These Brands Allow Users To Design Them. How'd They Pull It Off? Branding continues to evolve at a gallop, spurred this time by advancing technology and the rise of social media. "The internet has challenged the conventions of branding,? says Simon Browning, a brand specialist at Tokyo creative agency EAT. "We believe that smart companies will shift focus from logos and CI's to actively demonstrate what they are capable of and establish innovative policies that people can align with."
35+ Fantastic Examples Of Beautiful Flash Websites Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. Having a full of animation or jazzy looking flash website is a dream for those who are the admirer of flash work but to find amazing flash websites for inspiration is not that easy. koflash.com is the one stop service place for flash fans to discover amazing flash innovations mankind has to offer. Yes, the mentioned innovations do include all the popular topics like 3D, games, cars, portfolios, etc. The Value of a Color Study April 1st, 2008 Color studies. Are they really all that important? ChangeOrder: How to Conduct Post-Mortem Project Evaluations This is an extensive rewrite of a previous ChangeOrder post for my next book Design Business from A to Z—so much so I'm reposting it! The website went live last week, and the entire staff is throwing a party to celebrate! The developers are huddled in the corner with some microbrews, plotting how they'll splice into the agency intranet to add a virtual dartboard. Designers are mingling with the copywriters and account people, clinking wineglasses and bonding over the ads they saw during The Office. Yes, the job went way over budget—and the last thing your team wants to think about is who needs to take responsibility for it. Not the best time to mention that tomorrow, you're scheduling a post-mortem meeting (a.k.a. lessons learned, post future, etc.) to talk about how the project really went.
Digital Painting Tutorials for Concept Artists & Illustrators Email Most digital painting tutorials are all about the “digital” and not at all about the “painting.” They tell you which button to click and demonstrate cool, digital tricks but they don’t help you create believable worlds and characters. “Digital” is just a synonym for “convenience.” Understand the Psychology of Design Excerpted from 100 Things Every Designer Should Know About People by Susan Weinschenk. Copyright © 2011. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders. To receive a 35% discount on this book, go to the Peachpit Press Online Store and enter the discount code 100T during the checkout process. This offer is valid through December 2012. In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the printed book.
How to Color Inked Line Art in Photoshop In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going give you a general overview of how I digitally color an illustration. We’ll go over scanning, cleaning, flatting, coloring, rendering, and texturing techniques. There’s just as many ways to coloring a drawing digitally as there is to painting a picture. This tutorial won’t focus on any specific way to blend or choose colors; we’ll assume you have knowledge of the basics. Make Grids Quickly in InDesign This article originally appeared in InDesign Magazine #37, August/September 2010. Subscribe now! Some designers use structured grid systems with guides on Master Pages to influence their layout decisions. Others rarely use formal grid systems at all. Yet all designers have the occasional need to arrange images in rows and columns, and for that, you need a grid. But how can you create a quick grid without resorting to subtraction and long division?