WEBデザイナ/開発者が覚えておくと便利なブックマークレット集:phpspot開発日誌
http://phpspot.org/blog/archives/2008/11/web_38.html

useful web tools

めもめも

役に立ちそう。後でみっちり読む。

文字周りのノウハウまとめ。 本当に良くまとまってます

How Buildings Learn TV series

In 1997, the BBC aired a three-hour documentary based on Stewart Brand's book, How Buildings Learn. Brand has posted the whole program on Google Video in six 30-minute parts: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six.

info from Nielsen report on web design to get better PR results

More than 50 top notch courses that will help you become a better web designer.

web design

We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010!! uhuuu to feliz! :)

A group of men, setting out to revive a Polaroid factory. I once visited the factory in Enschede as a courier and must say it felt a little sacred.

A team of Dutch engineers is trying to re-invent the good ol' white-framed Polaroid snaps.

"We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support."

"Dont undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible"

"all fields become optional" etc. good stuff.

Rule 3. (too true!) Chatter Always Expands

This will be incomprehensible to non developers in the audience, but oh god, this is so painfully, painfully true.

"I mentioned I’ve learned some rules of how database apps change over time, now that I’ve done a few dozen. They are: ... "

There are pine, ice, snowflake, snow and many different Christmas related brushes for every taste in this list. Also these brushes are great inspiration to remind You the most popular Christmas symbols.

carrera

magicsocket: actionscript development, interactive art direction, design

12 tools for web designers

カラースキームやクロップツールなど、使えるオンラインツール満載。

ウェブデザイナーの作業を助ける12のオンラインツール

From Harry Clarke to 1890's storybooks, if you're looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you've come to the right place. There's a treasury here at Grandma's Graphics that you probably won't find anywhere else online. Some of these graphics are quite large and take time to load, but be patient, they're worth the wait.

From Harry Clarke to 1890's storybooks, if you're looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you've come to the right place. There's a treasury here at Grandma's Graphics that you probably won't find anywhere else online.

" From Harry Clarke to 1890's storybooks, if you're looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you've come to the right place. There's a treasury here at Grandma's Graphics that you probably won't find anywhere else online. Some of these graphics are quite large and take time to load, but be patient, they're worth the wait."

illustrations from kids' books

It seems that just over the last year the quality of Photoshop tutorials have really improved. There have always been a plethora of Photoshop tutorial sites

Melhores tutoriais do ano de 2008, eleitos pelo webdesigner depot!

It seems that just over the last year the quality of Photoshop tutorials have really improved. There have always been a plethora of Photoshop tutorial sites

More Web Design Trends For 2009

Last week we presented 10 Web Design Trends For 2009, our review of the most promising developments and techniques in web design that may become big in 2009. In the first part we covered embossing letters (”letterpress”), rich user interfaces, PNG transparency, big typography, carousels and media blocks. This post is the second part of our review. It presents design trends for 2009 in terms of layouts, visual approaches and design elements. Please notice that this post showcases trends and developments that were extensively covered in our previous articles (e.g. handwriting, retro and vintage etc.) and therefore weren’t covered in this post (they are all linked in the overview, so feel free to explore these single posts as well). Did you miss any recent development in this overview? Let us know in the comments!

読み方は"クーラー" "画像をもとに自動的に配色パターンを作成してくれる機能" これは知らなかったです！便利！

アドビ システムズが提供しているオンラインサービス「Adobe Kuler」（クーラー）

Flashbulb Interaction, Inc. is a research, strategy, and design consultancy that works with clients to envision powerful and engaging user experiences for knowledge workers at the forefronts of their fields.

Extremely effective communication of complex information

presentations on complex subject

"How then do you create an effective call to action? Here are 10 techniques which help achieve just that."

Every website should have a call to action, a response you want users to complete.

Every website should have a call to action, a response you want users to complete. But how do you encourage users to act? How do you create an effective call to action.

Business card design can be tricky if you're not familiar with the process. As you'll see in these tutorials, there are a number of different programs that you can use to create business cards, but setting up the layout properly and getting it ready to print can be the most challenging part. This selection of tutorials will show you some techniques for designing business cards, as well as give you all the information you need to get set up the right way to make the design a success. Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers This tutorial from Chris Spooner will show you how to create a two-sided business card using Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

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Video design and production

Apple을 비롯한 여러가지 업체에서 제공하는 UI가이드라인에 대한 정보

印象的なポートフォリオサイトデザイン50選

인상적인 디자이너 포트폴리오 페이지

矢印アイコン

Visual relational database designer, done entirely in <canvas> and javascript. Rather swanky-looking.

B-Movie title screens

Titres de films ... Nickédelics !

customising the CSS of websites using Stylish

Eigentlich nichts Neues, nur die Verweise auf die aktuelle Implementation in anderen Browsern sind relevant.

news

Persecuting " Torture " is a Moral Obligation for Lawyers

trabajo de your majesty para nyt

new york times video interview, promotie ding

frífontar

This tool allows you to draw and create database schemas (E-R diagrams) directly in browser, without the need for any external programs (flash)

A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart.

A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart.

Walks through a few iterations of the Highrise conversion page, with interesting discussion illustrating some of the design decisions made.

Как и почему сделали новую версию.

Web解析を行っていると数字とにらめっこになるわけですが、そこで重要なのが可視化することだったりします。ここで紹介されている（最終的にはFlickrに遷移）チャートを選択するためのチャートは常にデスクに貼っておいても良いぐらい便利なものだと思いますよ。

s yo

Cats Who Codeのエントリー「50のフリー写真素材サイト集」から、商用サイトでも、リンクやクレジット表記の制限無しで利用できる無料の写真素材サイトをピックアップして紹介します。 50 sites to find free stock images 上記サイトでは、他にも個人サイトのみやリンク・クレジット表記のフリーサイトが紹介されています。

クレジット表記、リンク必要なし

Keep your fonts together.

Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organise the fonts you have installed on your system. Designed to be an iTunes for your fonts, Fontcase has a powerful tagging system, which is designed to let you control your fonts like you control your music.

Font management software

a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organise the fonts you have installed on your system. Designed to be an iTunes for your fonts, Fontcase has a powerful tagging system, which is designed to let you control your fonts like you control your music

"Elegant font management for Mac OS X."

Inspiration: Business Card Designs I know there is a lot of different kinds of business card now days but since abduzeedo is giving out some traditional cards prints, I focused on that and put up some great card designs by really good designers so you

abduzeedo cards

Web education is out of date and fragmented. There are good people working hard to change this, but because of the structure of higher education, it will take time. As part of a year-long journey to discover where we are in web education and where we need to go, Leslie Jensen-Inman interviewed 32 web design and development leaders. The consensus: technology moves too fast for college and university curricula to keep up. How, then, can educators create a sustainable foundation for the future?

Sponsor an Educator...sounds like a new nonprofit idea to me.

Web education is out of date and fragmented.

web layout

Provides a good summary of the latest layout tips

ウェブデザインのレイアウトに役立つ１１サイト

フッターをブラウザの最下部、もしくはコンテンツの最下部に表示させるCSSのテクニック、 各カラムのボックスの高さを合わせてくれるスクリプト

excellent flash site of a web development company

css tutorial

段ボール紙の素材

In this article, you'll find 30 exceptionally handy open source applications for web designers.

In this article, you'll find 30 exceptionally handy open source applications for web designers.

removeClass("idleFie

ตามชื่อเลยครับ มีทั้งตีมมีทั้งเลย์เอาต์เอาไว้ดู

Books to buy/order from library

The author details Web Design and Interaction Design books for beginner to advanced readers.

Smashing Magazineのエントリーから、XHTML/CSSのフリーのテンプレートを配布しているサイトを紹介します。 100 Free

To be a web designer means to have a flexible professionalism that enables to make a project, to create a design respecting and reflecting the customers

tlačítka, headery, layouty, patičky

manipulação e retoque

Good design ref.

世界のデザイン名刺を集めてみたサイト。

名刺

くりえいてぃぶっ！タッチスクリーン + processing。

(no description)

Native UI widgets FTW!

Me moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia's idiotic philosophies.

Very funny list of gripes wth CS4

adobe製品のバグやUIの間違いをひたすら指摘。 ここまでやってくれるユーザーってなかなかいないのでは。

super

iPlotz offers a Web-based tool for quickly sketching wireframes of Web sites and demonstrating navigation between pages.

create mockups of your website design

test drive websites

全部読んでしまった。

Nice collection of textures

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

These are themes for Tumblr, not Wordpress.

Her Morning Elegance - Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan. Photography: Eyal Landesman. Featuring: Shir Shomron Thanks Jenny!

As seen on Daily Dish

Her Morning EleganceDirected by: Oren Lavie, Yuval

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

Get familiar with one of the most popular and unique web design trend - hand drawing style through many examples. Also great way to get inspired!

STV for wabi-sabi + "Wabi-sabi is a set of philosophical principles that relate Buddhist concepts that can be observed in meditation to all aspects of design. For the first time it occurred to me that Dukkha (the fundamental lack of satisfaction with anything in the physical realm), Anicca (impermanence, lack of any "timeless" principle), and Anatta (lack of "self", or the idea that any object can be complete in and of itself and exist separately from the subject) apply to all things we create."

Excellent article referencing Buddhist principals that may be very helpful to me...

COULEUR et LUMIERE. Superbe outil web a détourner avec tout le bonheur de l'Ecole primaire entre ARTS PLASTIQUES et Sciences / Decouverte du monde +++

choose and match colors

Color Scheme Designer

The latest Grow game that I forgot to post earlier.

Yaaaaaay new Grow game! These things are just about my favorite flash games ever.

Excellent listing of typography tools and sites!

By Noura Yehia and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall

Definitely merits additional investigation.

In October of 1994, I’d just started as an honest-to-goodness videogame programmer at a small startup called SingleTrac – which later went on to fame and glory (but unfortunately not much in the way of fortune) with such titles as Warhawk, the Twisted Metal series, and the Jet Moto series. But at the time, the company was less than 20 employees in size and had only been officially in business for about a month. It was sometime in my first week – possibly my first or second day. In the main engineering room, there was a whoop and cry of success. Our company financial controller and acting HR lady, Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle.

"We came to refer to certain types of accomplishments as 'black triangles.' These are important accomplishments that take a lot of effort to achieve, but upon completion you don’t have much to show for it."

Sometimes the big victories look pedestrian at first glance.

A great term for those things that take so much effort for seemingly little output.

Black Triangles. They're not just for programmers. (via merlin, via kottke)

sometimes I feel like I'm still trying to get that black triangle to show up...

Cool fire effect

jQuery

Finfin animasjon som viser Internett utviklinga frå 1957 til 2009. Forenkla sjølvsagt, men fin. Litt komplisert ordbruk innimellom, men det må ein vel rekne med.

Yawn! Cool animation though.

"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.

filmpjes op internet

Though W3C’s CSS3 specifications aren’t finalized yet, modern web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and WebKit-based browsers already have full or partial support for them.

Like the title says

apple at it again

3D Desktop

A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements.

Logos

:o Yes, no wonder this is the best collection of logos ever you saw on internet. Hopefully you are going to bookmark this article and get the maximum use of its

Color is a major consideration in any Web design. Whether for an individual, small company, or major corporation, color scheme is one of the most significant factors in the overall look and appearance of a

how good is the BBC?

wonderful mug collection..

Modern mugs and creative mug designs from all over the world.

Links til tutorials om photoshop

Photoshop is hard. There's all kinds of menus, commands, and keyboard shortcuts that you've got to figure out. Once you learn how it works, it's an unbelievably

pretty much a overview of anything you could need

SmartSprites

Nice styling of items for a restaurant menu or the like.

css for a restaurant menu price list

place to save and share artwork

On August 12, 1982, I took a 10 x 7 1/8 inch National Blank Book Company composition book from the supply closet of my then employer, Vignelli Associates. From that moment, I have never been without one. I always have one at my desk. I take one with me to every meeting. I am now in the middle of Notebook #85. It's in front of me right now. Together, these well-worn books create a history of my working life that spans three decades.

Inspiration for keeping a notebook.

50 Quality Photoshop Tutorials

1.5", fully-embroidered, Velcro-backed. Attach to your jacket, your backpack, or the lid of your overclocked, battle-scarred laptop. Start a nerd sash!

So excited about this.

from Identity design to websites and exhibition design as well... these guys rock at Communication Design big time

based in sheffield

nice yorkshire creative/comms consultancy

Estudio de diseño gráfico majete

Ultra sweet iPhone shirt.

camiseta del iphone

excellent.

The T-Shirt: Artist Kevin Tong captures the invention of daVinci, the imagination of H.G. Wells, and the brilliance of Jonathan Ive in this Exploded Phone drawing.

Story about Georgia the font

startpage

Oooh look- they're doing 3D. cool!

These are hilarious, and some quite impressive. via dbecker

Portland, Oregon has already used his open-source software to plan its bus routes. San Francisco, whose MUNI bus system is a frequent target of criticism, could be next to get the treatment. Gorton says he's in talks with the city to supply transit routing software for MUNI that will do a much better job of keeping track of where people are going and figuring out how best to get them there. San Francisco "overpaid greatly" for a badly-supported proprietary closed-source system that barely works, according to Gorton, putting the city under the thumb of a private company that provides sub-par support.

Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools. Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software for the open-source gnutella network was at the forefront of the P2P revolution nearly a decade ago, is taking profits earned as a software mogul and spinning them into projects to make urban transportation safer, faster and more sustainable.

"Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software for the open-source gnutella network was at the forefront of the P2P revolution nearly a decade ago, is taking profits earned as a software mogul and spinning them into projects to make urban transportation safer, faster and more sustainable."

While public, that data was locked by private software used by public organizations and suffered from an overall lack of standards. Thus was born GeoServer, an open-source, Java-based software server that lets anyone view and edit geo-spatial data. Road information can now be painstakingly imported once from proprietary systems or entered from scratch, double-checked by other users, and rolled out to anyone who needs the data

this is so cute: a virtual bike lane (using lasers) that displays on the ground around the cyclist, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid. The idea is to allow riders to take safety into their own hands, rather than leaving it to the city. I want to see one for pedestrians too : )

Awesome. Illuminate your own bike lane with Light lane.

The system projects a virtual bike lane (using lasers!) on the ground around the cyclists, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid. The idea is to allow riders to take safety into their own hands, rather than leaving it to the city. And just in case you need to be convinced about the need for better cycle saftey, watch this video about the stupidest bike lane in America.

Bike light that creates a virtual bike lane

A Social Image Upload website, how new :)

NETTUTS/Themeforest.net guru Jeffrey Way says: "Everything is changing. This weekend, I read a very interesting book: 'Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong'. The book illustrates how, now that IE has passed the ACID 2 test, we can finally begin to build our websites the proper ways. Up until now, we've been forced to implement hacks to form the perfect layout - absolute positioning, precarious floats, etc. But that's all beginning to change! I'll show you how in twenty minutes."

Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong

Oh, huh, that's cool. Projectable bike lane!

a bike lane that moves with you!

"Only a small fraction of streets have dedicated bike lanes, and with an installation cost of $5,000 to $50,000 per mile, we shouldn’t expect to find them everywhere anytime soon. Instead of adapting cycling to established bike lanes, the bike lane should adapt to the cyclists. This is the idea behind the LightLane. Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid. With a wider margin of safety, bikers will regain their confidence to ride at night, making the bike a more viable commuting alternative."

cool idea

This plugin lets you use images to replace the titles of your posts.

This plugin lets you use images to replace the titles of your posts, thus circumventing the problem of guessing what fonts your end-users might have installed.

I'm a big fan of the "high Pass" filter

Photoshop / 写真画像を見栄えよくするPhotoshopのチュートリアル集: Part 6

写真画像をレタッチして、見栄えをよくするPhotoshopのチュートリアル集のPart 6です。

GREAT FREE WEBSITE DESIGN STUFF

Yes. Yes we are.

s, God creates thing

Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God.

I've found it best not to tell any professional how to do their job.

The best fonts from 17 great designers Everyone has their favorite fonts. Fonts that are very versatile and work well for a variety of projects. With that in mind we asked some very well known designers and digital artists what their top 3 serif and top

Very useful tip for clearing floated divs

The online home of Harry Roberts, freelance front-end developer.

Spirals and colors and transparency.

モバイルサイトのユーザビリティ。PCより単純だけど、単純だから情報設計が難しそう印象。

普通に携帯サイト見てても気づくレベル。基本中の基本。こっから先が難しい。

button, span, anchorをスタイリングするチュートリアル

Below, we create a range of button types that frequently appear in application interfaces — stand-alone buttons, toggles, and buttons grouped into multi-function toolbars — and use classes from the framework to demonstrate how you can leverage the CSS for non-jQuery elements. We tested the sample markup and the framework CSS to ensure that styles render the same whether the button markup is the actual button form element (<button>), a link (<a>), or any other tag that makes sense for your particular application.

Free animated loading gif preloaders generator for AJAX loading

maybe make one for my edvibes brand

Massive hand-drawn style related resource roundup to give You opportunity to create really unique web site design and really stand out of crowd.

recursos hechos a mano

icons and more icons

Mockups To Go A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.

A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.

Therefore, I have compiled a list of 55 job sites and hope you may find them useful. These links include job boards, job searches, project bidding sites, and job feed aggregators. This post is totally worth to bookmark, whether you are a designer, developer, Flash programmer,or a freelance writer. Of course, don’t forget to check our job board first — Design Jobs on the Wall.

tutti i siti in cui trovare lavoro come web designer

내 손글씨로 폰트를 만든다!

Make your own handwriting font

YourFonts.com is a FREE online font generator that allows you to create your own TrueType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font!

cmtes

Make your very own fonts!

With YourFonts it's really simple to turn your printed characters into a font.

YourFonts is a web-based service that turns your handwriting into a TrueType font for free. If you have a printer and scanner, nothing can stand between you and the awesomeness of your own script.

YourFonts is a web-based service that turns your handwriting into a TrueType font for free. If you have a printer and scanner, nothing can stand between you and the awesomeness of your own script. We've covered a

Handwriting

css for layout

Why CSS should not be used for layout

Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering

comics typografi

Grammar of word balloons.

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file

Very cool night time portraits.

Texturas interesantes para blender y programas así

Free textures

New York Moments rendered in Legos

Cute lego representations of nyc things.

NYC broken down to its simplest tiny parts. In Lego. So fucking good. (Thanks Val.)

I LEGO N.Y.

Lego's ability to channel someone's nostalgia for NY. Awesome.

30+ Free Quality PSD Files to Download

finde ich super, sowas kann man immer gebrauchen. Außerdem macht Photoshoppen immer wieder viel Spaß.

Seamless patterns are a great way to add a big impact to a web design without a lot of effort. Here are 223 of them that are absolutely beautiful. Whether you

check links at bottom of pages as well

Seamless background tiles

Over the past year and a half, I have published four collections of inspirational websites with a minimalist approach to the design. Since more great websites of this style keep appearing, and since readers continue to show an interest in this style, here is the fifth edition. You can see the first four parts here: 25 Beautifully Minimalistic Website Designs 25 Beautifully Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 2 25 Beautifully Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 3 25 Beautifully Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 Netlings

25 Beautifully Minimalist Websites

Specific user experience patterns and their pros and cons.

Yay, Rochester is tracked.

дохрена фришных иконок

Stiles for NetNewsWire, very beautyfull

If you’re in to this sort of thing: “Much attention has been paid to the design and typography of the styles to improve legibility and readability, and to enhance the overall reading experience.”

netnewswire rss styles layouts css von kai heuser heuserkampf

wordpress

Themes molones vintage y azul, con "banner superior" y publi

t may not be resold, sublicensed, re

Interactive visualizations based on the Eigenfactor™ Metrics and hierarchical clustering to explore emerging patterns in citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

Interactive visualizations based on the Eigenfactor™ Metrics and hierarchical clustering to explore emerging patterns in citation networks.

Photo laboratory (Photl.com) - Free Stock Photo / photl.com - http://photl.com/fr/

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite.

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (see FLOSS manuals at http://en.flossmanuals.net )

bauhaus et software

Wiki as pedagogy

Introduction to Media Design: "Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite. Textbooks and software manuals on today’s market do not include art and design history or visual principles. This book synthesizes historical examples and traditional studio foundation exercises into smart, well-paced software exercises. See it for yourself in Chapter 5, where we explore Illustrator's Color Picker through Joseph Albers’ color exercises. Digital media texts about Adobe Creative Suite, whether they are “Bibles”, “For Dummies” or “Classroom in a Books”, focus on tools and production tips. Digital Foundations is the only textbook that teaches visual skills through production tools."

By Steven Snell Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of

Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of websites are affected by the need for good communication in one way or another. Regardless of whether the website in question is an e-commerce website, a blog, a portfolio website, an information website for a service company, a government website or any other type of website, there is a significant need to communicate effectively with visitors.

methods, challenges, content, and tips.

save

lego

cool tool by J. Ambrose Little, needs Silverlight

A series of professional observations about package design practices within specific product categories

Consumer product/placement/positioning patterns via http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1546-patterns-great-self-promotion

The lesson, Marissa said, is that speed matters. People do not like to wait. Do not make them.

On the web, speed matters. I see it with campaigns all the time.

This conclusion may be surprising -- people notice a half second delay? -- but we had a similar experience at Amazon.com. In A/B tests, we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue.

An introduction to Sass, a templating engine for CSS.

the months I spent suffering that fool 12 years ago would have been better spent building my portfolio and hustling to find better clients. All the time you spend working for an asshole is time you’re not spending to find a gig that will, in the long run, pay you better, teach you more, and make you happier.

"Nine times out of ten, the first impression someone gives you is exactly who they are. We choose not to see it because we need the money, or we want the situation to be different. But if someone rubs you the wrong way at the first meeting, chances are, it’s only going to get worse."

It can be very intimidating to turn down work, especially in these uncertain economic times. But the months I spent suffering that fool 12 years ago would have been better spent building my portfolio and hustling to find better clients. All the time you spend working for an asshole is time you’re not spending to find a gig that will, in the long run, pay you better, teach you more, and make you happier.

Crude advice, but very salient. We take the stick because we need the money, but the rude client ends up hitting us over the head with it.

"But the biggest lesson I learned? Don’t work for assholes."

logo design

In this collection, you will find 15 hand-picked tutorials from a variety of talented graphic designers and illustrators that discuss the logo creation process using Illustrator.

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Paint splatters, floral flourishes, grunge worn patches: we love 'em, but we've seen them all before. Here we've compiled 50 free Photoshop brushes that are unique, different, and in many cases, down-right strange. In fact, these misfit brushes are united by only one thing: awesomeness.

5o exemples de menus de navigation Internet de qualité

多少ぼやかしてはいる部分はあれど、個人サイトで情報をここまで公開したことに驚きました。彼と確か、Googleに就職した途端にだんまりを決める人っているよね（悪い意味ではなく）、みたいな話をしたことがあったように思いますが……もしや会社的にOKを出したうえでのこと？

Gmails new buttons

some very solid text effects...best ive seen so far in one compilation

Brush sets for photoshop to save time.

Awesome free Photoshop brushes.

ahora si el url. del primer sitio donde no pasa nada http://www.thefirstworldwidewebsitewerenothinghappens.com/ via @elneco

Interesting site by Kit Kat, who wants to give you a break!

Um site onde nada acontece.

The First Worldwide Site Where Nothing Happens. KitKat.

We're a full-service interactive agency in Nashville with happy and successful clients all across America.

Interactive Advertising and Web Development Agency in Nashville, Tennessee

So you’re a skilled developer or design freelancer who has established a handful of customers who pay your bills and provide you with an income. That’s great. You may wish to keep things just the way they are or you might want to build on this and build up your own small business. If you’re opting for the later then here are a few tips to help you ride the bumpy road from freelancer to fully-fledged small business.

Geinig artikel over hoe je designers moet behandelen.

Things a 'good web designer' would never tell you about choosing the perfect design.

wever it is no use if

Djangoを始める時

Stupendi tutorial dedicati al fantastico Gimp

How to implement sticky footers

n by that margin height, perhaps in a header or the w

polycro-footer

Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail. After describing Apple’s process of delivering consumers with a succession of presents (“really good ideas wrapped up in other really good ideas” — in other words, great software in fabulous hardware in beautiful packaging), he asked the question many have asked in their time: “How the f*ck do you do that?”

you may want to make textures available... you may be able to make your own site of this kind of thing...

これでgimpをフォトショ並みに縦横無尽に使える罠

pictbearより良いかも？

リンクはいいんだけども、編集している画像が変

Escritório de design com cases legais sobre brand, comunição visual.

destop backgrounds

great wallpapers

Os melhores sites do ano

Its seems like the desktop and office style websites have been a popular design idea for a few years now. While many of these design share some of the same

WireframeSketcher is an Eclipse plug-in for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes.

WireframeSketcher is an Eclipse plugin for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes. * Create UI mockups in no time * Communicate your intent * Get feedback * Build better software!

an Eclipse plugin for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes

結構いろんなバリエーションつくれる

Keyword research is crucial as it acts like a compass for your website or blog. A proper keyword research reveals the supply and demand trends in your industries thus giving general idea on which keyword you should focus on.

うおおおおお

リクルート、おまえら最高に愛すべきバカどもだよ

エア焼肉

焼肉たべたい

millions of blog entries: that no one will read apart from five people

Ding! Correct! This, right here, is why I have never played an ARG. And why I would love to get paid to write one.

a hilarious, soul-searching talk by Dan Hon of ARG development company Six to Start at the Let's Change The Game conference held in December 2008.

googleblog

An eye tracking study from Google. However, please note that none of the searches are overly commercial in nature (no top position ads). In almost all G heatmap studies, they only show mostly information searches. Interesting data, but don't assume your ad will not get nice visibility for more commercial based searches.

2008年に注目を集めた使えるJavaScriptライブラリ集が紹介されていました。 どれも非常に便利でサイト構築に役立ってくれるでしょう。

Safe window sizes for browsers and computer operating systems.

Free web based design tools

Monopoly, in spite being the classiest of all board games, unfortunately is packaged just as boringly and uncreatively as every other garbage board game on the shelves. So, I decided to repackage it... turning the class up to 11.

nice redesign of monopoly packaging

Ładne buttony z zaokrąglonymi obrazkami, także kilka obok siebie w obrębie jednego wizualnie paska buttona.

