I stumbled upon a great tool to work your designs over with clients. The program has been out for awhile but I haven’t really gotten to using it until recently. That piece of software is called Skitch.

As a web designer sometimes I don’t want to boot up adobe photoshop, point out items on a graphic and then re-save it and send it off. Skitch is not a very intensive program so it boots up in a second, you edit what your crap then drag and drop it directly from the program into something like your email, desktop or whatever. I feel this is a great tool to communicate certain items with your clients quick and easily. All the is for low low price of FREE! (click to signup)

WAIT there’s more! (as those sales types say) and I don’t feel like I can explain it as well as the good people over at Skitch can so if your interested check out the 3min video on the website. (look at the very bottom of the page)

Downfall: No Windows version. Only Mac (if you click here you will go straight to the sign up page)

Darren first set me on the task to drawn the entire cast of Hak5 along with some show mascots: WIFI Pineapple and Network Monkey (my illustrations were used for the intro of Season 6). My second task was to create both a background and postcard for promotional uses. Finally Darren approached me not knowing what he was going to do for the Season 7 graphics. So, we scraped together a concept and I did the vector graphics for him you can see them on the upcoming episodes of Hak5.

Downfall: So, it was hard to find anything wrong with moo cards and it seems like the only issue was moo’s popularity. So many clients seems to make orders come in a bit slow. It took me approximately 3 weeks to receive my order. With a traditional printing job I would see turn around days later that being said I can’t order 100 cards either (it’s an average of 500 card minimum for the competition).

hoped this helped you!

Check out my Logopond gallery, drop me a comment or request and I will return the favor.

For other design recommendations follow me on twitter: @blakestevenson and send me an @reply. I will get to your questions as soon as I can.

So before the guys went to CES (the consumer electronic show) they asked if I could do up a sticker for them and I did. Here is the result and during CNET’s coverage of CES I couldn’t help but see these bad boys posted all over the place. Not bad when Jetpacks and Rollerskates can infiltrate another country!

Check out the 404’s coverage of CES!

Hope you guys had a great time and I do look forward to doing more work for ya!

(image courtesy of brand clay)

I would like to give a shout out to Sean (@brand_clay on “the twitter”) at brand clay for having me on his most recent blog posting entitled “Designers Expose Themselves.” He asked a number of designers to send him a screen capture of their desktop and then featured them up on his site. Great post I always kinda wanted to know this anyways (I think it’s a designer thing)

Enjoy.

Check out brandclay’s “Designers Expose Themselves” here.

Brett Harrison – Sam ( The Loop, Grounded for life!)
Tyler Labine – Sock ( Breaker High!, Get Carter, Canadian Zombie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and pretty much every TV show ever at some point or another!)
Rick Gonzalez – Ben ( Old School!, Pride and Glory, Coach Carter! and a bunch of other cool shit!)
Missy Peregrym – Andi ( “Heroes”, Smallville, does it matter she was awesome and cute!)
Ray Wise – Devil ( “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” and a bunch of other stuff?)
Ken Marino – (“Party Down”, Role Models, “The Sarah Silverman Program.” and million other things!)

and Kevin Smith directed the first episode

So, do whatever you can to make Reaper happen again, cli on the big ass SAVE REAPER button!

The final is a few web ads, header for the website, a postcard sized image and he through all my stuff into there new Season 6 intros!

So Jeff, Justin and Wilson just had their outstanding 404th episode of “the 404 podcast” with a great round table of internet people including Clayton Morris, Caroline McCarthy,Natali Del Conte, Randall Bennett, Tim Geisenheimer,Maggie Reardon, MTI, and more! Not only did it go off amazing but if you check out the episode here: The 404 404: Where we’ve made it 403 more episodes than anyone thought we would. You will see a video feed at the bottom. Press play on that sucker and you will see a Cnet studio filled with my graphics hanging up everywhere! I would like to say thank you to the guys for playing my voice mail on the air and plugging me (in the totally non-404 humor way).

So, congrats to the guys, check out the episode and I cannot wait until the next big things… episode 500!