My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
There’s been a lot of speculation and arguing about the possibility of a “new” logo design for MSU Spartans (see the trademark registration and make your own guess as to why it exists). I won’t spend a lot of time trying to speculate whether or not MSU is indeed changing their logo, but if I had a say, I would propose a cross between the original logo and the new trade mark…
A tutorial and explanation of Adobe Flash basics, understanding palletes and layout of the program. This tutorial will also walk step-by-step through actionscript and how actionscript is integrated into a flash animation using symbols and objects.
There are a ton of Wordpress Themes on the web, wanting to grab your attention and be on the cutting edge, unique, and trendy. I’ve developed a few of my own themes over time, some of which are unique and are highly creative, others which are basic and a good starting point to build on. After doing a bit of searching I’ve put together a roundup of the most creative wordpress themes that are also still very different, unique and hopefully not so popular that you’ll ever see anyone else with the same theme.
Learning keyboard shortcuts helps you improve efficiency and performance in any almost any program. I find this especially true for Photoshop since much of the design process is done with a mouse, it helps to train the other hand to use shortcuts and type in small amounts. In posting this, I hope to reference it myself to memorize and learn these shortcuts, and hopefully others will bookmark and reference this page as well.
For some reason, clients always think that logos should be cheap. Dirt cheap in fact. I’ve had people ask me if I could do a logo for $50, which I decline, no logo that I can design in an hour is worth associating my name with, so why bother. Rather than posting a long article about logo design and branding, I figured it would be best to share some links of people that have already hit the nail on the head:
Many people want to know how to design a logo from start to finish. Let me address first, that logo design is not something that should be taken lightly and doesn’t come cheap. Not everyone can be as fortunate as Nike and get an effective logo for only $35. In fact, designing a highly effective [...]
