Matthew Lyons. BLU > WALLS. Open source Graphic Design. How to work as a Graphic Designer without sleeping with Adobe I am just now completing a certificate in graphic design at the online school Sessions.edu, and although I have come to like the Adobe Creative suite tool (and mainly inDesign), I would rather be relying only on open source tools. Why? Well, there are many factors that steer my decision toward that. If you want to read more about open source and creativity, I invite you to read FLOSS+Art which is a solid explanation of the relationship between open source and creativity/art. From the description: “FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. This book has been a strong inspiration for me to embrace open source in all my creative projects. Using open source instead of a licensed software is quite empowering and freeing.
. + Free software – meaning you don’t pay for it (you still can donate what you want!) Photoshop replacement with GIMP Other useful tools. Fanciful submarine: gingerbees. Greg Peltz. Lizzie Nichols Concept Design. 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers. There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn’t easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up.
Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out. In this post, you’ll find an overview of useful and handy tools that can help you increase your productivity and improve your workflow. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link Useful Time-Savers For Web Designers Link House of Buttons5 A growing collection of various buttons spotted in the wild by Jason Long. Historious7 Historious makes bookmarking work the way you want it.
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The company is six months old and already approaching profitability, with revenue doubling month on month, despite relying on word of mouth rather than marketing. The Union Jack Piggy Bag from Made.com. But this is a furniture business with no warehouse - and no inventory. Instead, products are "crowdsourced". This is how it works. "People buy things from very valued brands. "How do we do that? “Start Quote. 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers - Smashing Magazine. Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results.
And this is where small time-savers become handy. Be it a handy checklist, batch installer, dummy image generator or converter from Excel spreadsheet to HTML — all these things can save us a couple of minutes every day, making our work easier and more efficient. And this is why we keep collecting them for Smashing Magazine’s readers. Whether you like lists or not: this one will probably help you find those little nuggets out there that will help you avoid headaches and stress. Below we present useful time-savers for web designers. Time-Savers For Web Designers Link try ruby! Slick Laptop Designs and Concepts - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Laptop design doesn’t have to be boring.
Although often laptops look exactly as we expect them to look like, there is a number of design solutions and approaches which are completely different — unusual, creative, beautiful and damn useful. In fact, over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Nevertheless, much is possible. And this post is supposed to prove this point. Below we present innovative laptop designs and laptop concepts. You might want to take a look at our posts Siafu The Siafu concept notebook5, designed for the blind by Jonathan Lucas, omits a display altogether.
Cario Cario notebook7 from Anna Lopez can be carried around by its handle, positioned like an easel or placed on a car’s steering wheel. MacTab MacTab9Being portable, MacTab is the complement to MyBook in the high-end. Sungjut TangoX Dialogue’s Flybook V33 Vaio Zoom Music Stand Laptop Compenion.