John Nack on Adobe: (rt) Illustration: AT-ATs, optical illusions, & more

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Here's an awesome "Oakland AT-AT" t-shirt. I love those things (both kinds). (via @5tu)
Vandelay Design rounds up 30 Text Effect Tutorials for Illustrator. Lots of neat ideas here, and I especially like the "Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment."
The Daily Mail shows a set of garage doors as optical illusions. (I'm a sucker for folding-wing F/A-18's myself.) Get 'em here. [Via]
What's on Earth Tonight? If extraterrestrials are monitoring our TV broadcasts, here's what they're seeing. [Via]
RT @khoi: Illustrator S. Britt's homepage violates all rules of good Web navigation-but it's so good.
Fast Food Mafia presents mascots as gangsters. (Click for the higher-res version.) [Via]
What Apple's web site would have looked like if the Internet existed in 1984. (via @davecross)
Teehan + Lax have created a new PSD to facilitate designing for Palm Pre. (They're the same guys who made the iPhone GUI PSD.)

Posted by John Nack at 6:51 AM on July 29, 2009

J. Peterson — 10:44 AM on July 29, 2009 Reply to this comment

The Apple site is close but they missed the typeface, Apple went Garamond in 1984.

Mike Skocko — 6:24 AM on July 30, 2009 Reply to this comment

Has anyone else read the ABOUT page on S. Britt's site? Brilliant! (And this coming from a [digital] art teacher.)

ReneG — 6:55 AM on July 30, 2009 Reply to this comment

What does (rt) in the title means?

(Geeeeez those Captcha characters are hard to read. This is my 7th time trying to post this)

"(rt)" denotes "Re-tweet," in that these links were already featured in my Twitter stream (@jnack).

john renfrew — 7:58 AM on July 30, 2009 Reply to this comment

Garage Doors - made me proper laugh out loud

Brilliant!!