5 sassy vintage-style modern posters | Posters There's an endless array of poster styles on offer today. It can be difficult to get your design noticed, with many illustrators, typographers and artists producing an endless stream of offerings. The secret may lie in the past, as these designers look to their predecessors for these vintage-inspired styles. 01. Gravity Gravity is one of the most anticipated films of the year - having received roaring reviews at various festival screenings. There's plenty of examples of inspiring gig posters and unsurprisingly, many of them take inspiration from their vintage predecessors. 03. This self initiated project from designer Phil Howell looks at the history of Clacton Pier and the redesign of promotional materials for the Pier. 04. This poster for one of Pittsburgh's preeminent coffee houses was created by Mark Bender and brings together all the illustrative elements that made vintage poster design great. 05. Like this? Have you created a vintage inspired poster?
Uw online shop voor elektronica, computer, multimedia, modelbouw & techniek Designing For Digital Products Advertisement In digital culture, we are beginning to think of our output as products and of our clients as users. “Products” might be websites, apps or communities, and they might be created by startups, agencies or a couple of people at a hackathon. This shift mainly means that we have gotten serious about asking how to better serve users, which reflects a significant change in the designer’s skill set. Designers will use the same tools they have always used, but they are now responsible for more than just the interface. Forget The Job Title Designers have in the past distinguished themselves by job title, but existing titles have become inaccurate. This trend is clearly reflected in the variety of open jobs posted. Hiring companies are choosing creative descriptions to draw attention to their posts. In high-profile opportunities, designers are expected to know UX, UI, front-end code, even how to write strategic business plans. Responsibilities:Be a thoughtful voice for our users.
Fashion en lifestyle artikelen online shop | ZALANDO What Does it Take to be a Mobile Designer Today? Mobile is here to stay, with its own set of rules and constraints. At the same time, it’s a rapidly evolving platform, with new technologies and capabilities being added by the quarter. We can’t design for mobile like we used to do for posters and Web pages. So what toolkit and mindset does a mobile designer need to thrive? Challenges and Constraints Every medium has its limitations. Device fragmentation There are countless smartphone and tablet models out there, each one with a different screen size, pixel density, and physical input (not to mention screen orientations). OS fragmentation As of today, we have three major mobile operating systems to consider: Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, in order of usage. Even if this fragmentation does not make the design vary too much, it does influence how users experience an OS and what they expect from it. Performance The way an app is designed can influence the amount of energy it uses. Development and cost constraints Things to Unlearn
Keeping The Big <code><picture></code> Small — How To Avoid Duplicate Downloads In Responsive Images Advertisement The <picture> element is a new addition to HTML5 that’s being championed by the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group (RICG). It is intended to provide a declarative, markup-based solution to enable responsive images without the need of JavaScript libraries or complicated server-side detection. The <picture> element supports a number of different types of fallback content, but the current implementation of these fallbacks is problematic. In this article, we’ll explore how the fallbacks work, how they fail and what can be done about it. The <picture> Element And Fallback Content Like <video> and <audio>, <picture> uses <source> elements to provide a set of images that the browser can choose from. For situations in which a browser doesn’t know how to deal with <picture> (or <video> or <audio>) or cannot render any of the <source> elements, a developer can include fallback content. The <picture> element differs from <video> and <audio> in that it also allows srcset. Next Steps
The 10 laws of Photoshop etiquette | Photoshop Designers, freelancers, lend me your ears. Whether you work as the former or the latter, at some point in your career you will have a job where end goal is to to pass your Photoshop files onto someone else. Many of us have been on the receiving end of that relationship. I've personally experienced an instance in which a creative agency's contract for a particularly large design job was terminated due to the fact that they had supplied messy PSD files that no one could make head or tail of. Want to avoid damaging client relationships and getting yourself a bad rep within the design community? 01. As boring and mundane as it sounds: name your layers. Once labelled, organise these layers into group folders; allowing you to move and show/hide various large sections with ease. Once you've completed your task it’s always worth having a quick glance over your file to filter out and delete any unnecessary empty layers (a good way to check if a layer is empty is pressing Command+T). 02. 03. 04.
10 Essential Chrome Extensions for Designers As a designer you may have used Google Chrome for some time already, but are you using the browser to its full advantage? Chrome features a robust extension system that deserves to be explored and tested. It's one reason Chrome can now claim to be the world's most popular browser. We've gathered 10 of the best Google Chrome extensions for web designers and, when used in combination with the chrome extensions for developers, you could have a fully customized, powerhouse of a browser, completely suited to your individual requirements. Have we missed any great extensions you love and use on a daily basis? Homepage image composite via iStockphoto, Kameleon007 The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design by Maria Popova Six centuries of seminal design history, condensed into a stunning artifact. Every once in a while, along comes a book-as-artifact that becomes an instant, inextricable necessity in the life of any graphic design aficionado. This season, it’s The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design — an impressive, exhaustive, rigorously researched, and beautifully produced compendium of 500 seminal designs spanning newspapers, magazines, posters, advertisements, typefaces, logos, corporate design, record covers, and moving graphics, examined through 3000 color and 300 black-and-white illustrations in their proper historical and sociocultural context. Though the concept is hardly novel, wedged somewhere between 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design and Bibliographic, the book-in-a-box execution holds a rare kind of mesmerism, its dividers inviting you to organize and explore the wealth of design legacy by designer, subject, chronology, or alphabetical order. Paul Rand: IBM (1956-1991) A.
Interactive Public Light Sculture Is Controlled From Your Smartphone Photophore is an interactive light installation built by Danish communication design office Kollision in collaboration with projection company Martin Professional and lighting designers Matja Winkelmann and Jochen Schröder. As part of Frankfurt’s biennial festival of lights, the project is projected along the Main River on a five-story building. Acting like a veil of light shielding the building, Photophore lets passersby interact with and explore the artwork by manipulating it using their own smatphone. When curious onlookers scan a QR code mounted on the building, they are brought to a site which lets them interact with the piece. Watch the video below to see how people interact with the sculpture: Kollision
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