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My name’s Sergio Ordoñez I´m illustrator, graphic and web designer. A selection of my work is included at SOSFactory.
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Theory says that a good logotype must be simple, clean, economical, versatile, etc, etc. This is a very pertinent principle but, is it still valid? In my opinion, it is partially obsolete. The advance of impression techniques, the evolution of the consumers overburdened with publicity and the evolution of the mass media (Internet, Television, mobile [...]
Continue reading...2 November 2009
Every month I will spend my time looking for the very best articles posted on the blogosphere during the last month. If I missing anything please suggest a link using the contact form. News Photoshop CS5 is coming! Iphone: Pantone In Your Pocket Fun stuff 30 Stunning Apple Concept Designs 25 Photomanipulation mistakes The Bizarre [...]
Continue reading...29 October 2009
From time to time I receive interesting emails from newbie designers or illustrators, who are trying to open up this complex industry for themselves, but they don’t know where to start; they ask for my help and of course, I do my best to help them. It occurred to me that maybe, if I publish [...]
Continue reading...23 October 2009
If you´re a designer, probably you have lots of unused graphics, webs, loops and Flash files, and you don´t get any profit from them. You could sell the rights of use of these designs (stock design) for a very low price but lifetime. You won´t become a richman but some extra income is always welcome, [...]
Continue reading...18 October 2009
Time for a new tutorial, this time less detailed and quite more advanced. It´s something completely different from my usual cartoonish style. This is a more realistic illustration of a MMA fighter (Mixed Martial Arts). I painted it for a logotype, aimed at the printing on T-shirts, of a new brand named Temper Tantrum. I [...]
Continue reading...16 October 2009
Photoshop CS 5 is coming and we can already see some of the new features, there is so powerful and easy to use images that I bet some professional photoshopers will lose their job. Patchmatch We isolate the bird, set the structural guides and Patchmatch do the rest. This new application is really powefull, anybody [...]
Continue reading...13 October 2009
UPDATE 28-Oct-2009: PSDTuts just plublished a new screencast about the process I followed in the tutorial I wrote for their blog some weeks ago (see below): PUBLISHED on 13-Oct-2009: Hello buddies, I´m back again, this time to share a tutorial I wrote some weeks ago, it was recently published in PSDTuts. In this tutorial, we’ll [...]
Continue reading...9 October 2009
Hello buddies, here you have a new video of myself at work, this avatar was created by order from SOSFactory for Hiyo, a free application for your MSN and Yahoo! messenger, courtesy of Incredimail. Photoshop avatar by the face I asked permission to Incredimail to offer one avatart for free and for personal use, my [...]
Continue reading...4 October 2009
We’re opening a new section again, this time it’s a compilation of the best info published in the main graphic and web design related blogs during the last month. HARDWARE We have some news from the Wacom universe. First we have the launch of the new Bamboo model, an economical tablet that allows the users [...]
Continue reading...30 September 2009
Hello buddies, this is the second post of my series improve your drawing skills spending just 30 min a day. This week we have 3 funny and short exercises that I´m sure you will enjoy. Basic shapes Exercise: choose an cartoon character you like. Your goal is finding the basic shapes of cartoon characters. Have [...]
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8 November 2009
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