mazeon : pixel art 15 Best Websites To Find Design Freebies & Resources | Inspirationfeed In recent years the design world has seen a rapid increase in the amount of digital freebies. Developers can use freebies to help create aesthetically pleasing interfaces. Newbie designers can study freebies to learn how they’re built. Hundreds of amazing new freebies are released every month all over the Internet. But where can you find them? Below I’ve curated the best websites to find digital design freebies including PSD/AI files, Sketch files, and other free resources like fonts and website mockups. 1. Let’s start with Dribbble which is my favorite place to find design freebies. Dozens of new freebies are posted to Dribbble every month, mixed in with the thousands of other shots. On WhatPixel I actively curate monthly Dribbble freebies to help designers keep up with the onslaught of free Dribbble content. Unfortunately some freebies aren’t even tagged with freebie, like these icons by the Thai designer Sunbzy. 3. I’ve really grown to enjoy the content on Freebiesbug. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Rosa Menkman Glitchy3bitDither This is a utility to mutilate images in unpredictable ways. It can randomly choose between algorithms, and many algorithms randomly mutate themselves. You can choose different encodings, effects, and emulate several glitch techniques, resulting in aleatoric new images and hidden configurations. Check out some curated images at glitches.jkirchartz.com This runs completely client-side, using the FileReader and canvas APIs, your image isn't being uploaded to any server. Based on Nolan Caudill's 3bitdither Heavily modified by JKirchartz, code on github Experimental functions may not be 100% stable, this is a work in progress. Getting Started With Generative Art Generative art as defined by Philip Galanter is, “Any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other mechanism, which is then set to motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a complete work of art.” I became a huge fan of generative art after I went to a presentation by Joshua Davis at Adobe Max. His presentation was on his new experimental work, titled “space”. After the workshop, I was really inspired to find as many resources as I could on creating generative art. I personally like the idea of generating art inside of Flash with some ActionScript. Processing Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. NodeBox Structure Synth Adobe Flash We couldn’t leave this off the list! VVVV : A Multipurpose Toolkit Substrate
50 Meticulous Style Guides Every Startup Should See Before Launching All good brands have a great style guide. Creating a simple booklet that catalogues the specific colors, type, logos, imagery, patterns, taglines, etc. of a brand makes sure the brand machine runs smoothly. To prove why you shouldn’t let your style guide go by the wayside, we’re going to take a look at 50 stunning and detailed examples of style guides that are sure to encourage you to begin compiling your own. And when you’re ready to put that style guide to work, trial it the fun way, by designing a branded social media graphic in Canva (click here). 01. Check out this brand manual for Foursquare that gives detailed rundowns for the rules and guides to each of the design elements a brand needs to be consistent. What better way for a designer to prove how detail-oriented they are than by compiling a detail-dense style guide for their own personal branding. 03. A brand manual is a really great chance for a brand’s design team to explain the specific choices made for a brand. 04. 05. 06.
ImageMagick: Convert, Edit, Or Compose Bitmap Images Print As you know, I love wood ! And I have good news, as some new wood letters will be available soon ! Until then, here comes a selection of projects turning around wood ! Fields notes “Shelterwood” Edition KYD Buro by Pavel Emelyanov Tischlerei Gebrueder Falgschlunger by Bureau Rabensteiner Another great project by Bureau Rabensteiner, even if it impossible for me to prononce the client name, hopefully I can copy/past it ! Very Interactive People 12 magically meticulous design style guides | Branding This is heading directly into geek territory. But we are self-confessed geeks, particularly when it comes to logo design, typography and pictograms. And that leads us to the meticulously regulated world of brand style manuals... A style manual, or style guide, is a set of standards for the design of documents, signage, and any other form of other brand identifier. We love the obsessive nature of these, and so here we've gathered 12 of the best to inspire you when you create your own brand style guides... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Graphics Standards Manual was created by Danne & Blackburn in 1974 when NASA changed from its original crest-based logo to the 'worm' logotype that we are now familar with. The manual has recently been revived thanks to a Kickstarter campaign to fund its reissue. 02. Certain members of the Creative Bloq team have spent hours poring over the British Rail corporate identity manual (okay, it's me) and it is easy to see why. 03. 04. 05. 06.
How to Photoshop the color of absolutely anything Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are the ultimate re-colorizing tools because you can use them to put a fresh coat of paint on anything. You can repaint your car, change the color of your cabinets, and even recolor your hair before heading to the salon. Here are two easy ways to get it done that work in nearly any version of either program: Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer Open an image and create a selection of the object you want to recolor. If the object has decent contrast against its background, use either program’s Quick Selection tool (in Elements, make sure you’re in Expert or Full Edit mode to see the tool). Lesa Snider Next, choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation and click OK in the resulting dialog box. If necessary, use the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer’s mask to hide or show the color change in certain spots, say, if your selection wasn’t perfect to start with. Using a Solid Color Fill Layer set to Hue mode Save your master
Catalogue - Graphic Design, Leeds, UK BLACK INK drawing software for high quality generative art Version 0.509.3810 The new kind of digital painting More about Black Ink Infinite possibilities With Black Ink anyone can create unique custom brushes. You can easily tweak them yourself and if you’re feeling like an inventor, explore our unique controllers system, create your ultimate brush and share it! The controllers are a new tool never seen in 2D painting packages before. Every brush can be used with the other innovative functions of Black Ink like the gradients or the image-based color, for an infinity of different uses. Amazing speed Black Ink’s unique GPU-based rendering engine enables blazing fast performance on any picture resolution. 64K pictures will become your new standard before you even realize it! Unique experience Black Ink also feature a fresh user experience with its clean and responsive user interface, instant access to brushes and colors history and real time visual brush preview. Black Ink development What are we working on