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Grant Friedman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:00:21 +0000

Over the summer I spoke at the Front-End Design Conference where I demonstrated the techniques that I use to create some of the design resources that you see on this website. Towards the end of my presentation I showed how to easily create a pattern using Illustrator and Artlandia’s SymmetryWorks 5 Plug-In. A lot of people approached me after the presentation to ask me about the software that I used to create some of the crazy pattern effects that I ran through. I have always been an advocate of SymmetryWorks as a tool to create design resources and today I’m happy to offer you guys 15% off all Artlandia’s Products with a purchase price above $50. To get the discount simply visit their website, select the products you want, and enter the coupon code COLORBURNED2009 during checkout. This promotion is good until December 31, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. CST. Thanks guys! Hope you enjoy it!

Retro Style Graphics: A New Book by Grant Friedman

Grant Friedman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:04 +0000

Hello everyone! Today, I’ve got some exciting news! After nearly a year, I’m proud to say that I am now officially an author! Last year, I was approached by Angela Patchell of Angela Patchell Books about writing a book on retro design. At the time, Colorburned was just starting out and I had honestly never seriously thought about writing a book before. Even though I was a little nervous about the whole process, I enthusiastically agreed and started work.

The task of writing this book was quite daunting. The book was to be about 160 pages and I had to do just about all of it myself. That means that I wrote the text, designed the cover art, created most of the content, and laid out all 160 pages. In all, the book took me about 6-7 months to complete, and another 4-5 months of editing and waiting.

I did have a lot of help along the way. There were several designers, studios, and font foundries who contributed content. Without them, this book would not be possible and I truly owe a debt of thanks to everyone who lent a hand.

Retro Style Graphics is a collection of design elements inspired by the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The purpose of this book is to provide the resources needed to reproduce the look of graphics created during these time periods. Inside this book you will find a free CD that includes retro inspired color palettes, professional quality vector graphics, vector patterns, retro styled Illustrator and Photoshop brushes, and high resolution textures.

This book also includes a reference guide to some of the best retro style fonts and a retro design gallery for inspiration. But because reproducing graphics in the retro style is more than just how you organize shapes, colors, patterns and fonts on a page, this book also includes an amazing list of retro design websites and tutorials to help put these design resources to use.

Purchase Retro Style Graphics

Retro Style Graphics is currently available in most major book stores. You can purchase it today from Amazon or Barnes and Noble it is also available on iTunes.

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Register Today for LessConf!

Grant Friedman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:37 +0000

Do you believe that the Earth revolves around your customers? Are you bummed out because summer is coming to an end? Then today is your lucky day! On Saturday, October 17, 2009 join a group of like-minded marketers, designers, coders, business people, and freelancers in Jacksonville, Florida for LessConf.

In Jacksonville, you will be joined by speakers Gary Vaynerchuk (WineLibrary.tv), Derek Sivers (CDBaby.com), Kevin Hale (Wufoo.com), Mike McDerment (Freshbooks.com), David Hauser (Grasshopper.com), and Eoghan McCabe and Des Traynor (Contrast.ie). There, you will be inspired by people who are building companies and products just like you.

For more information regarding this awesome opportunity head over to http://LessConf.com and register today! The first 100 people to register get to eat lunch with the speakers so don’t miss out!