An Abstract Wallpaper (Process)

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This thing is nothing fancy, but it’s one of those things that I think is pretty cool because of how it started out … as a grey background with light grey triangles:

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^ I made a triangle, positioned it randomly, repeated this a couple dozen times.
I had no idea what I was doing at this point.

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^ At some point I got bored of doing that and started selecting (magic wand), filling, and blurring parts of the triangles.

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^ MOTION BLUR! Now we’re getting somewhere awesome.

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^ Added type, duplicated the blur, adjusted the colour.
At this point I decided that grey and easter colours weren’t going to cut it.

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^ Enter vibrant purple-pink!

That’s about it.
There was tweaking to the type (masked bits of it) and added some texture and warmer colours to get the final result.

Buttons

We’ve been having some lovely lil’ intra-office design competitions at work for the past few months. A week or two ago, the task was to create a [single] button. I took it a bit too far and made a grand total of 19 buttons. Most of them are just poor typographic designs or quick lil’ things, but I sure do enjoy making buttons:

Yeah, some of them may some non-sensical to the random observer. I assure you they are obscenely funny, or at least worth a forced laugh mixed with a yawn.

NOW TO BUY A BUTTON-MAKER!

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