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4 great open source/free tools for graphic designers. : Storyboard | Kallima Paper. Don't have the latest shiny CS suite from Adobe? Not to worry. Here are 4 great open source / free graphic designer tools with plenty of juice to get a project finished. GIMP In a nutshell, GIMP is the free, open source version of Photoshop. It will let you do everything from the simplest touch-ups to the most advanced image manipulation techniques. This software has a great support community and there are plenty of plug-ins and extensions available to expand its functionality. Check out the GIMP site here. INCSCAPE Incscape has very similar capabilities to Illustrator and Corel Draw, and uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
TEXTORIZER Textorizer is a great tool for all the type lovers out there. SCRIBUS Scribus is a great, free desktop publishing program and supports plenty of professional publishing features. TECHNOLOGY | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT - Part 2. Visual.ly - Create, Share, Explore Great Visualizations. Keep On Learning. One of the greatest qualities in most creative problem solvers is a thirst for learning. Most designers and user experience professionals I know have some level of post-graduate education.
But if you were to dig a little deeper, you would likely find that many have degrees in either partially or completely unrelated fields. The truth is the greatest thing you learn while getting a college education is that you alone are responsible for what and how you learn. Andy Rutledge recently leveled a very stern, yet honest, criticism of the state of UX Design Education in the college system: “Today the appropriate path for UX design education goes around, not through, nearly all universities and colleges.”
But what if you don’t live in New York or Belfast? How can you gain the knowledge and experience needed to be a trustworthy user experience design practitioner? Find a mentor. In addition, I would encourage you to read. The UX Design Education Scam. If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much. The game changed. Higher education didn’t…and it won’t. In fact, it can’t. Today the appropriate path for UX design education goes around, not through, nearly all universities and colleges.
To be fair, a primary reason university and college programs cannot change to remain relevant is because the technologies, standards, and practices one must understand in order to remain employably-relevant are changing on an annual or even monthly basis. Yet all of this accounts only for the technical reasons for academia’s inability to adapt. Sadly, the institutional definition of a web design course is one where some tool—usually Dreamweaver or Flash—is taught.
Collaborative insanity Wake up. Design Professionalism - by Andy Rutledge. The Elements of Fucking Style. Humble Pied. Adobe rolls out iPad-focused magazine publishing tools. Adobe has officially announced its new iPad-focused Digital Publishing Platform, which was used to create the recently released Wired app for the iPad. The idea is to offer an easy way for traditional media publishers to port their content to Apple's tablet while heeding the company's strict developer agreement. Although the iPad spurred the creation of the Digital Publishing Platform, it can be used to create content for other tablets and smartphones as well. The platform combines InDesign CS5 with "additional Adobe publishing technologies" in order to produce what Adobe describes as a visually attractive, magazine-like experience for the iPad. This means that traditional publishers, accustomed to creating layouts in InDesign already, won't have to move to an entirely different tool to create digital content.
With the ability to embed video, interactive images, slideshows, and more, Adobe's new solution seems like an attractive option for magazine publishers. House Industries Does It Well: Eames Century Modern | Against Th. Leave it to House Industries, when it comes to paying homage to the Masters (in Design, not Augusta), they never disappoint. The men and women from Yorklyn Delaware (a rural village not far from Wilmington, DE, a small city not far from Philadelphia, PA, a major sports city not far from New York, where nothing important seems to happen any more (just kidding Gotham!))
Got its valentine to all things Eames right on the mark with its latest hit, Eames Century Modern. Font catalogs on Eames™ Paper Collection. Reading House Industries text (mostly written by its bard Rich Roat) is like reading Barnum & Bailey adverts from the 20s. “Eames Century Modern is a typographic workhorse with unparalleled practical elegance minted in the spirit of Charles and Ray Eames. Feel it? Eames House Builiding Blocks for the Little Eames in you available from House Industries.
Above: Catalog Spread Said Eames in a House Industries press release: “Design is a willingness to surrender to a journey. Neenah Paper - Against The Grain Blog. RESOURCE CENTER | Neenah Paper.
SXSW.com. The SXSW Conference programming spans across 15 tracks of programming broken down by SXSW Badge priority – Interactive, Film, Music, and Convergence. A Platinum Badge grants primary entry to all SXSW events while an Interactive, Film, or Music Badge grants you primary access to the respective Conference tracks and events of your badge type. This also includes secondary access to other tracks and events outside your badge type. All badges have equal access to Keynotes and Convergence tracks. For each track, see the SXSW Badge access designation below. 2022 Conference Tracks 2050 (Interactive) The new 2050 Track is the home for long-range / big-picture thinking that pushes the limits of what is humanly possible by showcasing how innovative thinking can be a force for positive change in our troubled world.
Topics include: Radical life extension, Quantum physics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, next-gen agriculture, human-computer interfaces, and more. View Track. Cameron Daigle. Most of the recaps that I have read of this year's conference are similar to last year's, in that they focus not on the content of the conference, but whether the conference should exist at all. (SXSWi is always followed by a flurry of recaps, because nobody is sure of what SXSWi is, so they are not sure if SXSWi is failing or succeeding.) Some posts are sentimental or acquiescent. Others are just disappointed. Here's mine. “Even I know all of this stuff.” SXSW Interactive after dark is fantastic. Parties are everywhere, the food selection is beautiful, bands are playing, drinks flow freely. When the sun is up, things are different. Some speakers present interesting information, but aren't very good speakers. Some of these problems are logistical, others can't be avoided.
