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Top 10 Websites for Designers - April 2012

Top 10 Websites for Designers - April 2012
This latest edition of the Top 10 Websites for Designers includes a new creative critique platform, a fun color picker for the real world and more. In November's Top 10 Websites for Designers you'll discover collections of thought-provoking posters, a flawlessly delivered digital story and more. In October's Top 10 Sites for Designers, check out a showcase of people from all backgrounds in design; a color gradient generator; fun agency site & more. In this month's roundup of websites for designers, you'll find font pairing tools, interesting portfolio sites, a product graveyard and more. This month's roundup of websites for designers features a history of cocktail lettering, a funny interactive film and goofy designer excuses. This month’s Top 10 Websites for Designers includes design portfolio inspiration, an interesting color resource and websites that offer unique storytelling experiences.

High Quality Texture 4 Fresh Green Leafs fresh like the early mornings, droplets of dew and the sun started my day bright. I wanted to share the freshness of my day to the world. Love the earth to live better. Hopefully, this texture can be useful for your next design and inspire the world. Term of UseFull size each image are 2304 x 1728 pixel. Fresh Leaf 1 Fresh Leaf 2 Fresh Leaf 3 Fresh Leaf 4 An Art Service - Graphic Design and Art Direction Design a brand identity in 10 easy steps | Branding When a client approaches you to create a new brand identity for their product, service or event, things can seem a little bit daunting. But don't worry - all you need to do is apply all the skills you've built up in your design career in a slightly different way. To help you along, here are some expert tips on developing the perfect brand identity that will make both you and your client happy. Who knows, come next year it might be your brand on the corner of every street... 01. Before starting work on a new brand identity, draw up a brand strategy to form a set of values and a proposition upon which the client and you agree. 02. If design concepts are created without thorough briefing on the brand, then both creative and client end up relying too much on an intuitive idea of the solution, and accordingly run the risk of feedback being subjective. 03. Understand the personality of the brand - its history, function and the ethos behind it all. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

Inside Cyrus Highsmith’s New Book, a Typographic Classic in the Making Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals By Cyrus Highsmith Font Bureau, 2012 Cyrus Highsmith, senior designer at the Boston-based Font Bureau, has written a short book on the basics of typography that, despite its odd approach—or maybe because of it—promises to become a standard text in introductory typography courses. The book, to be formally released next month during TypeCon 2012, in Milwaukee, is called Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals, an accurate yet prosaic title that belies its charms. It is a simple book with a simple premise, which means that it is actually a very deep book. In a spread from "Inside Paragraphs," Highsmith shows the effect of justification on wordspacing. In roughly 100 spreads, Highsmith explains the fundamentals of typography by focusing exclusively on one thing: white space. Highsmith discusses the choice of the right point size for text. Highsmith explains the use of hyphenation and justification settings in achieving justified text. Ha.

20 Revealing Fonts Used in Logo of Popular Websites Are you still figuring out which typeface or fonts used in logo of popular websites? If you have experimented many fonts and they just don’t work, this post is all for you. Revealing the font used on each logo of popular websites is somewhat interesting to follow, either it was modified or just plain used. In this revealing post, we have covered 20 Revealing Fonts Used in Logo of Popular Websites. Update: Are you craving for more revealing fonts? You might want to take a look at the following related articles: Dont forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter – for recent updates. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Fri, 07/08/2011 | Co.Design ThisThatThese&Those Arayüz tasarımcıları için ilgi çekici içerikleri listeleyen Geisha, aylık bir milyon görüntülenmeye ulaştı Erman Taylan | 05 Şubat 2014 | Sizlere bugün biraz farklı ve ‘cool’ bir internet projesini tanıtacağız: Geisha. 2013 yılının Eylül ayında yayına giren Geisha, şu an 5 binin üzerinde arayüz tasarımcının Chrome’da açtıkları her yeni sekmede karşısına çıkıyor. Geisha’da şu an için sadece Dribbble‘da bulunan en popüler görseller ve Designer News’teki en popüler haberler listeleniyor. Şimdilik yalnızca Chrome’da çalışan Geisha’yı tarayıcını yüklediğiniz açtığınız her yeni tab’da yukarıda bahsettiğimiz içerikleri görebiliyorsunuz. Geisha’nın kullanıcı kitlesini yalnızca arayüz tasarımcılardan ibaret görmemek gerekiyor. Ahmet Sülek Ahmet Sülek tarafından hayata geçirilen Geisha, aslında bir Chrome eklentisi. 14 yaşından beri arayüz tasarımı ve yazılımla uğraşan Sülek, Flat UI Colors ve The News gibi ‘hobi’ projelerinin sahibi ve aynı zamanda Prisync girişiminin de kurucu ortaklarından. İkinci versiyon yolda

How to edit photos with the Pixlr online editor Not so long ago, you needed software installed on your computer to do any kind of photo editing. That’s still the case if you want to accomplish highly complex tasks such as stitching panoramas together, but a huge range of photo editing jobs can be done using online tools. Here, we’re going to look at the very competent Pixlr. There are several advantages that online photo editors such as Pixlr offer over traditional software. One is obviously that you avoid the process of having to download and install it. Yet another advantage is that you can use Pixlr from any computer - as long as it has an internet connection and Flash support. There are other image editing applications on the web, but we like Pixlr because it's so flexible and has lots of features. You can use Pixlr to edit photos uploaded from a computer or from the cloud (all you need is to paste in a URL), so no matter where your images are stored, you'll be able to edit them in Pixlr. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5.

30 Examples of Awesome Typography We have made a selection of more than 30 awesome typography examples that will guarantee to make your work look brilliant. Furthermore, if you’re currently working on a project that involves the “art of designing letters” and you lack inspiration, then you shouldn’t overlook the list we’ve prepared for you. Basically, we’ve included all the major styles from handwriting to bold letters or vintage types. And there’s colour to here. So make sure that you scroll easily as missing one on the examples will be a great loss to your creative edge. Nevertheless, enjoy, be inspired and if you will like this article, then please share it with your friends or community! Respect our work! Echo Bites Artem Sukhinin Irinel Papuc 5º Congreso Internacional de Tipografia Fake Studio & Joan Moreno Friday Type Marcelo Schultz Swallow Cafe No Entry Design Section Rugby BMD Design Ministry of Sound Laura Knox Floating Calligraphy Eric Waetzig Just the Type James McNaught & Thomas Wightman Jack Daniels Fan page Pau Molas

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