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Keep Calm

Posted by Kayla Garcia on Sunday, August 21, 2011, In : Graphics 


I just recently moved out of my house for the summer into my apartment for the fall. The girls who are moving into the house after me were bringing in their furniture and decorations when I noticed the famous "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster on the mantle. I had seen different variations of the poster and decided to make my own.

In this piece, my inspirations were the "Keep Calm" poster and the British 1st edition cover of my favorite book (besides Harry Potter!), George Orwell's classic, 1984,...


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F is for Facebook

Posted by Kayla Garcia on Sunday, August 21, 2011, In : Graphics 

Oh, how time passes when you're seeing what you're friends are doing on Facebook. Thank you Mark Zuckerberg, for creating the biggest distraction from homework. Guilty as charged! This site is procrastination station!

I wanted to create something vintage in Photoshop so I chose to play with The Scarlet Letter idea and make a vintage F to place on Mark Zuckerberg's shirt. I played around with different textures and blending options to make the F look like a vintage patch that is sewn on.


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Social Media Nails

Posted by Kayla Garcia on Sunday, August 21, 2011, In : Graphics 

 

"Social media...let your fingers speak to the world"

From left to right: Blogger, Myspace, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Google+

While I was checking my Facebook and Google+ this evening, I noticed that my nail polish was chipping and decided that I should probably give myself a manicure this weekend. That's what inspired me to make this image. The hands/keyboard picture was taken from google, but I "painted" the nails in photoshop with the logos of the current most popular...


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A City of Inspiration

Posted by Kayla Garcia on Saturday, July 16, 2011, In : Graphics 

I haven't made a blend in photoshop for a while and I got the idea last night when I was checking my work email. As a marketing intern for 512 Realty, I've worked with the 512 Realty logo millions of times, resizing, recoloring, and all sorts of fiddling around with it to incorporate it in the company's promotional materials. As I looked at the logo for the millionth time, I came up with the idea to create a blend that uses the actual buildings that logo was inspired by.

I thought that maybe w...


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