"This doc attempts to show how custom buttoms with a 1px radius could be created without corner images. The gradient requires an image, but is optional. Ideally, the <button> element should be used if possible (instead of <a>) for semantic and accessibility reasons. Note that the hover state will not work on button elements for IE6 and lower without using JavaScript to detect a mouseOver event."

This doc attempts to show how custom buttoms with a 1px radius could be created without corner images. The gradient requires an image, but is optional. Ideally, the <button> element should be used if possible (instead of <a>) for semantic and accessibility reasons. Note that the hover state will not work on button elements for IE6 and lower without using JavaScript to detect a mouseOver event.

Eine viel schönere Seite als Chefkoch.de

Recipes

Browse for recipes by course ingredient cuisine method, etc.

Free Icons

The icons are available in PNG, ICO and ICNS format. They are free to use for both personal and commercial projects, including websites, templates & software. You are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons anywhere else. If you like to share the icons please link to this article.

MAXで見たJoshua Davisのプレゼン

ジョシュア・デイビスのプレゼン資料。

アイデアの変遷

色形。

なんか知らんがジョシュア・デイビス。

JoshuaDavisさんのプレゼン資料

joshuadavis のベジェ曲線スタディ。きれええ。

particulas com efeitos 3D no flash

Flash。ベジェ。

A site and -- they hope -- movement for free, open-source fonts. "We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."

collection of open source fonts

open source fonts for web use

'Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.'

We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

Using openFrameworks?

... hosheez. An etch-a-sketch controlled by the *volume of your voice*.

Ze Frank has made a Flash-based drawing application that takes sound as its input.

přehled chyb google chrome

Just when you thought you were done with IE 6 and its hacks and exceptions, now you've got a new browser to consider: Google's Chrome. The good news is that

Here are some tips to get your web pages working in Chrome and hopefully looking the way they were designed to look.

No, but it does have problems all of its own!

Getting around some of the weirdness that Chrome brings to the table. Like Opera, Chrome is unusually unforgiving when it comes to HTML, CSS, and javascript

Firefox Hacks

よく見るから。

リンクとかの点線を消す CSS

overflow:hidden; outline:none;

これをするとキーボード操作でどこにいるかわからんくなるので、ユーザビリティ下がります

create website backgrounds

Website backgrounds maken

70+ Impressive Trends, How To’s & Best Practices

Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends, How To’s & Best Practices - http://www.noupe.com/trends/website-backgrounds-70-impressive-trends-how-tos-best-practices.html

これ全部やる！

Allows to create pretty charts for free.

Free online diagramming application

Lovely Charts is a drawing application that allows you to create professionnal looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… For free.

With Lovely Charts's extremely simple and intuitive drag'n drop drawing mechanism, you'll be able to focus on what really matters. You won't have to draw boxes and arrows, you won't have to worry about what symbol to use.

Lovely Charts is a drawing application that allows you to create professionnal looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes.

designer from Finland. Nice work on print/package design

Nice photography of publications, with details

illustrator designer helsinki

As I am a WordPress user by heart, I have a large list of Wordpress related bookmarks. Many of these bookmarks have proven their value over time and I am pretty sure they will be helpful for you too. Welcome to the Ultimate Collection of WordPress Resources.

some important resources on the wordpress basics bundled together

WordPress Resources

50 Useful JavaScript Tools : http://hellotxt.com/l/d1Wt

10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know http://is.gd/iSXV

Forums are the best sources to gain &amp; share information. Here is a list of 10 clean Forum designs we found for you...

A madlib exercise

background patern generator

誰が携わったかがわかるサイト集

誰の作品か分かるサイト　RSSも購読しよっと。

いろいろ、誰がつくったか？

save

nice

With only three varieties of plants, we can “grow our own fresh air” indoors, to keep us healthy. Areca Palm, Mother-in-law tongue, Money plant. Bueno!!!!

Ever heard about these plants: (a) Areca Palm, (b) Mother-in-Law's Tongue, or (c) Money Plant? The authors state that, "We have tried and tested these plants for 15 years at Paharpur Business Centre and Software Technology Incubator Park (PBC- STIP) in New Delhi, India. It is a 20 year old, 50,000 ft2 building, with over 1,200 plants for 300 building occupants. PBC- STIP is rated the healthiest building in Delhi by the Government of India.* Their study found that there is a 42% probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1% if one is inside the building for 10 hours."

33 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Amazing Posters and Ads

poster

33 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Amazing Posters and Ads : Speckyboy Design Magazine

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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Image replacement is arguably one of the most important CSS-based techniques available to a web designer. While some people view image replacement as merely a way to use fonts absent from the client computer, I believe that’s simply untrue. Image replacement has a place on nearly every web site—it can be useful in displaying a variety of page elements: company logos, attractive navigation bars, and fancy paragraph headings. Most importantly though, is its use for the “call to action” buttons; these must stand out in order to attract a visitor’s attention for performing important tasks (like signing up, downloading, or making a purchase).

Yeni bir metin yerine resim koyma metodu

Upload an image (GIF, JPEG or PNG) and convert it to a Windows favicon (.ico).

Free fonts

Typography is one of the fundamental elements of web design. A site that makes excellent use of typography will often have a subtle elegance to the design. Fortunately, there are plenty of great resources and tools, informative articles, and sources of inspiration that are available. In this post we’ll feature some of the best items that should be bookmarked for future use in your own work.

This post highlights 101 of the most stunning infrared photographs on the web, and also suggests reading materials and equipment photographers should look through for taking infrared photos of their own.

Infrared Photographs

A few days ago I was implementing breadcrumbs in a website I’m working on. Not that I sincerely believe every site needs this, but on some occasions and to some users breadcrumbs are practical. Anyhow, it gave me the idea to write an article about it because it’s been a while since I last wrote about anything CSS-related. The one I’ll share with you is a very simple one. It uses only one simple graphic. The rest is basic CSS styling with an unordered list as HTML code.

Quick and easy Breadcrumb tutorial using CSS!

cutey pie webpage. tablez

favicon generator

Business, it's a different story, some (harsh) points made about corporate websites.

Yes! I think a free interaction gives the user experience that special edge.

"One free interaction" is a prospective design pattern that gives software and hardware a more humane feel. It exists outside of task flows and the concept of users as task-doers. Instead it sits in the "in between" spaces, suiting users as fidgeters, communicators, and people who play with things.

Very nice post from Chris Noessel of Cooper Design on the more subtle but no less brilliant elements of iPhone design, as well as other simple, pleasing software highlights

I flip page control on the home screen back and forth, for no apparent reason.

"Since we want our designs to be humane and, presuming they fulfill their utilitarian purposes well, emotionally satisfying, I suggest that designers begin to include one free interaction in their designs to enable the channeling of energy and simple expression."

Disney, Bedtime Stories

Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

Nuevos horizontes para la educación web

"The Web Standards Project have begun trying to tackle the education issue. Industry experts and veteran educators on the WaSP Education Task Force are currently working to develop the WaSP Curriculum Framework (WCF), a modular curriculum that can be used to improve existing curricula or serve as the foundation for emerging programs. (Disclosure: I’m a member of The Web Standards Project, an educator, and the project lead of the WaSP Curriculum Framework.) The WCF will be released in March of 2009 as a living curriculum that will adapt to changes in the industry so that schools using it can ensure their students are learning the concepts that are relevant to their field of study. The WCF’s first release will contain approximately 14 courses divided into six learning tracks: * Foundations * Front-end Development * Design * Server-side Development * User Science * Professional Practice "

"Building a real relationship between industry and education requires that we answer this question for both parties: 'What’s in it for me?' Whether you’re a practitioner or educator, the answer is the same: graduates who are ready for a career in the web."

Schools that teach web design struggle to keep pace with our industry, and those just starting their curricula often set off in the wrong direction because the breadth and depth of our medium can be daunting.

Brighter Horizons for Web Education by Aarron Walter

aplicatie de recunoscut fonturi

know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont

Font identifier tool.

Small videos showing UI elements.

rusted backgrounds

Textured backgrounds are a great way to add an extra dimension to any graphic design project. Magazines and printed media can resort to textured paper for added impact however, this is impossible to do on the web, and the closest we can do is adding texture to simulate this effect. We’ve compiled a list of 50 free rust metal texture backgrounds that will really look great on your websites, blogs, Twitter backgrounds or even wallpapers. Most of these are available under a Creative Commons License requiring attribution however, check each source for any specific details.

everywhere

vector editor

free vector program, beta stage

Editor online de vectores gratuito

wow Gold!

Highly recommended reading list of books on interaction design: http://tinyurl.com/cv8dyj

ウェブデザインを上達させる一番早い方法は、やはり真似をすることなのではないでしょうか？ 少しずつマスターして、カッコいいデザインが作れるようにがんばりましょう！

How to Best Webdesign

手書きで書いてスキャンして、テクスチャ画像と合成

modal with cookie and left tabs

Ask SM CSSyJS: Como decidirse por un ancho en pixeles, y otras respuestas a preguntas sobre css y js.

Dicas de CSS

Creative Book Shelves

Here are 31 more creative book shelve designs from the world’s best designers, that will inspire and provide you new and fresh ideas for your home.

A resource for finding stock photographs

banco de imagens em alta

Ikonoak diseinatzeko tutorialak

WhatTheFont for iPhone connects directly to MyFonts’ acclaimed font identification service, which has been helping customers pinpoint mystery fonts for 10 years. It works via Wi-Fi or the mobile phone network, so you can get your font fix right there on the spot.

App identifies fonts from a picture taken on the iphone.

FAZER

How the Amish live against tide of technology.

Amish Hackers - Adopting Technology

For the sake of proof-of-concept, I'm glad the Amish exist. "Ivan is an Amish alpha-geek. He is always the first to try a new gadget or technique. He gets in his head that the new flowbitzmodulator would be really useful. He comes up with a justification of how it fits into the Amish orientation. So he goes to his bishop with this proposal: "I like to try this out." Bishop says to Ivan, "Okay Ivan, do whatever you want with this. But you have to be ready to give it up, if we decide it is not helping you or hurting others.""

Great article on the Amish community discernment process for adopting technology. Dispels a lot of myths, and gives a lot to think on.

Amish use the web at libraries (using but not owning). From cubicles in public libraries Amish sometimes set up a website for their business. So while Amish websites seem like a joke, there's quite a few of them. What about post-modern innovations like credit cards? A few Amish got them, presumably for their businesses at first. But over time the bishops noticed problems of overspending, and the resultant crippling interest rates. Farmers got into debt, which impacted not only them but the community since their families had to help them recover (that's what community and families are for). So, after a trial period, the elders ruled against credit cards. One Amish-man told me that the problem with phones, pagers, and PDAs (yes he knew about them) was that "you got messages rather than conversations." That's about as an accurate summation of our times as any. Henry, his long white beard contrasting with his young bright eyes told me, "If I had a TV, I'd watch it."

One Amish-man told me that the problem with phones, pagers, and PDAs (yes he knew about them) was that "you got messages rather than conversations." That's about as an accurate summation of our times as any.

My intention was not only to enable data visualization to people that don't feel comfortable with using various scripting languages but also to demonstrate the power of css and present a way of using css a bit differently. If you are not a fan of line graphs and data visualization in general, you may still read this article and think of it as css experiment and perhaps learn a thing or two about css sprites and positioning.

graph

"Per-post styles for new age art direction." This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page per-post styles.

wordpress plugin for per post styles

"This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page per-post styles."

"Per-post styles for new age art direction." This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page per-post styles.

Pepsi logo redesign is bad. This is good.

Lawrence Yang sums up beautifully why I think the new Pepsi logo is a bust.

save and share

gradients that look good? yes, it is possible

test to this items?

JavaScript is an extremely useful scripting language for enhancing user experience and usability. It is becoming more and more popular as more developers begin to make cool techniques accessible. Here are 100 excellent JavaScript (and a few AJAX) techniques, plugins, and resources based on the major libraries of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo.

Sample portfolios

how you can create a magical rainbow color flame. basic knowledge of Photoshop is needed.

Photoshop

15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better

Take a few well-chosen brand creators, designers, simplifiers and solutionists; with a passion for what we do (by definition a Branding Agency). Put in the awkward position of having to define ourselves, and feeling a little like we are putting an ad in the singles column, Mash is an agency that creates truly memorable work without the ridiculous theories and processes. We cater specially to clients who truly want to build their brand with creativity and originality.

MASH なんだかかっこいいです　デザイン　会社なのかユニットなのか組織なのかわからん

These are probably the blog design benckmarks for 2009, they all have there own individual characteristic that defines them as inspiring. They also have one thing in common: They are Amazing.

"These are probably the blog design benckmarks for 2009, they all have there own individual characteristic that defines them as inspiring. They also have one thing in common: They are Amazing."

some inspirational designs, even if they look not very flexible to me

7:09

Site Designs and vector fils

Sometime there are projects or clients that need to be done in one days or so. When you need a quick striped background, a CSS menu, web 2.0

boutique arts and crafts, individual pieces made with skill

eclectic mix of handmade materials

马里奥、塞尔达、恶魔城等等

Classic video games repainted to see what they'd look like with modern day graphics.

Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.

Looks like something to explore

design studios

On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free We support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots.

On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free. We support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots.

create and design your own graphs and charts online | INDEX

Handy way of skimming NYT.

1, 2, and 3 have some use to me

5 obscure HTML tags

With the rising popularity of CSS for styling, many web developers and users alike have become alienated from the good old HTML tags. Only a handful of these tags are used in the markup of web pages today. Most of them have got limited representation and some of them are entirely forgotten. I decided to round up a couple of HTML tags that perhaps should be used a little more often than they actually are.

Great Typographic Start!

n this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw an ice cream bar. Throughout this tutorial we'll have a look at various drawing techniques. We'll be creating everything within Photoshop from start to finish, except the font used. Let's jump into this tutorial.

Some nice photoshop tips here

Writing for the web is a skill set of its own. Website text, or copy, needs to be written in a different tone for the web than a brochure. It needs to be

30 Free, Amazing and Versatile Wordpress 2.7 Themes

An excellent source for WP designs with even more WP resources in the links provided at the bottom of each post.

more free wordpress designs

wordpress templates

une idée pour skannibal

Tape Cassette Inserts es una curiosa recopilación absolutamente from the past con decenas de carátulas de las cintas vírgenes, que sin evocará gratos recuerdos a todos aquellos que grababan aquí su música e incluso los programas de aquellos primitivos ordenadores «familiares» que funcionaban mediante Datassettes, como los Commodore, Spectrum y otros de la época. Usemos las cams, hagamos fotos ! Anda que no hay naa que fotografiar ! Lulu, que no me entere que te aburres :)

fundas de cassetes

Comme gliffy

かすれたようなアレ。

グランジデザイン入門 素材集

This post will help you in checking out most stunning Script.aculo.us Applications in the World of Web and at the same time might help you in coming up with new web applications using Script.aculo.us. I would like to request all the developers to have a look at these stunning applications which are made and developed by Script.aculo.us

継ぎ目のない素材

紙・布・木・草などのシームレスなフリーのテクスチャ素材集

CSS menus of all types with downloadable code files

Adam Oliver’s Blog » Blog Archive » A Quick Selection of CSS Tips - http://blog.adamoliver.net/tutorials/a-quick-selection-of-css-tips/

よく使うCSSティップス。

Tips/ハック

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, the graphic arts industry was populated by full-time illustrators, production assistants and compositors. With only composing sticks for laying out type, straight edges for defining grids, a human proofer to catch spelling mistakes and an arsenal of X-acto blades for making edits, these guys lived and breathed detail. Mistakes were costly. It was a trade position that required lengthy apprenticeship; job security depended on getting all of the little things right.

good article on the business qualities that make a great & successful web designer/developer

Good article on being a good designer

Great summary of a Web designer's job...

使えるツール集

We are an independent graphic design consultancy, based in London, dedicated to producing unique and effective design solutions. Whether working on large corporate projects or for small independent companies, we believe that building strong long-term client relationships is key. Our work includes brand identities, editorial design, exhibitions, corporate literature, signage, packaging and websites. Please contact us if you would like to know more about our work.

Anonymous (2001) is a TrueType version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Macintosh bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-spaced Macintosh system font. The original was available in only 9-point. I’ve added 8-, 10-, and 11-point

a nice serif font - designed as a "more legible" alternative to Monaco

Nice programming font.

a set of 10 beautiful, high-quality “vintage” icons, created by the talented Russian design agency SoftFacade especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

All of these bookmarklets/favelets will be useful to all web designers and developers, they are the quickest method for testing, analyzing and tweaking any web page.

love the XRAY :D

via swissmiss

cool webservice. Upload pictures instantly (without registration hassle) and get results back immediately, including Hex color values

Ilustrador brasileiro

brushes

Illustration pro

Brazilian artist of Japanese descent

super simple light stroke brushes

t remem

Editing PS4 Ad with Gimp Gimp has been famously known as the poor man's Photoshop, and perhaps rightfully so. That's a complement Gimp won't mind taking.

Turn Things To Vector!

画像をベクターに変換するウェブサービス

Precision Bitmap To Vector Conversion Online

Great tool for converting bitmap images into VECTOR! Magically!

conversor a vectores

Matchboxes from the Subcontinent.

インドのマッチ箱

This dude collected a crap load of matchboxes.

インドのマッチ

DesignWalker

How (Not) to Write like a Designer: 5 Tricks You Didn't Learn in Studio ...

Half technical, half intuitive, the design process is tough to explain. But that’s my job—I’m a design writer. I write so you don’t have to, putting into words the work that you’d rather do than write about. But write you must—website copy, proposals, captions, emails to clients—and though the worse designers are at it, the more work I get, in the spirit of collaboration I’m going to share my secrets. So what if it puts me out of a job.

Wow!

Magenta ain't a colour dude

104 suggesties voor gratis fonts.

typography

good descriptions of vector vs. bitmap, too

Most people are not aware of the fact that Perl has support for object-oriented programming. If you've used another object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++ or been exposed to object-orientation, t

This is a small list with some basic references about Object Oriented Design process and it includes an UML guide, some articles about how to write OO javascript, PHP and Perl code. I also included some video tutorials about an useful introduction to OO PHP. If you have some interest link to suggest about this topic, please leave a comment, thanks!

The Golden Grid is a web grid system. It 's a product of the search for the perfect modern grid system. It 's meant to be a CSS tool for grid based web sites.

CSS grid-based layout library c.f. Blueprint.

60 utilidades aplicadas a CSS

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Letter Monsters - a set on Flickr

Try before choosing by Erik Doernenburg

High quality icons.

Mockup grids for the 960 framework with a browser bar.

Sketchbook à imprimer avec entête de navigateur et grille

Info to check later

By Trey Ratcliff (aka Stuck in Customs), one of the most famous and renowned HDR photographers on Flickr. In his article Trey describes some professional insights and useful photography tips that he collected over the years of his career.

可愛い系

Some very very good insights here. Particularly about the 1st para and WHY it needs to be different.

"Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking."

The best readers are obstinate. They possess a nearly inexhaustible persistence that drives them to read, regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in

Some interesting web design thoughts - does bloggernacle design lead us to skim instead of read?

In 2009, we are celebrating curiosity and creativity with a dynamic look at the very best ideas that give us reason for optimism. Rethink your assumptions and pose better questions about the future: Welcome to The Universe in 2009.

The home page for SEED Magazine is inviting, making me want to click around and read a couple of articles.

プロパティーは、アルファベット順に記述したほうが高速に処理される

A no nonsense approach to, you guessed it, writing better CSS.

Hmmm, I haven't tried Balsamiq. Is it any good, I wonder?

Apple.com | Webdesigner Depot

Apple is one of the most creative and innovative companies in the world. It's no surprise why many software companies and web designers follow the Apple. The Apple website is one of the greatest websites ever developed. With it's ease of use, it's functionality and the beautiful environment it creates.

Eight years ago (almost to the day), Jeffrey Zeldman wrote, To Hell With Bad Browsers, signaling the dawning of “The CSS Age”. Explaining how the use of @import for referencing stylesheets is ignored by Netscape 4, was an important step in shedding away the problems related to supporting an ancient browser. Eight. Years. Completely ignoring a browser in terms of CSS is a wonderfully freeing thing. It certainly can’t be done on every site. The important thing to remember is that it’s a site’s statistics that should determine what level of support you decide to offer.

Dan Cederholm on when you should drop Internet Explorer 6 and how to do it.

Might Deal with IE6

IE6 begone! Ah, someday.

Dan Cederholm: “Completely ignoring a browser in terms of CSS is a wonderfully freeing thing. It certainly can’t be done on every site. The important thing to remember is that it’s a site’s statistics that should determine what level of support you decide to offer.”

<!--[if gte IE 7]><!--> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="screen.css" /> <!--<![endif]-->

Need to gather the linked PDFs sometime

all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers. Delight and satisfy your visitors, rather than frustrate and annoy them, with smart design decisions. Here are 9 usability problems that websites commonly face, and some recommended solutions for each of them.

Quelques erreurs d'ergonomie à éviter dans la conception d'un site Internet

By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers.

I’m always sharing what tools are useful to me via Twitter, but just incase you don’t use it - I wanted to share here! I always get asked what productivity tools and apps I use on a regular basis and I pretty much open all of these everyday. There are a few apps that are similar in type because some may be all in one tools or I’m just starting to use one more than the other. Check these out, they are ones I would recommend to a designer/blogger/creative type. If there is something missing from the list that you think should be on here, please share in the comments!

design

Fuel Your Creativity -

I’ve dug through the clutter and selected 36 posts that can help you become an original and all-round problogger. And because vanity is a blogger’s right, I’ve also included four articles by my own hand. Themes are Development & Design, Workflow, Publishing, Inspiration and Comments. Enjoy!

I’ve dug through the clutter and selected 36 posts that can help you become an original and all-round problogger.

Zach

Look for bencrowder

300+ Active Web Designers to Follow on Twitter | Naldz Graphics - http://naldzgraphics.net/general/300-active-web-designers-to-follow-on-twitter/

"If your a designer or more belong to the Design Community then obviously most people who you want to follow are your fellow designers. Then your on the right place. On the list below are 300+ Active Web Designers to Follow on Twitter.These are the most inspiring people and worth to follow.Make sure to follow them all." hmm

In this collection, you'll find 30 beautiful Photoshop brush sets to help you grunge up your designs. There are over 400 individual brushes here for giving your artwork some grunge.

30の素敵なブラシ

Open-Source Alternatives For Designers

25+ Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design

For Photoshop users who are interested in experimenting and learning something new, poster design is an excellent way to practice. Last year I published a collection of tutorials for designing posters in Photoshop. Since other outstanding tutorials have been published since then, today we'll feature another 28 tutorials. Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster

twitter history

Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author, Jack Dorsey (@jack), who started Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Evan Williams (@ev) and Biz Stone (@biz).

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's founding document. Part I

The business and culture of our digital lives, from the L.A. Times

Magenta isn't a single color on the visible light spectrum: but it exists anyway. With diagrams.

Yes, Virginia, there is a magenta - Ars Technica

eli kim

100 days, 100 songs, 100 locations, 100 dances.

100 Dances

100 songs

BOOMBOX by Ely Kim 3 days ago 3 days ago: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 8:43am EST (Eastern Standard Time) More More See all Show me Ely Kim's videos 1. BOOMBOX by Ely Kim 3 days ago 100 days, 100 songs, 100 locations, 100 dances.

Build your own virtual Chicago park playground. Leo Burnett and Domani Studios have launched a site that supports Allstate and the U.S. Olympic Committee's joint effort to create an Olympic bid for the city of Chicago. The two creative parties developed an interface that lets kids and adults alike build a virtual playground step-by-step using various accessories and colors. The site was initially conceived as a contest where the top vote-getter will have their design actually built within Jesse Owens Park on Chicago's South Side. While the winners won't be announced until March, the public can nonetheless view a gallery of entries for inspiration and try their hand at building a playground all their own

build a playground :-)

ozadja

Virkelig flotte wallpapers. Anbefales!

Desktop Wallpapers for Minimalist Lovers | 2experts Design - Web Design and Graphic Design Blog - http://www.2expertsdesign.com/2009/01/19/desktop-wallpapers-for-minimalist-lovers/

web and design

rom graphics to web development, audio to video and more, get the skills you want from our family of tutorial and resource sites. Need more? We also offer a Plus program where you can access source files and bonus tutorials.

From graphics to web development, audio to video and more, get the skills you want from our family of tutorial and resource sites. Need more? We also offer a Plus program where you can access source files and bonus tutorials.

jQuery provides developers with an invaluable tool to enhance user experience and usability. It truly is the bees knees. The following comprehensively brilliant collection of jQuery tutorials will provide developers and designers alike with knowledge and skills that will blow minds. Prepare for your awakening. Enlightenment follows. Incredible.

Blender UI If you are an aspiring Graphic designer you should be already familiar with blender by now, but if you are thinking about being a game developer

40 Excellent Illustrations In Web Designs

tutorial de tecnicas de dibujo

desenho

retro ps designs

Now you can personalize your Twitter background like never before. The tool below will help you create Twitter backgrounds that have the same look and feel as those done by professional graphic designers. It's easy to use, and best of all, it's Free! Give it a try!

Tips on CSS usage

CSS is something that is extensively used on almost every site. Lets take some time to ensure that our stylesheets are built with some good standards.&nbsp;

芝生

緑って素晴らしいね　これをアートに分類してる自分が悲しいよ

なんだかすごくいい。気持ちいい。

Look at this CD holder --http://www.chungdha.com/2009/02/pop-up-beak-cd-packaging.html

px　pm　表

Great resource for converting pixels to ems and vise-versa

Bad ass.

via fq

px to em

Among designers, there are often discussions on the placement of actions in web forms that span several web pages. The quintessential question underlying this debate is: can an action that leads people to the previous step of a process be placed to the right of an action that leads users to the next step of a process?

previous next uie luke wroblewski

Prev & Next buttons... whats best and what isn't!

Vector Patterns for Backgrounds

Seamless patterns are great for adding depth and texture to your design work. Use big bold patterns to capture attention or subtle calming patterns as backdrops. Here are 106 high-quality free seamless vector patterns.

28 of the Coolest Retro Style Photoshop Brush Sets : Speckyboy Design Magazine Photoshop Resources Design webdesign

世界のユニークなドットコムサイトを日替わりで紹介していくブログです。

A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.

wow. very smooth.

