Michelle Coy
Artist, designer, teacher of visual design and video game design.
Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools. As long as anyone can remember, critics have been saying that the schools are in decline. They used to be the best in the world, they say, but no longer. They used to have real standards, but no longer. They used to have discipline, but no longer. What the critics seldom acknowledge is that our schools have changed as our society has changed. But the students in the college-bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.
The claim that the public schools are in decline is not new. There is a tendency nowadays to hark back with nostalgia to the mythical good old days, usually imagined as about forty or fifty years ago. Indifferent to history, today’s corporate reformers insist that the public schools are in an unprecedented crisis. Human Rights. Gamesjolt.com. Games for Change. Co.Design | business + design. Edutopia | K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work. CDDraftingVids. The best blender book. Blender 3D: Noob to Pro. You are strongly encouraged (read as begged) to contribute to this book! There are many things you can do to help: edit existing modules (to correct errors, improve the writing, or make additions)add new modules (tutorials or reference material)upload new images (screen shots or sample renders)join the team responsible for this WikiBook How to Edit a Module To edit any wiki page (including this one): Click on the Edit tab at the top of the page.Make your change in the large text box.Type an explanation of your change in the Edit summary text box below.Click on the Show preview button below the edit summary to preview your change.If you're satisfied with the result, click on the Save page button.
Your contribution will be reviewed before it is officially published. Things you shouldn't add to modules: external links that are not directly related to the modulecomments or questions regarding the text To ask questions and make comments about any module: How to Add a Module Images How to Join the Team. Freebies. 10 weeks to learn Blender. Ridiculous or possible? DinPattern – Free seamless patterns.
Home : Design Is History. 35 Cool Fonts To Enhance Your Designs. Laurie McCannas complete list of Photoshop tutorials. Blog. Congratulations to Michael Rinnan for winning the Five Second Project for March. His entry had a great concept and was outfitted with excellent lighting, atmosphere, camera movements and sound design. We wanted to know a little bit more about Michael’s entry, so we asked him a few questions regarding his workflow and the process for creating his winning piece. Where do you work? What is your title? Tell us about what you do at your company. I am a 3D generalist at NFL films in Mt. How did you come up with your concept for the Bright Lights Five Second Project? For my concept, my goal was to come up with a quick story I could tell in 5 seconds. What was the most challenging thing about your project? The most challenging part of this project was honestly the lighting.
Tell us a little about how you achieved the zolly (push-pull zoom) effect. To achieve the zolly, I initially mapped out the motion of the motorcycles with a spline and then dropped a camera onto that motion path. Dafont.com. Clickball. Introduction The clickball tutorial has been developed by Bill Kerr. Clickball is based on an idea in the Game Maker Help manual but I have extended the original idea into a more comprehensive tutorial. Clickball is a good place to start if you are building your first game using Game Maker.
The screenshot shows a basic game. If you click on a blue ball you score a point. Resources How to: The word document contains three sections: How to build a basic clickball gameHints for exploring and extending beyond the basic game into something more advancedA marking scheme for teachers Download: clickball-basic-50steps.doc Sprites, backgrounds, sounds and music that you will need to make the clickball game Download: clickball-resources.zip.
Game Maker pages introduction. If you don't have Game Maker go to to obtain your copy of free Game Maker software and the other wonderful resources that Mark Overmars has developed and gathered together. The main current purpose of this website is to distribute free Game Maker educational resources, such as hands on tutorials, demonstrations and course outlines. This website was created and is maintained by Bill Kerr. The resource writers curently publishing here are Bill Kerr, Al Upton and Tony Forster. You are welcome to join us here if you have good ideas to share. We are using Game Maker software to teach game making at our respective schools. You are free to use or adapt or distribute any materials that we have developed that are found on this site. The only condition is that the original source be acknowledged (in the materials you use or distribute).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. What makes a good logo? Or even a great one | The Logo Factory. While there’s no ‘blood test’ for a good logo, here’s a few pointers Well, if that ain’t the question to end it all – “What makes a good (or even great) logo?” Despite having been in the business for over twenty years (eek – though The Logo Factory® has been around for almost fifteen of that) and having been privy to the creation of thousands of logos (as both a designer and a CD at the shop) it’s still a difficult question. Naturally, we all know a good logo design when we see it. Just like many of our clients. And, conversely, we can identify a bad logo just as quickly.
