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Inspirationfeed - be inspired! Web Design by Designer, Speaker and Writer Brian Hoff otoshimono; the blog | …. the lost and found blog of Andrea Innocent; illustrator/designer/artist/animator/stufflikethat….. How To Create a Vector Soldier Character in Illustrator Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector soldier character. We’ll begin by building the structure of the character with basic shapes, then adjust the line weights to create definition between the elements. To bring the character to life we’ll add blocks of colour before finishing it all off with a simple shading technique. Similar to the recent mechanic character tutorial, this soldier cartoon features a range of basic shapes to give a stylised appearance. The main body of the character uses exactly the same approach, with just the accessories and clothing defining the character. You could go on to create a whole series of characters each with a different profession. You can see the design take shape as it progresses from the black and white linework versions right through to the final colouring stages. Open up Illustrator and begin by drawing a circle and a rectangle onto the artboard to represent the head and body. Download this file
Themergency Best web design resources of June 2011 | Inspiration Here’s the round up of fresh web design resources for June 2011! we have icon sets, CSS3 tools, web typography, Chrome Extensions for Google Web Fonts and WordPress resources. General web design Mobile app mockups Mokk is a simple but effective web app to quickly mock… well, other web apps. Modernizr 2 The popular JavaScript library to enable HTML5 elements and use CSS3 properties in outdated browsers has been revamped and updated to its second incarnation. Better kerning for Lettering.js Kern.js is an impressive bookmarklet that will allow you to define an specific kerning for character pairs of titles created with lettering.js. Better font stacks This is a simple reference site that compiles some good choices to stack several fonts in your CSS stylesheets sharing common properties like x height, character thickness or width. Circular slider in jQuery ProCSSor
A Concept Worthy Of Rube Goldberg, For Handling Our Water Woes [Video] | Co. Design Goodnight, Irene, goodnight. But not before calling attention to a relevant prototype that’s now on view in Nevada. “Surface Tension,” by the London-based architectural studio run by Mark Smout and Laura Allen, is an attempt to make a conceptual machine-based landscape that can adapt to our changing water habits, whether irrigation or energy. The studio, Smout Allen has lots of experience with these sorts of fanciful reveries: They’ve designed a futuristic oasis for suburban London, proposed “envirographic instruments” for the Severn River, and visualized water landscapes in Oslo that could provide a source of kinetic energy. But maybe best of all is that, visually, it’s mesmerizing. The prototype is part of an exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art entitled “Landscape Futures,” which explores the different types of architecture that may be needed for changing environments, and what forms of technology need to be invented in order for that to happen.