リアルタイムグラフ

meteorological data, Germany

Experience weather in a new way

This is our third installment of Ask SM, featuring reader questions about Web design, focusing on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this post we'll cover how you can take care of a smooth page scrolling

flush right lists, equal height divs, designing for IE 6, RSS

メタル、光、カラフル、グランジ、レトロ、ピクセル、水彩、ネイチャー・木・草・花、紙・布、水・液体・炎・煙、3D

あとでざーっとさらっとく

Some pretty rad ideas for webdesign. Fancy-schmancy backgrounds.

In this collection, you'll find 30 gorgeous web designs that employ textures as a design component. Hopefully, you'll become inspired to explore this design trend and apply it into your own designs.

Could you define yourself with only 5 brands?

The 'font ecosystem' changes so slowly that it's not hard to go years without taking those gradual changes into consideration. Each new version of MS Office, each new release OS X brings with it a new kit bag of available fonts. Although there are plenty of reasons to grumble about the way CSS handles type, it does have a few redeeming features. Font stacks is one of them.

In which toddlers are hilarious.

Nice little blog by an artistic directed by his young daughter, cute and funny and worth the read

Bill Zeman’s daughter is the Tiny Art Director. She tells him what to draw and then tells him just exactly how much she hates it. Bill has been recording her comments and posting them with his art since she was two and a half.

"I just want everyone to know that although she is a very outspoken critic of my artwork, my daughter is really a delightful and well behaved girl!"

Nice collection of icons. You can buy one icon only for $1

Affordable icon shop, IconDock is a newly launched icon shop by N.Design Studio.

First time I saw these shelves was in Budapest, at a friends apartment. I was told they had been designed by a physicist. That's why I think they are safe. The ones in the photos have been up for more than a year now.

Info in library format on Web Design

Library Journal.com

library web design and sites

10 top features of a library website according to Library Journal

タイポグラフィー

チャット機能付き？クール！でもクラシックなマックのアイコンがかわいい。

black

デザインとか動きとかカッコいい

Web designer's love textures. They use texture in  their websites, banner, graphic design and more.  Recently bittbox's textures was used by CNN too.  I

An article about html semantics and accessibility

"Recently my coworkers and I have been discussing HTML headings and heading hierarchy. This may not sound like something you need to spend a lot of time discussing, but there are some situations when it seems very difficult to find a solution without compromises."

Should logo be H1 and similar issues

clipart

french street artist

logo溶ける

Zevs is an anonymous French street artist. early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990s. “Chanel Liquidated” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4imoF13uSLw

francês que faz intervenções em logos, marcas, cartazes

a mutant version of google

30 Dual Element Logos, Do You See Them All?

Animated reel.

Great motion graphics

短い映像が次々と

やべー、インスパイアー！！

ピクセルフォントオンリー

Galería de sitios con diseño claro limpio

50 Great Minimal Sites http://tinyurl.com/cb7uww (via @adellecharles)

Since Web Designer Wall launched, I’ve been featuring a lot of graphic intense websites such as the artistic, large background, vintage, and illustrative styles. Now it is time to feature the minimalist design. Here is a massive list of 50 minimal sites. See how designers use minimal elements to create high visual impact — less is more.

welcome to the club - MBP

The best way to describe Siftables might be "Blocks that can think." Visit the website to watch a TED presentation of these fantastic devices.

What are Siftables? Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

Good for ideas

Run any browser from the web

Run IE8/7/6, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera from the web

Consejos para crear tu blog con Wordpress

Listado de tutoriales para wordpress

As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing 'Wordpress' as an area of expertise. Of course, unless you want to bluff your way through jobs, you'd better have the skill to back-up that claim. This collection will help.

Excellent compilation of Wordpress how-to's!

Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image,

Rounded corners, drop shadows etc

This article presents 5 CSS3 techniques which can dramatically get you a stunning user interfaces and how to achieve almost the same effects using jQuery for browsers that are not compatible yet with CSS3 new features.

Sehr interessante Abhandlung über die Mechanik des Spiels „Pac Man“.

This web page is dedicated to providing Pac-Man players of all skill levels with the most complete and detailed study of the game possible. New discoveries found during the research for this page in December 2008 have allowed for the clearest view yet of the actual ghost behavior and pathfinding logic used by the game.

[everything you may not know about PacMan]

Goon City

Eboy meets Google maps meets awesome

Ilustração do cartaz de fim de ano, ou de um ano (e pouco) do estúdio Alice. Chegamos ao consenso de que seriam presentes, destinados aos nossos clientes, fornecedores e amigos, mas ainda não sabemos se foi uma ação de fim de ano, natal ou de aniversário. Talvez seja um pouco disso tudo. Através da imagem do cartaz pensamos em relacionar a Alice (enquanto personagem) a uma série de referências. Como se a Alice, que na imagem aparece somente as pernas, representasse uma mulher muito bonita (deixando o expectador na curiosidade) mas cheia de idéias e referências ao seu redor. Prontas para serem usadas e aplicadas. Além do pôster foi feito um chaveiro, uma camiseta e uma caixinha com o rosto do Papai Noel (ou não, há controvérsias).

Portfolio site

alineacion vertical

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用css作區塊垂直置中的方法

21 Aplicativos WEB que auxiliam na escolha da palheta de cores.

Tuts+ Tutorials & Resources Psd.tuts+ Photoshop & Graphics Net.tuts+ Web Design & Development Vector.tuts+ Vectors & Illustration Audio.tuts+ Music & Sound Ae.tuts+ AfterEffects & Motion Envato Marketplaces FlashDen Flash Marketplace ThemeForest Web & CMS Themes GraphicRiver Graphics, Vectors & Icons VideoHive Motion Graphics & Projects AudioJungle Loops & Effects Envato Sites FreelanceSw Freelance Jobs & Community Rockable Books & How-To Creattica Design Community FaveUp Design Inspiration AppStorm Mac Apps Envato About Us More Coming Soon! * Home * Tutorials * Articles * Freebies * Videos * About * Subscribe By * RSS | * Email | * Other RSS * Home &#92; * Tutorials * &#92; Other * &#92; How to Create Your Fi

In this tutorial , you will learn about the basics of a Joomla template, and create one from scratch. We will quickly go through installing a local server and Joomla itself, and then create a basic functioning template.

Paso a paso y con WAMP

fuel use by method of transportation. I like how 16 burgers = 1/2 gallon of gas.

fuel per passenger for 350 miles

Fuel use of various modes of transportation.

A nice graphic showing how much energy is needed for various different modes of transport. Cycling comes out best.

Jan

Glover's Weblog

Nice design.

Beautiful website

Lovely!

If you can take a complex device or a piece of software and somehow rearrange, reorganize and redesign the interface to make it easy to use and understand, then you’re well on the way to delivering a better user experience.

From tweeting about the artistic process to sharing upcoming gallery news, here are 10 ways artists can better connect with their followers on Twitter.

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Design Resource |

Achieving beautiful typography with CSS on the web is no easy feat, and there are many limitations to what can done with type on the web. However, there are generous people out there that have taken the time to build tools and write tutorials to help you overcome these limitations and create websites with beautiful typography.

GraphicRiver is a marketplace for buying and selling Royalty Free layered Adobe Photoshop Files, EPS Vector Graphics, Icons, Textures, Shapes, Brushes, and More. It's like having an entire graphics department at your fingertips!

diseñador de braun en los 60s

Genius: "The aesthetic quality of a product – and the fascination it inspires – is an integral part of the its utility."

Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important criteria for what he considered was good design. Subsequently they have become known as the ‘Ten commandments’. Here they are.

Curso básico del uso de la herramienta de software libre Gimp. Excelente!!!!!

Un curso muy bueno para aprender trucos básicos de GIMP

manual tutorial

Smashing Magazine

Not surprisingly, there was a lot of community feedback asking for better layout mechanisms. Actually, people were asking for any decent layout mechanism at all, which CSS has historically lacked. Floats mostly work, but they’re a hack and can be annoyingly fragile even when you ignore old-browser bugs. Positioning works in limited cases, but does not handle web-oriented layout at all well.

ERic Meyers grundsätzliche Gedanke über ein Layoutsystem für Webseiten.

Eric Meyer elaborates on why we need a better layout mechanism for web content (whether it be via CSS or not). We know we shouldn't use tables for layout. Floats are a hack, positioning is flawed, and <code>display:table-cell</code> is no better than using a table itself. But Eric explains here why table <em>behavior</em> works moderately well for layout: <blockquote>... this is why the old “only use tables for layout” argument keeps coming up over and over: strip away the overheated rhetoric and obvious link-baiting, and you find the core of a real need. Because as powerful as CSS can be, table cells do certain things very easily that CSS makes very, very hard. Cells stretch vertically, keeping equal heights as a matter of their intrinsic nature. They stay out of each others’ way, while still being allowed to sit next to each other and use any sizing dimensions. They tie their layout to their parent elements, and vice versa.</blockquote>

Turning a bunch of divs or list items or whatever into table-role boxes is no better than just using table markup in the first place, and it’s arguably worse. Using element names other than table and td to create layout tables, and then claiming it’s not using tables for layout, borders on self-deception.

website with good graphs/charts/grids

Cool stuff, more data based than xplane

schönes graues design

design of various objects

These are great principles of design. What a design should be.

Good design is…

A pretty close assessment

Dessins de rue.

Another article that depicts some cool 3D street art.

落ちそう！

Toast Messenger

Inspiration

Cool Lego Businesscard

business card ever

乐高的名片

ギョウザビリティー

デザインやWFのチェックに

ウェブサイトでやってしまいがちなユーザビリティのミス

logo design processes and logo inspiration

logo design processes and logo inspiration | Hein Maas - Freelance Graphic/Web Designer - http://www.heinmaas.com/2009/02/logo-design-processes-and-logo-inspiration/

almost Modern - graphic design company in rotterdam.

Resumo do livro GoF Design Patterns com exemplos usando Java e UML2.

Design Patterns Explained With Java and Uml2

Four Design patterns with examples in Java

Paper Textures

Free Paper Textures

Paper is a not only used to write but it can be also useful as a texture in doing some web design or graphic projects as well. In fact you can see some websites on the web applying more paper concept now a days and come up with a neat and grungy results.

Logo design, identity design and branding. A place for logo design inspiration, discussion, resources, tips & more!

In spite of the tremendous expansion of the Internet, the power of the printed word remains strong and popular. Print media is where it all began and today we take a close look at some amazing design magazines that can really boost your productivity and expand your design knowledge. In addition to their printed versions, some magazines also offer online versions on their websites as well as PDF downloads and single issue orders. Order online or pick them up at your local bookstore. Here’s our recommended list with descriptions taken from each magazine’s website…

In starting a significant project, an engineer knows the first three big design decisions you make are vastly more important than the second three. The nature of these decisions varies from project to project. They may be choices about look and feel, rules about architecture, or trade offs regarding feature set. Whatever these decisions are, they set a tone that defines the success of the project. When I look at Twitter, I see three early essential decisions about how Twitter allows you to craft a community. I believe much of Twitter’s continued success is due to definition and execution of these decisions. Interestingly, some obvious candidates for the Top 3, like “Scales like crazy”, “Will generate money”, and “Needs to be searchable” weren’t initially there.

For me, a tweet is still a note I tie to a balloon, which I let go and think, “Who is going to read that one?” Sometimes I look and see where it ended up, sometimes I don’t.

For me, Twitter remains a place for casual information. For me, a tweet is still a note I tie to a balloon, which I let go and think, “Who is going to read that one?” Sometimes I look and see where it ended up, sometimes I don’t.

What makes Twitter great, why, and how.

James Widegren is a Swede living in New York City. He is creative director and partner of Your Majesty, a creative agency, and editor-in-chief of NEW INDUSTRY ARTS. Originated threeoh.com, a forum for the promotion of communications media with a focus on design. Founder of May 1st Reboot, an orchestration of collaborative work incorporating at 1,700 sites worldwide constituting the 1st and largest international mass launch in the history of the Web. Studied Information + Advertising in Sweden and is a veteran of Nation, Nisch, Razorfish, Vir2L, Waytion and Big Spaceship. Has won awards like: BDA/Promax, Clios, Webby Awards, The One Show, Cannes Lions, HOW, Art Directors Club and The New York Festivals - for clients like: HBO, Nike, ABC, MoMA, Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures.

Mathematica is a flexible tool for exploring graphic design programmatically. Study and manipulation of logos and fonts are featured in this example.

This is a very cool idea.

Digital space art is one of the most inventive and beautiful art genres of this era. This tutorial shows you how to create your own space scene using three stock photos and Adobe Photoshop.

on-building-a-stupidly-fast-graph-database

connected to and things that connect to them. These are symmetrical — so creating a link from item A to item B, creates a reference from item B to item A.

Pieマガジン　よい　New Zealand

Matt Jones talk at Webstock. Superb!

Fabulous slideshare presentation by Matt Jones about city magic drawing connections between urbanisation and digitalisation.

so cool

It's about technology and the city. Or if you'd like, the city as technology. The car changed the development of the city irreversibly in the 20th century. I'd claim that mobiles will do the same in the 21st.

hackers are building sensors, bots and software into everything around them bottom-up, fast, cheap and out-of-control. They're creating environments that react, adapt and respond to us - and perhaps more importantly - each other: The Demon-Haunted World. Matt's session will be a whistlestop tour of those days of future past and pointers to some practical futures we can start building right now, together.

Matt Jones on "city magic"

"Archigram thought of behaviour as the raw material they were building with". They also used the term "social software" in 1972... motherfuck the fringe is hard to mine for valuables! :0

10 Free CAPTCHA scripts and services for websites

the natural media company

for steve

Green advertising promotion

This page contains a number of ideas on how to create various sound effects.

Check it out!

Welcome to the Guide to Sound Effects! This page contains a number of ideas on how to create various sound effects, and we hope you find it inspiring.

How to make all kinds of sounds in your studio/home. An excellent foley resource.

A redesign of the Harry Potter books in a classic Penguin Book style

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/sets/72157612646893506/

A new approach for the Harry Potter book's cover. Cool!Vector. Clean.

redesign of book covers for the rowling series, reimagined as 70's penguin PBs.

Ten favorite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence

http://mashable.com

Wix, FreshBooks, Free Online Survey, Zapproved, FileDropper, JobBlogs, DimDim, W3Counter, Springloops, Filemail, Rescue Time

A site for web developers to show which sites they've created.

See who built sites and claim your own.

whobuilt.it lets you claim the sites you build!

To read later.

Industry trends in prototyping Dave Cronin Cooper Get an e-mail update of new articles Comments (3) Created: 2 February 2009 User Level: All Products: Fireworks Prototype is one of those words that can mean something different to everyone. Before I get too far along in a discussion of prototyping, it's probably worth exploring what I'm talking about. In the world of designing interactive products and services, prototype is generally defined as some representation of a design idea. In the world of physical products, the term tends to connote something quite similar to the finished manufactured form. Indeed, industrial designers use the term model to describe what interaction designers think of as a prototype.

ウェブサイトの制作・検証に役立つブックマークレットをspeckyboyから紹介します。

menu 3D flash

Free hand drawn fonts

Naldz Graphics

A short illustrated essay written by Maira Kalman for NewYorkTimes.com.

Maira Kalman

Visuals are the best.

A very very cool insight to the future, where Microsoft Surface pervades every aspect of everyone's lives.

Microsofts Zukunftsmusik

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When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what’s possible, but they also invest so much into communicating these ideas through sights and sounds which the production value can be compared to most blockbuster sci-fi films.

マイクロソフトの考える2019。 UIでもビデオ的な。

Maxwell Lord is a talented young artist and designer from Zelenograd, Russia near Moscow. His work is full of intricate details and elaborate hand lettering.

Type Theory is a journal of contemporary typography featuring news, views, reviews and interviews.

Tons of great typography and design elements.

Twitter’s web interface is simple and intuitive but lacks a few features that can make it much better. In this article, you’ll read about 10 excellent user interface features that can enhance the Twitter web experience.

Very insightful list of things to add to Twitter

Fancy UI for displaying design patterns

Quince is a rich UX patterns, sometimes called UI patterns, explorer.

Object Oriented CSS

I need to read this. "It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites."

(studying!!!)

As requested I created this article and tried to select the most appropriate logos based on LogoOrange equitable prognosis, which I think is very appropriate. However these are just prognosis and suggestions, where to go and inspire You to new designs, we’ll see however where those logo trends will lead us this year. I invite You to critique my picks and justify them, so we both can learn. Just read whole article and be sure to return here and check out examples of each trend. I picked logos from LogoPond and FaveUp logo showcase sites, where You can by the way get excellent inspiration sparks.

prédios

I don't know how he did it, but it's pretty cool.

Six monster mirrors.

Logotipos

website diseño

If you don’t want your small type to look like it’s hiding something, if you really want it to be read, it takes some extra effort, because all type programs default to settings for creating full-sized text.

Minimalism Around the Web: Design Inspiration & WordPress Themes - Tutorial9 - http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/minimalism-around-the-web-design-inspiration-wordpress-themes/

This post showcases minimalist design from around the web, and briefly explains the ideology of minimalism. It is to be used as inspiration for anyone, and as a resource for web designers.

Boagworld

Alpine Meadows Ski Resort makes great use of texture. The next best thing to feeling a website!

Main : Anyone Can Swiss http://www.anyonecanswiss.com/ swiss design helvetica webdesign Web tools Graphic humor Interactive Typography web2.0 graphicdesign poster funny creative online

Generator helvetica poster.

swissification

ボタンs

animation

immersione in ambiente video totale, ottimo coinvolgimento dell'utente. fullscreen e pagine html in simultanea

Assustadoramente japones!

estudio japones.. web presentacion

A really cool animation for some studio out in Japan. The navigation is really bad, but the site beautifully eerie.

CSSBlog ES - ¡CSS 100%! - http://www.cssblog.es/

Todo sobre css, geeks, internet y otros

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009 | Graphics | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/27/desktop-wallpaper-calendar-march-2009/

This post features 45 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.

きれい！

和のFlashサイト　多田屋のようなシーン遷移

absolutely stunning art used in the production of this heavily flash dependent website... but i can forgive the flash as it really adds a nice touch.

京友禅の老舗

どうしても多田屋を彷彿とさせるけど、とても丁寧で美しいサイト

多層レイヤー

無料で使える色にまつわるツール

“今回は、無料で使える色にまつわるツールをいろいろとまとめてみました。” カラージェネレーターのまとめ。

配色に迷ったときに、使える無料のツールはたくさんありますね。 先日もkulerが人気を集めていましたが、カラーツールはまだまだたくさんあります。 kulerは、完成度が高く、とても良くできたツールですが、用途によっては他のツールも使えそう。 今回は、無料で使える色にまつわるツールをいろいろとまとめてみました。

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FOR THE AMUSEMENT & EDIFICATION OF PEOPLE BEGINNING A LOVE AFFAIR WITH FONTS

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from mace conference

On the Reader team, we know that the old adage "change is good" isn't always true. Sometimes, change is just change. In this case, we hope that these decisions both improve your Reader experience today,

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Ever feel like some days you can crank out amazing looking designs with little effort? Then on other days it feels like nothing is working, you’ve lost all your talent and you’ll never make another good design for the rest of your miserable life? Don’t panic – this is natural...

Engraved moleskin notebooks

A site that lets you upload images to be laser engraved on journals.

20 awesome t-shirt illustrations

a meditative exercise (in 3D)

Click here for YouTube video

"A calm and meditative game of wrapping rope around wooden sculptures."

iPhone game looks pretty sweet

Beautiful game meets meditative puzzle. Easily worth the $5.

tec brushes

Why use real make up if you can do a digital make up and make the skin look pretty and smooth. It's simple, fast and very effective. Well, on this tutorial you will learn step by step the basics of digital make up on a persons body. First you have to get the photo you want to apply the digital make up, I choose a photo from the stock gallery of Samantha Draven.

Really Cool Digital Make up in Photoshop in 10 min | Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials - http://abduzeedo.com/really-cool-digital-make-photoshop-10-min

3D models represent a 3D object using a collection of points in 3D space, connected by various geometric entities. A free 3D model definitely can save your budget and deadline. On average, a modeler saves over 2 hours of modeling time when they could get a free 3D model. Today, 3D models are used in a wide variety of industries. The movie industry uses them as characters and objects for animated and real-life motion pictures. The video game industry uses them as assets for computer and video games.The architecture industry uses them to demonstrate proposed buildings and landscapes through Software Architectural Models. The medical industry uses detailed models of organs. We understand how useful a 3D model could be. Thus, we’ve crawled into Internet and search for free 3D models which are available for download. Here are as much as 60 websites to download Free 3D Models. Full list after jump!

Free 3D models

Imagine an artwork without type - you can only make assumptions what the graphics are trying to deliver. Type enhance and ensure you get whatever message the campaign is delivering. Typography design on the other hand, is what many designers are striving to improve and excel. Getting to the next level in typography design, at most of the time, may be tricky and challenging. Font, colors, style, keywords and placements are all the crucial factors to form a great typography design.

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"We moved from thinking of ourselves as designers to thinking of ourselves as design thinkers. We have a methodology that enables us to come up with a solution that nobody has before." -- David Kelley

bio of IDEO's David Kelley. IDEO is a creative design and technology firm, an inspiration.

Ideo CEO David Kelley talks about evolving Ideo from a design firm to a "design thinking" firm.

massive theme based on GridFocus by 5ThirtyOne.com

ilustraciones de libros viejos.

OmniGraffle Wireframe Icons

Great set of icons!

Silly me, I thought we'd won this war years ago but there's always one guy who has used CSS for a month doesn't get it and writes a post like this. Good comments though.

CSS Trolls begone

An Offset Printing Company using old methods to advertise new. A business card that quickly explains that the company can be found on the web.

Portfolio and blog of Andy Mangold

Six Valuable Things Web Design Clients Won’t Tell You

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photoshop tools photo design photography art online サービス 修正 graphic beauty 写真

the most wonderful photo web

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tools online photo photography 修正 写真 beauty サービス graphic art photoshop design

1枚8ドル~で納期は24時間?!プロによる写真修正サービス『Tucia』

20 More free PSD templates to use and learn from

great projects

I bought a wardrobe from ikea to store my work clothes in. While walking around at ikea, I came across a Pax wardrobe w...

Below is a list of 30 business card inspirational websites, galleries and resources that will fulfill your every business card desire and provide inspiration for your next business card inspiration.

list de cartes commerciales ultra créatives

Last week I posted an article showing some great logos using 3D effects and colorful gradients. There are quite a few ways to do create those effects in Illustrator, however for most of them you will have to use the Pathfinder tools. Because of that I will show you an example based on a few logos from that list.

すぐやる！

Complex Symbols with Pathfinder

Tutorial illustrator PSD

Context and scale, past and future.

Matt Jones's current thoughts on location-based services and the value of "nearish" over "here".

Matt Jones of dopplr de-bunks the b-chino'd hype surrounding in the moment location based apps. Love it.

Perhaps the idea of showing where you are exactly now isn't so good afterall - it's more relevant to talk about where I'll be soon so you can react to it accordingly.

Earlier Matt Jones posting, more mind-bending moments, particularly on the highly temporal value of high resolution location data.

By this, I really mean two things: always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

a salient reminder: All of those

How to Keep Innovating - BusinessWeek

Always be bad at something you are passionate about.

Keeping innovative.

h was an Olympian. But on the other hand, some of my most valuable lessons were learned from a 14-year-old girl who, w

手書き風デザインは、あまり上手すぎてもダメだし、かといってめちゃめちゃへたくそだと、それはそれで微妙ですよね。いい感じのうま下手感が出したいですよね。今回は、手書き風のデザインに使えそうなサイトをインスピレーション、ブラシ、チュートリアル、フォント、アイコンなどいろいろと集めてみました。

10 articoli che ogni architetto software e/o sviluppatore DEVE leggere

Papers on Programming

streamlined user testing idea

10+ Web Resources to Make Web Designer’s Life Easy

26 Business Cards of Graphic & Web Designers

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mescolare foto e illustrazione

Real weather with real material.

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But what about a site's physical appearance? Does the aesthetic appearance of a blog affect what's written by the site's commenters? My sense is that the establishment of social norms through moderation, both by site owners and by the community itself, has much more of an impact on the behavior of commenters than the visual design of a site but aesthetics does factor in somewhat. Perhaps the poor application of a default MT or Wordpress template signals a lack of care or attention on the part of the blog's owner, leading readers to think they can get away with something. Poorly designed advertising or too many ads littered about a site could result in readers feeling disrespected and less likely to participate civilly or respond to moderation. Messageboard software is routinely ugly; does that contribute to the often uncivil tone found on web forums?

Wallpaper isn't what it used to be. New ideas and revolutionary techniques have allowed artists and designers to bring two-dimensional surfaces to life. What's on YOUR wall?

Wallpaper (at-home, not on-screen) isn’t what it used to be, but we bet you never thought it could look THIS good! So you have your absolutely amazing house and insanely cool furniture - what comes next? New ideas and revolutionary techniques have allowed artists and designers to bring two-dimensional surfaces to life through creative wallpapers and wallpaper designs.

Cool! グラフィックは凄いけどサイトとしての内容はないなｗ　でも見とれてしまう

Founded in 1555. CHISO OF KYO YUZEN

12MB feinstes Flash. Sehr schön.

和風２．５次元のフルFLASHサイト

een heel rustige 'zen' site. Oosters met oosterse typische aquarellen in de achtergrond. heel rustgevend

CSS plantillas

最近のデザイントレンドにはまるクリーンなフォント、グランジ風のフォント、レトロ風のフォント、手書き風のフォントをSix Revisionsのエントリーから紹介します。

最近のデザイントレンドにはまるクリーンなフォント、グランジ風のフォント、レトロ風のフォント、手書き風のフォントをSix Revisionsのエントリーから紹介します

Out of the box thems

magazine style wordpress themes - pro-looking for future projects maybe?

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Barren Attic to Programmer's Paradise

Cool Desktop setup

Blog about web programming & web design

The Golden Grid aims to be the perfect web grid with golden proportions, rule of thirds symmetry and more

I was searching for the prefect web grid, playing with golden proportions, rule of thirds, symmetry, asymmetry, usability, monitor proportions, typography and the result came spontaneous - The Golden Grid. Why not share it with you :).

The Golden Grid is a web grid system. It 's a product of the search for the perfect modern grid system. It 's meant to be a CSS tool for grid based web sites.

patterns

Visual representation of a resume

Pretty cool and makes sense to me.

ヴィンテージ風テクスチャ集

Stock photo libraries with commons licensing etc

まとめ！

Vistazo a donde las personas alrededor del mundo estan direccionando algo de su poder de compra

Who is buying what.

