Microinteractions eBook: Dan Saffer. Basic Geometric Shapes: Illustrate a Series of Icons or Badges. In the world of social media, blogs, networks, tweets, chirps and posts, graphic icons and badges are everywhere. Have you ever wanted to design your own set of icons or badges to contribute to this visual internet wonderland? If so, you've come to the right place. We'll focus on honing in on an idea, refining and crafting the details of a central concept before moving on to sketching.
Then I'll dive into my process and show you a ton of tips and tricks for using basic geometric shapes in Illustrator to craft complex visuals in a minimal amount of space. We'll work through color palettes, details and consistency. You will complete a set of graphics that are both cohesive and individual. What You'll Learn Building Ideas. What You'll Make You will create a series of at least 6 icons or badges that focus on a central theme of your choosing– animals, robots, spaceships, buildings, food, social media, you name it!
Presenting Your Work with Your Own Portfolio Website. The ProjectIn this class you'll learn how to make your own portfolio website to showcase your work. We'll cover everything from the basics, to setting up your domain name, and installing themes. How the Class WorksThroughout the class you'll be able to get feedback from your fellow classmates, ask questions, and join groups. Go at your own pace, you can either knock out your website during one weekend, or span it across several weeks. What We'll CoverThis class is a begineer level class, and will cover the following: Content and Purpose (projects, pages, and more)Platforms (Virb, Behance, Cargo, Squarespace, etc)Design (chosing a template or theme, thumbnails, personal branding)Finishing Touches (domain names and promoting your site) We won't be really covering any HTML, CSS, or coding in this class. Who This Class is For Designers, photographers, illustrators, and anybody with a portfolio of creative work that they want to share.
W/uploads/5/5f/FUDCon-Toronto_2009-Presentations-DesigningUIMockupsinInkscape.pdf. Inkscape. Inkscape is an open source drawing tool for creating and editing SVG graphics. More than just a text vector editor, Inkscape provides a WYSIWYG interface for manipulation of vector images, allowing the artist to express himself freely. While other free and proprietary software with similar capabilities exists, Inkscape provides an interface to directly manipulate the underlying SVG code.
This allows one to be certain that the code complies to W3C standards. Since the beginning of its development, the Inkscape project has been very active, providing stability for the current software and the capacity for future growth. Like other drawing programs, Inkscape offers creation of basic shapes (such as ellipses, rectangles, stars, polygons, and spirals) as well as the ability to transform and manipulate these basic shapes by rotation, stretching, and skewing.
Inkscape also allows users to manipulate objects precisely by adjusting node points and curves. Designing Websites With Inkscape | Tucson Labs. Inkscape is a great program to have in your toolbox as a web designer. It’s similar to Adobe Illustrator, but the user interface and tools are slightly different. It’s also an open source program released under the GPL, and is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. This program can be used on on its own without the use of photo editing software like Photoshop or Gimp to create professional websites. This tutorial will walk you through some basic techniques for creating websites with Inkscape using this very basic blog design as a guide. Document Set Up Open up a new document in Inkscape and edit the document size by navigating to File » Document Properties or just press Ctrl + Shift + D. A width of 960 pixels is popular for the web because most people in the US have a computer with a resolution of 1280 by 800 or greater.
The Layout The next thing we need to think about is the site’s layout. Creating An Export Layer Guides Design The Drop Shadow The body The logo Main Content. Www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/2688-chapter-2-designing-site-layouts .pdf. Inkscape. Kit FUI - Noteloop.