, illustrations and birds! “Birds” is also the name of the theme I developed in Wordpress.
The new look caters to the necessity for the blog to reflect my area of interest (NOT birds, illustration!) and to accomodate large screenshots for my tutorials.

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Cute Little Factory featured on Vandelay Design!

Popular design blog Vandelay Design has included wy website in this article about testimonials in web design.

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Cute Little Factory featured on Inspiredology!

Well-known design blog Inspiredology has featured my website in a recent article about cartoon characters in websites

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“I SHIT DESIGN” T-Shirt available!

Designers tend to be self-absorbed. It comes with the territory. When you make a living by creating things you better believe you’re good.

Lately I’ve seen many websites that boast quotes from famous designers (and CEO superstars hailing from infinite loops). I think they’re supposed to show the visitors that the owners of the websites, in many instances designers themselves, are in the know. It probably works but I wouldn’t know, I’m not easily impressed and I’m not a client. To me it just shows that so-and-so has read book so-and-so. Big deal. Anyway I decided to make my version of a design quote and I’m putting it on a T-shirt.

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