Shows average yearly expenditures per citizen by type of item (5 categories) around the world.

Hand-drawing websites are very popular on today’s design. Some of well-known web company applies on these techniques to make a beautiful hand-drawn website for their clients. CSSBuilt.com collects 40+ hand-drawn websites for your inspiration. Be inspired and enjoy!

You want some vintage furniture? This place looks amazing.

love their furniture

old factory things made into furniture $$$$$

antiques dealer... changing inventory

Photoshop’s text and layer tools can be used to create some really awesome effects. We’ve put together a list of 60 of the best tutorials we could find to help you stay up to date

great text tutorials

we needed this for the van last year!

interactive

70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image cropping, slideshows, tool tips, sliders and tables are being developed that use nifty JavaScript and AJAX scripts. When using these, developers have to carefully consider many subtle techniques to help users get things done. In this article, we present 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure. You will also find some very useful but better known techniques to use on almost any project you work on. jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste gets its due.

Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques Smashing Magazine

by Noura Yehia As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility. Interactive solutions for

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cool free icons you can download for webdev

iconPot - totally free icons

The aim of this site is simple. We list a whole bunch of icons which are all great to use for your web development projects. But we are different to other icon-related websites because we only list icons which you can use for free on personal AND commercial projects AND without having to provide back-links/credit to the author. These types of icons can be tough to find, so here is a while list for your convenience! Although these icons are all free, you are encouraged to donate to the author if they make this option available. If you know of any other icons which meet the requirements of being totally free to use, please email admin@iconpot.com so that we can add them to the list.

web kai print?

alerted when an invoice is overdue and numerous other features

Deciding to become a freelance worker can be a scary proposition. Sure there is an allure to picking what projects you work on, but it can also be stressful not knowing where your next paycheck will come from. Luckily there are numerous resources out there that not only help you find more work, but also loads of tools to help you do your job more efficiently with a professional edge.

TOOLS

I did a project once with Twitter's API but I hardly remember it now (plus, I wonder if it's changed much in a year...?).

videos and other fixed width objects inside the content may upset this fluid layout, but see links for how to solve that.

contemporary practices from ala

more on fluid webdesign

Fuentes de fotos gratis

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Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.

25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers : Speckyboy Design Magazine

jQuery is everywhere, its fast and versatile, and is rapidly becoming as common on websites as CSS. The only small problem you may have is keeping up with development, keeping up with new plugins and tutorials. This article will do just that. All of these tuts have been written within the past eight weeks, bringing you up to speed with latest developments.

Cool demo of sixth sense device at TED.

TED Talks This demo -- from Pattie Maes&#39; lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It&#39;s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine &quot;Minority Report&quot; and then some.

WriteOnIt - Fake pictures - http://www.writeonit.org/

Welcome on WriteOnIt. Here you can easily create your fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

create fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

Fake pictures

40 Useful Adobe Illustrator 3D Tutorials and Techniques - http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/40-useful-adobe-illustrator-3d-tutorials-and-techniques/

The number one mistake most companies make is having the manager of the programmers writing the specs and designing the product. This is a mistake because the design does not get a fair trial, and is not born out of conflict and debate, so it’s not as good as it could be.

Hi, today i will show a monster collection of jQuery resources you’ll ever need to create that amazing site for one of your clients or for one of your personal projects.

All the jQuery resources you’ll ever need | Hein Maas - Freelance Graphic/Web Designer - http://www.heinmaas.com/2009/03/all-the-jquery-resources-youll-ever-need/

Great resource for awesome jquery sliders

The Cult of Done Manifesto 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it. 6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done. 7. Once you're done you can throw it away. 8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done. 9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right. 10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes. 11. Destruction is a variant of done. 12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done. 13. Done is the engine of more.

ts as done. So do mistakes.

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A brief, but well written overview of things to consider when selecting a CMS.

Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?

Business Card is a card printed or engraved with a person's name and business affiliation. Normally attach on it could be information such like title, address, telephone number and even logo of a company or private. Using Business card is useful in a way to promote yourself on other people. Are you planning to make your own business card but don't have any idea or some inspirations to start? Here's a showcase of 60+ Most Beautiful and Creative Business Cards Designs to enhance more your creativity and get inspired.

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60+ Most Beautiful and Creative Business Cards Design

ranked by their objective and various other weighted measurements: FontShop sales figures, historical value/meaning, aesthetic qualities.

"Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete."

By Joel Reyes Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete. Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web

List of typography blogs.

nice short film, holographic thingy

Having the right images can help make your design. Check out this resource of FREE vector files.

As a designer its always handy to have a collection of pre-made vector objects to use in your designs, but finding a best/perfect piece of vector is not an easy task, even though there are quite a few resources around the web, some of the websites are best and others are not worth checking, here I’ve collected best 25 websites of them where you can download free vector files, all these sits are worth bookmarking, hope you like this list..

Webdesignerdepot.com is actually great. This is a sick article. Bravo.

Rassegna di tutte le interfacce utente da l 1973 al 2009. In pratica, la storia dell'informatica!

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way. Over the years a range of GUI's have

At Filament Group, we build elegant communications and interactions that help people understand, work, and collaborate effectively across a variety of media - from web sites to wireless, to interactive exhibits and print.

The best idea involving scanners and sandwhiches

loads of alternative, websites with great visual impact

For your inspiration, here are 40 beautifully-designed websites that revert back in time to retro and vintage styles.

These, are just stunning. MUST SEE - INSPIRATIONAL

’ve written a fair few articles over the past year and thought it might be useful for any new subscribers and visitors to see a summary of the most useful ones

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urban camouflage

Hiding in plain sight in ikea

folks who try to hide their identity and humanity within an urban context. fabulous.

for invading spaces for guillermo

This might be the best thing ever.

dan tag ik 'm ook maar hé. URBAN CAMOUFLAGE

fazer botao online

As a designer, you probably have your favorite go-to sites for free stock photography. But it’s inevitable that you will exhaust the supply on your favorite site or just need a few fresh images at some point. Here is a collection of more than 30 free stock photo sites to add to your list.

Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture. Along the way we’ll share some of the tweeters, books, and resources we found useful for budding information architects. Even if you’re familiar with the discipline already, you can probably pick up something you’ve missed.

toolkit audit IA

Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture.

28 Adobe AIR Apps for Designers and Developers

In an information space, a human’s needs are simple and his behavior straightforward. Find. Read. Save. But once you get a bunch of humans together, communicating and collaborating, you can observe both the madness and the wisdom of crowds.

site with thousands or millions of people, how do you make sure you can keep track of the people you care about? Resolution: Create ways for people to identify, connect, and organize the people they care about, as well as the information those people produce. The complexity of relationship classification depends on how your customers will use your website.

Artículo de ALA exponiendo algunos patrones de interacción social de redes

to understand the financial world crisis

Type is one of the most-used elements of the web. Think about it. Unless you are YouTube or Flickr, chances are your site visitors are coming for your text content - not the fancy packaging that surrounds it. So why are web designers still treating text like a secondary element? Good typography brings order to the page and increases legibility. It allows people to process information faster.

Consejos sobre cómo utilizar la tipografía y el diseño en el diseño de páginas web

Over the past few years Facebook has witnessed a dramatic rise in new user adoption and with that rise has come the opportunity for brands to interact directly with exis ...

There are numerous ways for brands to leverage Facebook but the overall branded experience is becoming increasingly integrated into a single offering as the new Pages product highlights. So what are the primary benefits and changes for the new branded pages?

I usually don't like "public brush packs" as this shit will get over-used and played, but these are pretty nice.

1. Darger-esque (23 brushes) Darger-esque - preview. 2. 1920s ladies by 500ml brushes (7 brushes) 1920s ladies - preview. 3. Vintage Hands (15 brushes) Vintage Hands - preview. 4. Vintage Models (11 brushes) Vintage Models - preview. 5. Retr0 Brushes (30 brushes) Retr0 Brushes - preview. 6. Old Maps (11 brushes) Old Maps - preview. 7. Newspaper ads from the 60s (12 brushes) Newspaper ads from the 60 - preview. 8. 1940 Cosmopolitan brushes (48 brushes) 1940 Cosmopolitan brushes - preview. 9. Vintage Movie Posters (16 brushes) Vintage Movie Posters - preview. 10. Vintage brushes (12 brushes) Vintage brushes - preview. 11. Vintage Birds (20 brushes) Vintage Birds - preview. 12. Vintage polaroid brushes (14 brushes) Vintage polaroid brushes - preview. 13. Vintage grunge brushes (17 brushes) Vintage grunge brushes - preview. 14. Alice in Wonderland brushes (20 brushes) Alice in Wonderland brushes - preview. 15. Old Newspaper (16 brushes) Old Newspaper - preview. 16. Old Paper Brushes (7 bru

20 Beautiful Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets

Tutorials on using Photoshop

43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

Icones Free

You may be interested in our latest article 43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets This is the post dedicated to the creative examples of high quality free icon sets. In this post, we will give you an idea in one place to see an incredible collection of icon sets to get viewers attention. We are listing 43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets. It will help you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new icon set or specially willing to have his new icon design for the client or himself. The usage of color scheme, illustration and look and feel of all of these icons are really cool and impressive. These icons are also available to use anywhere you want but we suggest that don’t forget to read the license detail before using anyone below. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them it will must inspire you as amazingly designed icons.

Novo Dango Icon Set FTW!!! ^^ Ahahahaha (Clannad fans rejoice!)

like JQuery? This fast and easy to use Javascript framework became very popular in 2008. In the following article, I have compiled a list of 8 absolutely useful JQuery hacks, tips and tricks.

Cómo crear una acción para redimensionar imágenes en lote, corrección de los colores, selección de una figura, eliminación de brillos, restauración de imágenes dañadas, clonación de elementos y texto sobre un camino

Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising revenue as possible, we're left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content we're trying to read. It's almost like listening to talk radio, except the commercials play during the program in the background. It's a pretty awful experience. Our friend to date has been the trusty "Print View" button. Click it and all the junk goes away. I click it all the time and rarely print. It's really become the "Peace & Quiet" button for many.

A bookmarklet for stripping unnecessary fluff from web pages, and style the text as you want it.

An app that clears away all the clutter, leaving just the content.

go over with SIna

Fashion Website Design Sample

In this article we’ll take a look at the websites of leading fashion companies, as well as some fashion news sites, and see when fashion, style and web design come together.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Flickr Clock

An experimental Flickr timeline showing recent videos.

Hi there, just wanted to share this icon library I've been toying with — it's both free and dolphin safe.

At the risk of having you never come back to this site, I have compiled a list of 17 other sites to feed your creative appetite. Dozens more could have been

Probably the best of "list of" list I've seen a very long time.

Nice article but why dont I see @cheth here?!

Erik Johansson, a young talented artist from Sweden, creates remarkable images by digitally modifying photographs that he took himself.

Tooltips in web design are becoming more and more commonplace. Even though I don’t think they are appropriate for every type of site, they can be a very useful addition when implemented correctly. If you are planning on using tooltips in your next project, the hardest part may be choosing the right solution. Here are 11 excellent methos for creating tooltips using various solutions such as jQuery, MooTools, and CSS only.

Tooltips in web design are becoming more and more commonplace. Even though I don't think they are appropriate for every type of site, they can be a very useful

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Web Design Ledger

Like the title suggests, this is a sweet set of desktops.

Nice site for structuring xhtml with css for some dynamic organized layouts

Icons come in many different sizes and styles. Some are flat and solid colors, while others can be very detailed. Icons in web design are often used to enhance

Detailed and Beautiful Icon Sets

Tips For Beginners

refresher tips on css

Creating 3D visualization rendering autodesk 3ds Max software, brings not only the look and feel for the image, but also helps to visualize the design in

GREAT 3D Resources!!

Noupe is a design weblog created to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers.

Layout Tutorials 4 teh interwebs ^^

60 Layout design tutorials Posted by sedFEIS on March 12, 2009 Category: Adobe Photoshop, Tutorials / Tags: adobe, design, layout, photoshop, tutorial 60 Layout design tutorials In this post I gathered 60 layout design tutorials, from which you can learn how to make your own website design. This post together with 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials Creating Web Layouts And Navigation could teach you how to make your own website. Just click on the title to go to Design Lab TV Styled Layout Design Lab TV Styled Layout GreenPress WordPress Theme Design Colorful Funky Web Layout Tutorial などなど。

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Image Rollover Borders That Do Not Change Layout - http://css-tricks.com/image-rollover-borders-that-do-not-change-layout/

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ロールオーバーする際にずれてしまう問題と解決方法

Grid Based Design Toolbox | Fuel Your Creativity

Grid Based Design Toolbox | Fuel Your Creativity - http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/grid-based-design-toolbox/

Recursos para diseño web con grids

Simple but useful checklist for websites. Certainly not a comprehensive list, but a good starting point.

portfolio examples

8 CSS tips for better linking

It may sound stupid to say that, but the ability to link is one of the best features of the web. It is then really important to make your links display as

It may sound stupid to say that, but the ability to link is one of the best features of the web. It is then really important to make your links display as convenient for use as possible. In the following collection you’ll find some tips to make your links better looking and more usable.

250+ Stains Brushes for Photoshop

photoshop brushes

20 different quality stain brush packs for photoshop

great brushes

3-D of your bedroom, office, kitchen

This is a cool tool to spaceplan/lay out the interior of your home or building. Really really cool stuff.

Make your dream room a reality

43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Inspirations etc To Discover The Bes

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Using breadcrumb trails is a fairly straightforward affair, and there are only a few guidelines to consider before deciding to implement them on a website. Let’s take a look at some common mistakes to avoid.

By Jacob Gube On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website

It seems that the majority of blogs all follow a standard layout: a long list of posts on the left and a sidebar on the right containing such things as recent

10 Blog Designs with Innovative Layouts

Creative Blog designs

Ciekawy design

Blog Design

I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.

Insightful article about preparing for a career in design

This shit is trippy.

In this post, we’ll explain some Web typography terms and how they play into readability; we’ll present numerous tips to help improve the readability of your content; and we’ll showcase very readable websites, layouts and articles.

Great photoshop tutorials simple but effective

We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Indeed, when we talk about them, we say they are the cat's meow – which is an American expression meaning AWESOME. In light of these deeply held beliefs, we created this site to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers. These experiments were created by designers and programmers from around the world. Their work is making the web faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome. Naturally, if you've made something fun and fast with JavaScript, please send it in. We can't post everything, but we'd love to see it. Thanks for visiting, and happy experimenting.

Google/Google Chrome推奨、canvas、ショーケース/ゲーム/投稿/デモ、物理演算/3D

JSでｺﾞﾆｮｺﾞﾆｮ。

javascriptでいろいろできる例

Business Card Inspiration

Business Card Design Inspiration

smarmy

tecnicas para usar flash con bases de datos, galerias de imagenes, sonidos......

"Until now, all netbooks were engineered the same way: Power-hungry Intel Atom, ugly case, and outdated 90's OS. Our goal: To achieve a breakthrough in both architecture and design. The result: a revolutionary device that works as both a netbook and a standalone tablet thanks to a detachable keyboard and a 3D touchscreen user interface."

jQuery lightbox clone - prettyPhoto

角丸lightbox的ポップアップ

Here's my jQuery lightbox clone, I did it because those available are either not close enough to the real lightbox (lacking animations, not supporting galleries, etc ,etc) or were just not suiting my need. If you have any comment or ways to improve it, just leave me a comment! Bellow you can see a demo of a gallery and single image.

Ei side hvor du kan spille inn et lydsignal, og få omgjort bølgeforma fra lydsignalet til et armbånd. En fin gave fra noen som er opptatt av lyd!

Sound waves are converted into wearable bracelets

The Sound Advice Project. Don't just talk to your kids about drugs. Make sure your words stay with them.

The Sound Advice Project

Nice web2 Business

Really great photoshop resource!

ทุกสิ่งอย่างเกี่ยวกับ photoshop

^^ this

Bring Down IE 6

a campaign by .net magazine

WOOHOOOOOO

» CSS Codes : CSS Code Snippets for Web Designers & Developers. Web design blog with graphics and web design resources, lists of graphic design tools, utilities, and other web site design resources, including Web Design and Development articles and creative resources and links to great web design resources on topics.

TWEEEEET Design web page

Site setup to display influential designers' tweets. Neato.

Excellent info about freelance contracts

Briechenstein's Popular Bookmark 12 Points to Include in my Design Contract-FreelanceSwitch-The Freelance Blogs

Is till hold a torch for DreamWeaver but it's been dead since CSS went mainstream and it's WYSIWYG mode couldn't keep up.

Dreamweaver is dying, well it cant live forever.. although i loved it for putting together a quick page, but it just doesnt cut it when i need more advanced stuff.. it just starts coming in the way.. I am Linux since last couple of months anyway.. No dreamweaver here! I have better tools though.. I can write / improve more of those too ;]

When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to , instantShift.com is the light chronicle moments of knowledge, created as world moving forward.

Site com exemplos e videos para WebDesign

將圖片轉成用 ASCII codes 排列出來的圖檔，不過 PICASCII 除了傳統的黑白圖片外，還可以轉成彩色的 ASCII codes 圖檔，而且效果更加細緻，此外它還提供 HTML code 讓使用者可以直接貼到網站上，相當不錯喔。

trasforma una immagine in codice ascii sia a colori che B/N

generuje kod ASCII na podstawie zdjęcia :>>>

Wonderful Wine Cellars For Any Room in Your House | http://dornob.com/wonderful-wine-cellars-for-any-room-in-your-house/ wine cellar winecellar winewine

distinctive designs

And 20 examples of nicely designed charity websites

So how does a charity get the most out of its website? It needs to let users find out information about the charity, but the main objective of the site is to get people involved with the charity, usually resulting in the user donating money. In this article, we look at 8 principles that you should follow when creating a charity website.

cardboard office

nice website, great illustration of Fiodor Sumkin

Best wordpress setups

Showcasing the Best WordPress Sites on the Internet

Very inspirational place to find Wordpress Sites

Fabric Textures

Wireframing is a great tool to incorporate into your projects as it allows for rapid prototyping and helps to pinpoint any potential problems. I personally find it invaluable on projects to have a visual representation of content, hierarchy and layout. Overall it’s an excellent step to incorporate into your project before the design process begins for both you and your clients.

Browser Ball attempts, with only moderate success, to allow the configuration of a seemingly endless array of continuous spaces using multiple overlapping browser windows. Within this multivariate space, users are invited to toss a beach ball both hither and yon. If this sounds like a ridiculous use of everyone's time, that's only because it is.

Une alternative à sIFR à explorer. Plus simple à installer et à configurer mais quelques désavantages par rapport à sIFR (pas de sélection du texte, pas de style sur a:hover, etc.)

In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of very useful CSS Techniques that you can use freely to make your website or blog more dynamic and inprove its Look & Feel. The article will also give you an introduction to CSS and why it should be used instead of table-based layouts.

type tools

Amazing logos created with the famous Helvetica font

"It’s over fifty years old, it’s the most widely used font ever, and it has recently become the subject of its own movie. We’re talking about the world’s most recognizable font: Helvetica."

40 Excelentes losgos creados con Helvetica

A good resource to have for all of you Photoshop aficionados out there. Take a gander and let me know what yout think. Enjoy!

Modelos de psd, referencias

71 psd

Good Call-To-Action Buttons

When designing call to actions on a website (one of the important factors that determine your website's conversion rate) what are the strategic considerations you should keep in mind.

Visualized on GOOD Mag (via Karl Long)

Nature Design

Fantastic designs here including one or two australia based ones. Special mention goes to the site with the interactive water, sift through until you find it, you'll be pleasantly surprised. The exploding earth coal site is equally brilliant.

draxc0la design

cool sites

design inspiration - submit here

Guernica

Ícones e imagens gratuitos do Twitter.

plein d'icones twitter dont une rétro du style que je veux pour mon site

Wer noch keinen Vogel hat, lädt sich halt einen runter. Neben unaufgeregten Standards, die ich weggelassen habe, hat man die Wahl zwischen Knöpfen, Icons und

black layouts

JPEGsnoop is a free Windows application that examines and decodes the inner details of JPEG and MotionJPEG AVI files. It can also be used to analyze the source of an image to test its authenticity.

"While working on this site, I made jokes to Mike Yuan about having really confrontational splash pages for anybody that visited the site using IE6. I swear, I’m not this much of a dick to my users, but as a former PC user/Xbox owner, I have enough pent up MS-Hate to fill a fucking water tower. Just remember it’s completely a joke, I don’t care what browser you use as long as you don’t expect me to support it. Thanks for stopping by, hope you laughed."

On the last post I just compile a showcase of 60+ Most Beautiful and Creative Business Cards Design for inspirations. As we are focusing more and more inspirations for everyone this month. For our next list of inspiration,it is a collection of a cool monster characters illustration made by some of talented people on the web. Here is a Showcase of 50+ Cute and Adorable Monster Characters Illustration to enhance your imagination and for more inspirations.

Web Design, Development, and Business

3d text illustration

Recently icons are used widely in web and interface designs, icons convey the message in simple and effective manner,As a designer its always good to know how to design a icon on your own, there are plenty of icon tutorials out there, here i have filtered and listed 50 of the best icon design tutorials, hope you like this list of tutorials

Descarga el favicon de la página que uno especifica

Instructions: Enter a URI and select an image format. The URI can be a domain name or the URI of a specific web page. Press the Grab It! button to get the shortcut icon for that page or site. If the image is displayed in the Grabbed Icon area, save the image. (With our browsers, we can right-click the image and select "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...".) If there is a problem grabbing the icon, you will see the "Error!" image in place of the icon. If you have any suggestions, let us know.

http://bitelia.com/2009/03/11/obten-el-favicon-de-cualquier-sitio-en-gif-png-o-jpeg/

Before launching any new website, it has to be tested. There are many great tools for web development testing so that users have a problem-free experience.

"tag webtool"

thanks roel!

Nice silverlight zooming effect!!!

Wow!

Every single issue of Playboy from it's start to 2007.

MyInkBlog, March 21, 2009. Unread.

How to do T&Cs

The bullet points on the side, which summarize the agreement are a great idea!

My classmate Noah passed along this terms of service agreement. It has two columns: legal English on the left, plain English summary on the right.

Terms of service formatted for maximum readability.

Awesome TOS? I like the summary.

Términos de servicio con una versión resumida legible.

Discover Great Food.

an online marketplace marketplace where people can buy specialty food directly from artisanal foodmakers. Foodoro aims to be an online e-commerce site for artisanal food makers, exposing these vendors to a greater audience of food aficionados than they would get from their own sites or selling solely to specialty food stores.

Response To Twitter

Techcrunch article

Página da wikipedia com alguns principios do design.

En kjekk innføring for de som lurer på hva design er og prinsippene bak :-)

In this massive collection of resources, you'll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.

Sajter om och plug-ins till photoshop

40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures for Ornate Backgrounds | Web Design Ledger - http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/40-beautiful-patterns-and-textures-for-ornate-backgrounds

Video - seminar on front end engineering. best practices, naming conventions, etc.

To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible, such as books, or you'll be left

Distributing the horizontal space between elements evenly

Good quick tips in here.

ilustração em websites

Another little gem for today. I love this site too. That CSS must have taken forever.

tal cual

Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user's choices.

Don't make response time too fast, though: the mouse should remain stationary for 0.5 seconds before you display anything that's hover-dependent, such as a mega drop-down or a tooltip. Violating this guideline will make the screen flicker insufferably when users move the mouse. Only after 0.5 seconds of resting the pointer on a navbar item can you assume that a user actually wants to see its associated drop-down. Thus, the timing should be: 1. Wait 0.5 seconds. 2. If the pointer is still hovering over a navbar item, display its mega drop-down within 0.1 seconds. 3. Keep showing it until the pointer has been outside both the navbar item and the drop-down for 0.5 seconds. Then, remove it in less than 0.1 seconds.

Summary: Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user's choices.

Big, 2-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.

Inkd is more than a place to buy great design. It’s a real marketplace that brings together print designers and businesses. Our hope is to build the most important print portal for browsing AND buying. Thousands of professional print designs and brochure templates for download. That’s Inkd.

Buy and sell brochure template designs that include layouts, photos and vector artwork. Get graphic design ideas, download print templates, edit and print custom brochure designs in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and more.

One Photo a Day

16+ Easy CSS Techniques that Simplify the Webdesigner’s Life WebAir Blog

Well done article. And it's a Drupal site, too! Turns out you can do all kinds of cool effects in CSS alone w/o resorting to scripting languages!

Has some neat techniques to make the web site a little more user friendly and interesting

20 สูตร shotcut key สำหรับชาวกราฟฟิก

Free Web Resources Everyday - WebResourcesDepot

Templates para Nesletter

This can't be as hard as I'm making it.

Solve the Pearl Jam Ten Game puzzle to preview Pearl Jam music from the Pearl Jam 10 reissue.

ブランドデザイン刷新アワード「ReBrand」の受賞企業一覧。刷新前後が見ることができまくりで見ごたえありまくり。

Here are 18 WordPress plugins to help you manage your blog's RSS feed, track subscribers, and much more.

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) enables site owners to automatically syndicate their content to readers in an easily digestible format. There are a number of WordPressWordPress reviewsWordPress reviews plugins to help you manage your blog’s RSS feed, track subscribers, and much more.

Future Technology

People sometimes ask me why I dislike Microsoft. The answer is simple: I don’t -- I’ve just been disappointed with ...

Microsoft concept video.

Fantastic little video from Microsoft, showing how technology (mostly AR - augmented reality) might work in the future.

5 Universal Principles For Successful eCommerce-Sites

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

I should look into these!

Consejos para maquetar texto web utilizando una cuadrícula tipográfica

text baseline

This article covers the basics of baseline grids—defined grid areas within which content is placed—and how they can be applied effectively to the web medium.

Controling the graphics with your mouse movement

Matching the pace that the ink line travels to the perceived momentum in the song works particularly well here.

chouette concept de site pour promouvoir un artiste

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.

an gi

Lego creativity is not limited to building bricks and stop motion movies, it extends even to advertising. As with plastic bricks, they can take the simplest concept and often make a powerful and witty statement. There approach is often minimal, a trait I like, as you will be able to see in the first few images below. There is no end to Lego creativity. (Were I could I have linked to the original source).

Lego creativity is not limited to building bricks and stop motion movies, it extends even to advertising. As with plastic bricks, they can take the simplest concept and often make a powerful and witty statement. There approach is often minimal, a trait I like, as you will be able to see in the first few images below. There is no end to Lego creativity.

