Fri, 07/08/2011 | Co.Design The Awl - Be Less Stupid Thank you for stopping in at The Awl, a New York City-based web concern established in early 2009. The Awl intends to encourage a daily discussion of the issues of the day—news, politics, culture (and TV!)—during sensible hours of the working week. We believe that there is a great big Internet out there on which we all live, and that too often the curios and oddities of that Internet are ignored in favor of the most obvious and easy stories. We believe that there is an audience of intelligent readers who are poorly served by being delivered those same stories in numbing repetition to the detriment of their reading diet. This does not mean that we eschew frivolity; far from it. In the end, however, we return most frequently to New York City and its self-centered, all-consuming industries: media and publishing, finance and real estate, politics and capitalism and gamesmanship. Here is where we ramble on about what we're looking for in a submission. Thanks again for visiting.
Yarisal & Kublitz Creative Duo Yarisal & Kublitz is known for their often humorous, imaginative works, layering poetic phrases or gestures with poignant, often absurd imagery. Their ideas use a simple, yet provoking langue, creating sculptures that play with metaphors of material, sexual and spiritual desire. As the works by Yarisal & Kublitz effortlessly embrace the sacred and the profane, humour and pathos they evoke universal feelings of belief, hope, desire, longing, and obsession, they address something ultimately primeval in us in their weird physical manifestations. Corny Unheimlich in L.A. Unheimlich in L.A. Totem If God decides to stop by, he smokes Gitanes Domestication Domestication (detail) Doubter Fuck it Lemon incest Doubter II All images © Yarisal & Kublitz | Via: Gerhard Sengerner
Top 10 Websites for Designers - April 2012 This latest edition of the Top 10 Websites for Designers includes a new creative critique platform, a fun color picker for the real world and more. In November's Top 10 Websites for Designers you'll discover collections of thought-provoking posters, a flawlessly delivered digital story and more. In October's Top 10 Sites for Designers, check out a showcase of people from all backgrounds in design; a color gradient generator; fun agency site & more. In this month's roundup of websites for designers, you'll find font pairing tools, interesting portfolio sites, a product graveyard and more. This month's roundup of websites for designers features a history of cocktail lettering, a funny interactive film and goofy designer excuses. This month’s Top 10 Websites for Designers includes design portfolio inspiration, an interesting color resource and websites that offer unique storytelling experiences.
Cultural Transmogrifier Magazine | Art Against Apathy High Quality Texture 4 Fresh Green Leafs fresh like the early mornings, droplets of dew and the sun started my day bright. I wanted to share the freshness of my day to the world. Love the earth to live better. Hopefully, this texture can be useful for your next design and inspire the world. Term of UseFull size each image are 2304 x 1728 pixel. Fresh Leaf 1 Fresh Leaf 2 Fresh Leaf 3 Fresh Leaf 4
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Other Voices: The eJournal of Cultural Criticism. Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step. First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. Now, switch your foreground color to black, and repeat the same steps as above by creating a new fill layer, but this time, check the box that says Reverse, and leave the Scale at 100 and adjust the Angle to 150 degrees. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers. Now, let’s adjust the color curves.
In Which These Are The 100 Greatest Writers Of All Time The 100 Greatest Writers of All Time by WILL HUBBARD and ALEX CARNEVALE Other lists of this kind have been attempted, none very successfully. We would like to stress that there is a crucial difference between "an important writer" and "a great writer"; the latter is at this time our sole interest. We will account for some of the names that did not make this list in a later dispatch. There is nothing bad to say about anyone we list here, except in some cases that they were anti-Semitic or racist, hated women or hated men. 100. Prose stylist nonpareil, he addressed the dichotomy of race, the loneliness of existence. 99. The gestamtkunstwerk ('total work of art') was all the rage in Europe early in the last century, but Balzac was on the case almost a hundred years before. 98. The greatest artist Poland would ever spawn, Milosz was still composing vital poetry until his death in 2004. 97. When we speak of 'wit' in the theater we owe a debt to G. 96. Anti-semite? 95. 94. 93. 92. 91. 90. 89.
Theo Inglis Somebody submitted this question to my other blog (midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com) and I ended up writing quite a long answer, so I figured I may as well post it on here, just in case it helps anyone in anyway at all! It is a very hard question to answer really, but I tried to help and be honest. My answer is below: Hi, thanks for a tough question! I’m 25 and have been a designer professionally for about three years now, after spending four years at University. So It wasn’t so long a go that I felt in a similar way. My advice would be this: You don’t have to be able to draw to be a designer per se, there are some areas of design that you can pursue where you don’t have to draw to succeed. A lot of graphic design can be done without ever getting off the computer, but you don’t want to be limited to that, and often doing things by hand (not necessarily drawing) can be enjoyable and help you work differently. I hope this helps!
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