Helmetgirl's Blog

Christmas Card for the Holler Gram app

December 12th, 2011

For Christmas the nice people over at Made by Many decided to make a seasonal update to their free app Holler Gram.

Designers and illustrators were invited to contribute to this app, and my Reindeer card made the cut alongside a nice selection of very talented illustrators and designers.

Holler Gram turns your iPad into a physical messaging platform – a glowing sign – that you can load with a message and it also allows you to tweet your message with a hashtag from right within the app. The season version has, in addition to the great cards from various designers, also the option of creating your own cards and backgrounds to your messages.

Check out the app and download it free here on iTunes App store

Happy Holidays!

Tags: app, character design, Christmas, greeting card, illustrated, illustration, iPad, mc hammer, reindeer, season
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Art quote wallpaper on design milk

November 3rd, 2011

The art and design magazine Design Milk feature a free wallpaper every month always based on a design or art related quote.

This month I was very happy to be the featured artist. I chose to illustrate a quote by Picasso that I think rings very true:

” Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”

The wallpaper is free to download, there are four desktop sizes and it is also available for iPad and iPhone.

Check out design milk and download the desktop here

Tags: art, black, desktop, illustrated, quote, wallpaper
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Logo design for travel site

October 27th, 2011

Proudly presenting a new logo design made for the travel site Drawn Tripping:

Check the site here www.drawn-tripping.com you can also see some of my illustrations there and some selections of street art from around the world

Tags: branding, design, drawn, logo, travel
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Texture pack of scruffy walls

October 26th, 2011

Wether it be digital illustrations, graphic design work or web design a little bit of texturing can go a long way to spice up a piece of work.

Over the past years I have used free texture packs from around the world wide web a lot in my work, made possible by all those kind people who photograph, or create them and makes them available to download.

So here’s payback; a free texture pack of crumbly painted surfaces, all collected and photographed in Cuba.

You can download the zipped file here with 9 high res textures for your imagination.

Here is the last illustration I did using two of these textures: