15 Mind-Blowing Images by NASA The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the United States’ largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. They are also home to some of the most amazing images, visualizations and videos NASA has to offer! Please do yourself a favour and check out their incredible Flickr page which has thousands of images with wonderfully detailed descriptions. Below is a collection of 15 mind-blowing featured images from NASA. 1. The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft caught this spectacular eruptive prominence in extreme UV light as it blasted away from the Sun (Apr. 12-13, 2010). 2. This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Custom Icons - Icons and Images - iOS Human Interface Guidelines If your app includes tasks or modes that can’t be represented by a system icon, or if the system icons don’t match your app’s style, you can create your own icons. Create recognizable, highly-simplified designs. Too many details can make an icon confusing or unreadable. Strive for a simple, universal design that most people will recognize quickly and won’t find offensive. The best icons use familiar visual metaphors that are directly related to the actions they initiate or content they reveal. App icon Glyph Glyph (color applied) Design icons as glyphs. Prepare glyphs with a scale factor of @2x and save them as PDFs. Keep your icons consistent. Make sure icons are legible. Use color to communicate selected and deselected states. Avoid including text in an icon. Don’t use replicas of Apple hardware products. Provide alternative text labels for icons. Custom Icon Sizes Above all, your app's icon family should be visually consistent in size. Navigation Bar and Toolbar Icon Size Tab Bar Icon Size
Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World [Editor’s note: In celebration of the holidays, we’re counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012. This post, at #1, was originally published January 31.] With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone leave the comfort of their couch to buy a book when with just a click of a button, they could have it delivered to their door? Well, here’s why: bookstores so beautiful they’re worth getting out of the house (or the country) to visit whether you need a new hardcover or not. We can’t overestimate the importance of bookstores — they’re community centers, places to browse and discover, and monuments to literature all at once — so we’ve put together a list of the most beautiful bookstores in the world, from Belgium to Japan to Slovakia. A gorgeous converted Dominican church gives the power of reading its due diligence.
Themes - Overview - iOS Human Interface Guidelines iOS Design Themes As an app designer, you have the opportunity to deliver an extraordinary product that rises to the top of the App Store charts. To do so, you'll need to meet high expectations for quality and functionality. Three primary themes differentiate iOS from other platforms: Clarity. Design Principles To maximize impact and reach, keep the following principles in mind as you imagine your app’s identity. Aesthetic Integrity Aesthetic integrity represents how well an app’s appearance and behavior integrate with its function. Consistency A consistent app implements familiar standards and paradigms by using system-provided interface elements, well-known icons, standard text styles, and uniform terminology. Direct Manipulation The direct manipulation of onscreen content engages people and facilitates understanding. Feedback Feedback acknowledges actions and shows results to keep people informed. Metaphors User Control Throughout iOS, people—not apps—are in control.
50 Portraits That are Worth Seeing 30 Portraits That are Worth Seeing Posted on August 20, 2013 by Jaspal Singh • Filed Under: Photographers Here you can see best portrait photography collection, which is really worth seeing. They are all beautiful in their own way, catch your eye and give the imagination roam. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. *** ( © Anna Dudnik ) 16. 17. portrait ( © Bahman Farzad ) 18. 19. portrait ( © Kenny Teo (zoompict) ) 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. eYes ( © Norman Paeth ) 29. 30. ← 28 Best History Pictures of the Month 30 Pretty Flower Photos → Leave a reply Monograms and Alphabetic Devices This book contains the entire contents of four fine volumes of monogram and allied devices published between 1830 and 1881. Over 2,500 monogrammatic and alphabetic designs are displayed in plates from "Dictionnaire du Chiffre-monogramme," etc., by Charles Demengeot (1881); "Monograms and Ciphers," by H. Renoir (1870–74); "Knight's New Book of Seven Hundred & Fifty Eight Plain, Ornamented & Reversed Cyphers" (1830); and "Monograms in Three and Four Letters," by J. Gordon Smith (n.d.).There are monograms in every two-letter combination and extensive selections of three and four letters; name devices ("Alice," "Theodore," etc.), crowns, crests, coats of arms and helmets. Dover Original.
Ballpoint Pen Drawings Surprisingly, all these detailed, realistic pictures are made by ordinary ballpoint pen. The author – a young artist and photographer Sarah Esteje. It is difficult to imagine how you can draw so cleanly and professionally the first time – because, unlike the pencil drawings, there is nothing to fix fails.
we make apps Typecast - Public Demo | Design in the browser with web fonts and real content by Aral Balkan One of the iconic representations of the digital age is an image of the ubiquitous digital screen, stereotypically represented as a grid of brightly-lit pixels. This, like many of our other traditional perceptions of digital and interactive experiences, are either changing or being replaced altogether as we enter the post-PC era. New devices have such high resolution displays that individual pixels become imperceptibly small. Other devices, like the Amazon Kindle, eschew pixels altogether — opting to use electronic ink. These new devices are radically transforming what is possible in digital visual design and this has radical implications for digital typography. The death of the pixel leaves you with a flowing, magazine-quality canvas to design for. It wasn't too long ago that there was one set of rules for use of type on print and use of type on screen. Emotional Typography The challenge is to help people understand this. Technical Advantages
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