Worst Client Comments Turned Into Posters. Frustrated by stupid client criticism, Irish graphic designers Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy decided to turn their “favorite worst feedback” into posters. The guys worked together on so-called “Sharp Suits” series with a team of other ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more, who must’ve all appreciated a chance to let out some of their exasperation in a creative way. The series was exhibited at The Little Green Café, Bar and Gallery in November, giving a chance to purchase an A3 poster of your choice. The guys, however, received so many orders during a 5 day exhibition, that they’ve already stopped accepting them. All the thousands of euros they claim to have raised were donated to the Temple Street Children Hospital. Website: sharpsuits.net. American Medical Association Officially Condemns Photoshopping - Health.
Kim Kardashian's artificially thinned-down thighs are bad for your health, says the American Medical Association. Though it's been a common practice in fashion, publishing, and advertising for decades now, photoshopping pictures has also left millions of Americans, particularly women, with unhealthy body image issues. The nation's most revered medical body is now saying enough is enough. The AMA this week formally denounced retouching pictures and asked ad agencies to consider setting stricter guidelines for how photos are manipulated before becoming advertisements. "We must stop exposing impressionable children and teenagers to advertisements portraying models with body types only attainable with the help of photo editing software," said AMA board member Barbara McAneny. Last year in France, members of parliament advocated attaching warning labels to imagery that had been digitally enhanced; lawmakers in England have also dabbled with the idea.
Curioos. Cool Cars Designed by Students to Sip Fuel. Become Someone Else. This campaign, "Become Someone Else" by the Lithuanian Agency called Love for Mint Vinetu is a clever concept, well executed. Here is what they said about it, "When one reads books, he/she starts living it and identifies (or not) with main hero. These print ads for the Mint Vinetu bookstore, which sells lots of classics, focuses on the idea of becoming someone else. And provokes people to try on different personas. " What do you think? I recently thumbed through this book which has moved Don Quixote to the top of my reading list - sadly, I've never actually read it have you? (via fubiz) photos: from Love. Nostalgia: 11 Retro News Website Homepages. Ford Aiming to Engineer a Digital Child. Ford's Dr.
Steve Rouhana with child crash dummies. Can a virtual child help save the 1,300 or so real kids killed each year in motor vehicle accidents? That’s what Ford Motor Co. is hoping. The maker has launched a high-tech project to recreate the very complicated anatomy of a young child in digital form to make it easier to develop more advanced seatbelts and other safety systems. “The virtual child will allow us to better understand how a youngster interacts with a restraint system,” explained Ford’s senior technical researcher Dr. Steve Rouhana, “so they can be made more effective.” Subscribe Now! The new project is the latest effort in safety research that, at Ford, goes back a half century. That has a number of advantages. That’s especially true when it comes to measuring impact forces on the body. There are plenty of challenges, for one thing deciding on the age, as well as the sex of the virtual dummy. But there will certainly be the need to simulate crashes.
The World Is Obsessed With Facebook. BASETRACK | 1-8. Moleskine The Little Prince - Carillon. Design Daily: The World's Best-Designed Newspaper - Design. No, it's not The New York Times, and it's certainly not The Daily. According to the Society of News Design's Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition, the best-designed newspaper in the world is i, short for informação, which is—congrats if you guessed it—Portuguese. Yes, the world's best-designed newspaper is a colorful, less-than-two-year-old, small-format tabloid paper published in Portugal. Who knew? I certainly demonstrates a masterful use of color and graphics, and draws the best qualities from traditional newspapers and magazines, making it strikingly different from other daily print publications. According to the judges, it went beyond just smart design, showing true innovation in an endangered field: "This causes us to wonder: Is this where newspapers are going?
Is it where newspapers could go or should go? Can new techniques make print even more vibrant and relevant? " Here's another effusive comment from the judges: "i is composed like a beautiful piece of music. Junya Watanabe 2011 Fall Collection. Steering into more of a contemporary aesthetic rather than the outdoors inspired designs we’ve seen in recent seasons, Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe presented his latest and greatest for Fall 2011. Building off basic Americana styles, the collection shined with a presentation that featured items such as duffel coats, sport coats, knit sweaters and puff coats, along with other dressier garments.