Unfortunately, these are but our opinions – we ’d argue ‘educated’ opinions – but opinions nonetheless. What about a litmus test for what makes a good logo and on the flip side, a bad one? Concept & Execution – Hallmarks of a ‘Great’ design Using a few logo design examples from our portfolio, let’s take a look at effective concept and execution and how these two factors ‘play out’ to make a ‘good logo’.. Execution Concept. The Decade's 10 Best Digital Ad Campaigns. Kinetic Typography Tutorial | The Crooked Gremlins. Primary Design Elements Found in Outstanding Digital Illustrations. Following on from, Using Design Principles to Create Exceptional Vector Illustrations, today we have a collection of digital illustrations that highlight the primary elements of design.
Design elements are the building blocks that are used to create an image. These include, line, color and shape. Although they may seem basic, if you take the time to think about the elements and how they can be used, you will have a better understanding of your creations - and perhaps think of a few new ideas too! Space Space is described in two ways. Negative Space, which is the space around the subject, and Positive Space, which is the shape of the subject matter. In the image below you can see that the positive space has been used to create depth and focus in the image. Line Line is a continuous mark made by a tool such as the pencil and brush or the edge of a shape.
The image below has a playful appearance created with the use of repetitive curves made into a shape. Color Shape Texture Form Value. Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and the FACS Manual. What are the FACS Manual and Investigator's Guide? The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) Manual is a detailed, technical guide that explains how to categorize facial behaviors based on the muscles that produce them, i.e., how muscular action is related to facial appearances. It illustrates appearance changes of the face using written descriptions, still images, and digital video examples. Behavioral scientists, CG animators, computer scientists interested in pattern recognition programs, and other technicians and scientists use FACS in their professional work when they need to know the exact movements that the face can perform, and what muscles produce them.
Working through the exercises of the FACS Manual may also enable greater awareness of and sensitivity to subtle facial behaviors that could be useful for psychotherapists, interviewers, and other practitioners who must penetrate deeply into interpersonal communications. What is Facial Action Coding System? How does one obtain FACS? CTM Visual Design Certification Test part 2 Jeopardy Template.
CTM Visual Design Certification Test part 1 Jeopardy Template. CTM Visual Design Certification Practice Test. Chapter 4 - Typography Jeopardy Template. Certification Test Jeopardy Template. Hunie | Collaboration Through Critiques. UCreative - Forum, Graphic Design Gallery, and Social Network. 10 Most Evil Propaganda Techniques Used by the Nazis. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (or National Socialist German Worker’s Party) created in the Third Reich the most extreme and terrifying example of a totalitarian regime the world has ever seen.
It is often wondered quite how a sophisticated and highly developed 20th century nation was politically overpowered by the Nazis. One answer, and a major factor in the Nazi’s effectiveness as a political force, was that not only did they ruthlessly deploy violence against dissidence, but they also utterly mastered the art of propaganda, fabricating a national ideology around their twisted beliefs. Here we take a look at some of their most evil and insidiously effective propaganda techniques. 10. Posters - Using symbolic imagery Hitler and his leaders understood the power of propaganda in conveying the party line, and poster art was often at the heart of the publicity machine. 9. 8.
The radio broadcast was recognized by the Nazis as one of the most important propaganda tools in their arsenal. 7. Abduzeedo Design Inspiration | Design Inspiration & Tutorials. Ads of the World™ | Creative Advertising Archive & Community. Current Work / Our Work / Ad Council - AdCouncil. Current Work / Our Work / Ad Council - AdCouncil. 90 Beautiful Book Cover Design in Different Style. Inspiration: Interesting & Unique Typographic Book Covers.
Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Books offer graphic designers, illustrators and typographers a great way to expand their portfolios. There are endless possibilities that can be explored when designing for book covers, and often are explored, as can be seen in this post. I’ve had an increased interest in book covers recently after putting together another showcase at The Inspiration Blog on minimalistic book covers, since then I have been browsing for book cover inspiration daily so thought I would share some of my findings here at DesignM.ag.
This showcase presents a collection of 64 typographic book covers, all of which are interesting and are genuinely unique. The books themselves are crossed between a number of Coney Island of the Mind Buy on Amazon Eight Weeks of Bruce Buy on Amazon Estrella Distante Buy on Amazon Exit Ghost Buy on Amazon Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme Buy on Amazon We Must Not Slump In Dejection Or Shut Ourselves Away Buy on Amazon Stone.
