12 Free Web Apps to Boost Your Drawing Skills Drawing and sketching were once activities limited to pencil and paper, but for budding artists in the digital age, there's a wealth of online, browser-based tools to let your creativity run wild. It doesn't just have to be a hobby or pastime, though — drawing is useful for brainstorming and problem-solving, and these web apps can aid in any profession. We've picked 12 of the best drawing and sketching apps to suit any level of artist, ranging from professional-grade applications to simple tools for doodling. They're all free, and since they're all online, they can be accessed from anywhere. Show As Gallery Have something to add to this story? Image: Flickr, dboyfotopages
Sensu Artist Brush & Stylus for iPad and Touch Screen Devices Best Free Fonts of 2011 With only a month and a half left in 2011, it’s hard to believe another year is drawing to a close. If you’re a long time reader of WDL, you probably know that at the end of each year we publish a series of posts that highlight our favorite freebies and resources from that year. It’s an excellent way to show you what you might have missed, and to give the designers and creators some well deserved recognition. To kick it off, here are the best free fonts of 2011. There were tons of great free fonts released this year, so it was a difficult task choosing our favorites. Weston Infinity Ostrich Sans Fabrica Wisdom Script Pacifico RBNo2 Five Minutes Hyperbola Dock 11 About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 784 shares Best Free UI PSDs of 2011 So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins. Read More 1169 shares Best jQuery Plugins of 2011
How To create interactive prototypes with Apple Keynote Step 1: Plan It Create a diagram with each interface screen as a state, and create links to specify how users will transition between them. The diagram above shows a social media application that tracks multiple accounts, and allows users to post updates to multiple networks. Step 2: Prototype It Open the .Key file that comes with the Keynotopia Prototyping Templates side by side with a new presentation. Start by creating a slide for each screen (each state in the diagram) by copying interface elements from the keynotopia template and pasting them onto your presentation. You can also modify element sizes, colors, and effects using the shape inspector in Keynote. After putting together the main screens, you can move them to master slides so that you can reuse them in other screens without doing much copy/paste, and update multiple screens with a single change. Step 3: Add Interactivity Make sure you test the interactivity every once in a while to make sure the app behaves as you’d expect it to.
On the verge! | Sensu Brush “The definitive paintbrush for iPad,” writes Ellis Hamburger of theverge.com in their review of the Sensu brush. The Sensu Brush looks like a Space Pen, but when you pull off its cap, it reveals itself as a paint brush / stylus hybrid. Attach the cap to the stylus’ other side, and the tool instantly becomes the longest entry in my stylus round up. The Sensu is one many stylus that are reviewed, you can check the complete set of reviews here (To navigate between reviews use the links on the left).
The Typography of Sanborn New York City Maps NEW YORK Staten Island. Atlas 159, 1885 BROOKLYN New York. Atlas 80. Vol. 6, 1888 Variations of this design appeared between 1886 and 1988. NEW YORK Brooklyn Suburbs. Insurance maps of the city of NEW YORK 1896 Variations of this design appeared between 1894 and 1902. Insurance maps of the Borough of Richmond. Borough of Queens. NEW YORK Manhattan 1905 The same design was used for the maps of The Bronx. Borough of Queens. Borough of Richmond. This article is the first part of a series of articles about Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. In february BibliOdyssey posted an article about Sanborn fire insurance typography. The New York public Library has an online collection of Atlases of New York city, including a section containing Insurance maps of New York. 4,961 images from maps of the five boroughs of New York City: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. The images displayed above are all the title pages from the Insurance maps of New York I could find.
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