Blake McCreary Design

Some great design articles popped up on a few of my favorite sites this week. If you weren’t lucky enough to ‘catch the tweet this week’, I’ve compiled this weeks design followup list.

Jacob Cass, a prolific graphic designer in New York talks about how building a personal brand and effective use of social media got him out of some interesting debacles in life.

A fantastic set of subtle repeating patterns for use in your Photoshop projects. Use them to add texture to your web designs or set off a print project!

In this nearly 60-minute long presentation for Academy Class, Martin Perhiniak will explain how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS5 together in a seamless workflow to enhance your raw photographs.

Here’s a collection of ribbons I’ve used for several non profit projects over the past couple years. The set includes ribbons for several cancer and abuse types.  Find the meanings here: http://www.trinitylondon.com/awareness-ribbon-meanings.asp and you can always edit them for the color of ribbon you need for your organization. Download Vector Cancer & Abuse Awareness Ribbons