The History of Philosophy
One of my favourite podcasts is The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. I thought I’d set myself the task of a new logo for it. The current is a [...]
Category Archives: Inkscape
Illustrate an iPhone 4 in Inkscape
If you want to show your fantastic logo design to your client you might want to show them what it would look like on different media, like T-shirts or on [...]
Exoplanets
In my geekier moments I like a bit of astronomy and planetary science and I follow The Planetary Society’s Emily Lakdawalla on Twitter. Recently she tweeted about a design competition [...]
A Whale’s Tail
Illustrating something with lots of curves can be tricky. Recently I noticed the shorty awards logo and wondered how you illustrate something simple and sophisticated like that. Drawing something similar [...]
Colourful Flower Logo: Tiled clones, rotational symmetry
Try out this method of making a flower with tiled clones. Adding randomized elements makes this great fun to play with. You can get addicted to pressing the Create button [...]
Colourful Logos (reprise)
Recently I’ve had a lot of interest from people looking for a logo design. The trend must be bright rainbow colours at the moment. I went back to my previous [...]
Smartphone User Interface design
Previously I made a texture in Gimp. It’s easy to save it as a PNG image and import into Inkscape. From there it can be used as a pattern fill [...]
Moving from Windows to Linux
If you’re thinking of moving your GIMP and Inkscape activities to a Linux OS then I can recommend Open Suse 12.1 which has both applications built in. When I came [...]
iPhone wallpaper with icon shelves
I found some nice wallpapers for my iPhone which have little shelves for the home screen icons. If you have a shelf template you can throw it on top of [...]
Paper Textures in GIMP for User interface Design
If you’ve downloaded any apps for your phone recently I bet some of them use a paper texture for the user interface. The Twitter app and website spring to mind. [...]
