lickynee Design: Archive

High-Res Canvas Texture →

My newest Graphicriver file: A very high quality canvas texture scan. 1000×1600px at 300DPI. Don’t forget to rate and comment if you liked it!

Nov 10th

Mobile UI: How to Redesign the Spendometer iPhone... →

Great tutorial on mobile design. And it uses my textures!

Aug 17th

3 Tileable Bamboo Textures →

My newest item for sale on Graphic river!

Jul 16th

Learning Java

I just started a introductory class on Java programming yesterday. It’s very exciting and I’m glad to begin doing some Object Oriented (OOP) stuff. My PHP knowledge has come in pretty handy, but also annoying with some minor differences in syntax that I keep forgetting. For example, in PHP, it’s very easy to spot variables because they all have a $ symbol infront of them. On the...

Jun 22nd

“Do not try to bend the spoon, that is impossible. Instead, only try to realize...”

– The Matrix

Jun 3rd

Stone Textures for $5

Please consider purchasing my set of 5 REALLY HIGH RESOLUTION 4000x3000px stone textures, which include three tileable images. DOWNLOAD HERE

Apr 22nd

3 Wood Textures and Bonus Tileable versions →

A few great wood veneer scans I made for GraphicRiver

Apr 21st

“Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone.”

– Steve Jobs

Apr 20th

Well, I finally redesigned the site

And it’s looking pretty good. I decided to stay with the white on wood theme, but made it look a little bit more modern. Tell me what you think. http://lickynee.com

Apr 4th

Free Textures

A bunch of great textures I took from my backyard. You can download them at http://drop.io/lickynee_freetextures Enjoy!

Mar 16th

Crap, Photoshop crashed

Well, I guess I won’t be using Photoshop for awhile :/

Feb 24th

10 Threadsy Invites - be quick! →

Threadsy pulls your email, facebook, and twitter together

Feb 22nd

10 Great iPhone Apps for a Web Dev

I threw together a list of my favorite web development applications on my iPhone. 1. Ego Description: The Ego app is probably my favorite application in this list. Ego provides statistics for Ember, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint, Squarespace, Twitter, and Vimeo, all displayed in a beautiful easy to use layout. Pros: Great UI Information from different sources in one place Cons: ...

Feb 21st

URL ABC

Inspired by Amber Turner’s post, I decided to create a URL ABC list. An URL ABC list is when you find your most visited website starting with each letter of the alphabet. This is what mine looks like: apple.com/trailers/ bit.ly/ creattica.com/ dictionary.reference.com/ explosm.net/comics/ forum.freelanceswitch.com/ google.com/analytics/ hulu.com/ iconfinder.net/ jeffrey-way.com/ ...

Feb 20th

5 Inspirational Minimalist Designs

“Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design…where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features” -Wikipedia Having a minimalist design does not mean it isn’t functional. On the contrary, minimalist designs are often more functional due to their ease of use. I have compiled a very short list of minimalist website designs that you...

Feb 19th

Why Google Buzz will Succeed

jeffrey-way: Buzz will get right what Wave got wrong. At first glance, they’re two completely different platforms that really can’t be compared. One is essentially a Twitter copycat, while the other was meant to allow for real-time collaborations. The problem with Wave is that it wasn’t integrated into Gmail from the start. By forcing people to access a different service - one that the majority...

Feb 12th

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Create a Torn Paper Effect

Often in grunge web design, the layout calls for torn paper. There are many ways to accomplish this effect, but the one shown here is one of the easiest and simplest methods available. *note - I am re-posting this tutorial here since I have deleted my old blog Introduction Specs Difficulty: Easy Completion time: 5-10min Requirements Adobe Photoshop (any version I think) Some kind of...

Feb 10th

Quoted on Freelance Switch

One of my quotes was added to a post on Freelance Switch under “On the craft”. Check it out! http://bit.ly/dtXHKz

Feb 9th

Welcome,

to the Tumblr blog for lickynee.com. I’m not sure what I will do with this blog, but I’ll figure it out eventually. :)

Jan 31st