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When you’re the creative type, personal projects can really be beneficial. It allows one to grow within their skill set, and also helps to constantly be rekindling the creative side of our work. Beyond that, some personal projects… Read More
7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design - Noupe Design Blog
Sep 07 2009 Typography can be one of the most creatively rewarding parts of web design, but it can also be one of the most frustrating. Working with just one or two fonts can be challenging enough for most web designers, yet some still insist on using three, four, seven, or even more fonts in their designs. Some people excel at creating sites with complicated typography, while others fail miserably. Read on to find out tricks to creating fantastic website designs with complicated type, as well as some great examples of sites that get it right, and those that get it wrong. 1.
Oct 11 2009 In his famous 1908 essay, ‘Ornament and Crime,’ modern architect Adolf Loos wrote: “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” This pronouncement banished many of the frilly, decorative fonts of centuries past from the realm of High Design.
45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts - Noupe Design Blog
Free High Resolution Textures - Lost and Taken
The death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs yesterday has really seemed to hit home with the design community, and for good reason... the company he built plays a big role in many of our lives and his own life has helped inspire us. In the last eight years I've only owned two iMacs and two iPods, far from fanboy status. Nevertheless, the first computer I ever used was an Apple when I was four years old, when my interest in design and photography began in high school I would stay after hours in the Mac lab and work on projects, and everything I've created for the design community has been done so on an Apple product. There's no doubt that Steve's creations have played a big role in my own creative career, and for that I'm thankful he had as much passion as he did. I put together a set of six, grungy textures based on the color palette for the classic rainbow Apple logo as my own sort of homage to Mr.CSS drop-shadows without images – Nicolas Gallagher
Drop-shadows are easy enough to create using pseudo-elements. It’s a nice and robust way to progressively enhance a design. This post is a summary of the technique and some of the possible appearances. I’ll be looking mainly at a few details involved in making this effect more robust. Divya Manian covered the basic principle in her article Drop Shadows with CSS3 and Matt Hamm recently shared his Pure CSS3 box-shadow page curl effect . After a bit of back-and-forth on twitter with Simurai , and proposing a couple of additions to Divya’s and Matt’s demos using jsbin, I felt like documenting and explaining the parts that make up this technique.
50 Incredible Tutorials from the Tuts+ Network | Vectortuts+
Here are some of the best tutorials and articles published on the Tuts+ Network over 60 days in March and April. You might be surprised at how much you can learn from a site outside your area of expertise. Why not make it your goal this month to learn a new skill? Whether it’s motion graphics, web development and design, music production, Flash, illustration, logo design or digital art, the Tuts+ network is an excellent place to start the journey.
Eric Meyer shares six of his animated transforms that are capable of sliding around to a particular extent with non-centered transform origins. 1 Generating Organic Randomness with Prime Numbers and CSS 2 At first, you may be wondering why the heck is Alex Walker talking about cicada’s and Web design. Once taking a closer look, a sort of connection between the two evolves and a ‘cicada principle’ is born.
Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools - Smashing Magazine
“Look at her: so beautiful, so friendly, so smart. And what a personality. She must be mine. Hooking up with her would make me the envy of all my friends.
Relationship Engineering: Designing Attraction - Smashing Magazine
Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine
Two weeks ago we published 1 the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will be quite useful for your workflow. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them.
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jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Introduction Time for a roundup for all the jQuery plugins that have been on the wild for a few weeks. There are getting more and more jQuery plugins coming out just to meet your special needs. In this post, I particularly like Sausage contextual pagination, I think it's a brilliant ideas! Here you go, pretty sure some of them will be really useful. TN3 Gallery
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My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial to combine photography and typography and create a dark vintage style motorcycle poster design. If you’ve found the collection of design resources from the Access All Areas section here on Blog.SpoonGraphics useful, you might be interested in the FanExtra Network’s premium membership .A Guide To Seamless Website Redesign - Noupe Design Blog
Apr 07 2011 An inherent problem with owning a web site is that styles come and go on the internet fast as (or faster than) the real world. A web site can look out-of-date very fast if it is not being constantly maintained.Inspired from the need for an easy way to choose the winners of Tzine’s giveaway, this week we are making a dedicated randomizer jQuery app, which features a slick fullscreen interface. Read more Here we are using Google’s AJAX Search API, to create a custom search engine, with which you can search for web results, images, video and news items on your site.
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In this tutorial we are going to write a simple jQuery tooltip plugin. It is going to convert the title attributes of elements withing your page, into a series of colorful tooltips. Six color themes are available, so you can easily match it with the rest of your design. Step 1 – XHTML