Offered below is a look into the collection. Source: GQ. Designing for the Mobile Web. The Role of HTML & CSS in Web Design. If you are thinking about pursuing web design as either a career or a hobby, you must be able to do more than simply design a pretty page. Professional web designers are experts in programming and coding as well. The most talented web designers are those that can adequately balance both their creative and artistic sides with their love of technical coding.
As a web designer, there are plenty of different web design standards one must master. The two most important in the industry today are HTML and CSS. What are these methods all about and how much time and money will you need to invest in order to learn them? What is HTML? Since the early days of web design, HTML has been the standard for professional websites. Those who have used HTML will tell you that it is not difficult to learn. Efforts have been made to dumb down the process even further so that anyone, even those who have no knowledge of HTML, can create their own website.
What is CSS HTML vs CSS Training. Gamification Workshop 2010. H&M. 10 Reasons Why I Still Believe in Persona Based Design - Laura's Digital Insights. Website Creation. 20+ Online Tools for Website Validation and Testing. As you probably know already, it’s important to check and test your Website to help ensure that it looks great and works beautifully regardless of the browser or platform used. Testing a website before launch is one thing that you cannot afford to take lightly.
Just like a minor negligence while constructing a building can cost life of millions of residents , the same way a small error left unnoticed can prove to be fatal for your website. Therefore, this implies that we must run our website through all necessary tests. This includes CSS Errors, HTML Errors, Cross browsing Errors, WAP Errors (if your site is WAP enabled) and various other tests.Below is the list of Online Tools for Website Validation and Testing.
So make it sure that you go through this post and run all the necessary tests on your website before making it live. Validation tools 1.W3C markup validation service This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. Checks done on: 4.Feed. CSS GALLERY - Web Gallery & Web Design Resources, Tutorials, Onl. Design Inspiration + Visual Art Inspiration | Designflavr | Design Inspiration + Visual Art Inspiration | Designflavr | 20 Fresh & Easy To Follow Photoshop Web Interface Tutorials. Posted by Daniel in Photoshop, Tutorials on June 24th, 2010 with 7 Comments With the introduction to our community news, we have been receiving some great resources and articles. But many have been tutorials created by up and coming creative blogs such as trendyTUTS & GraphStock.
Also with the overwhelming success of our first web interface showcase we had to do another! In today’s resource showcase we are featuring 20 easy to follow photoshop web interface tutorials, with utilizing your new design skills you may also be featured in the coming weeks! Please note that clicking on the screenshot below will take you to the full tutorial. Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design via PSD Tuts+ Not only have watercolor brush strokes become a popular trend in modern web design, but so have advanced layers of transparency (or what I call, translucence).
Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop via PSD Tuts+ Simple Portfolio Gallery Layout in Photoshop via DeviseFunction Network Posts. 80 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials For Creating Awesome Websites | Cre. A sweet collection of high quality web design tutorials, which will enable a novice to a professional designer the skills in order to be capable of using Photoshop in order to create professional website.
The post is great reference point for designers learning how to use Photoshop in order to construct a website simply because the post consists of the best tutorials all in one place. I hope you enjoy the post. Feel free to leave a comment to share your thoughts upon the article and your favourite tutorial. 1. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a beautiful and clean music streaming website in Photoshop. 2. Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level. 3.
In this web design tutorial, we will create a beautiful and colorful portfolio layout using Photoshop. 4. In this tutorial, you’ll be designing a clean website layout using the 960 Grid System. 5. 6. 7. Upcoming Trends of Web Design in 2010. In 2010 we are seeing the continued mainstreaming of everyday goods and services onto the internet. As everything becomes virtual, the internet becomes the first port of call when a person needs a new good or requires a new service. More and more people, from all walks of life, are becoming familiar with the internet.
Particularly in the last year, as smart-phones introduce the concept of web-services to people who would not normally have exposure to an internet connected computer. This changes typical user expectations and influences how clients want to market on the web. We are seeing JavaScript pushing out its boundaries, new design philosophies like grid systems becoming commonplace, bigger bolder headings and banners and more and more iconification of websites.
JavaScript – Light boxes, carousel, tabs and more! JavaScript is going strong in 2010 and in fact we’re seeing plenty of innovative use of this great client side language. Design style can be practical. Grid based websites.