This is a logo that I recently created for a local youth soccer team. The soccer team is part of one of those leagues where all the kids just run around around kicking the ball in groups with no goalie and no score kept. The client wanted something cute,.
Topics: art, cute, demiarts, design, illustration, lions, logo, youth soccer

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New Friendfeed UI Screencap from Mathew Ballard on VimeoToday, around 11:30 AM EST Friendfeed opened up its new beta UI to the public. And boy did people go crazy over it, both those that liked it and those that seem to hate it. I personally really like..
Topics: beta, friendfeed, social, social media, social networking, social networks, UI

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Friday, on the Ffundercats podcast, I talked a few minutes about the one feature I thought would be a part of the Friendfeed Interface Update tomorrow at 12 PM EST. That feature was Direct Messages. But, then after my time on the show I thought about...
Topics: feature, friendfeed, layout, social, social networking, social networks

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A couple weeks ago I rented a telephoto lens. One day when I was at home waiting for my car to come out of the shop I decided to try it out with some bird photography. These were my two favorite photos out of that day. Please do leave some feedback as...
Topics: bird photos, birds, demiarts, flickr, mathew ballard, photography

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So, since the ice storm early last mont,h I’ve been a horrible blogger. Part of that is due to the fact that I’ve just been busy. As some of you know a couple weeks ago I got me a new job, after over a year I finally found another FULL TIME...
Topics: art, demiarts, design, website, work

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