Chilligavva

Wishing all my readers a Happy Telugu New Year.

I was blown away by this site, and the lovely lovely design work of Maurico Guimaraes, an artist, digital illustrator, animator and flash developer from Brazil. Do visit his website, and experience the site. Its nice, and his creative work, just blew my mind away.The site is bilingual, and is available in English and Portuguese.

Yesterday, as per usual, i attempted a poster without sketches. So I started with a noisy background, added a layer of vines, bevelled the same, drew a lady's profile using my wacom tablet, and found something lacking. So i added another layer of bluerays [no pun intended!].

This morning I was reading Stan Schroeder’s take on Kawasaki’s Alltop. I have to fully agree with Stan’s observation that candywrapping an existing concept will not make it a new concept. He compared Kawasaki’s alltop to popurls. 1.0 Screenshot of the ALLTOP site Alltop is a RSS aggregator. Okay because Guy Kawasaki is behind this, i shall deem the site a visit. ...

Looks like this week is all about animals. I have just completed a Jungle theme for Chilligavva, which you now see in action. For the curious, the animal icons are based on the Animal Dingbat series, called "Animalia Scissored" from Dafont.com, a font site. I have just come across the work of Jeremy Pettis, a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design via Typographica Here is the exciting response about ...

Human Statue of Liberty at camp Dodge, Iowa. I happened to Stumble onto it.. For whatever reason, an 89 year old photo taken in Iowa is making its way around the internet. Many people who see the picture find it hard to believe it’s real. Mike Vogt, curator for the Gold Star Military Museum at Camp Dodge, says they received dozens of e-mails ...

I was wandering in my favorite Graphics program [Serif Photoplus 6.0], when I started playing around without any aim, and ended up with this.. Enjoy..