Doodlers Anonymous: The permanent home for spontaneous doodle art. CGSociety Creative design Users Love Simple & Familiar Designs – Why Websites Need to Make a Great First Impression We form first impressions of the people and things we encounter in our daily lives in an extraordinarily short timeframe. We know the first impression a website’s design creates is crucial in capturing users’ interest. In less than 50 milliseconds, users build an initial “gut feeling” that helps them decide whether they’ll stay or leave. In our study we investigated how users’ first impressions of websites are influenced by two design factors: Visual complexity — how complex the visual design of a website looks Prototypicality — how representative a design looks for a certain category of websites Users Love Simple & Familiar Designs – Why Websites Need to Make a Great First Impression The Sketchnotes Channel at Core77 The Sketchnotes channel allows one to learn more about sketchnotes, including a great overview of a new kind of visual thinking and some basics to get started off. The Space of Design
AkaTako.net | Contemporary Japanese Art Schoolism Open The Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview With Lori Emerson It is summer and the Rocky Mountains loom large and golden over Boulder, Colorado, where the university spreads out in matching brown-yellow stone. Schools of mountain bikers zip past the traffic on their way up, up, up—where endless blue skies and wild spaces await. But I am on my way down, down, down: I’m visiting the Media Archaeology Lab, housed in several rooms of the lower level of an ordinary-seeming house just a block or so off campus. Down the stairs into the cool shade of a cut-rock patio I go, brushing my hand against the rough, cave-like walls. Walking into a room full of computers that are practically pre-historic in computer-years, I feel the sort of reverence one feels at a museum—at first I want to stand at a distance and take photos. The MAL has recently opened itself up to artists’ residencies, in addition to being open to the public. I spoke to Lori Emerson by e-mail, shortly after my visit. The Rumpus: What kind of people tend to visit the Media Archaeology Lab?
The Mad Art of Caricature! Watch Cartoon Episodes & Free English Dub Anime Streaming Online Print Art on Demand – Resources for Artists Print on demand (POD), sometimes called “publish on demand”, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of an item are not printed until an order has been received. While it most often applies to books and DVDs, it also applies to the reproduction of artwork in a variety of ways. POD FOR ART Digital technology is ideally suited to publish small print runs of posters (often as a single copy) as and when they are needed. The introduction of UV-curable inks and media for large format inkjet printers has allowed artists, photographers and owners of image collections to take advantage of print on demand. In addition, a significant number of the major art galleries around the world now offer a print on demand systems for the artwork under their control. Traditional publishers are also moving across to print on demand as it’s more economic in terms of inventory costs. For more details see the wikipedia article