June 17th, 2009 by Trevor

Hey guys!  As you can see I decided to spice up the home page a little bit.  Every time you click the refresh button it’s going to randomly draw out one of several pre-loaded images to put as the background.  I decided that the old one was just a little bit too dry (though I did like the marquee idea.  That was good while it lasted .

I’m also glad to say that I finally got ADOBE photoshop.  I’ve been using Corel photo-paint for years now, and didn’t know the difference between the two until I finally got Adobe version and noticed how much better it really is.  My computer isn’t the fastest thing on the block (2ghz processor, 2 gigs of ram… I don’t remember how good my video card is at the moment), but it’s able to handle these programs pretty well.  The thing that I notcied is that Adobe is better at using the resources of the compter than Corel.  Some might argue as to why that is, and that on THEIR machine Corel is faster, but on mine Corel takes forever to load filters, and sometimes it just crashes altogether.  So if you’re going for speed and efficiency, Adobe is the way to go.  I’m sold

Okay, after reading that last paragraph I feel like I’m not giving Corel enough credit.  Corel really is awesome, and it’s much cheaper than the Adobe stuff.  I bought the Corel 12 Graphics Suite for $100 (as a student, mind you), and the Adobe equivalent was about $350-$400.  Honestly, the two programs are about 80% similar in terms of capabilities, and some might say that the Corel stuff is a little more user-friendly.  And if you have a fast computer, you might not even notice a difference in the speed of the two.  The biggest problem is that people won’t look at you seriously if you put on your resume that you know how to use Corel Photo-Paint and Draw as opposed to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The industry standard is Adobe.  Period.  If you don’t know Adobe, you don’t know anything.  Goodbye.

Gimp is just ridiculously slow on my computer.  I understand that it’s made for linux users, but it would be nice if it would work just as well on a computer that is owned by a non-computer programmer.  At least it’s free :/

Lastly,  my Joy shirt is still up for sale, and the good people over at the goodjoe sent me a coupon code to get 10% for anybody who’s buying for the first time.  This one actually printed quite nicely; I’m impressed with the quality of the halftones.

Here’s the discount code:  fa2d5d71b15b

June 14th, 2009 by Trevor

I have submitted a design at shirt.woot.com called “Photosynthesis”.  It seems to be doing pretty well right now, and any help to push it along would be much apreciated.

I actually thought of this design while I was sitting in my biology class.  I was playing with different ideas, like “Sun Bathing” (a sun taking a bath), and different “eclipse” ideas, but nothing was really speaking to me.  Then I started looking around for ideas, and found myself in the classroom, where we had just learned about photosynthesis.  I don’t really know why this the first thing that I thought of when that happened, but here it is:

June 13th, 2009 by Trevor

Looks like the people over at TShirtReview.com liked my Joy shirt enough that they decided to blog about it!

http://www.tshirtreview.com/?p=776

I hope that Goodjoe continues to get good publicity and grow, because they really are an incredible group of people.  I’ve been contacting Nathan and Jourdan (the founders and owners of Goodjoe) since I first learned of the site, and they are some of the greatest, most selfless people I know.  They are pushing to inspire change, a cause that is worthy of our support.  :D

May 24th, 2009 by Trevor

I designed two things for shirt.woot this week:

The Electric Slide

Nature’s Geisha

I wish that I had thought about the “Nature’s Geisha” one sooner, it seems to be a little more popular than my first one.  Oh well!

May 20th, 2009 by Trevor

I’ve been in a designing mood this week.  I’ve got a lot to catch up on, so I’ll make this all one post.

My “Joy” design was selected to be printed at the Goodjoe.  It can be purchased here.

I made this design for the “Pointilism” derby at shirt.woot.  It’s been a long time since I have submitted anything there, it felt good to take another crack at it.  This is “Star Rays”, and I’d tell you to go vote on it, but the derby ends tomorrow, so it’s not going to matter anyways…

“The Leviathan” is up for voting at teextile.  I had submitted this one at shirt.woot a while back, and it did pretty well but it didn’t quite win.  So after I got the rights back to it I changed the colors up, added a few extra things, and submitted it to teextile.  If you like it, you can vote on it here.

I submitted this one to a site that is brand new called Meu Shirt.  They hold monthly derbies, and the theme for this one is “The Forest.”  So here’s “Spirit of the Forest“.

Stayed tuned for more coming soon!

May 10th, 2009 by Trevor

This one was one of the funnest and easiest to make.  I’ve felt like this should be on a t-shirt for a long time, and now I’ve done it and it is currently up for voting at goodjoe.com.  

I believe that exercise is important, but what is even more important is accepting and loving your body the way it is.  I believe the more you love your body the higher your self image will be, and you’ll automatically want to take care of it.  Kind of ironic, isn’t it?

April 6th, 2009 by Trevor

The inspiration for this design was three-fold:

1.  When I was little I used to run around with my swim goggles and pretend like I was some sort of robot or super-hero.  I made the color scheme more old-style sepia to give that nastalgic feel to it.  

2.  Relationships with friends and family will always be vital to me.  I believe we’re all here to support and uplift eachother, and the stronger our ties with those we love, the happier we will be.  These two brothers are having a fun time playing super-heroes together!

3.  We all have unique talents.  We can either be jealous and bitter about the talents we DON’T have, or we can share the talents that we DO have with eachother and have fun!  The turtle is having the time of his life because the giraffe was willing to give him a lift.

I hope you like it!

March 26th, 2009 by Trevor

I have created a shop at spreadshirt.com that allows me to add any design I would like to a variety of products such shirts, sweatshirts, blankets, and the like.  They are relatively cheap, and the image print is high-quality.  I like spreadshirt.com for their wide selection of colors and styles, and everything is completely customizable.  They often have sales, so check back and see what the newest coupon code is and save yourself some money!

Check out my T-Shop here.

If there is a product that you would like that is not listed in the shop, please contact me and I’ll whip it up for you in no time!