Archive for November, 2009
I recently received an email from Zosia asking me an Illustrator question. Zosia had a vector shape of Africa in Illustrator and wanted to fill the shape with a texture. It’s not as difficult as you might think, but for those of you new to Illustrator, this is a very useful thing to know. You can’t actually “clip” or “cut out” the shape from your texture, but it’s very easy to make a mask, and you still get the same effect.
![[Ask BB] How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator](http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/clipping_mask_1.jpg "[Ask BB] How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator")
It’s nearly Christmastime! Which means that I’ll be bringing you a few Christmas-themed texture packs in the coming weeks. This week I thought I’d do a grunge play on the always awesome bokeh textures. Hopefully I’ll be bringing you some snow, wrapping paper, and general holiday themed textures before the big day. Enjoy!
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Yesterday we had our first snow of the season here in Kansas and I was excited to shoot some cool snow textures, but unfortunately it’s still a little to warm out for the snow to stick to the ground for too long. However, the moisture did leave behind another wonderful texture: mud. I’ve had a few requests to do muddy tire track textures in the past, so here you guys go, enjoy!
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I’ve got a great giveaway for everyone this week! Up for grabs are 15 coupon codes from TheVectorLab.com. There will be 10 winners who will receive a $25 coupon. 3 winners will recieve a $50 coupon, 2 will receive a $75 coupon, and 1 will receive a $100 coupon. No need to choose a vector pack this time, the winners will get a code to use whenever they like. Good luck everyone!
I tried doing something a little different with today’s texture set by mixing in some basic photoshop patterns with various grunge textures, the results kind of remind me of grungy Christmas wrapping paper of sorts (it is almost that time of the year). I hope you enjoy the textures and find some unique uses for them!
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We’ve all seen them and we have the graphic designers curse to silently critique them. Yes, bad restaurant menu design is alive and well and I found a Flickr Group devoted to sharing some of them with the world. If you have a spare minute to browse this group, I assure you, it will make you feel better about that design you “weren’t quite happy with but had to go with it because of a deadline.”
Well, yet another good contest went down, and the winners have been chosen. Thanks to the folks at Designious for their generosity, and for making the contest possible. Here are the winners…
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- Heidi
- Tim
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