Essential Typography Tutorials and Resources
As content creators, it's our job to ensure that anyone who looks at our work understands it both on an informational and also emotional level. When you communicate using written words, clarity and context can get lost in translation - whoever reads your words ends up interpreting them for themselves, no matter how concisely you write. In the modern age, we use computers to create beautiful presentations of information, and we use the web to share it. Since the web is mainly made of type information (around 95% typography, actually), it is critical to understand how to use the web to your advantage to better present your information. Taking this into consideration, we have taken great care to find you only the best instructional tutorials and articles to help you learn about typography. Essential Typography Tutorials and Resources Typography Tutorials WebMonkey's Web Typography Tutorial Series Webexpedition18's CSS3 Text Effect Tutorials TopDesignMag's Typography Design Tutorials Conclusion
Best Ipad Drawing Apps
When famous photographer Annie Leibovitz was asked what’s the best camera she said, the iphone4. Why? Because the best camera is the one on you. The same thinking can be applied to the ipad. When you’re struck with inspiration on a plane, train or automobile you don’t have your desk top and even your laptop is a little cumbersome to pull out – you might have already had your ipad open catching up on your design blogs. So how do you ensure you have the right tools in your ipad arsenal to accommodate even the most elaborate of ideas. With dozens to of creative tools choose from, ranging from $2.99 to $15 you can easily sink tons of money into buying apps you may never use. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Melody Stone is a journalist/blogger and designer living in Sacramento Ca. Naaz 40 Creative Vector Tutorials for Graphic Designer Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your head around, particularly after getting used to... 42 Stunning Collection of 3D Illustrator Tutorials
30 Beautiful Typographic T-Shirts
Some type tees depend on a pithy phrase to make them interesting, in a simple boring font. Some t-shirt designers go above and beyond to enhance the message with beautiful typography. We’re going to take a closer look at those t-shirts. 30 Typographically Awesome T-Shirts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Top 10 Funny Anthropomorphic Food T-shirts
As a t-shirt designer I spend a lot of time browsing the web checking out the latest t-shirt trends. One thing I’ve noticed is shirts featuring funny anthropomorphic food are always popular. I could do a top ten just featuring moldy-zombie food t-shirts, although that would be zombipamorphic Food… I think. The point is, there are herds of funny shirts with food acting like people – so here’s a round of up of the best. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Content- This funny little toaster t-shirt is from webcomic artist Jeph Jacques. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Melody Stone is a marketing associate and custom t-shirt designer at Fibers.com. Tags: anthropomorphic bread artichoke bacon blood vampire breakfast food funny shirts herds household appliances human attributes loyal army old movie theaters piece of bread questionable content snorg tees t shirt toaster true blood woot
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Essential Tools for Crowdsourcing Answers to Your Questions | Tools
These days, you can ask everyone, anywhere anything, anytime. Since the advent of the social internet, gone are the days when seeking advice required thorough investigation of forums, IRC channels, and databases. Now, we have the power to ask anyone, anywhere anything, anytime by using crowdsourcing question and answer tools. Crowdsourcing Q&A tools have been around since at least 1999; however, as the socially collaborative internet has evolved, crowdsourcing Q&A sites have become increasingly popular and useful as both new and existing tools have begun granulating into serving specific information niches – in other words, you are going to get more answers from more people who are specifically interested in what you’re trying to find out. If you’ve thought about using crowdsourcing Q&A tools, don’t hesitate! All Our Ideas All Our Ideas is a crowdsourcing tool that you can implement as a standalone website to get collaborate feedback, answers to questions, and suggestions from users.
Essential Tools for Crowdsourcing Answers to Your Questions
Seven Effective Editorial Illustrations
People need pictures. Block text in a magazine just isn’t engaging enough for the fast-paced lives of the modern reader. So as the attention span of Americans decreased the demand for illustrators increases. Here are some engaging and evocative editorial illustrations. Artist: James Jean Publication: Rolling Stone Subject: Portrait of Trent Reznor. Artist: Josh Cochran Publication: The New Yorker Subject: Manhattan book release party for a short story entitled “Ever Since” by Donald Antrim. Artist: Olivier Kugler Publication: XXI Subject: This example of Olivier Kulger’s depiction of a truck driver’s journey across Iran won him the top prize at the V&A Illustration Awards. Artist: Christoph Niemann Subject: As said before the New Yorkers covers have always been an amazing example of editorial illustration and Christoph Neimann has quite a collection under his belt. Artist: Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly Publication: The New Yorker Subject: 9/11/2011, a day that will go down in history.
25 Compeletely Awesome Cycling Advocacy T-Shirts
Guest Post from Melody Stone in Sacramento. T-shirts are for making statements and as cyclists we’ve got a lot to say. So I set about collecting the coolest cycling activism t-shirts on the web. Some of these t-shirt designs are simple and with a subtle statement, but I feel they still loudly exclaim the benefits of cycling. 1. 53 Miles Per Burrito by Zero Per Gallon: this list has a lot of references to the fact that bikes don’t require gas to go. This is one of them. 2. 3. 4. 3 Feet Please T-Shirt from 3 Feet Please: The 3 Feet Please campaign is an effort to inform drivers of the needed space to give a cyclist. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. i ride T-Shirt from Redbubble – In the same vein as the previous shirt, these tiny bicycles make up the words “i ride,” simple and powerful message about how you get around town. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Melody Stone is an avid cyclist, writer and t-shirt designer from Sacramento California.
The power of propaganda
Propaganda serves to rally people to action, take up arms and fight, vote for someone or something, make a change socially or politically – propaganda is a relevant and effective tools used everyday by government and private industry. Do you believe smoking is bad for you? You can probably thank years of targeted propaganda for that. Unless you’re one of the few people that base all their decisions on fact and science, you probably feel a certain way towards smoking because of an anti-smoking campaign. Propaganda is a style of communication with political intent, utilizing emotion and suggestion to sway opinion and action. Creating dynamic and effective graphic pieces to sway someone’s emotions is key to advertising or even just getting a job in the graphic design field. Target areas of sensitivity: during the height of WWII propaganda we saw lots of images playing up patriotism, manliness and family. J.
