Departika Design Studio

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...

04.27.08 | Author: Corey Canada| Permalink | No Comments

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...

04.21.08 | Author: Corey Canada| Permalink | 1 Comments

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!

04.10.08 | Author: Corey Canada| Permalink | 12 Comments

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.

04.10.08 | Author: Jarad Johnson| Permalink | 1 Comments

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.

04.09.08 | Author: Corey Canada| Permalink | 1 Comments

Buggers Brush Set 2 is Available

Set 2 of Beautiful Buggers Photoshop Brushes have arrived. Like Beautiful Buggers Set 1, these brushes are a mixture of strange plants and odd bugs. They will be a perfect compliment to all of your Spring and Summer-themed designs. Get them here.

04.09.08 | Author: Corey Canada| Permalink | No Comments