Sean Walther's Blog

Illustrator Tutorial: Create a vector RSS Icon (a la web 2.0)

Not being an artist or designer by default (I do some design by usually by applying formulas — I find a completely deterministic experince, a happier experience), I attempted to learn more about all those pretty graphics we see out there these days.  

I grew up in Photoshop, and have recently been “seeing the light” of Adobe Illustrator.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve used Illustrator for quite a while, but I’m just now learning all the various tools that I need to know.  

See the icon in this article?  I made it.  All by myself.  Of course with the aid of an excellent tutorial:

Spoon Graphics Blog – Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator

Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Photoshop, RSS, Tutorial, Vector

Integrating wordpress, xml, and flash

I am experimenting on integrating the wordpress application with my flash front end, through the RSS XML conduit. 

I’ll post any results — of course if there are no results, you may not see anything at all!

Tags: Flash, iPhone, RSS, WordPress, XML