50+ Kick-butt Book Cover Designs. BittBox. Free Design Resource Roundup #1. Resources December 11, 2009 This holiday season, we’ve decided to give more to our readers by starting a series of free design resource roundups. In these roundups, we’ll compile the fresh free picks of the week, from fonts, brushes, patterns, and textures, to contests, giveaways, and tutorials. Hope you like the roundup for this week, and let us know if you’d like us to include other stuff! Brushes Broken Heart Brushes – QBrushes 50+ Free Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets – Naldz Graphics Fonts 30 Useful and Free Dingbats – Web Resources Depot 50 High-Quality Free Fonts – DesignM.ag 30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts – instantShift Friday Fresh Free Fonts #27 – Abduzeedo Giveaways Win a Typography T-Shirt – Comment to Win – Bittbox Wix Unlimited Package Giveaway – WebDesignLedger Icons The Best Free Web Icons for Different Purposes – WebAppers 35 Beautiful Set of Christmas Icons – Onextrapixel 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons – Tutorial9.net Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set – Smashing Magazine Patterns Textures.
Tag "Inspiration" on Smashing Magazine. 50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory. 1,200+ courses and ebooks Design, code, video editing, business, and much more. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesignGraphic, Logo and Print DesignSketch, Adobe XD & FigmaWordPressJavascript, PHP & PythonAdobe After Effects & Premiere ProMuch More Millions of creative assets Design templates, stock videos, photos & audio, and much more. Graphic TemplatesStock PhotosMusic TracksVideo TemplatesWeb TemplatesDesign AssetsWordpress Themes & PluginsMuch More 1,200+ courses and ebooks Design, code, video editing, business, and much more.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesignGraphic, Logo and Print DesignSketch, Adobe XD & FigmaWordPressJavascript, PHP & PythonAdobe After Effects & Premiere ProMuch More Millions of creative assets Design templates, stock videos, photos & audio, and much more. Graphic TemplatesStock PhotosMusic TracksVideo TemplatesWeb TemplatesDesign AssetsWordpress Themes & PluginsMuch More. Adobe Illustrator and vector tutorials, from beginner to advanced | Vectortuts+ Crossword Puzzle Maker. You must have an OLD browser. The old crossword maker doesn't allow all of the new features like cool fonts, adding images, shadows, special colors, and much more coming in the furture like saving, and being playable online. You can upgrade your browser to IE 9+ or better yet, get the Google Chrome browser and enjoy all of those great features.
Not convinced? You can go to the old version by clicking choosing it below. 2 reasons crosswords will not generate: 1. 1. Take the following example word list: "home, cat, dog". A slightly different impossible list: "home", "dog", "lizard" - all 3 have letters that they share! When you add a bunch of words, the chance for it being an impossible can increase (depending on many factors). 2. Word roots: The web's largest root words and prefix directory. The roots of online casinos can be traced back to the late 20th century when advancements in internet technology paved the way for the emergence of virtual gambling platforms.
Here's a brief overview of the key milestones and developments in the history of online casinos: Antigua and Barbuda: In 1994, the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda passed the Free Trade & Processing Act, which allowed for the licensing of online casinos. This legislation laid the foundation for the legal operation of internet-based gambling businesses.
The First Online Casino: The first online casino, "Loonie Online Casinos" was launched in 1994 by Microgaming, a software development company based in the Isle of Man. The Gaming Club offered a small selection of casino games and quickly gained popularity among early internet users. Rapid Expansion: Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, the online casino industry experienced rapid growth, with numerous new operators entering the market. Dutch Law Firm Uses Video Game to Evaluate Law Graduates' Talent. Legal Marketing & Consulting Posted Feb 17, 2011 6:04 PM CDT By Laala Al Jaber, Sarah Randag The trailer for Houthoff Buruma's "The Game. " “The Game,” which picked up an award in the Best Use of Technology to Support Marketing Efforts category at the recent 2011 Hubbard One Excellence in Legal Marketing Awards, dominated discussions at the Scottsdale, Ariz., event.
Dutch law firm Houthoff Buruma teamed up with Ranj Serious Games to create “The Game” to help the firm "find the talented students since grades often have nothing to do with it," Legal Current reported. Players of "The Game"—graduating law students in the Netherlands—are given a complex legal scenario wherein they must represent a Chinese state-owned company as it plans to take over a Dutch family company.
The players are split into teams of up to five people, given 90 minutes to confront problems as they arise and persuade enough shareholders to sell their shares.