By kylesteed | January 27, 2010
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The dribbble jersey collection

What is Dribbble?

Dribbble allows you to share your work in 120,000 pixels or less with other creative people. It poses the question, “What Are You Working On?” without sounding like a douche bag. The fine folks over at SimpleBits handcrafted this little beauty.

Why a Jersey?

Why not a jersey? It seemed appropriate in light of the whole basketball theme. Sure I could’ve made little basketball icons, but where’s the fun in that. I love to compete, and what better to wear when you compete than a team jersey? You may have seen my post on twitter or even on dribbble already showing off my new “Gold Team” jersey. And that’s where this whole idea started. I’m not saying let’s all divide up in teams to compete to see who’s better, no, I just want to have a bit of fun with my fellow designers. Similar to the design-off Chris Wallace and I had.

What Team Color are You?

Pick any color you want. Just know that I’m captain of the Yellow/Gold team. That’s right, I appointed myself. And I’m happy to announce that Rogie King and Brad Colbow have suited up to join me.

Download The Goods

The jersey collection comes in the 3 different sizes: 48×48, 32×32 and 16×16. I hope if you’re on dribbble already you’ll use them, and if you aren’t well I hope you will still have fun with them. One last thanks to Dan at SimpleBits for crafting such a wonderful space for us to hang out.

Download the dribbble jersey collection

By kylesteed | January 9, 2010
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Hymns

For Christmas this past year my wife recorded an album of 11 songs to send to my grandparents. So me being the awesome husband I am I created a custom album sleeve for her. Just a simple front and back design that would fit on an 8.5×11 template that we could assemble ourselves. By the way, if you’re looking for a good resource for album cover templates I recommend checking out theses oasis cd templates. They came in quite handy.

So like all good projects, we started with a little brainstorming session and some quick sketches while we talked about what to title the cd. We settled on “HYMNS: by Amanda And Other Songs You Can Sing to Jesus”.

After she decided on the design I went from sketch straight in to illustrator. I used a mixture of live trace (for all the hand-drawn type on the tracklist) and tracing the shapes by hand. As far as choosing a color palette, I wanted it to be something soft and wintery. I did have snow flakes in my initial design, but decided against them when it went to the printer. I think the light gray of the sky and the stark black silhouette of the trees and house do a good job of giving off that cold, winter-like feeling. And the North Star was icing on the cake.

Update

I forgot to post this link originally, but you can stream the entire album over on my wife’s virb page.

By kylesteed | January 9, 2010
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TOM and the Goldfish Bowl

When Ben Pasley contacted me about doing the cover for his new book I was stoked. Working with Ben is always a great creative process. He usually lets me go crazy with ideas in the beginning and then we sit down and focus on which ones works best.