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Free – Illustrator Scribble Vectors

Posted 04 Mar 2010 - No Comments - leave yours now!

We all scribble and doodle, but do we ever use them? I figured that I might try to start so here are a set of my scribbles that I’ve turned into vector shapes, I hope you will find them useful.

This vector set is free to download.

I hope they are useful to you. I’ve made the set available as an Illustrator CS2 file and an Illustrator 10 file.

To download the CS2 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Scribble Vectors – Ilustrator CS2 .ai file

To download the Illustrator 10 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Scribble Vectors – Ilustrator 10 .ai file

These vectors are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only thing I ask is that if you do find them useful let me know. I’d love to see your final results, and then display them within this post.

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Design Book Giveaway… Winner

Posted 18 Feb 2010 - 3 Gratefully received comments

Thank you to everyone that took the time to enter.
The winner of “How to be a Graphic Designer without losing your soul” by Adrian Shaughnessy, is:

Iain Fergus

Congratulations to him, and better luck next time to everyone else!

I’d appreciate any feedback of suggestions you might have for further competitions or any general musings you might want to offer about my blog in general. Please get in touch.

Thank you all once again.

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Design Book Giveaway

Posted 15 Feb 2010 - 8 Gratefully received comments

This competition is now closed, however, please feel free to contribute to the discussion in the comments section.

I’m giving away a copy of “How to be a Graphic Designer without losing your soul by Adrian Shaughnessy. I reviewed this book last week and found the content to be helpful and inspiring. So I want pass the opportunity on to someone else.

I’m a great believer in books, I love knowledge, and good knowledge should always be passed on, so that’s what I’m doing.

I have 1 copy to give away (that’s all I could afford this time). All you have to do to enter is be part of the discussion in the comments section of this blog post.
One part of the book that I found interesting regarded how important it is for a designer to live and work by a few simple principles. Maybe you only work for companies that have good environmental policies, or you would refuse work from a company that did something you disagree with? I want to know what principles you work to, if any. Alternatively, I’d like to hear your argument if you disagree with that statement and you think business is business regardless.

I will moderate each comment, if I feel it is relevant and decide to approve it you can consider that an acceptance of entry. If your comment doesn’t appear in the thread it has been declined. My judgement is final on this and I’m only stipulating it as a way of avoiding ‘empty’ entries. I want to give the books away, but I also want a bit of discussion.
Feel free to post multiple times to carry on with a discussion, but you will only be entered once.

Another way to enter is to sign up to my email notifications. Everyone that signs up will automatically go into the draw.

If you decide to participate in the discussion AND sign up to my email notifications, you will be entered into the draw twice.

I will keep the discussion open until 12 noon (UK) Wednesday (17/11/2009) and announce the winners on Thursday (18/2/2009). The winner will be notified by email.

The winner will be the first entry selected at random.

I’m happy to post the book worldwide, but I cannot be held responsible for how long it will take to reach you or any extra charges that might be incurred through customs etc. The book will be posted from the UK.

Good luck!

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Free Sand Textures

Posted 04 Feb 2010 - No Comments - leave yours now!

I found myself in Bournemouth at the weekend wandering along the beach, admiring the sea and struggling back up the cliffs to my hotel!
While strolling along over the sand I couldn’t help noticing the patterns the outgoing tide had left behind. Unfortunately I didn’t have my good camera on me and had to make do with what I had to hand. I haven’t figured out how I want to use these textures yet so I thought I’d let anyone else that might find them useful have a go first.

I’m afraid that they are low resolution jpegs, and probably only good enough for screen work. I promise to do better with any future sets of textures!

These textures are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only thing I ask is that if you do find them useful let me know. I’d love to see your final results, and then display them within this post.

Download – Sand Texture jpeg files

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Free – Illustrator Ink Brushes Set 2

Posted 14 Jan 2010 - No Comments - leave yours now!

This ink brush set is free to download.

I hope they are useful to you. I’ve made the set available as an Illustrator CS2 file and an Illustrator 10 file.

To download the CS2 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Ink Brush Set 2 – Ilustrator CS2 .ai file

To download the Illustrator 10 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Ink Brush Set 2 – Ilustrator 10 .ai file

These brushes are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only thing I ask is that if you do find them useful let me know. I’d love to see your final results, and then display them within this post.

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Free – Illustrator Ink Brushes Set 1

Posted 07 Jan 2010 - One gratefully received comment

This ink brush set is free to download.

I hope they are useful to you. I’ve made the set available as an Illustrator CS2 file and an Illustrator 10 file.

To download the CS2 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Ink Brush Set 1 – Ilustrator CS2 .ai file

To download the Illustrator 10 .ai file, click the link below:

Download Ink Brush Set 1 – Ilustrator 10 .ai file

These brushes are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only thing I ask is that if you do find them useful let me know. I’d love to see your final results, and then display them within this post.

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Free – Illustrator Ink Vectors

Posted 21 Dec 2009 - One gratefully received comment

These ink blot vectors are free to download.

These should compliment the photoshop ink brush set I put up a few weeks ago.

I’ve put these up as well because they feature quite heavily in a tutorial I’m working on and hope to publish here in the next few weeks.

Other than that I hope they are useful to you. I’ve made the set available as an Illustrator CS2 file and an Illustrator 10 file.

To download the CS2 .eps file, click the link below:

Download Vector Ink Set – Ilustrator CS2 .eps file

To download the Illustrator 10 .eps file, click the link below:

Download Vector Ink Set – Ilustrator 10 .eps file

These brushes are completely free for personal and commercial use. The only thing I ask is that if you do find them useful let me know. I’d love to see your final results, and then display them within this post.

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Who's Ken?

I'm a freelance graphic designer living and working in Suffolk. I've been using Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign & Quark Xpress since 1999 but I've been using pens, pencils, paper and most importantly my imagination for a lot longer. I'm always looking for new clients to work with and interesting projects to work on.

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