http://thinkpenguin.com Design, And More Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:27:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site was designed from a business card I was given, with emphasis on keeping the logo's color palette and style. The site operates horizontally rather than vertically, which makes navigating simple. Visit the site. Click for larger preview Tools used: Photoshop, Dreamweaver. http://thinkpenguin.com/portfolio/web-design/levine-architects I designed the logo and comic theme for MolluskAntics, a brilliant webcomic created by a friend of mine. I chose to use the simple and lightweight SomeryC for the site's CMS, customized for the addition of Moo.fx effects, reformatted comments, and a simplified back-end skin. [caption id="attachment_34" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Site ... http://thinkpenguin.com/portfolio/web-design/molluskantics-comic-site I was digging through past graphics work and found some icons I had designed a while ago: Click for larger preview Go ahead, download them. Tools used: Photoshop, Illustrator http://thinkpenguin.com/portfolio/logo-design/icon-archive I'm all for widgets, but only when they look good. So instead of complaining about the LastFM widget, I redesigned it. I also redid the logo for the widget to better match that of LastFM, but with the dashboard glossy-button style. Click for larger preview Download my version here. Tool: Photoshop (vector tools) http://thinkpenguin.com/portfolio/logo-design/redesign-lastfm-widget Click for larger preview One could say it was like lock-picking. This was a vector study I did on metallic objects, focusing on how to utilize only Photoshop's vector tools and styling panel to obtain bended gradients. Tool: Photoshop (vector tools). Update: I've noticed that many people are using my image ... http://thinkpenguin.com/portfolio/graphics-design/vector-study-metal-lock