I've had some fun the past night or two helping out a couple of guys on a couple of cool projects. I'm not much of a cartoonist (wish I was) but it was great fun sketching some ideas up and making them come to life in Inkscape. It's never been something I've been really interested [...]

Just noticed this post about "35 Tutorials to create amazing Vector Graphics using Inkscape" come across Twitter. And while I was quite happy to see a post aggregating some great tutorials on Inkscape, I was a little bothered by the blurb at the top of the post itself:
"Inkscape is a free vector graphic design alternative [...]

About 6 or 7 months ago I was invited to submit some logo concepts for the SouthEast LinuxFest. I was absolutely thrilled that they chose one of my submissions. Since then, I've done a few ancillary things with the logo such as a flyer design and some web site badges.
The venerable Dave Yates of [...]

 
For quite a while now I've been harbouring a desire to embark on a longer term graphics project. I love diving into a variety of smaller projects, like the recent Lumiera logo entries, playing around with a gPodder logo and even more recently contributing a little of my play time to Crunchbang linux.
However I would like [...]

Based on the great constructive comments on my previous post from Thorsten and Troy about Lumiera's new logo concept, I thought I'd make another slight tweak to what I had already posted and came up with this:

I added (somewhat crudely) the additional film sprocket hole and used the mgOpen Cosmetica type with slighter tighter tracking (which [...]

Back in mid-November, I posted about Lumiera's logo contest over on the screencaster's blog. I made several entries, some of which are below:

The winning concept (which I really liked) was this one by anamii:

Now the aim of the contest was to select a "concept", so there is some ongoing discussion about tweaking the logo. While [...]

Thanks to Heathenx for alerting me to the Flow into Frame feature in Inkscape. This wonderful little function makes things like this very very simple to do:

Yeah, I know that gPodder already has a logo. But after listening to the recent interview on Linux Outlaws 67, I figured it might be a nice creative exercise to come up with something anyway. Not most people's idea of a fun evening, but it relaxes me after a stressful day of engineering work.
Anyway, I [...]

Someone decided on Sharpay / Hannah Montana for this past Halloween. I thought I'd spruce up the original pic using.. you guessed it.. Inkscape.
I dare not show her the final product or she'll be wanting to dress like that every day!

Here's what I started with:

 
I've actually had some good fortune as of late. I've been able to contribute a little in the way of graphic design to a couple of things I'm into.
Very recently (ie. two days ago), the very awesome Dave Yates (of Lottalinuxlinks podcast fame) floated the idea of a 'planet' site to aggregate linux podcasters' blogs [...]