Fictionalhead | Design

Portfolio: Michigan Squash Logo

2012-02-25T05:27:20+00:00

New logo for Michigan Squash as part of a rebranding that included posters and banners as well.

Portfolio: PushAll Logo

2012-02-25T05:06:40+00:00

Logo for the PushAll brand of shovel/scraper for Ag-Co.

Portfolio: Orion Construction

2012-02-25T01:46:59+00:00

Website design and development for Orion construction. Project included a rebranding which included the development of the new logo as well.

Tutorial: Let’s Make Art - Fh_Hyperbole Font, Part 1

2012-02-25T00:42:44+00:00

This is the first part of this Let's Make Art episode, covering the creation of the Fh_Hyperbole font from start to finish. Since there's like 30 hours of material here, this is once again sped up to 8x speed to show the process. If you have any questions about anything I'm doing, just ask and mention the time, and I may even turn it into its own tutorial. The songs under this footage are Demographic and Medium from my second album, Heavy Rotation.

Portfolio: Fh_Hyperbole

2012-02-25T00:25:41+00:00

A 227 character font family featuring Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles.

Tutorial: Using Bounding Boxes As Guices To Help Align Perspective In Photoshop

2012-02-10T19:49:52+00:00

In this tutorial, I cover how to use boxes as alignment guides when placing objects in perspective in your designs and illustrations.

Tutorial: Making Distressing or Grunge Brushes Quickly In Photoshop

2012-02-03T19:38:11+00:00

In this super-quick tutorial I show you how to quickly take any dirty texture and turn it into a distressing brush in Photoshop for quick grunge effects.

Blog: 10 of the most impressive and inspiring libraries around the world

2012-01-25T21:21:46+00:00

Not a lot of people go to the library these days, especially since the internet takes care of all our problems. But with libraries like these around the world, it would be a pleasure to spend time inside one of them. This article presents some of the most beautiful and amazing libraries around the world. As you can imagine, they are all impressive, some by their size and others by the unconventional architecture and imposing interior design.

Tutorial: Using Smart Objects To Quickly Crop And Edit Layouts For HTML and CSS in Photoshop

2011-12-18T16:52:55+00:00

In this tutorial I cover a quick way to use Photoshops built in smart object capability to crop out elements of a design for quick cutting up of layouts into HTML and CSS.

Tutorial: Using Multiple Layer Masks on A Single Layer in Photoshop

2011-12-18T16:46:14+00:00

In this tutorial, I go over how to use a simple layer stacking trick to use multiple layer masks on one layer to great effect. Very helpful tip.

Portfolio: The Feutz Club Logo

2011-12-15T01:14:59+00:00

A logo made for the classroom of Mrs. Feutz. She affectionately calls her class the The Feutz Club.

Blog: What To Do When You Make It Big

2011-08-06T07:23:06+00:00

Most bloggers and website owners out there strive to make it big. Question is, what happens once you do? Hongkiat provides a list of 6 things to look out for.

Blog: A great Quote For Creative Block

2011-08-05T07:19:59+00:00

It's a simple quote, but it does help. I link out to where I found it because that's where I found it.

Blog: Nintendo reminds us why their a company looking out for their customers

2011-08-04T07:15:02+00:00

In a move you would probably never see here in the United States, some of Nintendo's top staff are taking pay cuts to make up for issues with the 3DS. Nice work, Nintendo. We do love you.

Tutorial: CS5’s Gap Tool Brings Class To Page Layout

2011-08-03T07:10:09+00:00

CS5 brings us some new features, one of which is this gap tool, expertly explained in this short tutorial.