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Pears: Common patterns of markup & style

Jorge Pedret — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:08:00 +0000

Great WordPress theme for creating a pattern library

Separating Photoshop Layer Styles Into Their Own Layer — A Method & Craft Video

Jorge Pedret — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:39:29 +0000

Check out Luke Holder from Method & Craft on “Layer Style Jailbreaking”. He show us how to make Photoshop Layer Styles separate into their own layer and some reasons why we want to do that.

This is a technique I’ve never seen before, so if you don’t know what I’m talking about, just check out the video.

Here’s a quick step-by-step list:

In Photoshop, select a layer with styles assigned to it.
On the main menu, go to Layer > Layer Style > Create Layer (Click OK on the message prompt).
Now all the styles are layers!

COOQ’s Landing Page

Jorge Pedret — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:39:27 +0000

After a lot of work and tweaking around things, we’ve finally made live the landing page for COOQ (http://cooq.com/). I’d love to hear your feedback!

This was an amazing project to work on, lots of creative ideas put into it and an amazing client to work with.

Looking for beta testers!

If you love food & cooking, we’re recruiting people like you to use COOQ.com on its private beta stage. So just enter your email on the landing page and you’ll be hearing from COOQ soon.

Phil Coffman on Creating Tileable Textures in Photoshop

Jorge Pedret — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:06:42 +0000

I’ve been looking for a while for a tutorial that explains how to do tileable textures in photoshop. Two days ago I stumbled on Phil Coffman‘s great video tutorial (from Method & Craft) explaining exactly what I wanted.

Definitely must check it out!

Branding style for a construction related website

Jorge Pedret — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:17:19 +0000

I created this design really quick to show a client some ideas I had in mind for his construction related iPad app’s website.

This is the original sketch for the character:

As always, any comments are appreciated!

Post of the day: Characters brainstorming

Jorge Pedret — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:39:59 +0000

I’m creating a mascot character for a client’s business, and this is part of the brainstorming process: One of my favorite steps of this job .

Here’s one of the characters that I came up with during the brainstorming session:

For generating ideas my favorite thing to do is draw for hours whatever comes into my head, even if I think it’s stupid or it’s not going to work. One of those drawings will spark a great idea!

The biggest idea blocker is being scared of what other people might say about what you’re doing. Just let your mind be free and great inspiration will come to you!

As always, comment if you have something to say

P.S.: I’m going to stop calling this posts, “post of the day“. I’m seriously having a hardtime finding time to do something everyday, but I still post at least twice a week. You can still find my work in progress posts by its tag here http://jorgepedret.com/tag/daily-posts/

Post of the day: Landing Page Sneak Peek

Jorge Pedret — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:41:59 +0000

Full Size Shot

Now that I have a couple of characters designed, I started putting together the landing page.

Wasn’t 100% sure about the button, I think it looks nice, but don’t know if it matches the style that we’re going for. I’d love to hear your comments please, anybody!

In case you’re wondering, the purpose of this landing page is to have people signup to be notified when we launch.

Can’t wait to start coding this page. Chris (my client) had some pretty crazy ideas that I wanna start playing with!

Post of the Day: Cool Cook

Jorge Pedret — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:46:44 +0000

Full size piece

Quick sneak peek from one of the chars I’m working on. Check out the full size piece.

Post of the day: A mangiare! (Illustration)

Jorge Pedret — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:48:05 +0000

I’ve been collecting inspirational pieces for the last two weeks and studying the work from dribbble awesome artists like Jayde Cardninalli, Glenn Thomas, Lydia Nichols, Shiu Pei Luu and many others.

So here is the first vector illustration I’ve ever done. The cloud and text look a little bit out of place, but I was running out of time and had to get something done.

Post of the day: Landing Page Sneak Peek

Jorge Pedret — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:04:24 +0000

I’m creating a landing page for my client’s startup and this is how it’s looking so far.

This is a really exciting project that I have the honor be working on. Can’t tell you how much fun I’m having designing and putting all my neurons to work to generate new creative ideas.

This is not a finished piece, but any feedback will be greatly appreciated