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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 2 h
Idea/Completed: 2010/Sep/24 @ 18:20
Fireworks PNG: [ download ]
All vector work and fully scalable (see illustration in supersize format). Inspired by Mark’s RPMs illustration. :)
Jeffrey asked being animated and so I did! ;-)
This is only 2 minutes work, done in Adobe Fireworks.
If you’d like to see a bit more serious design/illustration work, done in Fireworks, feel free to check my latest Smashing Magazine article!
(@zeldman: thanks for the re-tweet! and, errm… glad you liked it so much!;-)
My second big article for Smashing Mag was published last Friday:
The Power of Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It?
A few days later, the article has over 100 comments, was re-tweeted over 1000 times (!), managed to get to the front page of delicio.us (as one of the most bookmarked online resources for one day), and was mentioned even by cool dudes such as Matthew Inman, whose comic strip TheOatmeal is also 100% pure Fireworks work.
Among all the interesting, valuable, pointless, positive and negative comments, I mostly liked comments like “Why you put the Firefox logo at the beginning of the article, if the article is about Fireworks?”… ;)
Anyway… after a few nights of hard work (and countless days, spent in front of my ThinkPad with a cup of coffee), the article was finally published… but right now I am just feeling tired.
Writing my smashing article #2 was actually very fun and inspiring, but now there’s only work ahead of me, so… I’m going back to my ThinkPad and my cup of coffee! ;)
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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 45 m
Idea/Completed: 2010/Sep/15 @ 15:00
Inspired by a book I am currently reading and with the invaluable help from blue2x! :)
(You think you can do better? Here’s the editable Fw PNG file!)
This is the Lord of the Fireworks, @djori — and he is a true Master of the Kites (but I am the true Master of Fireworks)! ;-)
( variant #2 )
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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 10 m
Idea/Completed: 2010/Sep/07 @ 15:00
(Inspired by this cool tutorial: 3d text with Adobe Fireworks; a couple of variants — 2, 3.)
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Software: Adobe Fireworks CS5
Time: ~ 30 m
Idea/Completed: 2010/Sep/03 @ 16:10
Inspired by Ani’s latest illustration, created with real leaves, and vectorized by me for pure fun! :-) (Of course, it’s also worth noting that vectors in Fireworks give you almost complete freedom and you can make a print version or change all the colors in less than 10 seconds or so!)
After I published my today’s daily design, Dave showed some interest to the original file, so I shared the Fireworks PNG with him.
Lo and behold! an hour or two later, he sent to me the Red Watch Rebound:
[ download Fireworks PNG ]
As you can see, everything is in the details, and I must admit, I like his variant much more. Cool job, Dave, and thanks for sharing it! ;)