Sawoong Creative

I attended a small discussion event that brought topic about Exploring Creativity in Surabaya last week. Surabaya is the city where I live right now and it was such a great event as in the end of the session, Kuncarsono Prasetyo who is the owner of Sawoong Creative merchandise shop has made excellent presentation of how he begun his business with creative positioning brand strategy.

Kuncar was interviewed by Wufi, he said:

"The noble goal indeed is to participate in the movement named Save the National Heritages".

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You can read the rest of the interview here: Appreciate Heritages in Everyday Goods with Sawoong.

Exclusively designed, Sawoong products are mostly T-shirts. They are easily recognized, especially with the dominant use of Art Nouveau or sometimes Art Deco design style side by side with old iconic Surabaya building pictures or heritage themed graphics. Other than T-shirts, there are also merchandise such as mugs, postcards, bags, key rings, pins, etc.

Find out more by visiting Sawoong Creative online catalog, or if you get a chance visiting Surabaya city, you can drop by Sawoong Outlet Stores to look for your favorite Sawoong T-shirts or other interesting merchandise.

Neon Font Effect Photoshop Actions

Recently I followed a cool screencast tutorial on Abduzeedo.com : Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop and gave a quick try.

The final result is beautiful and I like the possibility in adjusting colors before and after you hit the play button on Photoshop Actions panel. Actually it was a very easy tutorial, which I am sure everyone can easily follow just like I did. But with the series of settings on the tutorial, which you may miss them in some points to produce the neon font effect make me think to create a set of Photoshop Actions. I made 3 variants after I played a bit with the settings from that tutorial and now you can download it for free.

See the demo-screencast below to use the photoshop action. Feel free to ask me questions or send feedbacks via our comment form.

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You can read our previous tutorial if you don't know what photoshop action is and how to install it: Graphic Identity Photoshop Action.

All of Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files before you decide to download the files.

Graphic Identity - Neon Font FX.zip (169.54 KB)



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Urban Sketchers AUGUST Faves

Mid Air Podium in a Crowded City
Originally uploaded by Gary Yeung

Here are 18 more sketches to see in August 2010 from Urban Sketchers Flickr Pool. It is not easy to select the best from hundreds of entries each month. Because many of them are fairly great and artistic. If you want to know more about Urban Sketchers community or want to be part of them, you can visit their official site: Urban Sketchers.com.

There are many more to fav, but the Flickr gallery can only shows 18 pictures. For that, I shared some other featured sketches on my personal Tumblr blog: AudeeMirza's Playground under sketch tag.

Enjoy, favorite or comment the Urban Sketchers AUGUST Faves and see you next month ;)

Photo to Painting Photoshop Action

Hello everyone!
Recently I read a quick and clever tutorial, which is: How To Turn Any Photo Into a Realistic Painting Using Standard Photoshop Filters (written by Mickel of Pixel Tango).

I really like the result and I tried to create a Photoshop Action based on that tutorial. In a few minutes later, I got lots of photos with this amazing effect and I think it would be great idea to share it with you. Note that perhaps you may not always like the effect. For that, I suggest you to duplicate your photo layer for back up and make adjustment to its brightness or contrast before you hit the action button.

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If you don't know what photoshop action is and how to install it, you can read the details at: Graphic Identity Photoshop Action tutorial before you start.

All of Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files before you decide to download the files.

Graphic Identity - Photo to Painting.atn (511 B)


Credit:
Photo Stock by I love Stock Photography


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One Day Press Ready Files at Next Day Flyers

Every kind of business will always need promotional signs to increase sales or to win positioning awareness of the targeted market. Today we feature Next Day Flyers, an online printing company that delivers great quality printed marketing materials with one of the fastest turnaround times in the industry.

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Growing big with modern facility, Next Day Flyers maintains service guarantee as well as strong commitment to you and offers:

1. Next Business Day Printing
2. Easy Online Order
3. Free Design Online
4. Free Special and Seasonal Templates
5. Updated Design and Marketing Tips Blog
6. Customer Care by Phone, Email and Live Chat

Products are varied between Thick Cardstock and Glossy Paper printed media.
Thick Card media items which you can order are Business Cards, Postcards, Folded Cards, Greeting Cards, Club Flyers, Sell Sheets, menus, Tickets, Rack Cards, Posters, Holiday Die Cuts and any other custom items.
While Glossy Paper marketing media products available are CD & DVD Inserts, Glossy Menus, Booklets, Flyers, Brochures, Posters, Sell Sheets and Rack Cards.

Contact the proactive customer care at Next Day Flyers whenever you are ready to get your design printed. They will give you full assistance of what you should do to get a high quality package of printed promotional materials.