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Summer Issue of Making a Difference Inspires and Informs

Making a Difference, Summer 2010 edition

The Summer edition of Making a Difference, a quarterly publication of the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD), has just wrapped up. In addition to it’s stellar design (hey, a designer should be able to toot their own horn) the magazine is full of inspiring articles and information.

The summer edition features the Children’s Freedom Initiative, which aims to move children with disabilities under the age of 22 out of state-run facilities and closer to home. The initiative was formed in 2005 after advocates with the Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO) discovered 141 children under the age of 22 living in state-run facilities and other nursing facilities. Mathew Harp, featured on the cover with his mom and sisters, gives an inspiring message about what it meant to him to return home after having to live in a nursing home when he was 21. (more…)

Tags: design, GCDD, Making a Difference, Publication
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FREE St. Patrick’s Day Icon Set

We’re all getting into the spirit for our Annual St. Patrick’s Day party over here and in our enthusiasm we created the nice icon set we wanted to share with you for FREE!!! You can see all six icons after the jump as well as download the ZIP file that contains them all. We hope you enjoy them and use them in your own St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Remember, if you’re not coming to our party you can still win some great prizes by being our fan on Facebook or following us on Twitter. So do that and have a happy St. Patrick’s Day! (more…)

Tags: Beer Glass, Celtic Knot, free, Free Icon Set, Gold Coin, Leprechaun, PNG Icon, Pot O'Gold, Shamrock, St. Patrick's Day
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Creating a Cartoon in Adobe Illustrator from a Pencil Sketch

At O’Neill Communications, we create illustrations regularly for some of our clients. For example, we publish a quarterly magazine on behalf of the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities and in each issue we create an editorial cartoon. In this blog I’m going to walk you through the process and give you an overview of how we create the cartoon from a pencil sketch using a lot of Adobe Illustrator and a little Adobe Photoshop. (more…)