Hundreds of people filled the largest ballroom to hear Jeffrey Zeldman's “Awesome Internet Design Panel” tell them that Paywalls Are Bad and The Print Industry Doesn't Understand E-Books. Accusation This is untrue. Plea. Tammylynn. Rockthatfont.com. Slowdog. Join diaspora - people. Samsung SXSWi Hub :: Photos - SXSWi Stats. Go top menu go menu go search go content Login About Samsung News TV + Video TVs Blu-ray & DVD Players Home Projectors Home Theater Systems Mobile Cell Phones Tablets Cell Phone Accessories Laptops MP3 Players Photo Cameras Camcorders Digital Photo Frames Computing Monitors Printers Projectors Memory & Storage Home Appliances Washers & Dryers Refrigerators Microwaves Dishwashers Ranges How can we help you ?
Find product support Register your product Get downloads Owner benefits Contact us Recently Viewed Owners login SAMSUNG SXSWi HUB Bringing you the best of what’s happening @SXSWi in Austin, Texas. About the Hub? Home SXSW map Panels Contribute March Photo Of The Day SXSWi Stats Samsung releases infographic recap of SXSWi 2011. from Samsung USA via Flickr Share this: Follow @SamsungTweets on Twitter Samsung USA on Facebook Who We Are Careers Sustainability Investor Relations What We Make Blu-ray & DVD Players Home Theater Systems Cell Phone Accessories Business Apps Privacy Legal Sitemap. Austin Dog Boarding, Dog Training, Doggy Day Care. DogBoy's Dog. Park Profile: West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt. Turkey Creek Trail. Getting there: From central Austin, take FM 2222 west, past Loop 360. Turn left onto City Park Road and continue south to the Emma Long Park entrance sign.
The parking area for the trail is two miles from the park entrance sign, on the right hand side of the road. The parking is right after a sharp turn in the road, so be prepared when you cross Turkey Creek to turn off the road. The Hike: The weatherman promised me that Sunday would be party sunny in the morning with afternoon showers. True to form, the opposite turned out to be true, but along the Turkey Creek Trail in Emma Long Park it turned out to not be as big a deal as expected. I started my journey at the trailhead marked by the waypoint of the same name on the topo map above. The path begins on the western side of the creek and quickly crosses it near a picnic bench within sight of the park road. The most common life form on the trail was not a native plant or animal, it was the family dog. Let's put this into perspective. Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale - Subcide.
An experiment in CSS Click on the picture above to (hopefully) see a picture of the ever-vigilant Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ fully rendered using CSS. If you’re using a Webkit browser (Safari or Chrome), it should also be animated using the webkit-animation CSS functions. If you are viewing in IE8 or below, well, this isn’t an experiment for you. The idea for this came to me this morning after being greeted first thing this morning by another Twitter outage. How was this made? The short answer is very painfully, by hand, using trial and error. What about IE? This was requested by a lot of people. (I’m actually fairly impressed, graceful degradation is what it’s all about!) Credits This would not have been possible without the inspiration of the original fail whale illustration by @yiyinglu. Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.
Subcide - Web Design and Development. And We’re Back | HOW Blog. It took about 48 hours for us to recover (then again, we COULD use a little more sleep), but we’re all back at work at HOW HQ. Frankly, we’re feeling like everyone else who attended HOW’s events last week: energized, tired, still craving Denver food and a little crabby about being back at our desks. Oh, and dreading filling out our expense reports. To keep us all going, we’ll be posting recaps all week. If you’ve written a blog post or created a Flickr set of photos from Denver, we want to know about it and to share it here.
(For those of you who’ve asked, we’ll be uploading PDFs of handouts from the sessions that had them soon.) Here’s a bunch of good stuff to get started: Dyana Valentine & Andy Epstein Megan Patrick & Mig Reyes Party fun (Neenah’s Jamie Saunders in front) Photos Online Radio Nate Voss and Donovan Beery’s in-depth recap of the conferences on their Reflex Blue Show (thanks, guys!!!!) Blogs Presentations. Glitschka studios | illustrative designer. Lists? Check. By Nicole Torres The Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen once made a list of the positive attributes of his second wife, Aline Bernstein.
Written around their time of their marriage, in 1954, it included “I—First I realized that you were very clever,” “VIII—That you were fantastically efficient,” and “X—That you have a very very beautiful body.” (This from the man who designed the TWA terminal at JFK, which shared the same qualities.) Eero Saarinen's list of Aline Bernstein's good qualities, ca. 1954. In 1971, Vito Acconci, coping with his fear of flying, typed a list of instructions for what to do with his apartment should he die in a plane crash on a trip to Halifax. For a school assignment in 1932, the designer Harry Bertoia put together a “My-Self Rating Chart,” in which he listed 21 characteristics and rated himself from Very Poor to Excellent.
Harry Bertoia's "My-Self Rating Chart"school assignment. Pablo Picasso's recommendations for the Armory Show for Walt Kuhn, 1912. 1. The Reb Rubber Ball at Work: Innovation. The Russell Brown Show. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The State of California v. Mr. Mi. Go Away.