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  • Dynamic Columns

    Monday, May 25th, 2009

    I get a lot of emails asking how I output the comments in a column format. Here’s how.

    10 Comments

  • Flat Shadows

    Sunday, May 10th, 2009

    Another super-simple shadow trick in Photoshop for looking down on objects.

    11 Comments

  • Upright Shadows

    Thursday, April 30th, 2009

    A nifty trick for shadows on upright objects that’s dead simple in Photoshop.

    6 Comments

  • The real Jim Shady

    Friday, April 10th, 2009

    Lately I’ve been getting pretty used to having my designs ripped. Doesn’t mean I dislike it any less.

    44 Comments

  • Navigation spacing in Photoshop

    Monday, February 2nd, 2009

    Here’s a tiny trick in Photoshop for having evenly spaced text items for things like horizontal navigation menus.

    27 Comments

  • .NET mag fame

    Saturday, January 24th, 2009

    So the lovely folks at .NET magazine got in touch recently to ask if they could include Digitalmash.com in the gallery section of their mag.

    11 Comments

  • Design by numbers

    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

    I have a confession to make. Like quite a few designers, I’ve got a sprinkling of OCD about me.

    29 Comments

  • Proper propaganda

    Friday, December 26th, 2008

    Well it’s that time of year again. Things are winding up and for most of us, we’ll have a little time away from the grindstone.

    6 Comments

  • Ripped!

    Sunday, November 16th, 2008

    Well, a little over a week into the new site, we have our first rip of my design. Sigh…

    36 Comments

  • Fun with a tablet

    Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

    No, I’m not talking about drugs. I picked up a cheap drawing tablet recently and thought I’d share my first experiments with it in Photoshop.

    10 Comments

  • Incestuous design

    Friday, November 7th, 2008

    Ok, I admit — it’s a title that could turn some people off. It’s going to be a nightmare searching for it on google. But dammit, if nothing else, it’s original.

    24 Comments

  • A New Beginning

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008

    So here we are. The first blog post on a fresh newly designed site. It’s like sliding into freshly pressed bed linen.

    28 Comments

  • Logo marathon

    Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

    Sometimes (and I mean, only sometimes) the most grueling design jobs can be the most rewarding.

    26 Comments

  • Making it real

    Monday, October 13th, 2008

    This is the story of how one idea can inform a whole campaign and visual identity.

    7 Comments

  • What’s in a name?

    Sunday, October 12th, 2008

    What’s in a name? Well, I would argue that if your product’s good, then probably not that much.

    13 Comments

  • Tippin’ the Balance

    Sunday, October 12th, 2008

    How do you turn a 200-page manual into something athletes will want to interact with?

    6 Comments

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Recent Comments

  1. Hey, like the columns, but it seems you’re wasting a lot of space under each comment. How would you push them up, together like a jigsaw? That would be cool. Anyone know how??

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    Max
    Wednesday at 11:26 PM

  2. Pretty creative, I gotta give you that. Though for shadows I usualy just copy the layer, fill it with black, set the opacity way down and then I can do whatever I feel like with that “shadow” - no restrictions.

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    Tipsy
    Tuesday at 03:45 PM

  3. Thank you, this touched me. I just signed a contract for a really enjoyable job after years (and years, and then it felt like some years more) of studying and starving. And now, in the end, I feel like it was all worth it (despite the millions of doubts on the way). I do not design for the web, but your points still make sense.

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    Johanna-Mai
    Sunday at 06:52 PM

  4. just found a minor bug.  If you click “leave a Reply” the arrow whit which you can close the reply form doesn’t get changed.

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    chris
    Tuesday at 11:32 PM