Art & Design - Ryan Draga's Nerd Emporium

Art & Design

Before I was a tech industry dweeb, I was a graphic designer. But I still dabble. You can take the geek out of the arts, but you can't take the arts out of the geek.

Medicine Wheel Heart Emoji

Medicine Wheel Heart Emoji

I'm on a ton of Discord servers, a fair number of which I share with Indigenous people from many parts of the world...And yet, I've not seen a heart emoji which employs the Medicine Wheel, so I thought I'd throw one together in Illustrator.

Reproducing Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" Album Cover in Adobe Illustrator

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Reproducing Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" Album Cover in Adobe Illustrator

I'm designing a new tattoo for myself based on the cover art from one of my all-time favourite albums: Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures". I couldn't find a decent vector of the artwork, so I decided to recreate it in Illustrator.