DIY Earphone System
Posted on December 6, 2010 by saya It doesn’t mean that your earphones are no longer usable when something is wrong with them. In fact with this DIY Earphone System, each part and every wire of which is detachable and replaceable, everybody can easily “fix” their earphones to make them work again. Designer: Choi Hyong-Suk
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How to Design a Professional PowerPoint Presentation
Our recent series of tips on presentation design outlined some generic rules and ideas that you can live by to create better, more professional presentation. Today we want to follow that up by taking you through the actual process of designing a presentation from start to finish. We’ll break down every step of the design process, from choosing colors and images to using whitespace properly. After reading through this you should be all set to design your own beautiful presentation slides that will put your coworkers to shame. A Word About Content I usually make a big deal about content preceding design, and presentations are no exception. The reason that I bring this up is that I don’t really have an actual presentation in mind for this project. Choosing A Color Scheme Before I even open Photoshop (yes, I design PowerPoint/Keynote slides in Photoshop and drop them in, thought it helps if you do the te), I want to find a color scheme on which to base my entire design. Choosing a Font
5 Super Easy Illustrator Typography Tricks
Beautiful typography goes much further than finding the right font. Today’s post will help you break out of the nasty habit of simply typing out a headline and calling it a day by showing you how to craft standard text in Illustrator into something more interesting and unique. Below you’ll find a fairly random collection of tricks that I’ve picked up in the last few years. Each method is highly open to interpretation and you should definitely try to tweak and customize them to your own preferences. Scribbled Text The first technique is super easy and a little cheesy, but with a little creativity you can create some nice applications. From here you can create your own settings or simply choose one of the presets. I like to double up on this technique to really push the illusion of hand-drawn text. Embellishing Scripts There are tons of free fonts and vectors online that really aren’t anything more than a few swirls. Rounded Corners Easy 3D Text Playing With Letter Forms Conclusion
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DIY: Wine Bottle Light & Wit & Whistle
November 3rd, 2009 This past spring Daniel and I went on a road trip from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon. Along the way we stopped at Chateau Julien for a wine tasting. You’ll need: an empty wine bottle a drill safety glasses and gloves (just in case the bottle breaks) 1/2″ glass drill bit masking tape short strand of Christmas lights (with a plug only on one end) How to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design - Noupe Design Blog
Sep 07 2009 Typography can be one of the most creatively rewarding parts of web design, but it can also be one of the most frustrating. Working with just one or two fonts can be challenging enough for most web designers, yet some still insist on using three, four, seven, or even more fonts in their designs. Some people excel at creating sites with complicated typography, while others fail miserably. Read on to find out tricks to creating fantastic website designs with complicated type, as well as some great examples of sites that get it right, and those that get it wrong. 1. Multiple fonts work best together when they have similar proportion and scale. Fonts don’t necessarily have to be identical in scale and proportion. 2. If you throw up six different fonts on your site, with ten different colors, and four different styles, you’re probably just going to give your visitors a headache (if they stick around that long). 3. You can compensate for heavier or lighter fonts in a few ways. 4.
Stockholm Singapore SF Top Cities for Startups and Business
Two new studies hit recently that take a look at the best cities around the world for startups and business opportunities. Fortune magazine went on a search for “cities that share the San Francisco Bay Area’s potent combination of creativity and capitalism” and came up with seven up-and-comers to keep an eye on. Meanwhile, Business Insider looked for “a city’s comprehensive potential for business across ten economic indicators” that range from intellectual capital to natural environment and identified 27 heavyweights (predominantly in the world’s largest cities). So which cities come out on top? Stockholm and Singapore are the only two cities that appear on both lists. Fortune points to Stockholm’s recent startup tech history and government spending on R&D (3.6% of GDP) as well as its business-friendly policies and academic outputs. The Fortune list was comprised of: Zurich, Switzerland Stockholm, Sweden Singapore Dublin, Ireland Copenhagen, Denmark Oulu, Finland Eindhoven, Netherlands
We Made This Ltd
So, we’ve been kinda quiet here of late on the We Made This blog (for which you have our deepest apologies) but we can now reveal why – we’ve been entirely occupied with setting up a fantastic new project. It’s a bit of an epic tale, so, if you’re sitting comfortably, we’ll begin… Way back in April 2008 we posted on our old blog about Dave Eggers’ inspiring TED talk about his brilliant 826 literacy project, and asked if anyone was going to be setting up something similar in London. On the back of that post, thanks to Andrew Hinton, we met up with the wonderful Lucy Macnab and Ben Payne, and chatted loosely about how a London version of 826 might work. Things pootled along gently for a while, until Lucy and Ben secured support for the project from the Arts Council, as well as seed-funding from the JJ Charitable Trust, and things suddenly stepped up a gear, particularly when author Nick Hornby, who had been thinking about setting up something similar himself, joined the gang.
How to Restore an Abused iPhone (or any gadget)
After a few months of use, our gorgeous new gadgets incur a fair share of dings and scratches. However, all is not lost! Learn how one man bought a horribly abused iPhone on Ebay and polished it up to look brand new. Steps to Resurrection: Photos: Unfortunately, the Apple logo is erased in the process, but I’d say it’s a worthwhile sacrifice for the outstanding results. LCD Repair: The LCD repair is a slightly more delicate process since we have to remove the entire front of the device and expose its circuitry innards. Materials: Replacement iPhone LCDCompressed Air ( or bike pump) E-xacto blade ( or something flat and thin)Small Phillips screwdriverSuction cup With this detailed tutorial, just about anyone can refurbish their scratched and damaged gadgets. Final Results: Things to do with your new iPhone:
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