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FlyGuyDesigns.com is Hijacked
As you may know, Dan sells photoshop brushes at his personal site Flyguy Designs. In a recent turn of events, his domain has been stolen and hijacked. The hijacker has replaced the payment codes, deleted server files, embedded spam links in the source code and is a down right dirty scumbag. If you purchase a product, you get nothing in return and the scammer just stole your cash. So for the time being, do not download anything from Flyguy Designs until this gets worked out. We are...
SSLYBY “Pershing”
Local Springfield MO rock-stars Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin are blowing up the indie scene once again with their sophomore release titled “Pershing”. Pershing is packed with quirky changes amid massive hooks and addictive melodies that are sure to keep your audio pleasures satisfied. SSLYBY are probably the most genuine like-able guys around and their success is well deserved. Congrats guys! On a side note, Departikan Katie designed a t-shirt for them last year titled...
Question Your Work
We are big fans of 37 Signals and their philosophy of ”Getting Real” and keeping things simple. It has relevance and value in aspects of planning, strategy, creativity and business beyond on-line product development. Keeping things simple sometimes falls along the wayside, resulting in a long fall into a hole of mediocrity, confusion and the death of a good idea.
Jason Fried reminds us of a few basic and fundamental questions to stay on track and “keep it real”. Ask yourself...
Departika.com New Site…Finally
We finally launched our new site! We swore it was coming and we were not lying...it just took a little longer than we thought, as we were really busy making our clients happy. Take a look around, make sure to read the Departikan bios for a laugh or two, buy a poster, check out samples of our work, subscribe to the RSS feeds for the Blog and the Daily Finds, and enjoy!
Photoshop Brush Tutorial
This tutorial will show how to create a textured Photoshop brush using Photoshop CS3. Texture and grunge brushes are great resources to have if you want to add aging effects to your work. Making your own set guarantees your design will have it’s own unique style.
I will be using and writing this for Photoshop CS3. Although all versions can make brushes, there are rules for sharing them between versions. Unfortunately no brush set is backwards compatible.
New Brush Set of Bangin’ Borders
These Photoshop Border brushes are bangin’! They are perfect for digital scrapbooking or photography, and are compatible with Photoshop CS and above. For those using an earlier version of Photoshop or a different program, we have provided PNG files. Get them here.
What is Departika Working On Right Now?
iSeatz
We are collaborating with the iSeatz corporate and development teams to build white label booking engines and call center applications for Northwest Airlines, Citi Cards and Amtrack in 2008. This project entails creating information architecture and interface design matching the client brand guidelines.
Kirkwood Stair and Millwork
Kirkwood Stair was established in 1899 in St. Louis, Missouri. Their company has been making premium custom stairs ever since. 10 years ago they changed their name to Innovative Home Products in order to expand their product line into millwork, doors and windows. As they grew successfully into new markets, the company realized that their core customers still referred to them as "Kirkwood". With this in mind, they have hired us to help them consolidate their brands, revamp their identity, and move forward as Kirkwood Stair and Millwork.
Tavern Creek
Tavern creek is a growing distributer of luxury home and building products. This project involves information architecture, design, front-end development and back-end development.
Take Their Word For It
Veer Blog, The Skinny
“Newly rebranded design studio Departika presents some adorable insect-shaped Photoshop brushes entitled Beautiful Buggers. As with all their brush sets, you can grab a free sample to test it out.”
NotCot
NotCot has been kind enough to accept a few submissions in its inspiration gallery. Check them out here and here.
Core 77
“Nice! If you're still working on last minute DIY holiday cards, check out Departika's set of 25 holiday-themed Photoshop brushes. Pretty sweet if you want to save yourself the time and eye-squinting monotony of creating perfect vector holly-swag artwork from scratch.”
Command Shift 3
Darklight Art is ranked second in their "Grunge" category!
Craftzine.com
Our Beautiful Bugger Photoshop brushes mentioned on Craftzine as, “cool tools for craft bloggers & digital designers.” We think so too. Thanks Craftzine.
Daily Finds feed
Things Younger Than John McCain
Love em' or hate em' he is undoubtably experienced in the game of life. Find our if your favoite snack, desease, or landmark is younger than the presidential hopeful.
Transparent House
cool concept—concrete art. I want it
Veer Ideas Gets an Overhaul
Veer Ideas went through a realignment that includes a few unique fun features. Go check it out.
Steampunk Churns Forward
The intriguing melancholy buttery glow of Victorian gaslight stylings and locomotion churns forward.
The Cans Festival
Last weekend A-List street artists paint and stencil up a tunnel under an old terminal in London.