While this blog is a great place to write about new projects, releases and whatnot, I’ve found that it’s not ideal venue for me to showcase the things I’m most proud of. Because I wanted a single spot where people could easily find all the things I’ve made, I decided to create TommyBrunn.com!

Before you start complaining, I did not bend over backwards to accommodate for ancient or strange browsers. The site will work just fine for almost all browsers (as long as you have Javascript enabled), but if you’re running Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98, it will probably look a bit funky.

If you want to view my illustrations and other kinds of designs, my applications, scripts and snippets, or read a little bit about me personally, hop on over to TommyBrunn.com!

I recently got a drawing tablet, and in learning my way around it, I’ve found that tracing flowers is a great way to improve hand-eye-coordination and learn how to properly apply pressure to vary line width or opacity. As a result I’ve made three flower themed wallpapers: one with a lotus flower, one with a rose and one with both flowers.

I’ve only got 1440×900 versions available right now, because that’s my screensize. If there’s a demand for other sizes, that can be arranged. The wallpapers are all distributed under CC-BY-SA 3.0, and I have included an alternate download that has the gimp files so that you can modify them to taste. Read the rest of this article »

I’m sure a lot of you have updated or soon will be updating to Ubuntu 10.04. With this new release the default theme has changed from the old Human theme to the new Ambiance theme, and along with that the default icon theme has changed to ubuntu_mono_dark, which gives your indicator applets a really sleek look. Sadly, Caffeine doesn’t really blend in all that well with those nice monochrome icons.

That’s why I have gone ahead and created two sets of new icons to be used with the two new themes included with Ubuntu 10.04! Read the rest of this article »

Remember those snazzy badges I made some time ago? Well, after having been featured on OMG! Ubuntu! I felt like getting back on the proverbial horse and make some more badges. So I did. I’m not crazy about the font situation, but Arch’s official font seems to be Liberation Sans - so that’s what I’m going with.

As usual, there is one color and one monochrome flavors, both with low-opacity versions. Sticking them on your website is super easy. For more information on that, go check out the Made on Linux page.

If you want me to make badges like these for your favorite distribution, simply shoot me an email (my email is available on the contact page). There are some distributions that I can’t make badges for because of copyright reasons, but I promise I’ll do my best.

About ten days ago, I released a couple of “Made on Ubuntu” badges to put on websites made in Ubuntu. Now I have decided to make some general “Made on Linux” buttons, and I’ve decided to rename the project “Made on Linux” - as that includes Ubuntu as well.

So far, these are the changes I have made:

• Added four more badges featuring Tux.
• Added some nice JavaScript effects to show and hide the sample code.
• Changed the text to reflect that this is now not only for Ubuntu.
• Changed the URL to blastfromthepast.se/linuxbadges
• Added a redirect so that people who visit the old URL get sent to the new one.

Things still to do:

• Add more badges for various distributions.
• Make it easier for people to just copy’n'paste a little code into their website and have the badges be displayed.

Be sure to visit the site now, and please email me if you’re planning on using any of the badges!

“Made on Linux”