Designed Twitter Homepages

Sådan laver en kodekarl et godt portfoliosite...

Front End Developer and Other Crap I am the best choice for all your front end development needs. Why? Let me tell you, one word. Ajax, motherfuton That's right, I'll Ajax the crap out of your site. Nothing, and I mean nothing will be static. I'll pull your data asynchronously from every orifice of your server. Your clients will be SOOOOO impressed. What's more, I'll use jQuery to do it all!!!! Imagine the look on your shareholders faces when they view source and see that your site is calling jquery-min-1.3.js?!?! Oh, BTW, using jQuery costs extra ok, that magic dust don't come cheap. Does your new social site need my help?! Are you ready to take down Facebook?! That crap sucks, and your stuff RULES. Well, it will once you hire me to work on it!!!!!! I'll totally do crap to rip off Sims and that Virb stuff and make yours the NEW HoTNESS. The motherfuton SUN will be jealous of the heat I add to your site. Look, Social Feeds, Widgets, Data Portability, MASH-UPS!!! I do them all, and bett

Humorous resume page

The most amusing web developer CV I've ever read.

"What's more, I'll use jQuery to do it all!!!! Imagine the look on your shareholders faces when they view source and see that your site is calling jquery-min-1.3.js?!?! Oh, BTW, using jQuery costs extra ok, that magic dust don't come cheap."

Good little article on using HTML special characters on your site.

One of the most under–rated elements of beautiful Web design is the subtle art of typography. Part of this, I know, is a lack of a solid font support for Web sites. But never fear! Today I’ll show you some quick things you can do to appear to be a type master.

Object-oriented programming was supposed to unify the perspectives of the programmer and the end user in computer code: a boon both to usability and program comprehension. While objects capture structure well, they fail to capture system action. DCI is a vision to capture the end user cognitive model of roles and interactions between them.

Jinming

Facebook's redesign, and why customer feedback shouldn't be the only driver of a product's development....

My former boss, Jim Fawcette, used to say that if you asked a group of Porsche owners what they wanted they’d tell you things like “smoother ride, more trunk space, more leg room, etc.” He’d then say “well, they just designed a Volvo.

As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are

Flottir bustar fyrir Photoshop

50 Inspirational Website Introductions

intro page

40+ Beautiful Examples of Paper Websites Design

interesting website design

nice alternative to sifr

A log of websites with real character.

FireFox add-ons for Web Design

Thanks to Firefox and some of the great add-ons that have been developed for it, your browser is your best friend when it comes to web site design. From CSS tools, to promoting your domain, here are 10 of the most popular web designer tools for Firefox.

In this article, you’ll find a large collection of tutorials and resources on the topic of designing logos by some of the most well-respected logo designers in the industry.

See list of Prototyping Tools. Most are paid. Real tools are: 1. Axure RP Pro 2. RapidRabb.it The rest are BS i.e. Flex, Flash, Visio, Dreamweaver etc etc

Active and Passive White Space White Space is often used to create a balanced, harmonious layout. One that just ‘feels’ right. It can also be used to take the reader on a journey through the design. In the same way a photographer leaves ‘looking room’ in a portrait shot, by positioning the subject o! the centre of the frame and having them looking into the remaining space, a designer can do this to increase the effectiveness of their design. Another way of looking at white space is by how a reader, or user, reacts to it. White space can not only be used by the designer to create harmony and balance in design, or to help position a brand, but it can be used to lead a reader from one element to another. This is called Active White Space

fonts

Whether you're putting together a resume, flyer, or web page, everyone needs to find and compare fonts some time. Here are some tools that can help you find the perfect font.

Designers and Bloggers

WEBデザイナーという肩書きを使う場合にあったらいいかもなスキルとWEBで見れる無料教材とリソース集

Generate a grid. Drag the grid on top of your design tool. Push those pixels until they line up with the grid.

Just realized that my page is on delicious home and I did not bookmark it :)

Grid system

In this post, we present a collection of beautiful Apple-inspired Adobe Photoshop tutorials. We collected them not because we are religiously in love with Apple, but because you may find these tutorials useful; for instance, if you are developing a new Mac or iPhone application or designing a concept for a new product. In these cases, you may want to consider Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and our Designer’s Guide To Icon Design For Mac OS X. Please feel free to suggest further tutorials in the comments to this post.

Apple UI Photoshop tutorials

MAC Style

Wallpaper สีสันสวยงาม สามสิบสามรูปถ้วน

33 High Resolution And Eye-Catching Spring Desktop Wallpapers | 1stwebdesigner - Love In Design

designer especializada em restaurantes

A close relative and co-author of a handful of books with Steven Heller, Louise Fili's portfolio is well worth the 20 minutes I spent digging.

what's popular on Wikipedia

What is popular on Wikipedia?

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Most web designers know that cheat sheets are incredibly useful. You can use them for quick reference, easy learning, and more. In this list, we’ve compiled an incredible collection of the 100 best and most useful cheat sheets out there.

excellent

fine bilder.

dark art- good backgrounds

Great "infographic" version of the fairytale. So many neat little touches.

School assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little red ridning hood. Inspired by Röyksopps Remind me. Music: Slagsmålsklubben, Sponsored by destiny www.smk.just.nu Animation: Tomas Nilsson www.tomas-nilsson.se

Little Red Riding Hood.

Little red riding hood re-interpretation with infographics

Awesome Infographics Interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood. Just wonderful.

Pretty interesting look at how Craigslist could be redesigned and retain its minimalism while being more usable and more attractive.

кейс юзабилити-переделки Craiglist. Почитать

IKEA has released its own 3D room design tool to help you plan the modernist, clean-lined kitchen, bedroom, or workspace of your dreams.

<blockquote>...the true accidental brilliance of Java is that it has created a very smooth path for its own replacements, even if Java itself has reached the point where it can no longer evolve.</blockquote>

In a recent discussion, there were assertions that C++ was a poorly-designed language. I was on the C++ Standards Committee for 8 years, and saw the decisions take place. I think it's helpful to understand the language choices for both C++ and Java in order to see the bigger perspective.

入れ子のパネルをスライドさせるアコーディオンの超軽量スクリプト

Accordeon ajax multi-niveau

Prototyping and Wireframing

good list of design blogs

Another listing of freelancing jobs in web design and web development.

ave the time. You are ready to work, but there’s one problem. You have no clients. The biggest struggle freelancers face is finding work. The

Top 20 Websites to Find Work as a Freelance Designer | Spoonfed Design - http://www.spoonfeddesign.com/top-20-websites-to-find-work-as-a-freelance-designer

Bringing you the very best of the worst logos.

YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com - http://www.yourlogomakesmebarf.com/

it's teh funny

" YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com is intended to be a humorous look at what can go wrong when an unskilled person (your neighbor’s brother’s uncle’s friend anyone?!) designs a logo. Good logos require time and involve great forethought. A good logo should be a financial investment but also something that will benefit the long term growth of a company. So leave the designing to the designers and browse through some of these fine examples of what not to look for in a logo. Barf bags recommended."

blog about logos and instant logo maker tool

Login Interfaces

Interface Design Inspiration | 36 Beautiful Login Page/Form Designs | Dzine Blog - http://dzineblog.com/2009/03/interface-design-inspiration-36-beautiful-login-pageform-designs.html

woo-hoo!

free images

Article about what OpenSource software generally lacks, and how to compete with them.

ever, users like know that there is someone who will be happy to help them out if they need it. That is the main purpose of offering customer support — decreasing the perceived risk of using your software by demonstrating that there is a safety net. (This is one reason you should write your support page with an eye to it being seen by someone who isn’t even using your software.)

2) Design OSS projects, particularly the 99% that are relevant to this discussion, routinely do not allocate resources to creating attractive designs. For whatever reason, opened source graphical work is still rather rare, most developers (myself included) have the artistic skill of inept mole rats, and the obvious pay-somebody-who-does-it-better solution runs into the problem that the typical OSS project has no budget and no patience to deal with “unfree” licenses, which are the only kind commercially available stock icons have.

" However, users like know that there is someone who will be happy to help them out if they need it. That is the main purpose of offering customer support — decreasing the perceived risk of using your software by demonstrating that there is a safety net."

Some good points, particularly on how OSS focuses on the software pitch too much (most folk don't think of their problem as a software issue)

Web design hints

A List Apart: Articles: The Elegance of Imperfection

design aesthetics

Very interesting.

A taxonomy of elegance Jeremy Alexis, of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, asks us to consider three types of elegance when we face a design problem: logical elegance, systemic elegance, and aesthetic elegance.

During the past year or so, I have published 3 collections of colorful websites. Today we'll take a look at another 25 sites that make exceptional use of color. There is a wide variety of color schemes and design styles represented here, so I hope the work of these designers provides some inspiration for your own work. 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 2 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 3 By Marina

It’s all about quality tutorials for Adobe Flash. Whether you want to learn how to create awesome Flash animations and interfaces, bone up on your Actionscript to create games and apps, or just get started developing with Flash, we’ve got you covered!

Flashtuts+ joins Psdtuts+, Vectortuts+, Audiotuts+, Aetuts+ and Nettuts+ as Envato’s newest Tuts+ site. It’s all about quality tutorials for Adobe Flash. Whether you want to learn how to create awesome Flash animations and interfaces, bone up on your Actionscript to create games and apps, or just get started developing with Flash, we’ve got you covered! Keep reading to learn a little bit more about the new editor of Flashtuts+ and what we’ll be offering on the site.

The Bygone Bureau is a journal of modern thought, specializing in travel writing and cultural criticism. We launched on June 25, 2007 and update every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

text/html; charset=UTF-8

またもやFICCさんの自社サービス、制作事例から求人情報を探せます。

FICCが運営するクリエイターのための求人サイト☆さすがなつくり。 CBCNETより見やすくて親切。

制作実例から企業を探すことができる

そのままは使えないけど、参考になるところが有った。

いつかこれで練習したい

あとで

List of Photoshop tutorials and resources

learning to create website

Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!

Users often see online content out of context and read it with different goals than you envisioned. While you can't predict all such goals, you can plan for multiple uses of your text.

Un nuovo alertbox con i consigli del guru dell'usabilità

"We take bridges for granted now, but back in the 1800s, bridges were in beta. They fell. One out of every four bridges… fell""We Are Defined By What We Build The Brooklyn Bridge was built from 1870 until 1883."

Rands posts a nice optimistic counter to current economic gloom, citing the Brooklyn Bridge and other 19th century NYC architecture.

History of the Brooklyn Bridge

Truly inspiring

We need a new version of ourselves and that’s going to involve bright, unexpected ideas from those we least expect them from, and they’re going to strike you as impossible. All you need to do to understand these terrifyingly ambitious ideas is to look back at what we’ve already done to understand what we can do.

All too often, I see a great design concept with a poor choice of colors. Part of what makes a great web design “great” is layout, typography and color. When each of these aspects work to compliment each other, great design is born.

Siena is a brand new set of 200 free icons, developed exclusively for Webdesigner Depot. You can use them for your designs such as logos, websites and much

200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena

(projeto EAD - px)

ナビゲーションメニューのデザイン実例30+ | Admix Web

Install Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Multiple versions of IE can be installed on a single PC. Standalone versions of IE6 (and any version back to v3.0) can be downloaded from the evolt.org browser archive. XP users can simply extract the files and create a shortcut to iexpore.exe. Unfortunately, they do not work in Vista. An alternative is the Xenocode Browser Sandbox which provides IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Chrome, Opera and Safari. These are single .exe files that use virtualization technology to ensure the browser runs in its own segregated environment without affecting your core system. Finally, there is IETester from DebugBar. This is certainly the easiest application

Good article we use some of this stuff. Something to consider

coleccion de afiches de peliculas... productos del photoshop

cool hand drawn

In this collection, you will be able to find some of the best designs that have hand drawn, sketched elements infused into them for your inspiration.

SXSW Typography: Quit Bitchin and get Your Glyph on

If there's nothing in here about Unicode symbols, I'm filing a complaint.

Designers are still complaining about the limitations of Web typography. Is their case valid, and will it be in the future? What myths are there about web typography and how do we dispel them?

web typography resources

Whether you're a freelance web designer or you own your own web design company, here are some web-based tools that will make your life easier, increase your professional image, and streamline your entire operation.

11 Absolutely Necessary Web-Based Tools for a Freelance Web Designer | CHROMATIC

Some nice tools for those running a webdesign shop

A decent list of applications for freelancers and small companies. List includes basecamp and backpack plus a few others I hadn't heard of.

Online tools for project (and business) management.

Beautiful Forms - Design, Style, & make it work with PHP & Ajax | Noupe

Sketchnotes captured on-site and live in a Moleskine pocket sketchbook while attending SXSW Interactive, March 13-17, 2009 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Erik Johansson, a young talented artist from Sweden, creates remarkable images by digitally modifying photographs that he takes himself. Here's a selection of his very impressive photo manipulations.

Finding decent hi-quality vector icons for free via google is kinda hard & annoying. My results mainly lead to sites that wanted to sell you icons. I don’t beleive in paying for things like that, especially when there’s an abundant amount of vector icons that are available for free.

detailed list

Comprehensive showcase of website offering free repeating pattern graphics.

As a designer, Background Patterns are one of the many things which i found still fascinating myself. Have you ever wondered the seamless patterns often used in , instantShift.com is the light chronicle moments of knowledge, created as world moving forward.

Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some

10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see. The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few years, resulting in rich and responsive user interface. AJAX, javascript and CSS are widely used to offer users the dynamic interaction that they have come to expect from advanced, sophisticated, professional solutions. There have been plenty of posts on the number of awesome javascript, Ajax and CSS techniques and where to find them. Today, we will have a look at 10 creative & rich UI interfaces in modern day websites and how you can create similar interfaces using the techniques mentioned in this post.

Lista efektów jakie mogą być wykorzystane przy budowie strony.

Magnifique - Choose Your Weapon - Free Theming App for OS X Leopard

cambiar aspecto sistema operativo mac ileopard aqua

Economic Recovery Dashboard - Helping Advisors

To help you talk to your clients, we've identified a few key economic and market indicators to help assess the current economic health and trend.

Chart of leading and lagging economic indicators giving current numbers and historical information.

free font slist and tips on how to use them

Today's consumer seems to have an insatiable appetite for information, but until recently making sense of all of that raw data was too daunting for most. Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.

Short blog post offers several different examples, not all from news organizations.

東京各地で出会った1,000人の皆さんに、カラフルなUNIQLOのPARKAをその場でコーディネートしちゃいました。UNIQLOのパーカでつなぐリアルな東京のスタイルをご覧ください。

In this article, you'll find several simple but effective photo enchancing techniques on topics such as how to choose the best image format for web or how to create croplet for repeatedly image editing process.

Why Facebook will go Fully Asymmetric

- Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

一枚企画書の書き方

後で読む

本連載では、竹島愼一郎氏が提唱するインパクト抜群の「1枚企画書」をPowerPointで作る手順を全5回で紹介します。社会人になったらWordやExcelだけでなくPowerPointも使いこなせなくては、社内や取引先でのプレゼンに勝ち抜けません。しかし、ただ単に企画書をPowerPointで再現しただけでは、印象に残るプレゼンにはほど遠く、居眠りを誘う会議になってしまうことでしょう。 　「1枚企画書」の最終回として、本書が出版に至った企画書の実例を含む、「プレゼン力の高い企画書」を3種類ご紹介します。実際の成功事例を踏まえてPowerPointをフル活用すれば、皆さんの仕事もきっと成功に近づくはずです。

vintage children's book blog

Illustrator is a wonderful tool. It is often underused, and also a bit underestimated. I think sometimes people can be having so much fun in Photoshop, that they forget all of the awesome things Illustrator can accomplish. So today I’m bringing you a big list of Illustrator tutorials, tricks and tips. I start out with pretty basic tutorials and tips, because it is important to have a good foundation. But, don’t worry, they get much more complex :) And keep in mind when your reading these tutorials, it’s all about picking up on new and interesting processes, techniques, and ideas that you may not have tried yet. Even if you are an experienced Illustrator user, it never hurts to learn new techniques and refresh your memory on some old ones. So I’m hoping you enjoy, and find this useful.

iPhoneアプリのモックアップが簡単に作れるサイト

パンくずいろいろ

7. Experimental Examples 実験的なパンくず

The challenge of building your product around breakthrough design is that the design has to in fact be a breakthrough. And that means spending far more time or money than your competitors who are merely seeking a positive return.

Return on design

don't blame the rounded corners! Yahoo! F2E Summit 2008

texture download website

As you may already be familiar with footer, the footer is a last and significant element in a web design, as well as the coolest place to display Twitter updates, popular posts, recent comments, and Flickr photo streams are just a few common ideas. I have fetched some of the most creative footer posts from multiple blogs which will inspire you. Go ahead and check out these footers which make it stand out of the rest. Let us know your best pick!

As you may already be familiar with footer, the footer is a last and significant element in a web design, as well as the coolest place to display Twitter updates, popular posts, recent comments, and Flickr photo streams are just a few common ideas. I have fetched some of the most creative footer posts from multiple blogs which will inspire you. Go ahead and check out these footers which make it stand out of the rest. Let us know your best pick! Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas Footers In Modern Web Design Modern Sitemap and Footer Modern Sitemap and Footer 25 More Inspirational Footers 25 More Inspirational Footers 25 Impressive Blog Footers 25 Impressive Blog Footers 25 Stylish Website Footer Designs 25 Stylish Website Footer Designs 19 Gorgeous Website Footers 19 Gorgeous Website Footers 40 Beautiful and Creative Website Footers 40 Beautiful and Creative Website Footers 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs 40 Cre

Footers

Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery

SitePoint's Craig Buckler blogged yesterday about what he sees as the next big thing in web design: mega drop-down

checks

weblogs/azul/principles-of-software

be clear with mission/goals/objective and scaled down ecommerce donation (when using 3rd-party payment, integrate it or users may get stumped)

Key factors: The organization's mission, goals, objectives, and work. How it uses donations and contributions.

"Non-profits would collect much more from their websites if only they'd clearly state what they are about and how they use donations. Our new usability studies revealed considerable frustration as potential donors visited sites and tried to discern various organizations' missions and goals — which are key factors in their decisions about whether to give money."

Jacob Nielson, online donations. See methodology notes.

"SlideMagnet is all about slides. Our mantra: be generous. We are here to help you thrive and succeed with your next presentation. That’s our purpose, that’s our mission, and that’s why we exist."

advice on good presentations

How to make effective presentations

tut main

Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.

great book

Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling. Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are

nice jquery stuff

30-fresh-and-promising-design-blogs-to-follow

Enjoy Christoph Niemann's whimsical illustrations and observation in the New York Times piece from Abstract City Blog.

design battle/

cool flash site for nike shoe design battles

love the bass

Great selection here.

Web Designer Help » 15 Great CSS Galleries - http://www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk/index.php/2009/03/15-great-css-galleries/

nice books binding

UPDATED EVERY MONDAY. This venue has been created to appreciate the practice of book cover design. This is not a blog to rip apart what we dislike—everyone has a different aesthetic. This is a blog about the challenges and outcomes

blog about book covers

book design

awesome jquery sliding boxes tutorial

Amazing Retouching Tutorials In Photoshop | 1stwebdesigner - Love In Design - http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/amazing-retouching-tutorials-in-photoshop/

Design your house plan blueprints online with smallblueprinter, then take a 3D walkthrough your design, check out an isometric view and print out your plan. Design your dream garden online. An easy to use interactive online tool. drag - drop - print .... your new garden design.

garden and home designer. Free, online

Jacek Utko

new and hot bookmarks

art photography portfolio japan water

Artist Portfolio

When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is a very popular option and for a reason. Photoshop really can do magic in the hands of a skilled designer. However, the software itself is really hard to use if you're not used to it. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes ages to achieve something you have never done before. This is where Photoshop Tutorials comes to your help by guiding you though the many difficult steps needed to achieve a specific goal. In this article tripwire magazine present you more than 80 high quality Photoshop Tutorial that guides you step by step in building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

80+ Photoshop Tutorials: Practical Web Interface Design

Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos

AIDA

In this post we’re going to look at a simple template you can follow if you need to create a design that “sells” - that is, creating a website landing page that intends to turn a viewer / user into a customer.

5 Tips for Optimizing Your Brand’s Facebook Presence

ways to fine-tune your profile for maximum affect. So here are five tips to optimize your activities on Facebook, including the right way to create profile and thumbnail graphics, how to show different content to Fans and non-Fans, creating DIY vanity urls, and how managing what and when you post can lead to greater success.

How to optimise facebook

アイコンを作ろう!チュートリアルまとめ | DesignWalker

今では、かなりたくさんのクオリティの高いアイコン素材が無料で配布されていたりします。

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do

20 Examples Of Dark & Minimalist Website Designs With Great Typography | Spyre Studios

20 Examples Of Dark & Minimalist Website Designs With Great Typography | Spyre Studios - http://spyrestudios.com/20-examples-of-dark-minimalist-website-designs-with-great-typography/

Who'd have thought it.. Google runs of thousands of 12-volt batteries :o) Each Google server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers--each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts. ... Most people buy computers one at a time, but Google thinks on a very different scale. The cores of the company's data centers are composed of standard 1AAA shipping containers packed with 1,160 servers each, with many containers in each data center.

'One of the driving factors in Settlers—and one of the secrets to its success—is that nobody has reliable access to all five resources. This means players must swap cards to get what they need, creating a lively and dynamic market, which works like any other: If ore isn't rolled for several turns, it becomes more valuable. "Even in this tiny, tiny microcosm of life, scarcity leads to higher prices, and plenty leads to lower prices," says George Mason University economist Russ Roberts, who uses Settlers to teach his four children how free markets work. Wheeling and dealing turns out to be an elegant solution to one of the big problems plaguing Monopoly—sitting idle while other players take their turns. Since every roll of the dice in Settlers has the potential to reap a new harvest of resource cards, unleash a flurry of negotiations, and change the balance of the board, every turn engages all the players. "The secret of Catan is that you have to bargain and sometimes whine."'

In 1991, Klaus Teuber was well on his way to becoming one of the planet's hottest board game designers. Teuber (pronounced "TOY-burr"), a dental technician living with his wife and three kids in a white row house in Rossdorf, Germany, had created a game a few years earlier called Barbarossa and the Riddlemaster, a sort of ur-Cranium in which players mold figures out of modeling clay while their opponents try to guess what the sculptures represent. The game was a hit, and in 1988 it won the Spiel des Jahres prize—German board gaming's highest honor. Winning some obscure German award may not sound impressive, but in the board game world the Spiel des Jahres is, in fact, a very, very big deal. Germans, it turns out, are absolutely nuts about board games. More are sold per capita in Germany than anywhere else on earth.

Settlers of Catan, Siedlers

In web design, there are often times that you will have text to which you want to draw extra attention. We all know the power of Photoshop. So why not use it to

How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines

lines

Printed pages for your moleskine!!

Add pages to your moleskine... like fo' real y'all.

Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers--each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts.

Google muestra por primera vez sus servidores, de diseño propio.

I love the approach and the the fact it's unconventional and better - google servers revealed

funny

With the massive exodus towards online publishing, many people hardly reach for the newspaper these days. If there’s one thing I truly miss from the newspaper, it would be reading the comic strips. There’s something magical about comic strips that seems to lighten your day and make you feel good. There’s certainly something to be said about starting your day with a bit of humor. I figured that we’re so immersed in the Internet that it would be cool to compile a list of funny strips related to web design, the Internet and of course blogging. Take a few minutes from your busy day to relax, have some fun and see how many of these situations relate to you… :)

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to go into Section 508 or the Rehabilitation Act or any of the rest of that stuff. It’s all about politics and has nothing to do with what I’m going to talk about.”

The issues of accessibility are a daily reality for my family. For us, it’s not a political issue at all. Our oldest daughter, Ramona, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get around.

in which accessibility is about people, not checklists.

Accessibility is NOT a checklist. Accessibility is about usability.

小粒ピリリ。ブラウザは選ぶかも…なテクニック集。

Complex design techniques are often time-consuming and, well, complex. Some of these advanced effects can add plenty of depth to designs, but when used in the wrong place, they do little more than distract viewers from the project’s intended focus. These effects may be precisely what a design needs to have the impact it requires, but even in these cases, they should be complemented by simpler effects. Simple effects and techniques are the building blocks of today’s designs. For example, what good is a stellar lighting technique if you can’t decide which colors to use or which text-based effects to use in conjunction with the effect? With a “less is more” mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.

フォント探しに便利

フォントを扱ってるサイト。有料のみ？

便利なフォント検索サイトがOPEN! 3,000以上の日本語フォントからすぐに探せます。

GIMP is the favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. It is free and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux (the two big reasons for its popularity). It has a wide array

A few handy tips on making Gimp a bit more usable.

how to make GIMP behave like photoshop ... notes about plug ins, layers, etc.

In January we commissioned Ilya Birman, a Russian designer with passion for typography, to adapt his typography keyboard layout (which has become a common typographer's tool in Russia) to create a version for English-speaking designers,

Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now! | Freebies | Smashing Magazine

Very Cool.

very useful

I bet a bunch of you don't realize that we can create the illusion of shapes by using 100% CSS. By utilizing the border property in creative ways, we can make some really interesting polygons.

Every once in a while, we put on a showcase of wallpapers on this blog. Reason is because we want to bring up a small reminder - it has been a while since you last change your wallpaper and there are tons of really beautiful ones we’ve collected. Even if you think the current wallpaper is nice enough and there’s really no need for a change, it’s also good that you keep it bookmarked. They can be great inspirational source. This week we like to continue with a sequel, a combination of colourful spectrum wallpapers with some awesome mixtures of auroras. Here’s 26 Gorgeous Aurora and Colour Spectrum Wallpapers, full list after jump. Aurora Borealis This wallpaper pack included wallpapers in only widescreen resolutions: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200. Aurora A very simple, abstract / minimalistic wall created in CS3 Aurora Colors Based on RapidWeaver 4 wallpaper Realmac Magical Desktop Aurora like vista style A pack with aurora wallpaper like windows vista style. Wind -

9 Reasons Japanese Interactive Work Is Awesome | crackunit.com dica do Savone

Great digital creative. esp the addias running app.

interesting site that needs a bit of time

Typically, a mega menu is a single drop-down that appears on hover, shows all the options in one large panel, groups options into related categories, uses icons or other graphics to help the user.

megadropdown

Mega drop-downs are half-way between the two concepts and similar to the ribbon introduced in Microsoft Office 2007

here, we couldn’t find an

Nice website!

