With all the wonderfulness that happened recently, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, I thought I should join in the fun.

Here is a nice 512 pixel icon of the Apollo 11 mission badge, with a tad bit of Photoshop rendering added in. Download it for your OS X Dock, your Finder sidebar or your Moon-ready project folders. There is even a 48 pixel size for the Windows user among us ... there's ...

Another icon I worked up as an advanced example for my DFP students. Like the others, this one should be available from GraphicRiver within a few days.** Update: The icon has been approved and is now available for purchase

It only took like four days for them to approve it ( </sarcasm> ), but the pretty swirly whirly icon I made in class the other night is finally available for purchase. Totally color-customizable, it should be perfect for your next acid-trip enabled application. ;)You can purchase it here.

I was working on an example of something for a student and decided to offer this simple, yet textured Polaroid-ish photo frame icon (512 by 512 pixels) for anyone that might need it.You should be able to pick it up on GraphicRiver really soon:graphicriver.net/user/DraStudioAs a bonus, it includes a font I made of my quick-fast handwriting style … called "Thin Oscar".If for some reason, they don’t like it, I’ll just offer it for free from ...

The BackgroundDuring a recent lecture in my Deployment of Flash Projects class, while discussing Adobe AIR and trying to summarize the essential parts of desktop User Interface design, I found myself lacking in a over-arching term and general category to which I could attach many of the nit-picky and minute ideas that collectively make for superb deployments (or at the very least, improve poor deployments to acceptable).I mean, there was definitely plenty of discussion about ...

My entry for this weekend’s Illustration Friday theme of “contained” … although, it would seem that this pail of saucy noodles is all but.If the tupperware here reminds you a bit of something, don’t worry. It is supposed to. I have been fans of the good kids over at the ‘factory for a while now.

Sticker System (uploaded by DRA Studio)If you have been as depressed as I have by the lack of quality themes to make good use of your ShapeShifter license, the wait is over. I just heard about the canum theme over at MacThemes and it is one heck of a solid download! And if you are looking for a great complimentary icon set (besides the excellent one done by Jonas Rask), I would recommend David ...