optimiced | en » Daily Design http://www.optimiced.com/en Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:57:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Keep The Fire [DD#067] http://www.optimiced.com/en/2011/04/08/keep-the-fire/ http://www.optimiced.com/en/2011/04/08/keep-the-fire/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:54:30 +0000 Michel http://www.optimiced.com/en/?p=1506 Daily Design
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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 10 min
Idea (finalized): 2011.04.08
[Daily Design 2011-005 [TL#067]]

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 15 min
Idea: Jan 4 2011 (finalized: 2011/Jan/14)
[Daily Design 2011-004 [TL#066]]

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 20 min
Idea/completed: 2011/Jan/02 @ ~18h
[Daily Design 2011-003 [TL#065]]

Let’s see if this variant is approved for SimpleDesktops! :-)

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 30 min
Idea/completed: 2011/Jan/01 @ ~13h
[Daily Design 2011-002 [TL#064]]

This is the first variant that I created yesterday… but because it looked too simple to me, I piled a few of these one on top of the other and added the inscription that they are made of gold… ;)

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 2 h
Idea/completed: 2011/Jan/01 @ ~19:15
[Daily Design 2011-001 [TL#063]]

Just an experiment with light and colors, inspired by Mac Tylor… And yes, Daily Design is back! :)))

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Did I fail or did I win?

– I failed, because I did not manage to create/publish 365 daily designs, as I have promised to myself nearly a year ago. Instead of 365, I managed to create ~ 60 works.

– But I also succeeded, because I now master Fireworks much better, and I understand better the concepts of combining color, light and shadow. I experiment more.

Finally — why I am doing it? For pure fun. (Ani said it much better in today’s 50th episode of Friday Bunny.)

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So Happy New Year and cheers! C’ya soon in 2011!

(I can open a bottle of wine and say “Cheers!” because I don’t have Dipsophobia…;-)

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 1.5 h
Idea/completed: 2010/Dec/31 @ ~18:00

I was inspired by this dribbble shot by Tymn Armstrong (here’s my re-bound). And not that I am not using Fireworks every day for Web work even now, but I plan to use it even more in 2011! This is one of the Web apps that became indispensable in my daily Web work.

PS And… err, maybe I also wanted to make some cool-looking Denim texture… ;)

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 1h
Current version completed: 2010/Dec/15:40

A bit of an experiment with light and perspective…

/* Or maybe you could say that I would like to find the key with which to unlock some things for me in 2011. I hope I’ll find it… ;) */

UPDATE (2010/Dec/27): One more variant… :)

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You can click the images for even larger sizes!

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And a bit later, Ani made me a present — a snowflake of her own:

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Her snowflake is much more beautiful! :)

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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 30 mins
Current version completed: 2010/Dec/08

I’ve been experimenting a long time ago with aqua style buttons in Adobe Fireworks and today I wanted to make them look like half-transparent red/blue pills from the Matrix! ;)

The font is Nasalization and is free.

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