Stephanie Valentin Chalkboarding: Applied Art of White & Black Typography Chalkboarding: Applied Art of White & Black Typography Article by Delana, filed under Graphics & Branding in the Design category. Chalk is frequently used as a medium in street art, but it’s never been quite this sophisticated and downright stunning before. Graphic designer Dana Tanamachi does unique custom chalkboard lettering that’s so precise and so gorgeous it will take your breath away. By day Dana Tanamachi is a designer with Louise Fili Ltd, a well-known lettering studio that creates some of the most memorable typography work in the world. The intricate details and beautiful flourishes bring to mind the lost art of classic sign painting. Even though she doesn’t use any kind of stencil, pattern or transparency to create her works of typography art, Dana’s creations are always precise and sharp. As beautiful and memorable as these pieces are, they are also entirely temporary.
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How to Scale Embedded Media in Responsive Designs In order to make responsive designs successfully adapt to any screen size, you need to properly scale not just headlines and text elements, but images and other media. We’ve already covered a number of solutions for images, but what about other elements like video? Scaling video when you can control the embed code is pretty easy, the same max-width tricks that work on images will work on video. The tricky problems with scaling video come when you start trying to embed movies from other websites. YouTube and most other video hosting sites typically include a fixed width and height in pixels as part of the embed code. That’s fine for older designs, but it doesn’t scale in a responsive layout. Swedish web developer Anders Andersen recently tackled the problem of responsive embeds and came up with a solution that works with both YouTube and Vimeo movies. For the full details and the CSS that makes it work, be sure to read Andersen’s whole post.
50 Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations - Noupe Design Blog Jun 10 2011 Creating something out of the ordinary by combining two or more elements is not a new concept in the graphic design field. Photo manipulation is a true example of such collaboration that almost always brings astonishing results. In photo manipulations, the photographs are being edited with the help of graphic editing software to create an image that can inspire even the most critical of eyes. Here we have gathered some amazing examples of photo manipulations. Gallery of Manips Storybook Extravaganza Revealed Day React Vertical Turn Fishy island Eyes in Head Chess king Sleeping ocean Plastic Death Hair Aquarium Dancing with Death Inner Reflection Creation Faceoff Don’t Miss the Adventure Childhood Dream Fishing in the sky A Sweet Pasture Explosive Kiss Revealed Digital Art My little moon Mind-breaker After 10 pm Guitar Splash Wet dreams on open waters Eyes speak Face Cutting Embrace My Sorrow A Break in the Monotony Lazy dog Smoking kills On an Island Dry My Cocon Keys Reborn Sinner Sammy the Spidat Cook in brain (rb)
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20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. 1. Follow this tutorial to create dazzling, multi-layered, semi-transparent lettering, with a Perspex-like quality. 2. 3D Pixel Stretch Effect File this tutorial under “simple but effective”. 3. Turn a simple cityscape into a torrentially flooded wasteland. 4. Become the master of light and glow on Photoshop with this brief, easy-to-follow guide. 5. Use masking tools, layers, gradients and lines to turn your favorite piece of 3D text into something more colorful and commercial. 6. Mental waves do not exist, but if they did they’d look rather like this. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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