Themeleon : COLOURlove for Your Twitter Pr. We have more than 600k seamless background patterns and more than 1 million color palettes... Why aren't more sites using our API to give their users beautiful options for their profiles? Sounds like a no-brainer right? Well, I met Evan Williams (@ev) from twitter a few weekends ago and I presented this idea to him. He was open to it, but Twitter was super busy working on other features... BUT if we built it he'd definitely check it out. Well, Ev... Introducing... Ok... @ev "Holy crap, this is rad: @COLOURlovers built a Twitter theme designer: So does Twitter! A Beautiful Twitter Profile in 3 Simple Steps: 1.) 2.) 3.)
Browse Your COLOURlovers Creations & Faves Want to create your theme using your own palettes and patterns from COLOURlovers? Login and browse your New & Top patterns or palettes as well as your Favorite New & Top. Use the Tools Luke! -Apply. -Shuffle. -Undo. -Drag & Drop. *New* DHTML Color Picker Use Themeleon on Your Site Theme Leon? Dustin Curtis is human. Design Something Every Day! - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement As designers, we’re all trying to get better at what we do. We surf the Web daily for hours trying to find useful tips and tricks to enhance our design skills. But what if we spent less time surfing the Web looking for inspiration and more time creating and designing things?
The Challenge Someone once said, “Practice makes perfect“. While that statement might not be completely true, I do believe that practice makes you better. That is why in this blog post, I would like to propose something to every designer: Why not try to design something every day for one year? Actors rehearse their lines until they learn them perfectly. Most of you are probably thinking that I am out of my mind for proposing this. Some Practical Advice 15 – 20 Minutes Daily This challenge is for you to practice your skills. And don’t worry or get discouraged if you miss a day due to other more important commitments. Design Ideas Another thing you can do is experiment4 with different ideas that you have. (ll) 80+ Inspiring Quotes about Design | Design was here. These quotes will surely inspire, assist, motivate, and help every one about Design.
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. — Charles Eames Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. — Brian Reed There is no design without discipline. €” Massimo Vignelli People ignore design that ignores people. — Frank Chimero I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy. — Thomas Vasquez Good design is obvious. €” Joe Sparano Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work.
€” Aaron Russell The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong. — Marty Neumeier Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. The Science of White Space in Design. White space, also referred to as “negative space”, is an important aesthetic tactic utilised in a majority of graphical/design illustrations/publications. In its most generalised definition, white spaces are the strategic visual sections of a page/illustration that are left unmarked and thus uncluttered by any specific aesthetic detail. Characteristically, these ‘blank spaces’ are strategically located, between margins, leading text and sub-sections of a page layout. The true functional beauty of white spaces lies in its rather paradoxical function; it defines and enhances the visual prominence of various accompanying graphical/typographic elements, without containing meaning, context or content in itself.
If used intelligently, white spaces aid in the effective transmission of images and text. In the following paragraphs, I summarize the central tenets in the science of white space. The Game of Brand Identity The Game of Hierarchical Significance The Game of Minimalism credits credits.