Archive for May, 2010
50 Insanely Awesome Pieces of Summer Inspiration
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Hilde Torbjornsen.
The wonderful summer is right around the corner for many of us. This inspired me to this time find some truly refreshing and inspiring pieces of art that cherish summer. Whether you love summer, flowers and beach life or not, I’m sure you will find some inspiration here. This collection has illustrations, photo-manipulations, drawings and [...]
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Contest – 3 Free Licenses for Blinksale Online Invoicing
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Nick Pagano.
To start the week off, I’ve got 3 free licenses for Blinksale to give away! Blinksale is an online invoicing tool that makes it easy to customize, send, and track your invoices. It’s got a very clean and well-designed backend, and you can even import your clients from Basecamp.
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Miami
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
Travel poster from Heads of State.
via iso50
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Saved by Droog
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
14 designers were asked to reinterpret the objects and turn the discarded products into newly wanted products. Check the chairs by Marian Bantjes.
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HTML5 Globals and You
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by John Cox.
Much has been written on the big ticket changes in HTML5, like forms, semantics, and media, but information on the less splashy changes is sparse. While global attributes aren’t the most sexy change of HTML5, they are the change that you will be using over and over and over as you migrate to [...]
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Creating a CMS Website With SiteGrinder and Pagelime
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Design Shack.
This tutorial will teach you how to build a CMS powered website from scratch without using any code!
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Ipad Vector Gui Elements: Tabs Buttons Menus Icons
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Design Shack.
“This set contains almost all ipad UI elemments, including buttons, tabs, menus, keyboard, balloms, etc.”
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Liquid, Fluid and Elastic Layout Templates, Tools and Frameworks
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Design Shack.
“In this article you will find a collection of starter and basic fluid/liquid and elastic layouts, CSS frameworks and some useful tools to help you with your next project.”
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A different kind of tulip
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
From a winter project. A scanned tulip, layered with a summer photograph.
via iGrafika
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Get Started With Photoshop – 15 Basic Detailed Guides
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by SloDive Admin.
Does Photoshop fascinates you but the road to master it seems difficult. Don’t worry,everything can be achieved by having a clear sense of purpose and direction. Its well said that beginning is half way done. Thus clearing your basics are utmost important to master this art. Photoshop can do wonders. So today we have come up with some Basic detailed guides to brush up our skills and thus making you confident enough to jump to advanced level with ease.
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Business Cards: A Guide, Inspiration and Tutorials
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Hilde.
Many designers and freelancers underestimate the power of good business-cards these days. These tiny cards can be very important bricks in marketing your business – as long as you know how to take advantage of them.
Today we’re gonna have a look at what a business-card is, some tips and tricks, some examples for inspiration and [...]
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Basic Portrait Retouching in Photoshop
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Luisa Marin.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn several quick and easy techniques for retouching portraits using Adobe Photoshop.
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Fascinating News Opening Intros – Abstraction Where Least Expected
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Lilian.
Check out the marvelously animated series of news opening intros proved to cause higher production values.
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NAP by Kasper Salto
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
I remember from my own search journey to find nicely designed chairs that it isn’t as easy as it sounds. If you are on the look, I just discovered a nice new chair called “NAP” that got its premiere at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan 2010 last April. It is a new stackable chair designed by the award winning Danish designer Kasper Salto for the furniture design brand “Republic of Fritz Hansen”…
Republic of Fritz Hansen
The history of Fritz Hansen begins in 1872 but 2000 marked a change in strategy with the launch of The Republic of Fritz Hansen. Its mission was to offer selected designers the opportunity to reinterpret the design philosophy of the Danish brand Fritz Hansen.
Interior with the two available NAP chairs.
NAP, designed by Kasper Salto
In Milan, Fritz Hansen had a display showcasing the detailed insight into the design process, testing and manufacturing of the new chair. The chair has been 2 years in the making. A few pictures of that process below.
The NAP chair is a reflection of Kasper Salto’s approach to design. With its curvaceous form, the NAP chair feels feminine and elegant too. The contours of the Nylon shell adapt naturally to the shape of the human body and the textured waves turn hours of sitting into an attractive proposition. Kapser says:
For me design is about relevance. To always create a product that has relevance towards its users. The NAP chair is all about being able to sit well in as many positions as possible. The name NAP is an abbreviation of the three key sitting positions; Normal, Active and Passive – because sitting is in fact a constant movement. If people who sit in the chair notice they have been sitting comfortably, I think I’ve succeeded.
Dimensions:
- width: 620 mm
- height: 770 mm
- depth: 510 mm
- height of seat: 450 mm
Kasper Salto’s work is characterized by respect for simple forms, materials, good workmanship and a belief that design can improve life. The NAP will come to market in September and will come in these colors: Milk White, Butter Yellow, Pepper Grey or Coffee Brown.
