Computer pencils
March 29th, in Case Study

Computer pencils

One of the great things about living in Thailand is discovering products and marketing attempts that you would never believe in the west.

Here is a great example, Thai pencil manufacturer ‘Horse’?? has come up with this gem to keep up with the never ending attacks on traditional stationery products by the high tech giants… the COMPUTER PENCIL!!!! … It’s a normal 2B pencil! They claim that its a ‘good quality pencil’ and it’s good for ‘writing and marking’ ……. perhaps it’s designed to go with an iPad??

While we are on the subject… any one fancy a bottle of sweat? [...]

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MIXX Bangkok
February 10th, in Case Study, Design

MIXX Bangkok

Mixx Discotheque in Pattaya have opened a stunning new club in the heart of Bangkok and asked Apaganza to help out with designing promotion items for the launch..

Our team soon set about creating a map and an opening night invitation….

All design work and print were turned around in days as the opening night loomed and details on printed collateral were yet to be confirmed, eventually an A5 flyer went to press…

followed by advertising in Bangkok Post’s GURU Magazine….

finally loyalty cards….

If you are every in Bangkok and want to visit a top quality club, featuring top DJ’s and a good [...]

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Vector CoolKits In production – Warbirds
June 24th, in Design

Vector CoolKits In production – Warbirds

Everyone loves a Spitfire, right? well certainly if you are British you will appreciate the history and beauty of this WWII fighter. The team at apaganza are currently working on new Vector CoolKits featuring many aircraft from World War II. The first to be available will be WWII Warbirds – Battle of Britain featuring a wide range from the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane.

These Vector CoolKits will feature highly accurate artwork of these memorable aircraft drawn from the side, top and front with a colour example of each plane.

If you are interested in a free example of the Spitfire [...]

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New Vector CoolKits
April 13th, in Design

New Vector CoolKits

It’s Songkran in Thailand (Thai New Year) which involves people partying in the street and throwing copious amounts of water at each other….

In celebration of this annual mayhem, Apaganza will be releasing three new vector packs (totally unrelated to Songkran and water!)

Hogs and Choppers
Harley Davidsons (Hogs), Choppers, Big Bikes and some Biker related graphics make up the superb Vector Coolkit, if you are looking for vector clip art or images for a local bike show or just want some mean looking graphics for a T-shirt design, this is the Coolkit for you!

Scribbly Doodles
A very useful collection of hand [...]

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Find out your type.
March 12th, in Design

Find out your type.

Apparently, I am Dot Matrix. Why not take some time out and discover what type you are?

The designers at pentagram have come up with an interactive analyst who will assertain your type….

Lay on the couch, answer the questions, and find out, from the font of knowledge, what type you are…. HERE

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More FREE Vector artwork
March 3rd, in Free, Vector graphics

More FREE Vector artwork

The team at Apaganza studio are regular contributors to many free vector sites. Vecteezy.com, Freevectors.net and freestockvectors.com. This week we are offering 2 new free vectors hosted at www.freestockvectors.com.

The first is this highly detailed hot rod vector artwork image….

you can download from Freestockvectors.com HERE

Secondly, some tandem paragliders in flight

which can also be downloaded from Freevectorstock.com HERE

Enjoy these free vector artwork files and don’t forget, if you make money out of them, donate a dollar!

Uploading your work to the free vector galleries mentioned in this article is a great way to showcase your work, monitor it’s popularity and make people [...]

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Have a FREE font or make your own!
February 19th, in Design

Have a FREE font or make your own!

I have just found a font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font. The process is really easy…. just download the free template, fill it in …

There are some basic guidelines to follow…

Once finished just scan and upload and a few minutes later you can preview you own font. You can submit as many times as you want….

Here are a few examples of other peoples efforts…

You can download FREE my handwriting at the bottom of this page (You will have to go through [...]

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FIGHT GAME Tshirt designs
February 16th, in Case Study, Design, Free, Photoshop, Tutorial, Vector Kits

FIGHT GAME Tshirt designs

Following on from my earlier post regarding NIKKO shirt designs. The original designs were rebranded to FIGHT GAME for an upcoming movie/video game of the same name. Executive producer and NIKKO MD, Bas Boon, asked us to come up with some more designs specifically for the FIGHT GAME brand. In the tutorial I will ‘talk through’ the designs called liberty….

Starting off with another of Noud van Miltenburg’s great illustrations…

My first decision was to bring in the black line illustration and the colour on separate layers, the original colouring wasn’t the correct hue for this shirt and the flames were [...]

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ASCII Art Made Easy
February 8th, in Case Study, Design, Free

ASCII Art Made Easy

When I was at school, many decades ago in the dark ages. We had a computer room, with a computer. Attached to this computer was all sorts of wires, card punching data storage, a noisy dot matrix printer with sheets of sproket fed paper and a group of nerds that made up the computer club (they are all probably IT multi-millionaires by now!). If you weren’t in the club, you never got a look in. Occasionally, though, long sheets of paper would emerge with images made out of letters and would be pinned up outside the computer room. It [...]

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Win a FREE Apaganza Vector CooKit!
February 7th, in Design

Win a FREE Apaganza Vector CooKit!

The first person to post a coherent comment on this article answering the following question wins an Apaganza Vector CoolKit of their choice!

I often use the layer effects options in Photoshop, they are a great time-saving tool. One of the small details that I find perticularly annoying is they default setting on the outer glow.

As you can see it is set to a sickly yellow at 75% opacity on the ‘screen’ setting. It’s a setting I, personally, never use… so here is the question…

How do you change the default settings for layer effects in Photoshop CS4?

First correct answer posted [...]

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