Leah Bulloch

Archive for January, 2010

Here are all the social icons that i have created. I made a few changes to the icons when i put them all together.
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I love the orange colour of the RSS icon. This icon attempts to make it look three-dimensional and also crystal like.
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One of the worlds most popular social networking websites is Facebook so i had to do an icon for that website.
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This 3D icon is for StumbleUpon which is a website which helps its users share great website that they have come across. It’s user base recommends links and websites and rates them to match a users preferences.
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This 3D Delicious icon was fairly quick and easy to create using the techniques that i had applied in the previous creations.
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A 3D Digg Icon created in 20 mins. I am happy with this icon it turned out how i envisaged it would. Digg is an online community that provides people with the opportunity of sharing content that they have found on the Internet. They encourage the community to examine the links that are submitted, by doing this the best of the Internets content appears on the website.
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Today i planned to create a 3D Icon for Reddit. Below is the icon that i created. I did not have very much time today to set aside for the creation, so i think i spent less than 20 mins on this one and i think it shows. The edges are all too harsh for my liking and the gloss didn’t work i needed to spend some more time on this area.
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I have now started back at work so i have less time to spend on any of my personal designs. Here is my contribution for today’s allocation of 20 mins.
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For the design challenge i decided to follow a couple of tutorials for creating your own twitter bird with Abode Illustrator. The two tutorials that i used as guides were both very helpful, but i think that i still need more practice at using Illustrator to create characters (Rob Barrett’s twitter bird tutorial and George Coghill’s twitter bird tutorial for GoMediaZine). I wanted to create a fat happy twitter bird.
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In December 2009 Smashing Magazine set a challenge to design something everyday for a year. I have decided to take up the challenge and i have created this blog to showcase what i have done. The blog will keep me accountable and a record of what i have done.
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