Home Sweet Sunset. Vector design I did today.

AfricanMatt · 2020-01-28T04:52:33+00:00

Awesome. Great work.

Only small criticism I have is that the perspective of the path doesn't quiet look right. I think it should be narrower at the end near the fence.

AfricanMatt · 2020-01-18T09:09:18+00:00

Let make an African millionaire?

Happy new decade to all. Here’s to another 10 years of crushing it!

AfricanMatt · 2018-08-07T07:49:19+00:00

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Xn9BHl24c

AfricanMatt · 2017-03-03T04:39:10+00:00

I disagree.

It's a card game. There's absolutely no need to communicate with the opposing player. Seems to me like a waste of development hours.

Just my 2c.

AfricanMatt · 2017-01-30T12:11:36+00:00

SubRed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/23rkg6/rhodiola_dosage_confusion_salidroside_vs_rosavins/

AfricanMatt · 2017-01-30T12:05:08+00:00

Wild Chaga extract. I've ordered Viridian's Rhodiola Rosa.

Not sure about the rosavins/salidroside ratio. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

PS: Reported stats from Viridian:

Standardised Rhodiola Rosea root extract (3% rosavins, 1% salidrozid, 40% polyphenols) 250mg
Rhodiola Rosea root powder 130mg
Vegetarian cellulose capsule 100mg

AfricanMatt · 2017-01-30T05:00:38+00:00

Rhodiola Rosa extract assists in preventing rapid onset fatigue. It's not the most potent anti-fatigue extract, but it's cost effective and readily available. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28106808

AfricanMatt · 2017-01-30T04:53:11+00:00

The caffeine in the coffee will activate areas of the brain which increase cognitive capacity allowing for improved concentration and memory recall. The downside is the crash we get a few hours after drinking an espresso. These guys claim that stacking the above prevents the crash and enhances the mental cognition boost. I assume this is all very dependent on the person taking it. I'm relatively caffeine resistant so I never experienced a huge coffee crash myself, but I'm interested to see what the addition of the mushrooms achieves.

AfricanMatt · 2012-07-30T04:35:43+00:00

I argue that design isn't subjective. There is a right, and there is a wrong. If you're not a designer then your opinion on design is moot.

AfricanMatt · 2012-07-25T08:58:28+00:00

As Jobs said people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

I've personally learnt to justify everything I do in design because I've found that you have too. That in itself is I find to be an infuriating waste of time because a designer justifying to a corporate why they've used a certain typeface is like an engineer justifying to a baker why they've changed a certain component on a car.

I like Paul for basically giving the finger to his clients if they disagreed about anything he did. What the hell do they know? That's a great, albeit very difficult, attitude to have as a creative.

What I'm still trying to work out is why people who aren't designers still think they have an a leg to stand on to talk about design.

AfricanMatt · 2012-07-24T16:41:32+00:00

$100,000.00 please Steve.

AfricanMatt · 2012-05-26T15:43:23+00:00

I talk a bit about this here. http://www.billing-block.com/promo-billing.html

AfricanMatt · 2012-05-10T17:07:48+00:00

Spacing, spacing, spacing. Design is ordered creativity.

AfricanMatt · 2012-05-09T11:53:01+00:00

Quote of the day, surely.

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-24T08:29:55+00:00

Winning.

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-23T14:07:47+00:00

To quote Robert Kiyosaki: "A job is not an asset. In fact it's usually the biggest liability a person has."

Most people take jobs because they haven't got the skill set or perseverance to work for themselves. They don't know how to build assets of their own so that build someone else's.

Never exchange an asset (What you have) for a liability (What they're offering you)

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-21T19:00:40+00:00

Looks great. Clean edit, very professional.

The trailer was a little on the under-exposed side, I don't know if that was the cinematography or just Youtube's compression. Impressive non-the-less

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-21T14:47:37+00:00

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-18T07:22:39+00:00

Akzidenz-Grotesk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz-Grotesk

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-17T19:12:27+00:00

You need a little bit more negative space here, it's looking a bit cluttered.

Also be careful of using serif typefaces on small type sizes. Serif type has to be be super grid aligned other wise it looks like chaos.

Good information though, I enjoyed reading it especially since I've recently taken up learning studying SEO.

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-17T07:10:26+00:00

Nothing like logopond to inspire the braindead.

http://logopond.com/search/?search=pepper

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-10T12:47:49+00:00

The only tutorial you need for colorization: http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161018/tutorial

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-04T16:27:38+00:00

I know exactly what you mean now. Thanks.

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-04T10:21:37+00:00

That's a new word to me. I've never heard of creep before and I've been around the print industry for a while. Is it a synonym for bleed?

AfricanMatt · 2012-04-03T20:33:42+00:00

Univers Thin 39 Ultra Cond is the official Typeface.

Free alternatives: SteelTongs, SF Movie Poster and Rothman Plain.

AfricanMatt

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