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HTML and Semantics – Conjoined twins of the Future Web !
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Ranjith Kumar.
Around 4-5 years ago, my daily knowledge building and socializing activities went like – read books, attend some sessions/training, visit a friend’s place, engage in a constructive debate, take a walk @ the nearby park … and so on . But years later … the scenario is slowly changing and I hardly find any time [...]
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Interview with Sophie Blackall
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Veerle Pieters.
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview the very talented Sophie Blackall. Her spontanous, expressive illustration style is what I particulary love so much, plus the fact that there is always an entire story behind every creation. Her blog illustrates stories about so called “Missed Connections” between random people, strangers reaching out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile, … These are inspired from the Missed Connections on Craigslist. The fantasy and illustrative translation behind each one of them is just brilliant!
Do you remember your first drawing and what it was? Do you also remember how old you were?
The first specific drawing I remember was in kindergarten. It was a painting of a goose and I was thrilled with the effect of white paint on blue paper. But I didn’t realise you had to let each layer dry before painting onto it and the goose ened up with a big dribbly black eye. I don’t think mine was the only dribbly-eyed goose in the class, but I remember clearly the frustration of seeing something in my head and not being able to reproduce it on the page.
Three versions of a record cover for Tom McRae, “King of Cards”.
How would you describe your creative process?
One of the sketches made for a story on eco weddings for the New York Times.
These days I have so many projects on the go that I’m constantly thinking about work. For me the composition and sketch stage takes the longest and requires the most thought. When you illustrate a children’s book for instance, you have to be architect, clothing designer, landscape artist and town planner. You have to decide the period, whether the characters are human, animal or something other. Often some of this information is supplied in the manuscript, but it is still quite an undertaking.
I begin with a color character study, and make all those big decisions, including palette, first. Then I sketch the dummy in pencil, send the drawings off for feedback from editors and art directors. The painting is the fun part. I become completely immersed in whichever world I’m painting…I’ve done books set in 5th century China, 1950s America, and Victorian England, with people, wild boars, monsters and snails.
Editorial jobs are always a much quicker process. You have a story to illustrate, you come up with a few ideas, the editor chooses one, (often your least favourite!), and you paint it.
For me the composition and sketch stage takes the longest and requires the most thought.
If you could choose a dream project that you would love to work on, what would it be?
I would love to illustrate Moby Dick. When I have a spare year.
I also dream of designing a theatre set. The Wind in the Willows would be fun.
Sophie Blackall in front of her wall of image scraps
Describe how a typical working day is like for you.
I work from home and I’ve just moved, so at the moment I’m dividing my time between actual work and unpacking boxes. One of the first things I did was to put up my wall of image scraps…postcards and snippets of pictures I’ve collected over the years and which I stare at for inspiration.
Most illustrators will agree I think, if you choose to do this for a living you have to be prepared to work really, really hard. I work most nights and most weekends. But I tell myself, I’d probably be doing it anyway, paid or unpaid. I feel very lucky to do what I love best.
What do you do to recharge your creative batteries?
I live in New York, so I only have to step out the door to see amazing, odd, curious, wonderful, bizarre, inspiring things. I like to just wander the city, but there are such fantastic museums to explore as well. And there’s nothing like getting lost in a second hand bookshop for a few hours. Or trawling the flea markets. Or dipping into Chinatown. When all that fails, I try Paris.
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CSS Design: Hunters Wineshop
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Design Shack.
A really nice, clean web store with a perfect color scheme and beautiful product shots.
The typography is really refined and the shopping experience quite streamlined.
Overall, a refreshingly different e-commerce design.
This design was featured on the 31st May 2010 . It falls under the category of Food and Drink, and has a layout style of Grid.
If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs.
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CSS Design: Pixelmator
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Design Shack.
Pixelmator is a popular alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
The page design really shows off the Pixelmator interface well and features plenty of really stellar icon design examples.
As you scroll down near the bottom the layout is broken up in modules to clearly delineate features.
This design was featured on the 31st May 2010 . It falls under the category of Software, and has a layout style of Three Column.
If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs.
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Crescento 5 in 1 – Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Fem Khan.
This site is best suitable for a business, Company, Blog, Portfolio, or freelancer Portfolio website as well. Theme works in all the major browsers, and has massive features to use for your next projects. For most of the part you can just follow the HTML with commented codes. The font I’ve used for the logo in case you are wondering is Myriad Pro, which comes with your Adobe Photoshop Installation. You can create new logo using the PSD file included.
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Anniversary Giveaway Day 19: Bizcard Business Cards Winner
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Wajid Khan.
Last week we reviewed the Free Premium Wordpress Themes from NeatoThemes.com. The competition is over and we’ve randomly selected One Winner.
BIZCard was created with the entrepreneur and small business owner in mind. Our objective is to make high quality, professional design and marketing communication available to everyone – without complications [...]
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