I know this is a bit old but I never did tag it. Thought you may all like to know.

kindle usability useit.com kindlekindle

Summary: good for linear material, such as novels, not good for non-linear material such as journals, newspapers, encyclopaedias and recipe books

Summary: Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content.

Jakob Nielsen's review of the Kindle 2. "Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content."

In this collection, you’ll find 40 high-quality and free WordPress themes handpicked from the vast amount of free themes out there on the web.

WordPress - the popular open source publishing platform - allows you to easily customize your installation with WordPress themes. In this collection, you'll find 40 high-quality and free WordPress themes handpicked from the vast amount of free themes out there on the web.

Looking for new Ideas and inspiration in the design industry? Here is a list of the 29 best web design blogs to subscribe to. The web design industry is always changing, so as a web designer, it is important to always be ahead of the curve. These blogs are always coming up with cutting edge new ideas and providing free tools for web designers such as wordpress themes, templates and icon designs. Follow them on RSS or check them out on Twitter.

Looking for new Ideas and inspiration in the design industry? Here is a list of the 29 best web design blogs to subscribe to.

Blogs com assuntos relevantes para o webdesign

Toxel.com - Design, Inspiration and Technology Blog

Cool :D

awesome painter - working on a serious of herself having sex with every us president amazing concept :)

Artists paints herself having sex with all the US presidents.

Hello & welcome to our first big showcase post in 2009. Today we want to bring you 99 kick ass websites on no specific topic. The showcased websites are listed in no particular order. If you would like your favorite websites to appear in one of our next inspirational posts, be sure to follow us on Twitter (@sharebrain) so you can send it to us. And now here comes the eye-candy: Visit fallingwhistles.com/love/ 002. http://fallingwhistles.com/love/ Visit devmarks.com/ 003. http://devmarks.com/ Visit favmovie.net/ 004. http://favmovie.net/ Visit www.89bytes.com 005. http://www.89bytes.com Visit umbrellatoday.com/ 006. http://umbrellatoday.com/ http://helvetireader.com/ 007. http:/helvetireader.com Visit www.rin-wendy.com 008. http://rin-wendy.com Visit jeffcannata.com/ 009. http://jeffcannata.com/ Back to Top Visit www.narfstuff.co.uk/ 010. http://www.narfstuff.co.uk/ Visit deanoakley.com/ 011. http://deanoakley.com/ http://www.mediedyret.no 012. http://www.mediedyret.no/ Vi

WordPress - the popular open source publishing platform - allows you to easily customize your installation with WordPress themes. In this collection, you'll find 40 high-quality and free WordPress themes handpicked from the vast amount of free themes out there on the web.

Being an OfficePOD user will bring a positive change to life. A chance to cut down on commuting, to be more productive, to spend more time at home but at the same time keep your work separate. A major way to getting a better balance into your life. (Será?)

The ability to work from home is a trend that is here to stay. Technology allows it, legislation permits it and employers often now encourage it. An OfficePOD provides a working environment that is separate to home life. The hassle free OfficePOD service deals with everything from site survey and installation through to customer services and POD relocation in the case of moving house or employer.

Unresolvable

Pretty amazing outdoor office furniture designed to help the environment.

设计教程

Ecrire pour naviguer

MSDOS

Portfolio diseño en MS2 (7)

Portfolio MS2

old school involvement. smarty pants

In this article I will guide you through the process of creating the identity & logo design for one of my recent clients, UKE, offering insights into not only the thought process behind creating the logo but also the creation of the logo itself. Also keep an eye out in the May edition of Layers magazine for a feature on the UKE web site design.

logo design from start to finish...gud one.......

How to design a logo.

Some Wordpress themes to try out

Solid list of 25 lesser known Free Wordpress Themes

Free Wordpress Templates... 2009 Free Wordpress Templates... 25 Free Wordpress Templates..Best Templates

Craftynest was launched by Monica Ewing in June 2008 to share practical and pretty DIY ideas for the home. Each craft is created with two goals in mind: that it's green and/or affordable.

Tutorials on how to improve your home.

Magnífico estudio, con un portafolio muy apañao. Me ha gustado mucho...

estudio diseño inspiracion

Portfolio of award winning web designer Lee Munroe. Specialising in creative web design and innovative web solutions for your business - 15 Beautiful Typography Inspired Websites

Web-kreation - Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel built with jQuery - http://web-kreation.com/index.php/tutorials/nice-clean-sliding-login-panel-built-with-jquery/

web design cheat sheets

A useful set of cheat sheets for web designers.

In this article, you will find ten excellent Flash components that will help you in building stunningly attractive, complex, and interactive data visuals. These components will help you create an assortment of graphs and charts to aid in presenting otherwise boring and stale numerical data.

きれいだ

Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS's framework. It's been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love. It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin', CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!

#tryout

サイトのレイアウトをして、HTML/CSS吐き出し AIR application

プレゼンテーションのデザインパターン

The newest webtrends map.. great work. (kris)

The fina beta of the web trend map, a fantastic work trying to explain how the web is distributed right now

mapas de tendências estilo metrô

25 Most Useful Blogs for Web Design & Development - Open Source Resources for Web Developers

Almost all of them are daily updated, and cover a wide range of topics including inspiration, design trends, tutorials, interviews, website showcase, programming techniques and resources.

As we see more and more businesses move their services online, and even more that begin their life on the Web, a greater need arises

design usability !!

construcción de paginas web para users

videos de socialmedia

great site for logo design inspiration, one color logo design inspiration

Showcase of Sports Websites

Sports Website Collection

This article showcases the most beautiful website designs from the North American sports industry, including ones for news, teams and leagues, sports apparel and more.

Dark Surreal Illustration

Sweet

some of this is beautiful photography, some of this is blah. but the beautiful is worth the blah.

We daily come across with so many photos some of them are good while some are not happening. Some photos are so ordinary that you

Here we are sharing photos that can boggle your mind. Some of the photos among them are perplexing and mystifying. So are you ready to get bewildered?

技術も大切だけど発想があればこそ、という事を再確認

matome

インテリア・雑貨を紹介しているステキなブログまとめ│雑貨ノート - オシャレな雑貨とインテリア

"I always thought that the main navigation would be one of the most important elements of a website. I couldn’t believe it, so I set off to look for minimalist websites that didn’t use navigation. Sure enough, I found plenty." -- Dustin Boston

Express Yourself in Pictures. Create, share, and zoom in complete freedom.

les 333 sites les plus influents....

A link's first 11 characters are the most important, their impact should not be squandered with bland, generic words.

... shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.

This kind of information is useful to me as background to my understanding of digital literacy. Soon I can note it via Diigo, but not yet.

»Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.«

vintage beer cans

Il set di birre vintage ritratte e raccolte da Lance Wilson

Photos de canettes de bière du monde entier.

Collection de 163 packshots de canettes de bière

jQuery Tips and Tricks Part 2! Obviously, one post is simply not enough. I found some performance tuning, element manipulations tips and tricks that I believe will able to help you develop a more effective and efficient jQuery script.

Tutorial voor het creëren van typografie graphic. Goede blog met Photoshop tutorials.

Creating a Typographic Wallpaper - Tutorial9 - http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/creating-a-typographic-wallpaper/

John Gruber on #iphone http://bit.ly/Gp4hX [from http://twitter.com/igeeo/statuses/1437949138]

"The problem is that while successful complex systems evolve from simple systems that work, not every simple system that works can support additional complexity. It’s not enough just to start simple, you have to start simple with a framework designed for future evolution and growth."

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

Here are 25 examples of Coming soon pages.

by Cathy Curtis posted on AIGA | the professional association for design website

Great website!!! Article is very instructive

Excellent guide to writing for the web from Cathy Curtis, a former staff writer for The LA Times.

"It struck me recently that the web has led me to develop a different way of writing—tighter, simpler, more transparent. The results, I believe, are greater clarity and persuasiveness, and a speedier, more user-friendly read."

Not so much a how to as a page of examples.

Questions the wisdom of allowing UI complexity of race cars trickling down to the consumer market. Wonder what fighter planes look like.

Gosh

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Augmented Reality

The Smart Grid integrates 21st century technology with the 20th century power grid. So GE can help you manage energy more efficiently than ever before.

12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials @ SmashingApps - http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/04/07/12-excellent-and-useful-design-process-tutorials.html

12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials

LittleDiggs - http://www.littlediggs.com/

Small spaces livable — 500 sq ft or smaller.

blog little homes

エンジニアにもわかる「ユーザーインターフェース設計」 (Yahoo! JAPAN Tech Blog)

Diseño de sitios web

Findings from the A LIST APART Survey, 2008

As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going?

Findings from one of the best non-profit web think-tanks - Stats on working in the web industry.

As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going? In 2008, 30,055 readers took part in the A List Apart Survey. Once more, data analysts Alan Brickman and Larry Yu crunched numbers this way and that. With a global recession in full swing as of December 2007, we were particularly interested to find out how financially and professionally secure web people felt, and whether there were discernible differences in the way people responded to questions about satisfaction and security in 2008, compared with 2007. This year we also improved our fact-finding on freelance and part-time web personnel. The more things change For 2008, instead of a downloadable (PDF) white paper, we decided to present our findings on the web. Which meant, in addition to compiling and analyzing data and

nice html + css version of graphs.

Some people care about the actual survey, me? I stare at how the tables were structured.

As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going? In 2008, 30,055 readers took part in the A List Apart Survey. Once more, data analysts Alan Brickman and Larry Yu crunched numbers this way and that. With a global recession in full swing as of December 2007, we were particularly interested to find out how financially and professionally secure web people felt, and whether there were discernible differences in the way people responded to questions about satisfaction and security in 2008, compared with 2007. This year we also improved our fact-finding on freelance and part-time web personnel.

アイコンまとめ

111 Free Icon Packs for Your Dock/Website

Here at mintywhite.com, we love Icon Packs. In this collection, I’ve picked 57 new packs and included 54 of my favorite packs already featured here on the site. Enjoy these packs and please feel free to suggest some more.

111 Free Icon Packs for Your Dock/Website Here at mintywhite.com, we love Icon Packs. In this collection, I've picked 57 new packs and included 54 of my favorite packs already featured here on the

The Best of Instructables Volume 1 Instructables is a place where artists, bicyclists, crafters, engineers, modders, co...

A three column liquid layout with no images, no JavaScript. Cross-browser & iPhone compatible

30 high-quality free fonts for professional designs!!!!

Even though you’ll have to pay for the best fonts, like Helvetica or Univers, the web is full of quality fonts that are perfectly suitable for professional design work. The fonts are classified to make the page easier to scan. Sans-serif fonts 1. Miso miso 30 high quality free fonts for professional designs 2. Quicksand quicksand 30 high quality free fonts for professional designs 3. Com4t Fine Regular com4t fine regular 4. Alte Haas Grotesk alte haas grotesk 5. Comfortaa comfortaa 30 high quality free fonts for professional designs 6. Museo Sans museo sans 7. 078MKSD Medium Condensed 078mksd medium condensed 8. Mayberry Pro Semi-Bold mayberry 30 high quality free fonts for professional designs 9. SpecialK specialk 30 high quality free fonts for professional designs Semi-Serif fonts 10. Museo Semi-Serif museo semi-serif 11. Gauntlet gauntlet 30 high quality free fonts for professional designs 12. Fertigo Pro fertigo pro 13. Inconsolata inconsolata 30 high quality free font

30 fonts

Even though you'll have to pay for the best fonts, like Helvetica or Univers, the web is full of quality fonts that are perfectly suitable for professional

Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0)

Some basic web marketing rules

Erklärt das Konzept des "Social Objects" sehr anschaulich - einem Design Paradigma für funktionierende soziale Anwendungen

"socialize your product online"

350+ Great CSS Tools and Techniques

Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. But wait! Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind up in div hell.

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to... Hell? | CSS | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/08/from-table-hell-to-div-hell/

なんでもかんでもdivで囲んだ時期、僕にもありました　いまでは必要なときにはtableをレイアウトに使います（例：内容に合わせてブロック要素の幅を自動的に伸縮したい）　もちろんスクリプトを使えばtableに頼らなくても簡単に解決できますが、案件によってはスクリプトフリーにしたいこともあるのです

20 Excellent Mootools Techniques for Rich User Interface | DevSnippets - http://devsnippets.com/reviews/20-excellent-mootools-script-for-rich-user-interface.html

20 Excellent Mootools Techniques for Rich User Interface

Sliding navigation

tabbing

In this article, we explore the strengths of jQuery in letting web developers create impressive client-side-based user interface components.

Some J Query shizzle

Hier zit daadwerkelijk hier en daar wat moois tussen.

BOX TUTORIAIS

Nature Brushes for Photoshop

Brushes for Photoshop

Questions to stablish some work references for projects.

Awesome Icon search engines

Free Clipart!

10 Websites with Completely Free Vectors

This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed. Web Injection is an Icon Pack for webmasters and web developers created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9. The set includes 26 stylish icons designed by Midtone Design Studio. Each icon is a .png at 48×48px. The Icons were tediously hand crafted by designer Jonatan Castro Fernández.

There is something elegant about simply working within the confines of a specific ruleset and achieving what you set out to do. Horizontally centered menus without css hacks.

Must read: RT @boagworld: the Web Designer Depot has released my article '5 Things Your Clients Should Know' (http://tinyurl.com/clyusu) [from http://twitter.com/everything_web/statuses/1407774725]

This is not a criticism of clients, however. There is so little information that clearly defines their role. Sure, there is no shortage of material on usability, accessibility, online marketing and copywriting, but who has the time to read all of it? The problem is that the client does need to have a very broad understanding (certainly more than can be communicated in a single article), however I have found that understanding certain key issues can make an enormous difference to the efficiency of a client. What follows is a list of the 5 things that I believe will have the biggest impact on a client’s site. At least they should, if the client understands them and chooses to implement them.

40 fine logos from smashing mag

Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

News scroller

i find it so amazing that people can design fonts. my brain just doesn't work to that level of precision.

I remember clearly the day I was waiting for the 6 train at 33rd Street and Park Avenue in New York. I had taken pictures of type on the street for some time, but there was something here that caught my eye. There was a plastic sign on a door with letters and numbers routed out of plastic, and I noticed a couple of characters in particular: the way the 8 curved back into itself, the charming tail of the a. And then I realized that the lowercase e’s were all different. This had been done by hand and therefore wasn’t an existing typeface. I knew then that I could actually make this into a font.

Here's a captivating, personal article on I Love Typography about the design process of Jeremy Mickel's first commercially available typeface.

great typography article, about making your first font.

Look at the bottom for a list of USEFUl links. Too lazy to bookmark them all so just bookmarking this one post ...yeah, I know

There are many ways to design a navigation menu - and since almost all websites have some form of navigation - designers have to push their creative limits to build one that's remarkable and outstanding. In this article, you'll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.

There are many ways to design a navigation menu - and since almost all websites have some form of navigation - designers have to push their creative limits to build one that&#39;s remarkable and outstanding. In this article, you&#39;ll find a showcase of

The Art of CSS Positioning Warm welcomes to our very first guest poster Rob MacKay! CSS Positioning is one thing I used to struggle with, hopefully I can help you understand how positioning works and what it’s affected by, and iron out some of those kinks.

etween browsers where elements vanish, don’t show or are a few pixels out of alignment, it’s normally because you are guilty of using margin and padding for positioning

CSS Positioning is one thing I used to struggle with, hopefully I can help you understand how positioning works and what it’s affected by, and iron out some of those kinks.

The Art of CSS Positioning

Combining Cufón and @font-face

The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few years, resulting in rich and responsive user interface. AJAX, javascript and CSS are widely used to offer users the dynamic interaction that they have come to expect from advanced, sophisticated, professional solutions. There’s a lot of powerful interactivity you can bring to your site to spice up just about any web page using one of the most powerful and modular javascript libraries—MooTools! It’s important to note that small and useful features can cleverly deal with hiding and showing important information in non-traditional ways. Today, we will have a look at 20 creative techniques using MooTools javascript framework for rich UI in modern day websites.

news site

wordpress video - wordpress plugin for integrated video on video blogs, and video tools

лекции в москве расписание

Лекции и мастер-классы в Москве

Всякие бесплатные лекции и экскурсии куда можно сходить

Inspiration logos

As logo designer You can often find moments, when You cannot think of anything good, but then such inspirational like this can become very handy. There are a lot of logo showcase sites You can inspire from and usually those sites list also all logo on popular categories, so You can see which logos and actually why there are so popular, sometimes artists even add their logo creation workflow there, allowing us to see what’s really happening behind the scene. OK, now to the post - I found together 25 logo showcase, portfolio sites and even few blogs which dedicate their life to help You become an expert as logo designer. Enjoy!

10 dicas de programação nos arquivos .PHP do Wordpress.

Como diseñar tu propio tema en WP

Joomla is one of the most powerful, robust and feature-rich content management systems out there. Besides being open-source, Joomla is capable of some really stunning

Draw Diagrams & Designs Online

Draw Diagrams & Designs Online from Flowcharts to Computer Networks. Easy, Collaborative and Smart. Easy and Intuitive Online Diagram Tool Smart user interface, quick start templates Access anywhere Draw Diagrams & Designs right in your browser. No Software Downloads. No Installs. Collaborate on online diagrams. Create, Share and Publish diagrams online. Large email attachments are history Intelligent objects speed up designs Automatic validation checks, smart connectors and much more Data powered diagrams Capture data on your diagrams. No more back and forth between multiple tools. Creately Screenshot Signup for the beta or Take the tour Draw and design almost anything with our online diagram tool. Try it Free Business Diagrams * Process Flow (BPMN) * Flowcharts * Mind Maps * SWOT Diagrams * Organizational Chart User Interface Design * Wireframe for Website * UI Mockup Wireframe * Mockup Screens * Desktop Software Mockup Software & System

Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams

Easy and Intuitive Diagram Tool Smart user interface, quick start templates Access anywhere Draw Diagrams & Designs right in your browser. No Software Downloads. No Installs.

referências!

Chirag Mehta - Personal Web Log - 'blog - Chime Softwares - Indian Blogger live from Saint Petersburg, Florida, St. Pete, FL

Color picker - the cool part is the inclusion of a long list of color names and the 'closest' named color from the list is shown against your color. You can also pick a color by name and it will display.

In this showcase, you'll see some of the best web designs that involve the use of paper elements and textures - for your inspiration.

What are some of your favorite drawing tools (pens, pencils, markers, drawing tablet, all of the above)? I love pens

entrevistas art ferramentas

The Tools Artists Use interviews artists from a variety of disciplines to highlight the tools and materials used in creating their art.

para ilustradores... em ingles

Windows PC向けに無償でダウンロード

物理シミューレータ使ってるのかな? こんなふうになると、デスクトップの使い方が変わるかな?もはやデスクトップ(机の上)ではないが。

結構前からデモは見てた。買い換えたら入れてみようなぁ～。

A friend of mine who happens to be a famous designer (this person shall remain nameless) said something not long ago about one of my projects that really pissed me off. At the time, I objected to this person’s tone and delivery, thinking it inappropriate. After all, we’re friends! But given some distance from the event, I realize now that, the formal qualities of the remarks aside, this person had a point. They weren’t necessarily right, mind you, but there was a legitimate criticism at the core, to which I should have paid attention. In retrospect I realize that getting hot and bothered about this person’s tone said something much less flattering about me than about the person.

The notion of speaking openly, honestly and objectively about work is inherent to learning how to be a better X...."This is why art, film and architecture have achieved such great heights in our society: those art forms are economically robust enough to support a vibrant critical class."

"To put a finer point on it: are we being honest with one another?" - also designer zu designern

The importance of honest criticism (in every profession).

glow colors

Colorful And Inspiring Examples Of High Definition Wallpapers @ SmashingApps

クオリティ高め

有料のフォントにはデザインの美しいものが多く揃っていますが、無料でダウンロードできるフリーフォントでも洗練されたデザインのものは多くあり、中には商用で使うことが可能で、使い勝手も良いものがあったりします。 基本的にアルファベットのみとなりますが、ここぞというときのインパクトや、全体の雰囲気をまとめておきたいときなどの使える良いフォントが多くあります。

ライセンスについて詳しく書いてあるのが親切。

無料でダウンロードできる洗練されたフリーフォントあれこれ

Icons and resources for iPhone application developers.

TextboxList turns normal textboxes into a widget which can be navigated with the keyboard, effectively turning your input into a “list” of items that can be easily deleted. It comes with an official Autocomplete plugin.

Mootools multiple tags entry in input field

new TextboxList('form_tags_input

autosuggest, tags Apple Mail style

タグなどの入力に

Changing attitudes towards work.

v swissmiss

nice list. take a look when you are not inspired.

Coloca caption nas imagens de forma animada e interativa.

Sliding Boxes and Captions with JQuery

jquery 图片 信息

Nice sliding boxes to create interactive captions

Finding the perfect font can be done through trial and error, or you can make your choices based upon the different moods certain fonts help bring to a design

Quality is a word that a lot of people like to use when describing their web design services. But what is quality, how do you know if a design is quality or not. Well, I think that there’s quite a few ways to spot quality within web designs. Once you can see just what goes into making a quality web design, you can use the techniques to perfect your own style. I’ve put together a few pointers, and collected some examples to explain just how I look for quality within a website design.

Back again with websites that will help designers and other people find free stock photography,this will definitely save your time and money. Photos contained in these sites are sorted in a handful of categories and subcategories which will make your life easier. Read the license on each site before using any of the photos, even though photos can be download for free there are some copyright issues for using it.

If you’re a twitter addict this is the perfect post for you, these twitter icons are essential for web designers, bloggers, and graphic designers. This is a great compilation of 75 superb twitter icons, which can be used for your website and even used to help customize your personal twitter profile background.

just information let start

Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring and elegant. If you are looking to add some creativity and inspiration to your life, you probably need a desktop wallpaper that inspires you to create something creative and original. Today we present 40 stunning wallpapers created by some hard-working and dedicated designers. In this post we present creative desktop wallpapers related to art, photoshop, wallpapers-illustrations, abstract design and other great types of wallpapers including nature and amazing Video Game Remake Wallpapers. They are definitely worth a look.

title says it all.

As a result of this, social networks should - I say should because not every social network does this - put greater emphasis on usability over, say, a corporate website. Don’t get me wrong, usability is important everywhere you go on the web, but the nature of a social network’s operation makes usability especially important. This perspective guided my thinking during the redesign of the Daily Challenge beta 2.0 website. Many forks in the road were put to rest at the hands of basic usability principles that dictated righter from wronger (sometimes there was no strictly right or wrong answer). These are the principles that I want to share with you in the following case study of how usability can be applied to a social network

Glowing Light designs

18 Photoshop Brushes To Lighten Professional Designs - TZ - http://www.tutzone.org/2009/04/18-photoshop-brushes-to-lighten.html

brushes brush

Uns wallpapers bacanas

35 Gorgeous Black Wallpapers

Inspiration Brushes Design Web WebDesign

interesting collection

This article presents further principles and rules that will help your site convert. Among other things, we cover A/B testing, footnotes, testimonials, feature lists, the sign-up process and typography.

7 useful tips the help your site convert. A great article from Smashing Magazine.

各国の伝統色　日本、アメリカ、ヨーロッパ、ギリシャ、フランスなど

いろいろ

I hate trying to center DIVs. Stupid CSS.

como centrar divs en una pagina

"Centering a div horizontally and vertically has always been a pain for CSS. Not any more! With this trick, you can create a centered block in no time."

Career evolution

Great cheat sheets for some of the key areas in dreamweaver, css, javascript, mysql, python... etc

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

Técnicas para darle vida las plantillas de WordPress

wordpress jquery techniques

DevSnippets

Lista com sites úteis para buscar referências de dsign web.

typographyに特化したffffound的サービス。by iLT

type- and typography-related images, an FFFFound for strictly type-related content

This showcase should serve as a great reference for professional designers looking for some fresh, beautiful typefaces for their corporate projects.

Good reference material on UIs. It's an often overlooked aspect to good design.

Tips and insights into good design and usability.

Creepy illustration

OMG I'm such a failure because I don't have a "cool" business card.

Love this guy. He adds a third dimension to the discussion on business cards and make the arguments in the book (and film) American Psycho look... eggshell white.

Cue music. I took me 25 years to make this card. What do you do guaranteed?

"It doesn't belong in a Rolodex, because it doesn't FIT in a Rolodex!"

google maps hack

blaubo design　伊野亘輝　GoogleMapsでportfolio

Design

Everybody likes cartoon characters. They make us happy and keep our mind tension-free. We present here beautiful and mind-blowing Cartoon Illustration Tutorials for you. This

some really awesome vector illustration tips

Freelance Web Developer

A Visual Guide to Where Your Tax Dollars Go Interesting, detailed poster. Obama's budget requests.

Web page button designs

Button Design Showcase

Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn't often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we'll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors. If you enjoying seeing great examples of button design, you may also like: 50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus 50 Gorgeous Navigation Menus - Part 2 GoodBarry

Make a startpage with your favorite links and see right when they're updated.

Página de bookmarks útil para usar como startup page

Make a startpage with your favorite links and see right when they're updated

Following yesterday’s business card giveaway kick-off, I thought it would be appropriate to show some more beautiful cards from Card Observer. This time we’re going to look at those cards that are both minimal in color scheme and design elements. This minimalism in design is what makes these business cards so beautiful and effective. If you want to see more details about the cards, just click on the images.

Decorative tape. The new site is stocked with stylish sticky products. Taping up boxes with birds, mod patterns, and lace adds a bit of pleasantry to moving. Snowflakes, trees, and tinsel spruce up boring old cardboard around the holidays. And rolls of cheery mailing labels and envelope wraparounds make trips to the post office less of a chore. The cute stuff doubles as a decorative touch to craft projects (picture frames, headbands) and baked goods (jam jars, cookie tins).

バナー広告をクラウドソーシング。

これはすごいね、使ってみようかな

a load of articles to help with the current climate - whatever that is

Guia Visual de Sites

LINKS PARA TODAS AS AGENCIAS

Guia de todas as agências brasileiras.

Great strides have been made towards teaching web development, but what about design? The personal web design degree is an open edu

Great strides have been made towards teaching web development, but what about design? The personal web design degree is an open education curriculum that teaches both beginning web designers and seasoned print designers design within the context of the web.

