Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

I’m very proud of my Superman underpants I got in my Christmas stocking last year. I feel like a super hero when I am wearing them.

When Nic told me about the SA Rocks Badge Design competition I thought I could use my superman jocks inspiration and design a badge bloggers are proud to “wear” on their site. Proudly telling the world that SA Rocks their underpants! Jon Hicks came up with a similar badge idea for the Britpack, a bunch of UK web designers (and you thought the SA Blogosphere was cliquey!).

The badge design I came up with comes in a very colourful version, and a toned down version. I wasn’t quite sure which one i preferred so I have posted them both. Different strokes for different folks.

Give me your thoughts on the design.

Update:

As requested by Lorissa and Hollywoodgal we now have a “sexy pants” badge! (more…)

Seems like a lot of Saffas that you speak to over here in London are here for one common reason, to earn pounds. Isn’t there more to London than that?

I hope so because I’m earning rands.

This wallpaper I designed is just a play on that trial of thought.

My latest wallpaper design was inspired by the latest cover of .NET magazine. I loved the colourful, jagged rainbow shape.

Click on the image to go to my Flickr space to download the 1280 X 1024 wallpaper.

I designed this wallpaper in Photoshop. I used the “Clouds” effect (that I spoke about in my tutorial a couple weeks back), combined with some great plantlife brushes, and some lighting effects.

The wallpaper is 1280 X 1024 in size, and downloadable from Flickr.