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Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 2 on Behance

Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 2 on Behance
Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets. In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity. What you see here is a visual summary of the guidelines, divided into two Behance projects: Part 2: User interface icons and Illustrations Google design style: Executive Creative Director: Chris WigginsGraphic Designers: Jesse Kaczmarek, Nicholas Jitkoff, Jonathan Lee, Andy Gugel, Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary Gibson Guideline design:

Google Visual Assets Guidelines - Part 1 on Behance Google’s brand is shaped in many ways; one of which is through maintaining the visual coherence of our visual assets. In January 2012, expanding on the new iconography style started by Creative Lab, we began creating this solid, yet flexible, set of guidelines that have been helping Google’s designers and vendors to produce high quality work that helps strengthen Google’s identity. What you see here is a visual summary of the guidelines, divided into two Behance projects: Google design style: Executive Creative Director: Chris Wiggins Graphic Designers: Jesse Kaczmarek, Nicholas Jitkoff, Jonathan Lee, Andy Gugel, Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary Gibson Guideline design: Art Director / Team Manager: Christopher BettigSenior Graphic Designer / Project lead: Roger OddoneDesigners: Alex Griendling, Christopher Bettig, Jefferson Cheng, Roger Oddone, Yan Yan, Zachary GibsonContributors: Web Studio, Brand Team, Creative Lab

Create a Fantasy City Using Architectural Photographs Because matte painting often involves combining several photos to achieve an end-result, matte paintings can be great practice for anyone who wants to learn how to create photo manipulations. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a fantasy city that is built on a rock structure, similar to Minas Tirith from "The Lord of the Rings." In the process, you will learn several techniques to help you incorporate architectural photos into your artwork. Let's get started! Before you begin, watch this amazing speed art video that shows the entire process of creating this artwork. The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. First, open one of the resource images. Select the Magic Wand Tool. Click on the sky until you've selected all of it. Be sure to check the tool settings to improve your selection. Now let us go into Refine Edge to get a better selection. Depending on the image you might want to play around with the Edge Dedection settings.

9 | A Rare Peek At The Guidelines That Dictate Google's Graphic Design In April 2011, Larry Page took the reins as Google’s CEO. He didn’t waste any time getting down to business. On his very first day on the job, Page launched an incredibly ambitious effort to redesign the company’s main products, including search, maps, and mail. The rare glimpse into the company’s design process comes in the form of two documents--"Visual Assets guidelines"--freshly shared on Behance. The more exciting of the two covers product icons. Google encourages its designers to take a "reductive approach" to product icons. The next few parts deal with perspective. With the icon guidelines thus established, we move on to logo lockups, the icon and product name combos that serve as the "brand ambassadors" for the company’s products. The second document, in addition to showing examples of the flat, Charley Harper-esque illustrations Google’s been using in its product videos, covers iconography as it relates to UI design, spelling out details like proportion, sizing, and padding.

The greatest Heist in Indian history..How Indian History was changed and we didn’t even notice. Part 1:The lost eon 6th Century B.C to 1174 A.D | The Kaipullai's Vetti Thoughts : The outer playground of my inner devil Remember those long-staying, TV-remote hogging, serial TV-serial watching distant relatives who used to arrive unannounced when you were a kid. And then stopped you from watching cricket in favour of their crappy TV serial. What were your feelings towards them? However, There is one thing that tops the 'I hate' list by a distance History for most of us, was always a major impediment, an obstacle, an immovable object opposing our unstoppable drive towards knowledge ( Read Maths and Science). How will this dead dude help me get ahead in my life? In our academic pecking order, Maths and Science always figured at the top, subjects that we had to master. Let me begin this by recalling a small conversation with a tenth grader relative of mine This is India’s history from that persons point of view I am not making the above stuff up. Yes IT IS Peruse that list again, in case you did not read it carefully. The Angrez No comments!! Americans America...What the hell is that? This is that chapter..

Adobe MAX: Photoshop Power Shortcuts The Secret Law of Page Harmony “A method to produce the perfect book.” The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition. And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. They found the way to design a harmonious page. There’s a dance to all this Let’s look at this dance, shall we? And here it is with them (using the Van de Graaf Canon and Tschichold’s recommended 2:3 page-size ratio, which we’ll get into next). This is where the harmony is found. How is this dance beautiful? A module is to a grid, as a cell is to a table. The J.