Personal Web Design Degree

This guy seems awesome! Look how he promotes himself. Good for resumes.

Cool Shit

Great apps, clever site, funny guy.

blender tutorial

こんなのがテクニックとかどんだけ

web design tips

時々みなおすべき

サイト例多し。

use asap

145 new quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web

"tagged cheat sheet links"

Type-based logos

Features jeremycowart.com as an example of a site that uses unique flash techniques.

15 Unique Flash Gallery Techniques

"Do you want the people visiting this site to notice it?"

Great example of what sort of site a client would need.

De eerste vraag die een designer aan een klant moet stellen is, volgens Seth, "Wil je dat je site opvalt?" En dat is, hoe vreemd het ook klinkt een goede vraag die verschillend beantwoord kan worden.

Not for nothing, but I've been saying this for years.

View more at http://www.philips.co.uk/cinema

really cool looping single instant in time that zooms around like bullet time and inspired by Dark Knight Batman with the joker type clown masks

minisite for Philips' 21:9 TV, 'Single' tracking shot

twitshirt this!

Twitshirt

One of the great things about using WordPress as a content management system is the huge community of users and all of the resources that are available. While all plugins could be used by theme developers, the ones featured in this post have features that can be especially helpful for various aspects of theme development.

12 WordPress Plugins for Theme Development

Temų demonstravimo įskiepiai

A great list of plugins for people developing (or just hacking up) Wordpress themes.

ACTIVISM | ART | ASSOCIATIONS | AUTOMOTIVE | BANKING/BILL PAYING | BEAUTY AND COSMETICS | BEST COPY/WRITING | BEST HOME/WELCOME PAGE | BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE | BEST PRACTICES | BEST USE OF ANIMATION OR MOTION GRAPHICS | BEST USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY | BEST USE OF TYPOGRAPHY | BEST USE OF VIDEO OR MOVING IMAGE | BEST VISUAL DESIGN - AESTHETIC | BEST VISUAL DESIGN - FUNCTION | BLOG - BUSINESS | BLOG - CULTURE/PERSONAL | BLOG - POLITICAL | BROADBAND | CELEBRITY/FAN | CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS NONPROFIT | COMMUNITY | CONSUMER ELECTRONICS | CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS | CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS | EDUCATION | EMPLOYMENT | EVENTS | FAMILY/PARENTING | FASHION | FINANCIAL SERVICES | FOOD AND BEVERAGE | GAMES | GAMES-RELATED | GOVERNMENT | GUIDES/RATINGS/REVIEWS | HEALTH | HUMOR | INSURANCE | IT HARDWARE/SOFTWARE | LAW | LIFESTYLE | MAGAZINE | MOVIE AND FILM | MUSIC | NETART | NEWS | NEWSPAPER | PERSONA

Webby Awards Cycle 13.

16+ Tech-Tool/Tip that will Make you a Better Web Designer and Blogger

Looking for stock photos? Check this post for oodles of resources.

Photogs, take note.

Mobile UI design resources, patterns, devices, and so forth.

I wrote this article for Smashing Magazine and it was published last Friday on their site. I'm re-publishing it here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy.

Good flash game

This flash game combines platforming, adventure, puzzle and arcade style elements. 14 levels of gameplay.

Another highly-anticipated-by-me game launch announcement! This letter is a little shorter, though. From my inbox: "The Scarygirl game is officially online and free to play! Visit http://www.scarygirl.com/ ¶ "Please spread the word and enjoy"

We recently compiled a article on Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs, and in response to reader requests, we'll compiling the new list here with more fresh free , instantShift.com is the light chronicle moments of knowledge, created as world moving forward.

We recently compiled a article on Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs, and in response to reader requests, we’ll compiling the new list here with more fresh free typefaces. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Type is combined with negative space, graphic elements and pictures, forming relationships and dialog between words and images as some say that web design without typography is like an Apple pie without a Apple. This article showcases the Most Beautiful and Fresh Free Fonts to inspire and encourage good typography selection in web design. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. Just make sure to read the license agree

Even better, there are a bunch of links at the bottom for similar resources.

As a designer, I think we all have experienced the hard time of finding new ideas and inspirations.

Artigo, encontrando inspiração

Photoshop用グラデーションまとめ

In Photoshop, the gradient tool is one of the most useful especially when creating background, icons, buttons for the web and many other things. Today, let’s have a simple step by step tutorial on how to maximize the use of this Photoshop tool. At the end of this post, you well find plenty of resources that you can download and use for free in your designs. The gradient tool is grouped with the Pain Bucket Tool in the Tools palette usually located on the left side of the screen. And since gradient tool is not the default tool displayed in Photoshop, you have may either use the mouse or first press G and then Shift+G to alternate between the paint bucket tool (which is the default tool displayed) and the gradient tool. HOW TO ACCESS THE GRADIENT TOOL IN THE TOOLS PALETTE: Once the gradient tool is selected, an option bar will appear, which then offer you with options to make a new gradient, customize an existing gradient preset or upload more gradient presets to Photoshop. THE GRADI

Example

There’s nothing cooler than designing artwork for a skateboard deck! Follow this walkthrough in Adobe Illustrator to create your own vibrant and stunning vector artwork using geometric lines, shapes and a perfect colour scheme. The result is an awesome deck design ready for wall hanging, or hooking up with trucks and wheels for a session on the street! Skateboard Deck Design Due to the size of skateboard decks it’s much easier on your RAM producing your designs in vector. 33×9inch Photoshop files at 300dpi can soon eat up some memory! Therefore start work by opening up Adobe Illustrator. Depending where your design is being produced the exact board shape can vary slightly, but on average a common 7 ½ inch deck will require artwork at around 33×9inches in size. Head over to ColourLovers.com for some inspiration for a colour palette for the design, the choice here is a crucial part of the process. I’ve picked out this cool selection called brr!!!gght. Draw a rectangle across the who

縦スクロール

waterfall, with interactive elements

Manual of Errorsの人が音つくってるみたい。 モーションのパターンとリズム感、 コラージュ感とか。

BGMも気持ちいい

最後まで行くと・・・・

Tropicana's rebranding debacle did more than create a customer-relations fiasco. It hit the brand in the wallet.

a crowd sourcing site, in beta, which aims to answer tricky and interesting questions, so getting a feel for the view of the crowd. useful thing to try and do, very odd site design, unfriendly and unclear but arty!! not tried it but watch this space....

navigationing!

Herman Millers ThoughtPile application, bundling user generated ideas on new topics every day.

Every graphic designer eventually finds themselves facing this client request. You’ve designed a newsletter layout in Adobe InDesign. The client loves it, but they want a template in Microsoft Word they can edit themselves. CreativeTechs happens to be located in Seattle, just across the lake from the Redmond campus of Microsoft. Needless to say, we get this question a LOT from various graphic designers in our area. There isn’t a perfect solution, but here is a technique that does a surprisingly good job. Conversion Trick: InDesign-to-PDF, then PDF-to-Word. Save your InDesign file as a PDF. Then use a utility to convert that PDF to a Word document (this technique also works with QuarkXPress layouts). While there are many PDF-to-Word converters, here is a service (still in beta) that does a remarkably good job maintaining the layout and editability of the resulting Word files: Link: Online PDF-to-Word Converter (beta) You’ll have to clean up the resulting Word file, but I’ve been p

PDF to Word

convert pdf to word

Ethan follows up his Fluid Grids article with an equally excellent piece on resizing images.

Dynamically scale images with the rest of fluid layouts.

Comprehensive article about using fluid images and details about appropriate ways to achieve this.

Did the Diesel Meat puppet campaign and make other strangeness

video design agency inspiration advertising

Estudio de creativos que realizan vídeo, fotografía, performance, etc... Curiosa intro de cuerpos desnudos flotando en el vacío.

productora chevere

This intro is incredible. Naked folks floating through air, and I'm not normally into that.

Interesting nav and full screen video

ウェブデザイナーなら覚えておいて損はないはず。

COMO JA DITO... TUTOS

Retro Rainbow Tutorials and Design Showcase | Design Showcase, Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

Rainbow Tutorials and Design Showcase

สอนทำรุ้งแบบย้อนยุค

Ideas for patterned and decorated backgrounds.

Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen.

Show this to Danny at work.

Design To Sell Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert

1. Subliminal Suggestion; 2. Prevent Choice Paralysis; 3. Show The Product; 4. Let People Try It; 5. AIDA; 6. Guide attention; 7. Always Provide Next Actions; 8. The Gutenberg rule

Whether it’s those little Twitter birds, social media or website icons, we all love and need them from time to time. Over the past several months many other blogs have compiled their list of website, social media, Twitter and other icons, so in case you missed them here is the motherload collection!

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Spoonfed Design is a blog for designers and developers to get inspired, learn new techniques, and pick up new ideas or resources.

A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email

100+ Massive Wordpress Tutorial Collection

In this article tripwire magazine provides one of the most comprehensive compilations of Tutorials for Wordpress. The article is mainly focused on version 2.7+ but most resources will be relevant for earlier versions as well. Wordpress is without discussion one of the most popular blogging and publishing platforms ever. Mastering both simple and advanced Wordpress techniques will enable you to create blog solutions that are highly accessible and attractive to your target audience. Read on and take control over Wordpress.

In this article tripwire magazine provides one of the most comprehensive compilations of Tutorials for Wordpress

"If you love [Comic Sans], you don't know much about typography," Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, "if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby." Seriously.

Retour sur la font la plus haïe de tous les temps.

"If you love it, you don't know much about typography," Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, "if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby."

the story behind Comic Sans...

The ubiquitous, bubbly typeface has spawned a Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web.

I've never been a fan of Comic Sans, and used to cringe when my friend James would use it for research papers in graduate school. For that kind of work, I'll go with Palatino in LaTeX.

40+ Stylish and Trendy Icon Sets

hand drawing a UI

Simple concise flexible approach to drafting UI with pen and paper.

Beautiful!

1337!!!

The main point of this plug-in is to make an easy-to-use, simple and fast plug-in to create effect when you switch between images. Minimize the arguments you need to input and still give some decent effects.

interesting ;)

Infográfico

Bem interessante.

50+ Sources To Download High

This article is about some struggles in the european stock market. on monday the european stocks ended sharply. european optimists are saying that the global stock markets are doing well.

guide to understand background

Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed well, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen. In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals.

design gráfico, tipografia

WILLOW - Graphic Designers based in Belfast.

slide show about designing interaction.

You know you want to...

By Will-Wright

ウィルライトがあかすシムシティ

Invite only ad network

pretty good targeted advertising for early adopters

5 Simple Tricks To Bring Light and Shadow Into Your Designs

13 Photoshop CS4 Video Tutorials for Learning New Features | Web Design Ledger - http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/13-photoshop-cs4-video-tutorials-for-learning-new-features

If you’re like me, sometimes you are so busy with projects that you fail to take time to familiarize yourself with the new features of upgraded software. Since Photoshop is the design tool of choice for many web designers, and since CS4 hasn’t been out very long, I’ve decided to round up some useful video tutorials that demonstrate some of it’s new features.

30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers - http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/30-creative-illustrative-website-headers/

Great headers for blogs, sites, etc

Great article about how good design really works

We’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.

Text Web Design

print!

Web Design

CSS has a property called vertical align. It can be a bit confusing when you first learn about it, so I thought we could go through it’s use a little bit. The basic usage is like this:

design inspiration and tutorials Brushes, Fonts and Icons

Some time ago I've posted a bunch of links to CSS tips and tricks. That day, one of our reads requested a post on design resources, and I just had to post some awesome links that will make designing much more fun for you.

Once more, I went thru my Delicous and found some great stuff I had saved there. Today I'm listing some Photoshop Brushes, Fonts and Icons. Probably next week, the next post on this brief series will be textures, photoshop actions and website templates. I hope you you enjoy these and just wait until next week for more!!

Great collection of backgrounds, fonts and icons for your next design project.

How to make a story work for you

Why is the gang-initiation tale so irresistible to pass on? Notice a few things about the idea. It's emotional -- in fact, if you believe it, it's terrifying. The French psychologist Bernard Rimé has found that people almost compulsively share emotional experiences (both positive and negative), and the more intense the emotion, the more likely they are to talk about it. There's another emotional angle: When someone shares this legend with you, they feel like they're doing a public service. They might believe they're saving your life. And that's the second trait of viral ideas. It's often a small favor: "Hey, it's Free Breakfast Day at Denny's!" or "Dude, have you seen the video of that David kid who was drugged up after his dentist visit?" It feels good to save our friends money, or del

Presentations, videos, photos

Sehr inspirierende Liste volle Typo-Layouts.

In print design, typography is one of the more crucial aspects. Typography is essential the practice of organizing, arranging, and modifying type. The typography techniques uesed in print has a direct impact on how the reader is able to receive the image. In print, typography doesn’t have to be plain and boring. It can be beautiful, creative, and colorful. There are a number of ways to liven up typography, such as creative and original layouts, using color variations, use of fancy fonts, and much more.

Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

slowsdown pitch of audio so you can hear it better

Music editing program

nice app for slowing down songs, looping them, and/or changing pitch

This post is a part for dzineblog’s interface design inspiration series, the series which focuses on inspiration on graphic user interface designs that will help you in enhancing your interface design skills.

* Type * Type Reviews * Type Books * Type Commentary

Like just about everybody else, I'm loving it.

Jeffrey Zeldman “Taking Your Talent to the Web” の全文PDFを無料配布。

I wrote this book in 2001 for print designers whose clients want websites, print art directors who’d like to move into full–time web and interaction design, homepage creators who are ready to turn pro, and professionals who seek to deepen their web skills and understanding.

Jeffrey Zeldman'in kitabını indirin

provides a good explanation of frontend web development

Front end

[transcript: http://ericmiraglia.com/blog/?p=181 ] This YUI Theater entry captures one of the courses Nate has taught at Yahoo, "Professional Frontend Engineering." It covers the foundations of the discipline, some of its core ideas, and...

table data visualisating

Paper prototyping is a great way for designers to plan sites. Still, many struggle with bringing their sketches to Photoshop. Here are 4 tips to help that transition.

Técnicas e exemplos de rascunhos de layout de sites em papel

typographic logos

รวมเวบไซต์สวยๆที่ใช้ jquery

Exemplos de jQuery

abSwitch is a tab/slider plugin for jQuery

tabSwitch is a tab/slider plugin for jQuery - Contenido swapeable

always nice to keep these around for inspiration on new designs

best fonts. Doesn't hurt that the site itself is easy on the eyes

こういうの好き。

写真の切り取り方。7番目の写真は足尾？

Very simplistic javascript-based portfolio site. Worth investigating its mechanics.

portfolio design

Graphic design studio based in Amsterdam

bonzão, link do Adriel

Nice body of work.

Real Estate Website Designs

The Disturbing Beauty Of Oversaturated Pictures and Lomography

“Lomography” is a term quite unknown to most of us, but many practice it. The name was inspired and derived from the Russian “LOMO” cameras.

via delicious home popular

ms increasingly obvious that it will. Aided by a new generation of sophisticated startups, ever cheaper creative tools and

This several weeks old, but still of interest. If you're a designer or design you student you should definitely read it.

ing industries-the spoils g

something for nothing?

無料アイコン

Your website’s header makes an immediate impact on your user so it’s important to get it right. Think about what you’re trying to achieve, what’s the first thing you want to tell your users when they visit your site, what will intrigue them and get them to read further? A header gives you room to play and be creative, especially on the homepage, and there are a number of techniques you can use to connect with your user.

Progressive Enhancement is a powerful methodology that allows Web developers to concentrate on building the best possible websites while balancing the issues inherent in those websites being accessed by multiple unknown user-agents. Progressive Enhancement (PE) is the principle of starting with a rock-solid foundation and then adding enhancements to it if you know certain visiting user-agents can handle the improved experience.

Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Plug-Ins

Grid System Generator (v0.94) | Create valid css / xhtml grid systems

Pequeno sistema onlne que cria grids com css e xhtml válidados

30 Sites For Fantastic, Free Fonts

Dynamic web fonts are coming. Actually they’re already here, but most of Our People haven’t noticed yet. But they will, and that’s going to be a huge boon to somebody.

The more I read about embedded web fonts, the more I crystalize my thinking. Take, for example, this latest “A List Apart” article where Jeffrey Zeldman interviews David Berlow: Zeldman: Let me put it another way. I want to use your ITC Franklin in a site I’m designing, but I’m not willing to violate my end user licensing agreement. How do we resolve this impasse, from your perspective? Berlow: The next step is for those who control the font format(s) to define and document a permissions table to be added with all due haste to the OpenType, CoolType, TrueType, and FreeType formats. … Zeldman: How can type designers and web designers work together to persuade the engineers who control the formats to modify the code to include a permissions table? Berlow: [W]eb designers flat-out refused to part with real type, which has filled the web with type as graphic files, scaring the bejesus out of a lot of engineering people. … How important dynamically rendered type is to de

Your Fonts are superior to Our Fonts in every conceivable way, except one: WE CAN’T FUCKING USE THEM

Mr. Pilgrim at his best :)

business card

There's a fun job.

There a lot of space tutorials out there some are better than others, i have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped. I tried to be as varied as possible so there are tutorials for creating planets, stars, nebulas and atmospheric type gasses. The great thing is that they lay down the building blocks to experiment and create you own stunning universe. Gas bursts and Atmosphere This tutorial shows you how to create some great gas explosions coming from the planets atmosphere with some pretty simple tools, yet looks stunning space-atmosphere Realistic Star fields Create realistic star fields, the trick with this one is to be totally random and keep building up your layers the end result will speak for it self, with an image that looks like its evolving. realistic-starfield Simple Star fields Create simple yet affective star fields in 8 easy steps. simple-starfield Realistic

There a lot of space tutorials out there some are better than others, i have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped.

Inspired by the 30+ Weirdest Animal Photo Manipulations, I made a list of Photoshop Tutorials for you to learn how to make your own photo manipulation. Here is a 30+ Most Wanted Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop to help you enhance more techniques on manipulating images. There will be a Part II on this showcase so make sure to watch out for it. How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation pho1 On this tutorial, you’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. Alien Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial pho2 Turn a woman into an alien by combining two photos. This tutorial will teach you several photo manipulation techniques for creating scary photo manipulations. Landscape photo manipulation pho3 In this tutorial,you will learn how to create your unique wallpapers using photo manipulation.Using

CSS Illustrated | CSS Gallery Showcasing Illustrated Web Design

CSS Gallery Showcasing Illustrated Web Design

Two links to Berkun in one day! But there is a great axiom contained within: "Requirements is not Design."

The one book anyone working on requirements needs to read is Exploring Requirements by Gerald Weinberg. It points out most of the stupidity that goes on, explains avoidance tactics, and clearly expresses how requirements are part of the design process - that good problem solving techniques can quickly make your requirements documents better than ever.

Here’s a requirements list: Make a $5 car that goes 500 miles per hour, weighs 10 lbs, and is invisible. Those are very clear requirements. They’re also impossible.

"I don’t want an engineer working on something s/he thinks is stupid. How I can expect them to do good work on something they find stupid?"

1: Requirements is not Design. 2: Too Many Cooks. I like Berkun.

(1) Requirements may be impossible to implement. (2) Requirements writing is hard when no single person has the knowledge and authority.

Let's look closely at a crucial and time-saving product for designers called Adobe Kuler. We’ll learn to explore, create and share color themes using the

介绍了kuler的用法

Come usare Adobe Kuler

usando o kuler da adobe

Wallpapers para Ubuntu

"Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I've spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. These are the results of my findings limited within the state of Victoria, Australia." Via Subtraction

Google Maps Typography

Rhett Dashwood

Google typography

googlemap typography

natural formations of letters

Now, I know my ABCs, and have a rudimentary awareness of various Victorian landmarks.

Cool Pictures | Cool Stuff | Cool Videos: Cool Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers - http://www.collthings.co.uk/2009/03/cool-high-quality-wallpapers.html

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This website is a placeholder for Notimoo sample demos. Notimoo is a Mootools plugin for displaying Growl style notifications to your web visitors. Demo 1 Run this code // First of all I create a Notimoo instance with default configuration var notimooManager = new Notimoo(); // Showing a simple notification notimooManager.show({ title: 'Testing notification', message: 'This is a sample notitication showing how easy is to use Notimoo.' }); // Showing a notification that does not disappear. notimooManager.show({ title: 'Testing notification', message: 'This notification will not disapper on its own. You must click on it to close.', sticky: true }); // Notification with large text. notimooManager.show({ title: 'Testing notification', message: 'This is a notification with a long text. If the message you provide does not fit into the notification size, Notimoo magically auto resize its height so all the content is visible.' }); // First of all I c

利用者に対し非常に分かりやすい通知を行うためのJavaScriptライブラリ「Notimoo」。ページの右上にフェードインで表示するのはなかなかインパクトが大きいですね。

old paper, leaf, webby thingy

Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures

Various Web Development

Mac, Windows and PNG icons of the finest quality!

Nothing!

http://is.gd/nuTA 40+ Beautiful Robot Character Illustrations [from http://twitter.com/digital_idiot/statuses/1405912825]

robots

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ローディング画像ジェネレータ

There are professional,funny,silly photo editing websites collected in this list, which will better Your mood and let You edit photos without knowing any program!

Entertaining

Fragen des Webdesigners an den Kunden

How to Extract the Facts with a Web Design Client Questionnaire It might not be possible to have a meaningful relationship with price shoppers, but it’s worth taking the time to learn what your potential clients want in a website. This article will help you create a prospect qualification questionnaire that can be used via telephone or Internet or in face-to-face meetings.

Wie sollte ein benutzerfreundliches Dropdown aussehen? Mit Beispiel.

Saving this to check later. too many fonts around these days.

For creations

Photoshop Tutorial - How to Make a Photoshop Montage

優れたユーザインタフェースを設計する際に考慮する8つのポイント

ユーザビリティ説明のサイト

これでテストケース引いたらコンスタントにいいものが作れそう

優れたユーザインタフェース設計するポイント

You can find lots of free beautiful icons set on the web. We are lucky that some talented designers/artist are sharing their works by providing us some useful stuffs for free. Here is a 40+ Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have. These Icons can be use on customizing your desktop icons or for your website.

ไอคอนอีกแล้วววว

กฎก้นหอย?

photo theory

it is echoed

"วาด" ด้วยซอฟต์แวร์โอเพนซอร์ส

In this showcase, you’ll see 30 examples of watercolor effects and brush strokes in web design.

Today I bring a fabulous collection of sites where you can get nice images and photos. I have made a list of sites where to search for amazing and quality photos and images. So no need to waste your time with old images and photo sites that do not work properly. Just have a look at these sites, and do not forget to share your comments with us. Some of the sites listed offer free stock photos only for personal use, All photos are the property of their respective authors check their policy before using their collection.

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I rolled up the autocomplete plugin (Rein + Yehuda) of my last few posts with the Facebook style text list (Guillermo) of my autobox post. We’re calling it Autobox2: click here to see the demo. Then, download it: jquery.ui.autobox-0.7.1.zip Updated 12/11 (see comments) jquery.ui.autobox-0.7.0.zip Although it is missing some of the behavior of autobox1, it’s a more solid and extendable implementation. It also fixes what is in my mind the most glaring problem of autobox1, the fact that it needed the entire list in the initial ajax call. Autobox2 makes AJAX calls the same way that the autocomplete one does, makes a server call with the current contents of the input box. This is the way you would expect. I will no longer be releasing any more changes to Autobox1 and you can consider it deprecated. (I’ve noted this on the main Autobox1 post.) As to the implementation, it is based on the Rein and Yehuda’s autocomplete plugin as detailed in 2 previous posts. There were a few things borrowe

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such lovely colors!

WOO washi tape

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/kindle2/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces_large.jpg

Inspired Magazine

ビジュアルなソーシャルブックマークサービスtop10

Right after the Delicious craze, there was a niche bookmarking system that hit the visual junkies: Ffffound - the heaven of visual goodies! Two years and a

10 เว็บไซต์สังคม เพื่อเอาไว้หาแรงบันดาลใจ

2 plugins to nice up HTML Forms

商用サイトでも無料で利用できる、ひらがな・カタカナ・漢字などが含まれている日本語のフリーフォントを紹介します。

並べただけって感じ。

20 Talented and Impressive Illustrators | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/25/20-talented-and-impressive-illustrators/

Los lectores de la revista en línea DesginMag recomiendan estos sistemas para administrar el contenido de un sitio web ya sea para blog, comercio electrónico, portal, etc. Muy buenas recomendaciones.

Sehr interessanter Artikel bei Smashing Magazin.

The gold standard in web headline concision

BBC News may be a good place to point to as an example of good writing for the web.

how short headlines explain a lot of info. Great for sci. articles

iPhone applications are hotter than ever. So how do these applications stand out and get noticed? One great way to do this is by creating a great website

Over the last months we’ve heard numerous complaints about the lack of quality in our freebie releases. We are aware that our readers have high expectations and we try to do our best to meet them in our posts. In this post and in the following one we release two beautiful professional icon sets that will hopefully meet your expectations and will come in handy in your projects.

Over the last months we&#039;ve heard numerous complaints about the lack of quality in our freebie releases. We are aware that our readers have high

30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials

Excellen list of cool iPhone apps for photographers and graphic designers

13 iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers | Webdesigner Depot - http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/13-iphone-apps-for-graphic-designers/

Back in October we wowed you with 20 Excellent Ajax Effects You Should Know. The post went on to become one of the most popular ever published at Nettuts+. This

Level & Tap is a site dedicated to selling curated photography prints. The work is selected by a small group of editors, including me, Tom Watson. I love photography, especially printed, and want to provide a place for people to find and buy great quality work on the Internet.

Lovely collection of curated photographs for sale.

Collection of tutorials for designing web layouts.

Good source of templates

Social network implementation has become a necessity for successful websites. Joomla!, the popular Open-Source CMS, has some great and affordable ways to bring

Apr 20th in Other by Rick Blalock Social network implementation has become a necessity for successful websites. Joomla!, the popular Open-Source CMS, has some great and affordable ways to bring your site to the social networking level. Let's review how.

Joomla! Social Network - build your own. FIVE-STARS!!!

