Reader Tutorial: Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop We have accepted some tutorials from readers and we think it's really good to open the blog, so anyone can share their skills with the community. Because of that, we will start the "Reader Tutorial" series. If you have or want to write a tutorial and publish it here on Abduzeedo, just send it via email to us. Thank you very much and enjoy our first tutorial from Jonathan Connolly. Hey guys this is Creative Volition, an advertising and design agency based out of South Florida. Just a quick thanks to Abduzeedo for being such a great help to the design community. Here is a quick tutorial from one of our latest designs. Step 1 Create a new document at 1200 x 800 pixels with a resolution of 72dpi. Step 2 Hide all vectors and create a new text box. Step 3 Text settings: 16pt font, Regular, 16pt height spacing, Color #404040. Step 4 Continue to copy/paste the text until it fills the entire canvas. Step 5 Step 6 Make one of the smart objects visible. Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Conclusion
Typopassage Henry Hargreaves photographie le dernier repas du condamné à mort Henry Hargreaves n’est pas l’un de ces cuistots qui passent à la télé. Plutôt que de s’attaquer aux méfaits des cantines scolaires ou d’essayer de « pondre un crostini en un temps record », il a choisi de se faire un nom en photographiant des créations gastronomiques comme les arcs-en-ciel comestibles ou les iPad frits. Mais c’est son projet No Seconds [Pas de rabe] qui l’a fait connaître au plus grand nombre. À travers cette série, on pourra se faire une idée assez concrète de ce qui passe par la tête d’un condamné à mort. VICE : Salut Henry. Pensez-vous que ces repas sont autant de fenêtres sur la psyché des condamnés ? Est-ce que ce projet est une façon de parler de la peine de mort ? Il y a quelques commandes assez bizarres. Avez-vous cuisiné tous les plats vous-même ? L’olive seule – avec son noyau – est l’une des images les plus poignantes. Vous pensez que ces commandes témoignent de la volonté des détenus de faire une dernière déclaration ? Je vois.
Thinking with Type | Home Lebbeus Woods: The Architect Who Dared to Ask 'What If?' | Wired Design He envisioned underground cities, floating buildings and an eternal space tomb for Albert Einstein worthy of the great physicist’s expansive intellect. With such grand designs, perhaps it’s not too surprising that the late Lebbeus Woods, one of the most influential conceptual architects ever to walk the earth, had only one of his wildly imaginative designs become a permanent structure. Instead of working with construction and engineering firms, Woods dreamed up provocative creations that weren’t bound by the rules of society or even nature, according to Joseph Becker and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, co-curators of a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art titled Lebbeus Woods, Architect. “It was almost a badge of honor to never have anything built, because you were not a victim of the client,” Becker told Wired during a preview of the fascinating show, which opens Saturday and runs through June 2. “It could be an inhabitable space,” Becker said.
Type Worship Colourful messages transform the winding favela streets Earlier this year Boa Mistura, an urban art collective formed in Madrid, worked on a vibrant community project near São Paulo, Brazil The collective worked with the children and other residents of Brasilândia Vila, a poor suburb on the outskirts of São Paulo, to fill the narrow streets with colour and words: beleza, amor, doçura, firmeza and orgulho (beauty, love, sweetness, firmness and pride). These one-point perspective messages are carefully painted to reveal themselves to passers-by as they reach a certain part of the the street. The smiles of the participants clearly say it all. I Like It. This new print by Anthony Burrill made me smile. 51 x 77 cm, Gold Hot Foiling on Black Colourplan stock. Design with Beauty • Build in Truth Fantastic stationery for The Architectural Association, produced by master stationers, Downey (more about them and their work to follow). Beautiful. Light Writing Breathless in Hastings - Eine Yeah!
20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. Plus, readers who like what they see are more likely to share visual guides more than articles. While not everyone can make infographics from scratch, there are tools available on the Web that will help you create your very own infographics. Read Also: The Infographic Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here? What About Me? “What About Me?” Vizualize.me Vizualize.me allows you to create an online resume format that is beautiful, relevant and fun, all with just one click. Piktochart easel.ly
Typojungle Books 14 Free Mac Apps for Web Designers on a Budget We all know that Macs aren’t the most affordable computers on the market. Purchasing one can take a big chunk out of a web designer’s budget and leave little to purchase software. Thankfully, there are alternatives to the expensive software that we need to do our job. Here are 14 Mac applications that will have you doing everything from editing images to writing code, and they won’t cost you a dime. The abbreviation “MAMP” stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package. Cyberduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. svnX SvnX is an open source GUI for most features of the svn client binary. Paparazzi Paparazzi! FileZilla FileZilla is a free open source ftp application. TextWrangler TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. Inkscape KompoZer Simple CSS VirtualBox MindNode Skitch Pixus About the Author Related Posts 810 shares Read More
75 top typography tutorials | Typography The web is brimming with typography tutorials, but many are low quality and others are very out of date. So we’ve trawled the internet to uncover the diamonds in the rough, in the form of 50 top-quality typography tutorials, to bring your knowledge and skills up to speed. Get Creative Cloud Perhaps you’re looking for a good introduction to the fundamentals of typography? We’ll be adding to this list as time moves on, so make sure you bookmark this fantastic resource, and come back from time to time to see what’s new in the world of typography tutorials. We'll start by looking at tutorials to help you with mastering the fundamentals of typography – skip through to another page if you're after something more advanced. 01. Not sure exactly what typography terms mean? Six further terms (tracking, widows and orphans, serif fonts, sans-serif fonts and script & cursive fonts) are explained in part two, which you can watch here. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
Gestalt Psychology and webdesign Amazing Collection of Typography Here is a slice of some spectacular typography projects done by African digital artists. More Typography You might also like Comments Michael Dachstein Inspiration junkie :) Qu'est-ce que le graphisme ? Ce PAG de référence a été initié par l’Inspection académique de la Haute-Marne et le Pôle graphisme de Chaumont en 2010-2011. Par le biais du sujet « Masque/Tribu », le Studio B — C amorce une sensibilisation au graphisme auprès des collégiens de l’établissement Louise Michel à Chaumont et Anne Frank à Saint Dizier, en leur faisant découvrir sa pratique, mais aussi son histoire. Pour ce faire, les graphistes travaillent avec les collégiens sur le développement de leur aptitude à réfléchir, à concevoir en groupe, à respecter le travail de l’autre, à choisir des couleurs, un format et donc à devenir « graphiste » en s’adaptant aux contraintes données, afin de composer une affiche, représentant leur classe, groupe d’individus. Le thème « Masque/Tribu », prétexte à la pratique du graphisme, vise à concentrer ces adolescents autour d’un sujet qui leur est familier, auquel ils sont d’ores et déjà sensibilisés au quotidien, appartenant tous à des groupes sociaux propres aux adolescents.