Goliath David and Goliath, a colour lithograph by Osmar Schindler (c. 1888) The original purpose of the story was to show David's identity as the true king of Israel.[1] Post-Classical Jewish traditions stressed Goliath's status as the representative of paganism, in contrast to David, the champion of the God of Israel. Christian tradition gave him a distinctively Christian perspective, seeing in David's battle with Goliath the victory of God's King over the enemies of God's helpless people as a prefiguring of Jesus' victory over sin on the Cross and the Church's victory over Satan.[2] Biblical account[edit] David hoists the severed head of Goliath as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1866). David and Goliath confront each other, Goliath with his armor and shield, David with his staff and sling. David hurls a stone from his sling with all his might and hits Goliath in the center of his forehead, Goliath falls on his face to the ground, and David cuts off his head. Textual considerations[edit] Islam[edit]

What Font Is Your City? Embed Infographic: How do you pick one thing to represent an entire city? It’s difficult. But like we said above, we studied our chosen cities and made a case for each font choice. Before we get into the details, we’ll explain our process. How We Did It This project was a team effort. Here’s what we came up with: New York, NY New York is known for many things, but chief among them is its leading position in both the fashion and business world. Chicago, IL When we saw Thirsty Rough, we immediately knew this was the font for Chicago. Phoenix, AZ Phoenix is hot and bright, so it comes as no surprise that it’s nickname is “The Valley of the Sun.” Columbus, OH Home of one of the most storied football programs in the country, Columbus is a tried and true football city. Boise, ID Boise is known for its trees, giving it a direct connection to nature that most cities lack. Memphis, TN The home of the blues, Memphis is in touch with its own nature. Charleston, SC Kansas City, MO San Francisco, CA

Welcome This website is about one thing: helping you take better pictures with your smart phone, Iphone, Ipad, compact camera, Gopro or whatever you have, because regardless of the camera, the principles of Lightism remain the same. If you want confirmation that camera and mega pixels doesn’t really matter – checkout Instagram: It’s a smartphone and Iphone app that lets you take picture, apply filters and share your work. In May 2010, it exceeded 50 MILLION users worldwide…..it’s a brave new world! So, Lightism is about getting you to think and see the light differently, equipping you with tools and techniques to take your photography to the next level. The good news is that it’s not complex & it certainly isn’t expensive. So, join thousands of people all over the world just like yourself and start taking better pictures today for free: As for me, my name is Simon Ellingworth ; I’m a Professional Photographer, educator and all round creative based in London, England.

Brian Edward Miller Brian Edward Miller propose des illustrations d’un rendu impressionnant. Réunissant ses œuvres sous le « Orlin Culture Shop », l’artiste américain démontre sa maîtrise parfaite du dessin et de la mise en couleurs. Des créations splendides à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article. (263) Hacking into the Indian Education System - On the Stepping Stone - Quora In the last several weeks, in a time wedged awkwardly between the end of my college finals and my summer internship, I've been exposed to some information that left me quite flabbergasted. It started about a month ago. It was a very important day in the lives of two of my juniors and close friends, Sumit Shyamsukha and Ronak Shah. It was the day their board examination marks, the ICSE and the ISC respectively, were to be released. Wrought with the monumental anxiety that usually surrounds such a crucial result, Sumit had asked me whether I might be able to break into their system before D-day and quell his curiosity. Technicality Alert. [Technical] Handed just a URL and a task, I was unsure of how to proceed past a mostly blank screen with two text-boxes in the center. I tried again, a little while after the results were released.At least I could salvage some of my respect and maybe scrape some results, I thought. I added the inline comments to explain the code. Enough is enough.

15 years of Ars: Individuals who redefined gaming, music, and tech policy Fifteen years ago, I was living outside Geneva, Switzerland, spending my lunch hours screwing around on the nascent Web a few dozen kilometers from where it was created. I popped into chat rooms, forums, and news sites, and I e-mailed family back home. I was learning French and getting my dose of tech news by reading the French-language edition of Macworld magazine. I returned Stateside mere months after Ars began, reading more and more about the people behind many of the technologies that I was becoming increasingly fascinated with. If there’s one thing I’ve learned through all that, it’s that most people involved in technology continue the Newtonian tradition of humility. Any of the dozens of tech innovators we all admire can accurately be described as “rebels,” defying conventional wisdom, corporate logic, and social near-sightedness to create something truly revolutionary. In the end, we hope our trio of individual tech rebels represents a wide range of Ars' favorite technologies.

Raw at War-Genesis of Secret Agencies in Ancient India Raw at War-Genesis of Secret Agencies in Ancient India Introduction Espionage, euphemistically called the second oldest profession of the world finds a mention in the Indian Vedas, one of the most - if not the most - ancient of the human texts. References to espionage are also discernible in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Greece and China. Varuna, one of the chief gods of the Vedic pantheon is considered to be a forerunner of Secret Services. - (Sisupala - vadha, 2.112) Secret Agencies in ancient India were not conceived of as an instrument of oppression but as a tool of governance. Indian history illustrates that ancient Indians had gained great expertise in this secret art. The vision of the Arthashastra, is truly breath taking, its practical utility timeless and the clarity of its exposition unique. While laying the foundation stone of RAW, India's late Prime Minister Mrs. The organization and structure of RAW will be discussed in the second part of this paper.

Stockholm syndrome Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.[1][2] The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 8 percent of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.[3] Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."[4] One commonly used hypothesis to explain the effect of Stockholm syndrome is based on Freudian theory. History[edit] Extension to other scenarios[edit]

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