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Why americans and in some way the Brittish/UK constantly use red, blue and white in their design are probably of 2 reasons. 1 being they love their country flag. 2 They are nationalistic. Nothing of this has to be wrong in any way whatsoever. But if I as a Swede would use Blue and yellow all over my...
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I used to know a Glamour girl / fashion /advertizing photographer who some 11-12 years ago told me he was to buy a drum scanner - it would cost him 5000 euros, or in that area. And he was definitly going to buy a Mac. Period. He had just started to dabble with photoshop. And had an assistant who worked...
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Each country have their own copyright laws. Some countries have basically the same and some may officially have, but disregarded, and some dont have at all. But we can see that many laws are the same and universal. One of the of the most important laws in Copyright is – common sense and mutual respect...
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Even I as an illustrator and designer of book covers like reactions to the books I have made illustrations and designs for. Therefore, even more fun when I came back to a blog I came across by chance in 2010. Then lost the link to the book blog. And now again come back to it again after having lost the...
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Soon the book "Ville & monster pike" hit the shelves in the kids department, age 9 - 12 year olds. The book is written by Martin Jonols, published by Swedish “Berghs Förlag” Publishing, and the cover is illustrated and designed by me Stefan Lindblad. Here is the front of the book cover...
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When I first stumbled upon Moleskin sketchbook called Plain Journal I liked what I saw and loved to use it. At that time I found it just before it became such a hype around it here in Stockholm, Sweden. Moleskine Plain Journal is a great product and they make tons of fun and useful books to sketch, draw...
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CorelDESIGNER is built on the same engine as CorelDRAW which is my main Illustration, graphich design, Layout & photo editing software package. I have been using CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint for some time now, since 1997 to be exact. If you are a technical oriented illustrator CorelDRAW is actually...
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I have alwaysed loved the music by Van Morison. I have gotten so much inspiration while working on a large scale or small scale painting. When drawing for pure joy or an illustration assignment. His music have always put me on track when I have to get going. I would love to make a cover to any of his...
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If you are thinking about buying the new CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, you can do so directly via this link which will take you the UK page at Corel´s online store. Or you can visit my own webshop with basically the same direct link, but then taking the time to see if there is anything more you like....
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Textures for use with illustrations and images in general. The textures I am publishing and made available on my own webshop , are photographs I have photographed myself. I post them in the same resolution/pixel size as I photograph them, as much as I can, and after some image adjustment. To keep them...
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Harvey Pekar , the legendary comics writer of the legendary American Splendor dies at 70 at his home. Found by his wife. according to media report. Harvey Pekar will always be remembered. Harvey was interviewed at Dave Letterman on TV and in this particular night he mention a TV network being interested...
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Dave Gibbons, illustrator and co-creator of famous and great comic/graphic novel book "Watchmen" was interview 2009 at the New Yorok Comic Con. Enjoy the interview here, by Comic book recources. The movie is great and I loved to see it. For those who havent read the ntire book on printed paper...
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I got a double page spreed in brittish " Digital Artist Magazine ", issue 7 june 2010 . A month ago I got a request of interview and exposé of some of my illustrations made using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, from deputy editor April Madden. The result of this can now be seen in the issue 7...
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I read an article in Swedish Graphics Magazine Cap & Design (use google translate), Adobe Creative CS5 new packaging. Okay, it looks pretty traditional. Neither good nor bad. Nothing negative. It looks completely okay. Since Cap & Design is Cap & Design and usually is a very Adobe-oriented...
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New textures available on my webshop. I will update in the near future with much more textures, these once right now are the ones I have just uploaded to my shop. Go Textures in the menu in the shop. All divided into categories depending on material. And all my textures are high resolution 300 dpi/ppi...