A couple of weeks ago I released my new Tron Legacy poster, adapted to the style and palette of the new trailers promoting the movie. With my first Tron Legacy poster I released a set of wallpapers with the same design, so here are the revised versions featuring the new design. Sorry it took me a little while to get these online, it’s surprising how long it takes to make different sizes of my crazy PSD files. Here are the links:

• 1024 x 768
• 1280 x 800
• 1280 x 1024
• 1440 x 900
• 1680 x 1050
• 1920 x 1200
• 2560 x 1440
• iPhone
• iPad

Please note that this design is fan-based and not official, just something I did for fun because I am enjoying the look of the upcoming Disney film. Feel free to download the proper size to add some neon action to your desktop or mobile device. Enjoy!

I’m pretty excited about this team-up with the mighty Abduzeedo for World Collabs #3. I was asked by Aloa to take part in this segment and supply them with a fully layered PSD document for participants to download, remix and reinvent into their own unique creations. Collaborations are something I truly believe in, and what better way of collaborating then with a bunch of people at once?

I constructed the above image using elements from previous works, both used and unused. I didn’t make this an easy process with all my overlays and glows as I really want the participants to push themselves and beat these things into a creation of their own, much like my own process. :)

Tip: Analyze the layers and effects, turn them on and off to see what they are doing. Create a new PSD document at the same size and resolution, then start sliding the layers into the new PSD one by one. This way you can see the individual elements at work instead of simply sliding them around. How can you change the idea and composition?

Swing on over to to the post on Abduzeedo, The World Collabs #3 with James White to read the rules, grab the PSD and check out the submission details. I’m really excited to see what people come up with using the elements I supplied.

If you are anything like me and you have your personal logo for use on your website or whatever, you probably just have one version saved in an AI document. You open it whenever needed and adapt it on the fly to whatever you might be using it for. I did the same thing for years.

However, with the new Signalnoise project I’m working on I realized that wasn’t going to cut it. I will be needing to send my logo to other people for use across a few different mediums, on different colors, using a different colors, etc and I would be spending a lot of time asking these questions and creating the logo per task. That eats up a lot of time, so I spent a little while thinking about my identity and creating different versions for use in these situations, in the form of a basic identity AI document.

Some of you might have learned about Brand Standards Manuals in school, where you create a book of rules and regulations on how the logo will be used. You might not need to do it to that extent for your personal identity, but it’s good general practice to think about these alternate variations of your identity and create them in one document. Not only will it point out problems (like color variations), but it will create a nice accessible library you can grab quickly or send to those who might need it. Think about things like: will you be printing on black or white? Will your logo be 1-color or full color? Will there be a wordmark or just an icon? It’s interesting stuff, and will certainly strengthen your personal identity.

Need a hand? Download the Signalnoise Basic Identity (AI, CS4) and have a look.

The guys over at Official Classic in Budapest have been pumping out some amazing vector works for the past while, all of which are available for purchase and download. I only grabbed a few of their robot images, but don’t be fooled has they have an ever expanding library of top notch stuff, including vehicles, weapons, geometric shapes, gamepads, buildings . . . the list goes on. But I really do enjoy those wacky robots.

Swing over to Official Classic to check out their full excellent library.

Here is a little something for all you iPad users out there. We in Canada still don’t have access to Apple’s new gadget, but judging by my Twitter stream there have been quite a few sold over the past little while. So, here is the first Signalnoise iPad Wallpaper Pack all ready to download. I selected a few of my pieces and adapted them to the iPad dimensions, which should work nicely in both portrait and landscape.

Click to access the full images.

Since I don’t have an iPad of my own, I can’t really test these before uploading. So if you notice any way these could be improved for better use, just drop me a line in the comments.

So, feel free to add a bit of color to your new gadget. Enjoy!