Hi!

I'm glad you somehow wandered in. Welcome. I know it's not pretty, just yet - but I wanted to get it up, and slowly develop my look and feel as I go. I'm ridiculous with my own designs. They are never perfect. I would sit and tinker for months, instead of getting information and resources to the design work - clearly more important.

Is there really room for another design blog? Yes, I think so. I needed it, so I figured other people did, as well.

I design for a living. Websites, advertising, promotional materials, and more. Everything multimedia, I do. And I love to collection resources to use in my work, whether it is sound effect samples that I use for video ambiance, or fancy vector swirls that I use when designing a brochure in Adobe Illustrator, having a huge library is important to me. And I never seem to have enough design tools for any project!

Much of the time, I do not have the resource I need, and I either have to spend the time to draw/create what I need by hand, or I need to buy it from one of many great shops around the net that supply artists with the tools they need to complete their craft. But I have to admit - I'm a total junkie for freebie tools. I love collecting them. Building a massive archive of designs, patterns, brushes and more that help me when I need to streamline my creative works.

Unfortunately, it seems I spend a lot of my time sifting through far-too-many "free" design tools that are not available for me to use in my work. And what good is that?. Too many times I've come across an article in one of the many design blogs and eZines that I follow and find something I really love. "Wow! I can really use this font...", only to visit the homepage of the creator, spend 15 minutes looking for his terms of use, and find that it's for personal use only. With a current collection of over 18,000 fonts, how am I supposed to remember that one isn't available for me to use on a CD cover that I'm making for a music producer client?

So I created this. Commercial Craft. The blog that features only tutorials, resources and other materials for multimedia designers and artists that are 100% available for use in our daily work, without restrictions that restrain us from getting the job done. And while I will feature some must-have commercial products...mostly, it's all about freebies.

And don't we all love those!