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I realize that I have been cutting it a little too close to the actual holiday with the free vectors that I have been providing, so here’s a Baby New Year vector a few weeks in advance of the actual event. Use it for whatever you like, just don’t pass it off as your own or redistribute it without my permission. You know the drill; it’s a PDF but editable in your vector program of choice. Happy New Year from palmateerDesign.

I felt bad about not posting anything in a while, and I also had a few extra minutes today so I decided to do this vector of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for everyone. As always, it’s a PDF so just open it in a vector program. You can use it in all professional and personal projects, just don’t redistribute it or pass it off as your own work. If you like this stuff, click the RSS feed link so that you always know when I release a new piece for y’all.

I don’t know about you, but I have always had a love of the concept of the super-hero. I read comics a little bit growing up, but mostly I drew my own super-heroes. From the age of 11 on up to the time I left for college (age 18) I was conceptualizing and drawing super-heroes, and villains. There are over 300 of them. I plan on scanning them in, but the shear volume of them overwhelms me. Regardless, the reason I am writing this is because I found an awesome site that reminded me of my old hobby of creating super-heroes. It’s called The Superest. 

The Superest is an ongoing project by Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter, as well as the occasional guest artist. They go back and forth devising super-heroes that cancel out the previous heroes’ powers, thus making the current hero “The Superest”. According to the site this concept is based on the game My Team, Your Team created by Andy Havens. Some of you out there might think is ridiculous, but give it 5 minutes and I promise you will be hooked. I ended up sitting down and spending the better portion of a twelve pack and last night perusing the site. 

Not only is it a unique source of humor as well as inspiration for concepts (the verbal and visual puns these guys use are phenomenal), but as a graphic designer, I am really intrigued by the hand lettering that is done for each and every new hero. It’s really a nice break from the everyday, corporate type that we see all the time.

After you visit those sites, if you are feeling semi-creative, head on over to HeroMachine and make a super-hero (or villain) of your own! Stay tuned for the super-hero drawings of my youth to surface here soon!

I know I haven’t been posting as much as I was a week or so ago, but its the holiday season as well as flu season and that pretty much has shot a hole in me doing anything that isn’t related to one or the other. With the Holiday season comes Christmas Carols, lots of eating, stressing over what to buy for that certain someone and best of all: The Yule Log!

I used to love watching this on TV with my dad as a kid, but sometimes you just couldn’t find what channel it was on. No More! Now with the glorious beauty of HD On-Demand you can watch the fire burn and listen to Christmas carols (probably not the PC term is it?….Holiday Tunes?) any time your heart desires, as long as it is during the month of December I guess.

If you haven’t seen it before check it out:

Unfotunately, that one is no in High Definition, but I’ve got a 50″ Samsung Plasma HD TV, so my yule log’s bigger than yours probably

The website for Common Dogs isn’t even officially up and running yet, and already it’s logo is receiving critical acclaim! AskLlora has included the Common Dogs logo in their Extreme Designs of the Week. The other cool thing about this logo is that it uses Candy Script, one of my favorite fonts.

Go check them out and support palmateerDesign at the same time!

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