Infographic of the Day: How Color Affects Purchases | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork 27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets So what’s in a starter kit? We think it varies – depending on what each designer routinely worked with. In today’s article, we attempt to show you some of the best design starter kit we’ve come to know. GUI, Form Elements and Web Components From form elements like checkboxes, input fields, textareas to web design components like buttons, arrows, icons, badges and more. Yahoo’s Design Stencil Kit Probably one of the most complete kit for designers. Web Form Elements With all these tabs, buttons, dropdowns in one single PSD file, it’s sure going to give you a kick start in interface design. Browser Form Elements PSD Browser Form Elements PSD for Mac Firefox 3 and another for Vista IE7. Flex Dark Skin Sleek dark skin interface elements. Turquoise PSD Vista elements.
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Facebook.NET 20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing A Logo Before starting any project it’s essential to get the right preliminary information from your clients. This will help pave the way to a successful project, assist in bringing client’s vision into perspective and build a lasting relationship. Many of the questions below will also help in putting together an accurate quote for your client. Since my primary focus in is logo design, below are 20 questions to ask your clients prior to beginning their new logo design. Company-related questions 1- How would you describe your services and/or products? 2- What are the long term goals of your company? 3- Why do you want a new logo? 4- Who are your main competitors? 5- How are you different from your competitors? 6- What’s the age range of your target customer base? Project-related questions 7- Do you have a tag line? 8- Do you have any specific imagery in mind for your logo? 9- Do you have any color preferences, or existing brand colors? 10- Do you have any colors that you do not wish to use?
Obfuscated code Deliberate creation of difficult-to-understand code In software development, obfuscation is the practice of creating source or machine code that is intentionally difficult for humans or computers to understand. Similar to obfuscation in natural language, code obfuscation may involve using unnecessarily roundabout ways to write statements. Programmers may obfuscate code to conceal its purpose, logic, or embedded values. The properties that make a language obfuscatable are not immediately obvious. Types of obfuscations include simple keyword substitution, use or non-use of whitespace to create artistic effects, and self-generating or heavily compressed programs. According to Nick Montfort, techniques may include: More sophisticated techniques that obfuscate a program at the semantic level through program transformations also exist (rather than at the source level). The following illustrates simple source-code obfuscation. Clear code: Obfuscated code: Payload encoding for malware evasion [edit]
40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials Jun 22 2008 We cannot escape typography; it’s everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only present information but also be read by the users. You might be interested to check other related posts for some inspiration: Typographic Posters 1-The Gift v2 by MrBadger 2-Typography by fabianohikaru 3-TechnicalLove by Mrgraphicsguy 4-Beauty by Mrgraphicsguy 5-Stel Christian Cambas Poster by SeBDeSiGN 6-Oriental Pages_Page32 by Malikanas 8-Tony Rohr’s Ring 9-State To State 10-Good Morning Stranger by Nicolas Alexander 11-Smoke + Type by Daniel Gordon 12-Futura by Craig Ward 13-Ink and Water Don’t Mix by Craig Ward 14-Bckyrdflw Promo by Andrew Dyjak 15-Birthday Flyer 16-Children of the Idiom by Pablo Alfieri 17-Drasik 18-Drasik 19-Crowdsourcing 20-Avatar: 15 Minute In Calcutta 21-Rolling Stones Rolled Gold 23-Dolce & Gabbana 24-Beautiful Decay by Alex Trochut 25-Adobe by Stefan Lucut 26-BMW X3 by Sergio Cullell 27-What is Graphic Design 28-What is Graphic Design by Wearenotyou 30-Folklove Homepage
Scales and emotions See also a post about making chords from scales. So maybe you want to write a song or an instrumental in a particular mood or style, and you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the scales. Here’s a handy guide to the commonly used scales in Western pop, rock, jazz, blues and so on. Click each image to play the scale right in your browser with the aQWERTYon. These scales have a major third (E in the key of C), which makes them feel happy or bright. Major scale Happy; can be majestic or sentimental when slow. Mixolydian mode Bluesy, rock; can also be exotic/modal. Lydian mode Ethereal, dreamy, futuristic. Lydian dominant mode Also known as the overtone scale or acoustic scale, because it is close to the first seven pitches in the natural overtone series. Phrygian dominant mode Exotic, Middle Eastern, Jewish. Harmonic major scale Majestic, mysterious. These scales have a flat third (E-flat in the key of C), which gives them a darker and more tragic feel. Natural minor scale (Aeolian mode) Dorian mode
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Hunch Girl in Tempo Tutorial - 1 Copy Pixelmator Giveway | Abduzeedo - In this tutorial I will show you how I created the Girl in Tempo Image. Tempo in this case is the new version of Pixelmator, which I've been beta testing for a few weeks. The design is a mix of some photos and filters that can be easily and quickly done in Pixelmator. Also we have another copy of Pixelmator to Giveaway, as usual drop us a comment, and remember, we will only choose Abduzeedo members, so if you are not, click here and create your account. mani styletime Step 1 Create a new document in Pixelmator, I used 1920x1200 pixels. Step 2 For this image I bought a photo from iStockphoto, Step 3 Place the image in the document and create a new layer, beneath the girl's layer. Step 4 Create a new layer and fill it with a gradient again, this time change the Blending to Screen and make it bigger than the other, right in the center of the document, like the image below. Step 5 Let's add another gradient, this time from Blue to Black. Step 6 Step 7