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Every couple of weeks at Shopify we have little design challenges. A recent one involved making what I guess you’d call “word art”. I had just seen Super 8 and decided to do something inspired by that. I couldn’t get the JJ Abram’s style lens flares down, though. Those things are damn difficult to Photoshop from scratch. Heh, that didn’t stop me from squeezing a lens flare into the image, however…

Aw yeah!

Another more recent challenge produced this total cop-out of a graphic below. I got a little too ambitious, ran out of time, and so I slapped a unicorn on the shield I was working on. Ah well.

Yup, a Unicorn on a Shield

Oh yeah: I recently switched from Slicehost to Linode and decided to launch a new design to go along with it. I’ve been iterating since uploading it a few days ago. Still has rough edges, but that’s okay! I’m not aiming for perfection… yet.

Eye of the Tiger

I was recently challenged to make an iPhone wallpaper that contained “Eye of the Tiger”, Mortal Kombat, swords, an automatic shotgun, and throwing knives. I knew I wanted to do some kind of whacky photo collage and this is the fruit of my labour.

To be fair, the shotgun in this thing isn’t automatic, the throwing knives are barely visible, and the Mortal Kombat reference has been replaced with a subtle ninja. But come on, it’s still pretty bad-ass.

This 2560×1600 thing is available on Flickr.

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