Labels are still popping into my brain, so they have to come out. This time it’s a devil with a little drool on his lip for a hot sauce label.
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Graphic Design, Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | 
September 14, 2010 10:00 am | 
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This design is a Celtic knot created in Illustrator for the iPhone game I’m helping out with. The programmers gave me the design and I recreated it in Illustrator with a little web research. It’s a fairly straightforward technique, but requires a bit of patience. I’ve added an ‘exploded’ example to show how the under/over illusion is created. Note that the topmost stroke has rounded caps to overlap and hide the ever-so-slightly-visible seams beneath where the paths have been cut apart and butt together.
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Illustrator, Tips | Jeff Bucchino | September 7, 2010 10:00 am | Comments (1)
Yep, another silly drink label. But at least this time I’ve given you a bit of a twist and plastered it on a virtual bottle to give you an idea of what it might look like in use, in real life. The 3D mapping feature of Illustrator is a pretty cool thing to play with, even though my rather poor efforts only hint that the bottle might be made of glass.
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Cartoon Uses, Graphic Design, Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | August 31, 2010 10:00 am | Comments Off
And the hits just keep on comin’. Another label, this one a bit on the fringe of sanity, but I like the way the color came out here. A bit of a feathery background, and the corny triple nibblet accent at the top add to the fun farm/fowl theme. ‘Double Rectified’ is a nod to John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn character and his white lightning description. I’m not quite sure what it means, if anything, but it sounded good, so I used it.
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Graphic Design, Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | August 24, 2010 10:00 am | Comments Off
It’s been awhile since I’ve created any labels, and this one has been stuck in my head for a bit, so I decided that it was finally time to purge my brain. Although I think I’m about out of alcoholic drinks to create, as this one shows, there’s certainly no shortage of other products that can be tooned and labeled.
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Advertising, Graphic Design, Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | August 17, 2010 10:00 am | Comments Off
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Cartoon Uses, Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | August 12, 2010 10:00 am | Comments (1)
Another quick post to showcase an icon from the iPhone game I’m assisting with. Created in Illustrator from start to finish.
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Cartoon Uses, Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | August 10, 2010 10:00 am | Comments Off
One of the projects I’m working on at the moment is an iPhone game, programmed by an independent developer. Below is one of the icons I banged out, uncharacteristically by Wacom tablet alone, no ink and paper version. The color was added via Illustrator and I’ve added the space background for this post. It won’t appear in the game version.
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Illustrator, Sketching | Jeff Bucchino | July 15, 2010 10:00 am | Comments Off
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Illustrator | Jeff Bucchino | July 8, 2010 10:00 am | Comments (1)
Illustrator and type go hand in hand. But the wealth of options available for using and abusing type within Illustrator is daunting to say the least. Here is a good look at nearly all of those options.
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Illustrator, Tips | Jeff Bucchino | May 13, 2010 10:00 am | Comments Off
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