Call for Designers’ Advent Calendar Illustrations

I’m planning to make an online advent calendar for December, and I was thinking it would be a good chance to provide a showcase of illustrators’ and designers’ talents.
Basically, the first 24 people to commit to this (I’m having spot #25!) will have their image displayed on the calendar, along with their bio and contact [...]

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6 Steps to the Perfect Cup of Tea

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Thanks to my friend Anca Foster, I was up until 3am this morning discussing my ideal method for making a cup of English Breakfast tea, so in between explaining my method and theory behind it to her over Twitter, I sketched out this informative panel to help all of you wannabes …and those weirdos out [...]

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IE6 drinks petrol for breakfast

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I’ve seen quite a lot of IE6-bashing on Twitter today, including calls for web designer to boycott the browser completely, and as I was thinking about it during this morning’s shower, I came up with the following analogy.
Say Internet Explorer 6 is your standard petrol-run car, and Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc, are shiny new LPG-run [...]

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Tutorial: Twitterlove Bird, from sketch to vector in Photoshop and Illustrator

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Following the recent launch of SoulTweet, Graham Smith made a call out for any illustrators to help out with the site.
In a few minutes that I had spare, I doodled a couple of birds to offer up for use, and sent across the best of the two for consideration. It didn’t get taken up, so [...]

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Thanks for dressing me, FreshBooks!

Just over two weeks ago, FreshBooks ran a little competition through Twitter. They’d published a new press release on their website and intentionally left a couple of spelling mistakes in.
The competition was this — first person to find and report the two mistakes wins a t-shirt. Simple!
I loaded the page, had a read through, and [...]

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Rob Barrett Introduction