Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley.
Presentation Design. Everything You Need to Know About Design on the Web - Piccsy Playground. Studio de direction artistique & de création graphique. Historique de l'impression typographique, letterpress | Badcass. Janvier 2011 Permettez-moi de vous conter l’histoire de l’impression typographique (letterpress) et d’expliquer pourquoi chez Badcass nous sommes sous le charme de son sourire ravageur. Erreurs de genèse Ce procédé d’impression naquit vers 1455 en Europe, le père du bébé s’appelle Johannes Gensfleisch (aka Gutenberg), un allemand qui a vécu quelques temps à Strasbourg pour retourner en Rhénanie peaufiner ses travaux avec la ‘mère’ du bébé, le jeune Pierre Schoeffer qui de son côté trouva l’alliage de la matrice composé de plomb, d’antimoine et d’étain.
Le fer précédemment utilisé pour fabriquer les lettres étant un peu trop dur sous la pression pour donner des résultats convaincants, ce nouvel alliage s’avéra à l’instar du matelas idéal ; ni trop dur, ni trop mou. Du plomb dans l’aile ? Alors pourquoi et comment l’impression typographique a-t-elle laissé progressivement la place à l’impression offset ? Exemple de gaufrage du mot ‘badcass’, ici en revanche les étoiles sont ‘débossées’
10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Complex design techniques are often time-consuming and, well, complex. Some of these advanced effects1 can add plenty of depth to designs, but when used in the wrong place, they do little more than distract viewers from the project’s intended focus. These effects may be precisely what a design needs to have the impact it requires, but even in these cases, they should be complemented by simpler effects. Simple effects and techniques are the building blocks of today’s designs. For example, what good is a stellar lighting technique2 if you can’t decide which colors to use or which text-based effects to use in conjunction with the effect? With a “less is more” mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.
For more techniques, you may want to look at our previous articles: The basics first. 1. Sadly, adding extra contrast is one of the most overlooked and under-used techniques. Just a Big List of Free Design Stuff. If you hang out on Dribbble, Forrst, or other design communities, you’ve probably noticed the recent explosion of freebies. You can get free icons, fonts, textures, and even whole user interfaces! And although Christmas is over, I’m pretty sure people like free stuff all year round. So here are a couple of my favorite places to get your fix of shiny PSDs for $0. One of the first free PSDs sites, 365PSD promises a different PSD every day. Almost all of them are free, and you can also download whole-year packs for a couple bucks.
It was originally single-handedly maintained by Jonno Riekwel, but has since then been bought by DesignMoo. DesignMoo DesignMoo provides tons of free design resources, but it does require you to register before you can download them. PremiumPixels PremiumPixels started out as the playground of WordPress themes superstar Orman Clark, but he’s recently been featuring other designers as well. Design Kindle FreebiesBooth It’s a booth, and there’s freebies inside.
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Graphic Design. Typography. Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Also known as International Style, the Swiss Style does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. This style in art, architecture and culture became an ‘international’ style after 1950’s and it was produced by artists all around the globe. Despite that, people still refer to it as the Swiss Style or the Swiss Legacy.
This progressive, radical movement in graphic design is not concerned with the graphic design in Switzerland, but rather with the new style that had been proposed, attacked and defended in the 1920s in Switzerland. Emerging from the modernist and constructivist ideals, the Swiss Style can be defined as an authentic pursue for simplicity – the beauty in the underlines of a purpose, not beauty as a purpose in itself. How the Swiss Style Relates to the Web Uniformity and geometry Grid Systems Elementary.
User Interface design. Product design. Design theory. The Grid System. 85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know | snap2obje. What makes a web-designer a great web-designer? Guts and information – and bit of talent. All designers have to defeat the same monsters. Inspiration blocks;Lack of material, like and unvectorized logo;Poor quality images or their non-existence;Low or no budget;Unhelpful clients; May I continue? Well the good news is that you just need courage to persist and the light of information to scare those monsters away. You got the courage. Here I’ll give the info that could take you ages to find by yourself or another designer to tell (maybe because of lack of time or selfishness). Images It is 3 AM; you are pretty tired, your stomach can’t bear another dose of caffeine and you still need that Pretty Business type picture to use in your project, but you don’t have the budget to afford a stock image from gettyimage.
Now you will spend until 4AM trying to decide which photo to use. www.sxc.hu More great sites : flickr.com/creativecommons/ commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia imagesearch in 64 categories. Fonts. Cameron McEfee | New Media Designer. Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement When creating Web and app interfaces, most designers slave over every single pixel, making sure it’s got exactly the right color, texture and position. If you’re not careful, though, some common functions like moving, rotating and pasting can undo your hard work, resulting in a blurry mess. But with some small changes to your workflow, you should be able to maintain the highest-quality artwork from the start to the end of the project. Pixel-Perfect Rotation If you’re not careful, rotating layers in Photoshop can damage them in a very noticeable, pixel-mashing way. When rotating layers with Free Transform (and some other tools) to exactly 90 or 270°, the quality of the outcome is determined by the layer’s size.
If the layer is of an even width and even height, then you’ll be fine. In this case, the artwork is 20 × 9 pixels: even-by-odd dimensions. A Fix As long as the dimensions for the layer or layers are even-by-even or odd-by-odd, it’ll be fine. An Easier Fix What Went Wrong? Typographical Map of the World. Une excellente idée par la designer Nancy McCabe basée à Chicago, avec cette cartographie utilisant uniquement les noms des villes afin de former une création typographique. Le projet « Chartis Graphein » est disponible en 2 versions simple et aquarelle. Plus de visuels dans la suite. Dear blank, please blank. Une bonne idée par Sapling Press de produire plusieurs cartes humoristiques et ironiques créées en collaboration avec les créateurs du site Dear blank, please blank, une plateforme permettant de créer ses propres cartes.
Une sélection complète à découvrir dans la suite. Gerd Arntz - Preview. Amadana's Wonderful Cautionary Infographics - Boing Boing.