Here is a post from the design blog called Love Surface Design. It’s a great little collection of surface design goodies with a lot of imagination and inspiration. The tea towels towards the bottom by Iris & Lily are very cool and this link goes to their Etsy shop Enjoy, Jeff The Chief Laughing Raven
Hey there. As you can see, I’ve changed the theme for the blog. I’m in the process of changing the entire site over to WordPress but that’s going to take a little time. Meanwhile, I’m struggling with the best kind of theme to best serve you while the change happens. I wasn’t liking the all [...]
Hi and welcome back to the Laughing Raven Studio Illustrator Tutorial series, Part 4. If you missed Part 3 you can go through it first here: Part 3 For this installment, we fix a mistake I made in Part 3, and learn more techniques with the Pen tool, and the direct select tool. Line is [...]
I started my design career back in the mid 80s after graduating from The Fashion Institute of Technology in Menswear Design and Marketing. Two weeks after accepting the Maurice Bidermann Award on the stage at Radio City, I was in Italy, looking at the Baptistery East doors. Since then, I’ve been around the world and [...]
Hi and welcome back to the Laughing Raven Studio Illustrator Tutorial series. This is Part 3 and I cover a bit about design decisions and redraw a couple of lines to illustrate using the Pen Tool. Part 4 will continue this in more depth. You can go back to Part 2 if you missed it. [...]
Hi and welcome back to the Laughing Raven Studio Illustrator Tutorial series. In Part 2 we get a little more in-depth. In this video we get more involved with the Direct Select Tool and technical design basics that you need to know. These flats have been field tested and proven to be effective in garment [...]
Hi and welcome back to the Laughing Raven Studio Illustrator Tutorial series. If you saw the Overview video, you know what’s in-store for you and if not, welcome to Part 1. In this video we dive into the design of a technical flat for a warm-up jacket. These flats have been field tested and proven [...]
Working with technical flats can be time consuming and over the years I’ve always tried to find things that make that process more streamlined. Measurements and placing can take the longest so here is a tip and technique that can make things go more quickly. I call them Measuring Cubes. They are reusable little devices [...]
This is the first in a series of apparel design video tutorials I put on youTube about a year ago. I’m going to revamp them here for you and I’d live to hear your feedback. Tell what else I might be able to do to make your design life easier. My goal is to give [...]
Once upon a time a guy from the midwest – southern Ohio to be precise – left the rolling hills and cow pastures and went to the big city. New York City – to be precise. And what he saw filled him with such wonder, and stoked his imagination so ferociously that he was never [...]
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