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September 13, 2015

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Google Drawings

For the past 4 to 5 months our small design team (my wife and I) have been experimenting with Google Drawings and Slides. At first it was more of a way to collaborate on a visual idea that was often actually executed in other software applications afterward; however, the more we used these web browser apps the more we realized we could do with them. I wondered how far I could push the simple tools and limited feature set for creating eye-catching artwork, design, and illustration. I began with portraits. Now, I can't stop.

The Wolf - Vector Illustration

Designing with Google

Pomme Roi Creative + Google Drive So, we've been doing a lot of experimentations lately. One questions that has been driving us to find simple and inexpensive ways to create what we want (and our clients want) is this, "What is the message and what is the simplest way to communicate it?" On the workflow and technical level this starts to beg for more questions. " Do I need Photoshop for this project?" "If I can make something in a web browser, is it really professional?" "What do I really need to accomplish with design, and can I do that with free software?" Etc, etc. Such questions have led us to explore more deeply some platforms that we were already somewhat familiar with - Google Drive is one of them. Drive is like a cloud based office suite, but with loads of collaborative features that I haven't seen in any desktop apps. When we discovered Google Drawings and the ability to move objects, text, and photos around in realtime ...

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