Shows how a social networking application could be built with Joomla using extensions

Joomla Social Network

Showcase of site designs using the letterpress effect & instructions on doing this technique in photoshop

On-line UI testing tool

完了すべきタスクを設定したテストをユーザーに試してもらい達成率を統計するユーザーテストのウェブサービス。Yahooが使ってるらしい。

＠デザイン全般に言える影の効果　ライトは対象物を射しシャドウを生み出します。デザインに奥行きを与え、ビジュアル的な刺激を生み出します。

質感を高めるためのTips

確かにこの見せ方はキレイ。

服を見せるwebの参考に。コレクションのところ

サムネイルのUIが気持ちいい。

metaphor

コレクションのサムネイルで操作させるってのがすごい

35 Tutorials to create amazing Vector Graphics using Inkscape

35 Tutorials to create amazing Vector Graphics using Inkscape : Speckyboy Design Magazine - http://speckyboy.com/2009/04/28/35-tutorials-to-create-amazing-vector-graphics-using-inkscape/

Templates for deliverables such as document starting points, element libraries and page libraries.

Lazy registration systems allow site visitors to build a profile and register without filling out a signup form right away (or some at all).

jquery image sequence

Glimmer allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by harnessing the power of the jQuery library. Without having to hand-craft your JavaScript code, you can use Glimmer’s wizards to generate jQuery scripts for common interactive scenarios. Glimmer also has an advanced mode, providing a design surface for creating jQuery effects based on your existing HTML and CSS.

Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. Anyone can submit their work for consideration and voting on items is open to one and all. The best work is accepted and featured in the gallery which receives thousands of visitors every day.

Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. Anyone can submit their work for consideration and voting on items is open to one and all. The best work is accepted and featured in the gallery which receives thousands of visitors every day. To start submitting your work simply create an account and then hit Submit. Submissions take up to a few days to review depending on the volume of work coming in. To vote on other people's work you'll also need an account. We hope you enjoy the site and find the inspiration to make some brilliant work of your own. And when you do, don't forget to submit it to creattica!

That's a neat way to use Flickr

WordPress is no longer just used to power blogs.

otros wp

share with clan! :)

Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn't know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too. While browsing the web, I

webdesignerdepot.com (excellent collection!)

redonkulous

Concept designers are also referred to as visual futurists. These concept designs may not be on the market yet, but they can still inspire you to create

creating seamless backgrounds

Twitter is probably the most hyped social network out there, all the mainstream medias are talking about it and a lot of celebrities are using the service. The

Ultimately, I don't really care too much to tool around with the layout of Twitter-- way too many folks overdo it-- but I am occasionally fascinated when I see interesting-looking profiles.

almofadas adobe

WordPress is often thought of as just a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Even WordPress’ documentation includes an entire section on using WordPress as a content management system. Because WordPress is such an easy-to-use platform, it makes sense to consider using it as a platform to build just about any kind of website, a portfolio website included. Whether you’re a photographer, graphic designer, Web designer or any other kind of visual artist, WordPress makes an excellent starting point for developing your online portfolio. And with the wealth of plug-ins and ready-made themes available, you can usually get a perfectly presentable website up and running in a matter of hours.

60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements | Photoshop Tutorials

The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.

With the inven­tion of “desk­top pub­lish­ing”, design­ers found them­selves set­ting type on their com­put­ers for the first time. Until then, they had made type spec­i­fi­ca­tions for type­set­ters and left the job up to the pro­fes­sion­als. As a result, you can still see clas­sic inac­cu­ra­cies in type­set­ting, even in top-​quality printed matter. Here you will find some tips from Erik Spiek­er­mann, designer of FF Meta®, Meta Design founder, co-​author of “Stop Steal­ing Sheep”, and a FontShop founder, which will pre­vent some of the more obvi­ous blun­ders.

Succinct and useful typography guidelines for everyone laying pixels on the web. Read the comments for the back and forth over the “padded en” vs the em dash. Is the em dash dying?

Auf dieser Website fasse ich typografisches Wissen auf eine verständliche und ansprechende Art zusammen und veranschauliche es mit interessanten Beispielen, die Lust auf Schrift machen.

Auf dieser Website fasse ich typografisches Wissen auf eine verständliche und ansprechende Art zusammen und veranschauliche es mit interessanten Beispielen, die Lust auf Schrift machen. (Das rote W ist z.B. aus der Schrift Zaner). Und wer das Wissen vertiefen möchte, findet zu jedem Thema eine Vielzahl weiterführender Links zu Büchern und Websites. Viel Spaß!

Nicht viel Neues, aber verständlich und kompakt erzählt.

Typografie verstehen

sobre diseño web y diseño de imagenes

tutoriais úteis

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to 1977.

obaly scifi knih, pěknej art

A picture is worth a thousand word. No doubt about it. Most of the information based website such as CNN, ESPN, they are all using a massive photo slide show on its front page. It's a very effective method to attract viewers' attention.

A CSS Framework is meant to provide ready-made solutions for various tasks that we perform on regular basis. In simple terms an ideal CSS framework will provide you with a default style sheet which you should be able to use as a starting point for most of your web design projects.

HVD Peace. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2008 View PDF | Free Download HVD Rowdy. By Hannes von Döhren, Benni Busse, 2007 View PDF | Free Download HVD Comic Serif. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2007 View PDF | Free Download HVD Spencils. 2 Fonts by Hannes von Döhren, 2007 View PDF | Free Download HVD Bodedo. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2007 View PDF | Free Download HVD Poster. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2006 View PDF | Free Download HVD Edding 780. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2006 View PDF | Free Download HVD Steinzeit. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2006 View PDF | Free Download HVD Age 11. 1 Font by Hannes von Döhren, 2006 View PDF | Free Download

interesting

7 Ways to Build Trust on a Portfolio Site

cssの技いろいろ

If you spend more than a few minutes in forums or on social networking sites, you've probably heard someone say those three little words. Everyone – noob designer to experienced professional – is seeking feedback on design projects. We even see those requests regularly on Twitter, and many of us do our best to give feedback (as best we can in less than 140 characters) in an effort to give something back to the design community. With that in mind, we are proud to provide a place where designers can submit their work and have it reviewed (albeit publicly) by one of their industry peers.

When we talk about a famous brand, the first thing that comes to mind is its logo. The logo is the most essential component of

list tutorial bikin logo

Explicación de los diferentes opciones css. Sencillos y claros ejemplos. Eso sí, en perfecto inglés...

10 Great CSS Selectors you must know!!!!!! <----

10 Mistakes Logo Designers Can Make When Designing Logos - Free Logo Critiques

A few weeks ago, I sent the following in a email to a co-worker asking for input on designing REST APIs in Django. Since then, I’ve quoted myself a few times; I thought these thoughts would be worth a (slightly edited) public home. I think the best way to dive in terms of mistakes to avoid. If you poke around you’ll find a couple-three different stabs at writing a generic REST API module for Django. So, with no further ado, some REST “worst practices:”

REST worst practices

A few weeks ago, I sent the following in a email to a co-worker asking for input on designing REST APIs in Django. Since then, I’ve quoted myself a few times; I thought these thoughts would be worth a (slightly edited) public home. I think the best way to dive in terms of mistakes to avoid. If you poke around you’ll find a couple-three different stabs at writing a generic REST API module for Django. So, with no further ado, some REST “worst practices:” Conflating models and resources In the REST world, the resource is key, and it’s really tempting to simply look at a Django model and make a direct link between resources and models — one model, one resource. This fails, though, as soon as you need to provide any sort of aggregated resource, and it really fails with highly denormalized models. Think about a Superhero model: a single GET /heros/superman/ ought to return all his vital stats along with a list of related Power objects, a list of his related Friend objects, etc. So the dat

In the Woods - HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery Killer Tutorials

USABILITY TECHNIQUES SIMPLIFIED INTO 3 STEPS

Recently we showed you some exceptional CSS navigation techniques and we’d like to follow that up with an article about JavaScript-based navigation examples that you can use. Keep in mind that some of these techniques might not work if the client browser has JavaScript turned off (on average, 5% of users have JS disabled according to W3 web statistics).

Intéressant. C'est du connu mais un bon résumé d'ensemble. A voir pour un cours avancé sur les CSS ?

HOVER OVER TEXT

Internet advice

mix: ways to utilize visualizations

This article features a mixture of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials. 30 Cool Creative Cartoon Characters, each is a Great tutorial which will guide you through the step by step process on how to create a cool cartoon character. These tutorials will also teach you the necessary skills required in order to create your own cool characters. 1. Create a Blue Vector Character blue-monster 2. Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas ninja-chars 3. Creating Homer Simpson homer-simpson 4. How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character cute-bunny 5. Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon panda-bear 6. Create a Super Happy Octopus Character octupus 7. Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch green-monster 8. How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character chainsaw-bunny 9. Create another cartoon character cartoon-character 10. How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid emo-kid 11. Monster Character Series Part 4 monster-character-part-4 12. Drawing Vector-Looking Cat Illustrat

Type is the Photoshop tool to create vector outlines and mathematical shapes to define the symbols of a typeface. It's located on the standard Tool Bar as a tiny T. The keyboard shortcut of this is the letter (T), and if you hold click over that tool (or Shift + T several times) you'll see four options: Horizontal Type, Vertical Type, Horizontal Type Mask and Vertical Type Mask.

type tool tutorial

Sehr gute, aber englische Einführung in die Textwerkzeuge von Photoshop.

Who doesn't know the Type Tool? This is maybe one of the most powerful and useful tools of Photoshop. We've all used it at least once, but do you know all its potential? That's why I decided to write a comprehensive guide about Photoshop's Type tool, including do's and don'ts of the most important features of this tool.

Interesting

Make sure you scroll down.

So simple and so effective. 'Save' icon bookmark to print out and cut out :)

Save Bookmark (template to print)

What comes to your mind when you think of the color white? White is the most simple, elegant and peaceful color. Use of white color in web design is seen in many blog, online portfolio, e-commerce and many more sites.

White in Web Design

White web design inspiration - Tips and Trends

white websites

In this the first - of hopefully many - artist showcases I'm going to delve into the works of one of my heroes: Saul Bass. What I admire about Saul Bass is

Sensacional artigo sobre o grande designer Saul Bass!!!!! Vale a conferida!

lovely film poster design by Saul Bass

K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups. A lot of them seem to want to do a million different things because other companies have been successful at one of those things in the past. But that’s a bad idea. Way too many new products and services are too complicated. And I would suggest, often fail as a direct result of that.

A great article on simple design and how it just...works.

is that it was so much neater, cleaner — yes, simpler. But with an explosion in growth, came an explosion in features. And, in turn, an explosion in complexity.

K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups

I liked this article -- particularly the part about Google Labs (so true about how to add new features)

本格的にでかいサイトをやるときの理論武装

分厚いフッタの理由

コリスさん日本語訳。／元記事：http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/modern-sitemap-and-footer/

The iPhone UI icon set gives app developers an extensive library of icons.

$70 worth of iphone toolbar icons. really nice set, but worth $70 for my budget app? ... hrm....

あー、これがうわさの。

編集者との打ち合わせは一切無しで、出来た原稿を出来た時にアシスタントが渡すだけなのだとか。すごいな。

ブラックジャックによろしくの作者のサイト。 漫画家らしく漫画風のインターフェース。先を越された・・・

佐藤秀峰 応援したい。

horizontal acrodion

houses constructed out of metal containers

arquitectura: casas hechas con containers

.htaccessのちょっとしたティップス

.htaccess

画像などのファイルへの直リンクを禁止する方法

RT @jeremyjaymes: New Post: 13 Beneficial Wordpress Plugins For Your Design Blog http://bit.ly/lCTwt (via @behoff) [from http://twitter.com/chadengle/statuses/1621580757]

Below I explore and discuss the benefits of 13 Wordpress plugins that I have personally used on The Design Cubicle that will give your site an extra boost and provide a better experience for your visitors (plus some other great additions you can add).

Search Result page

Photoshop

Spolsky on how to make a successful social site

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SingleFunction is a showcase of one purpose, one function, single serving sites; meaning, websites that have one functionality, no clutter, and require no learning curve. Being a big fan of simplicity, I thought it would be a good idea to share my passion… I decided to list my finds of single function sites, allow other enthusiasts to do so as well, and make it an effortless experience for anyone to find them.

If you want to get The Best WordPress Themes for Free then this article is for you. This is the biggest collection till now on this blog and I am very proud with it. Below you will find a collection with 100 The Very Best of Free WordPress Themes. All themes a very quality with a great interface.

uby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. This is the way Ruby on Rails promotes itself - but in my words, it is an incredible framework that can really make your life much easier. You can learn more at their site http://rubyonrails.org PG Author: Alex Coomans This is a NETTUTS contributor who has published 1 tutorial(s) so far here. Their bio is coming soon! Step 1- Installing Ruby on Rails Installing Ruby on Rails (also often shortened to RoR) is fairly painless on most systems, but you will need to be comfortable opening up the terminal. The Ruby on Rails download page provides links to get started, and I will reproduce them here to save you a bit of time. Just as a note, these are the places to get Ruby, which is what Rails is programmed in, and we will be installing Rails in a minute. To learn more about the language, review the

gem -v

Ruby on Rails for Designers - Nettuts+

Excellent description of BASE design patterns

If ACID provides the consistency choice for partitioned databases, then how do you achieve availability instead? One answer is BASE (basically available, soft state, eventually consistent).

Some of you have noticed that we just recently started using twitter, it's a great tool. After 2 weeks or so using twitter, I have found some really cool twitter pages.

We've scoured the net and tapped every resource we could to get you THE best list of mograph blogs and resources out there. Both novice and experienced mographers will get some insight here. We've also posted the twitter links of the brains behind some of these sites. So check it out!

Best Motion Graphics Blogs and Resources

Best Motion Graphics

camisetas con status

T-shirts with your Twitter favorites status quotes.

Camisetas a la medida, con tus propios tweets

Captivating Winery Websites

Do's & don'ts van webdesign

A great gallery or portfolio site for Wordpress. Would be a great solution for showcasing sites involved in the CoPress summer design camp.

Making the ‘Clean Grunge’ Blog Design - http://psdfan.com/tutorials/designing/making-the-clean-grunge-blog-design/

find new tricks and different ways to do things

RT @DannyOutlaw: RT @styletime: 500 Splatter Brushes for Photoshop http://bit.ly/12cfLy

DesignArtWall - Wall of Gorgeous Design Inpiration, Web Design Inpiration, Design Showcase, Design Art Wall

Web Portfolio

There are thousands of designers on Twitter (Twitter reviews) tweeting about everything from ongoing projects to their personal lives. But only a small percentage of those tweet about design topics of interest to other designers and design addicts. These people cover everything from their design process to their own projects, and design resources from all over the web. Below is a list of more than 85 of those Twitterers

Dados sobre o mundo, estatísticas interessantes.

About a year ago the United Nations announced UNdata, a way to disseminate data stretched out across 22 United Nations databases through one central application. While UNdata houses 66 million records, it's tough to get a sense of what's going on without a visual representation. Progress is an effort to make this world data visible. More than anything though, it was a chance for me to mess around with some data. TAKE A LOOK --- A Project by FlowingData

"About a year ago the United Nations announced UNdata, a way to disseminate data stretched out across 22 United Nations databases through one central application. While UNdata houses 66 million records, it's tough to get a sense of what's going on without a visual representation. Progress is an effort to make this world data visible. More than anything though, it was a chance for me to mess around with some data."

A place for creating, sharing and searching for imaginations and the people who imagine. In this bank, saving is sharing. Investing is liberation. Winning is squandering. And imagining is, as always, free.

הגדלת גדלי הבאנרים

Tror Oliver IA skrev om idén för ett år sedan.

from Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials

Web Designer Help - Your home for help in web design!

css sprites tips from Mozilla

CSS Spriting Tips

WordPress is by far one of the most favored blogging tools, and WordPress themes are certainly popular. A custom theme

Make a wordpress theme

Wallpapers

Repper helps you make patterns from your pictures

Funkyt værktøj.

50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

There are many theories to what constitutes good typography, its not as simple as choosing an appropriate font and setting it in the style of a particular project, that would be too easy. Theories and tutorials are one thing, putting typography into perfect practice is another, and is perhaps the hardest part of any design. Every designer you ask will give you a different answer to what constitutes good type, where is the benchmark? Below you will find the best typography sites, rich full of inspiration, tutorials, theories, free fonts, good practices… everything you could possibly need related to typography.

Four months after releasing Handycons icon set, I am happy to release Handycons 2 - icon set containing 20 more hand drawn icons. This time it is not limited just to socail media related icons. Package contains Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons. All icons come in four sizes: 16x16, 32x32, 64x64 and 12x128px. And they are all free, of course :)

Cool hand drawn icons

우분투 테마 모음

How a Graphic Design consultant should operate.

Creativity breathes life into successful websites. However, creative ideas and solutions can sometimes seem like guesswork—and guessing is risky business. So what can designers do to show clients they’re using a solid strategy and have the best intentions? The following exercises are a great way to start discussing and documenting aspects of design to help clients shed their fear of creativity and encourage them to join the design process.

Worth trying.

11. Professional 3D Logo From Scratch

Usabilla helps you to collect feedback from your users. We take a new approach to usability testing with transparency & visual feedback. We provide a tool to actively involve your users in the process of design & improvement.

Competitor to Chalkmark

便利だのぉ

便利

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Let’s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do you know he’s inspecting every hallway, floor, and stairwell in the facility? How do you know he (or she) is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk? An elegant solution, designed and patented in 1901 by the German engineer A.A. Newman, is called the “watchclock”. It’s an ingenious mechanical device, slung over the shoulder like a canteen and powered by a simple wind-up spring mechanism. It precisely tracks and records a night watchman’s position in both space and time for the duration of every evening. It also generates a detailed, permanent, and verifiable record of each night’s patrol.

"But the watchclock is another kind of interaction design, one whose function corrals the user into a single, linear, constrained sort of behavior. The night watchman has a fundamental social constraint — the desire to not get fired from their job. This constraint allows the watchclock patrol system to work so effectively (some would say insidiously) as an interaction design instrument of control."

"How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries...actually makes his rounds? How do you know he’s inspecting every hallway, floor & stairwell? How do you know he is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk? If you’re a technology designer, you might suggest using surveillance cameras or even GPS to track his location each night, right? But let’s make this interesting...go...back...[to]1900. What could you possibly do in 1900 to be absolutely sure a night watchman was making his full patrol? An elegant solution, designed and patented in 1901 by the German engineer A.A. Newman, is called the “watchclock”. It’s an ingenious mechanical device, slung over the shoulder like a canteen and powered by a simple wind-up spring mechanism. It precisely tracks and records a night watchman’s position in both space and time for the duration of every evening. It also generates a detailed, permanent & verifiable record of each night’s patrol."

Let’s say you own a big building full of valuable stuff. How do you make sure that the night watchman patrolling your factory floor or museum galleries after closing time actually makes his rounds? How do you know he’s inspecting every hallway, floor, and stairwell in the facility? How do you know he (or she) is not just spending every night sleeping at his desk?

Analysis is that oft-glossed over, but extremely important step in the research process that sits between observation (data gathering) and our design insights or recommendations. In many respects, analysis is crucial to realizing the value of our research since good analysis can salvage something from bad research, but the converse is not so true. This is where the literature tends to fall a little silent, jumping over the analysis techniques straight to a discussion of how best to document and communicate the findings from analysis. This article seeks to begin to redress that imbalance by breaking down the analysis black box into its major sub-techniques.

Great overview of analysis techniques for any type of data

mejores blogs de diseño grafico

プリント、印刷

Composition and harmony 101

Plumb, a tool for composing web layouts for use with the Blueprint CSS framework.

This is Plumb, a tool for composing web layouts for use with the Blueprint CSS framework.

40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks

40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine

Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks |

15 Excellent Places for Discovering Photoshop Brushes

LOLOLOL okay seriously why is anything with Boba and carbonite!Han completely hilarious

Haha, these are GREAT.

interesting CSS trick to add to the bag of tricks

There’s little doubt that OS X is a popular platform for web designers - it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing and publishing websites. Whether you prefer to use an all-in-one environment for designing websites or a range of different applications, there’s a tool to suit you perfectly.

Much of the software covered is fairly multi-purpose, suited to a variety of tasks.

Good article on being hypercritical.

Knowing what's wrong is a prerequisite for fixing it. That may sound trite, but...

As far back as I can remember, I was told I would grow up to be an artist. By age six, my obsessively detailed renderings of Mechagodzilla, et al. were already drawing attention from adults. By the time I was eight years old, my parents had been persuaded by teachers and friends to enroll me in private art lessons. I recall the informal "admissions test" with my first art instructor. A scale model of a bull was placed in front of me on a table and I was asked to draw it. The plastic bull was a faithful reproduction, full of muscles and knobby joints. It was an ugly, forlorn thing, far removed from my normal subject matter. After a few minutes, the resulting drawing was roughly in proportion, the details were well represented, and the perspective was pretty close. I was in. Thus began eight years of regular art instruction. I progressed from pencils and pastels to watercolors and acrylics, and finally to oils. The content was mostly classical: lots of still lifes and landscapes. Meanw

Interesting piece, via S.teave

John Siracusa on the role criticism plays in design.

BRILLIANT

What a cool marketing gimmick. I wonder what the price is though?

fruit juice packaging as it should be!

packs como su fruta

Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a series of creative fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain.

Practices for Designing a Social News Website

news

A look at the layouts of several SN sites

JG: "Big picture essay by Steven Frank on the state of UI metaphors:"

discussion on the difficulties of changing the concept of the desktop metaphor, from Scott

"Every geek I know shares, to some degree, the notion that the “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What nobody seems to have a solid opinion on is what would take its place."

35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design

light effects in web design

Using a light source the right way can add dimension and beauty to a website design. Strong light sources create a stark contrast between light areas and shadows in a design, making the elements look more realistic and dimensional and less flat. Some websites opt instead for a dim light source to create a soft glow around particular areas of the website, to attract the eye more subtly. Lighting can also create a mood for a website. Some websites use bright swirls of light to show energy, while others use a dim glow to create a peaceful mood. In the examples below, you will see a wide range of lighting effects used, from subtle lighting effects to bold rays of light streaking across the page

I’m a science fiction writer, and as I became more familiar with design, it struck me that the futuristic objects and services within science fiction are quite badly designed.

Design Fiction

Bruce Sterling

Many science fiction writers, believe it or not, were capable of understanding Wittgenstein. User experience design, however, was far beyond them. It was also beyond Wittgenstein, because there are things we might imagine and speak about that we do pass over in silence because we are writing in books.

installed by default in standard crunchbang linux :)

Conky Designs

Download Free Repeat Patterns

Design de embalagem

Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.

great design quotes

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs. — Frank Chimero

Article on invention and inspiration. Design.

the work of inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson

This post is a showcase of 45+ Excellent Examples using Character Illustrations in Web Design. The list below are showing some of the coolest sites where character illustrations are put into action.

Post Footer Designs

Web design trends come and go. You should be very wary not to jump on the latest ones that have no real staying power. An over abundance of glossy-iconed 2.0 sites are sure to look really outdated, real soon. I’d argue they already do. However some trends, can look awesome long after the trend has peaked. I think watercolor designs, when done right, are one of those trends. Recently, I’ve spotted more and more gorgeous watercolor effects in web design. I’ve created this post to serve as a bookmark for inspiration, resources and tutorials on designing these effects. Inspiration Web Designs Here is a showcase of some beautiful examples of watercolor effects in web design. Agami Creative agami Brad Candullo bcandullo Viget Labs viget Platin building Matt Mullenweg matt Billy Hughes At War billy-hughes Squawk squawk Webstock webstock Happy Cog happy-cog blog.critical blog-critical Electric Pulp electric-pulp Resources A bunch of awesome freebies that will help you produce the

Efeitos de webdesgin, maravilhosos!

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With a plethora of add-ons and extensions, created for developers by developers, Firefox becomes much more than just a browser and turns into an essential part of your toolbox. Here are 10 free add-ons covering everything from DOM inspection to screenshots, making designing and developing with Firefox a breeze.

Firefox has emerged victorious from the Great Browser War - at least as far as web developers are concerned. While it may not be the most-used browser for the everyday web surfer, Firefox is clearly the first choice of developers for a few very simple reasons. Its support for web standards is legendary, but the real super powers come from Firefox’s extensibility.

50 blogs

via Popego.com

via:information Aesthetics

# Interactive HTML+JavaScript

Involution Studios

# Browser Application

i dont know if i get this entirely but its pretty to look at

There are many designers and artists at deviantART who choose to display their beautiful creations to the rest of the community. In this collection, you'll find some of the best web design layouts presented created by deviantARTists.

layouts deviantArt

REVER

In this collection, you’ll find some of the best web design layouts created by deviantARTists.

lego groups and models- who knew?

An excellent poster on our wall would certainly catch our attention and even inspire us. For the design aspect of us here’s a collection of excellent of excellent posters that most likely you would like to be hanged on your wall and also suit your taste buds for design. The posters mostly tells what Design is about on their personal views and how they apply it on their daily lives. I’ve spent a few hours gathering these excellent posters to share to everyone. I hope you’ll find them inspirational for yourselves as well, and maybe create one of your own and share it to us.

An excellent poster on our wall would certainly catch our attention and even inspire us. For the design aspect of us here’s a collection of excellent of excellent posters that most likely you would like to be hanged on your wall and also suit your taste buds for design.

Type Theory is a journal of contemporary typography featuring news, views, reviews and interviews.

logo designer, good ideas etc.

Great quotes on design.

Finally a new wave of those business card designs we can't get enough of! We're pretty sure you've been seeing the same designs over and over again so if you're

Finally a new wave of those business card designs we can’t get enough of! We’re pretty sure you’ve been seeing the same designs over and over again so if you’re looking for more creative inspiration, we hope this fresh batch will do the trick. See how you can have more fun with color, letterpress printing or simply play with the shape, cut or the material of your custom business cards. The designers responsible for these awesome designs are as indicated so feel free to browse their portfolios for more ideas.

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Free Vectors - 28 Halftone Vectors (Clean & Grunge Versions) | Think Design

Background color is nice.

Visifire クールすぎて本当に動的に作ったの？というグラフが描画できてしまう「visifire」。 以下にある画像のような、ちょっと他ではなかなか無いグラフを提供してくれます。フリーで使えます。

資料作成に。

Visualization is the antithesis of Powerpoint

design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. You've seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type of varying weigh

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set.

View a screenshot trick for Photoshop

Ampliar fotos sin perder calidad

como subir los DPI de una captura de pantalla

capturas de pantalla a 300dpi

selectiv

很漂亮的form改造

For the photogs out there...

21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For Wordpress

Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers

Six Revisions

WordPress is often thought of as little more than a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Through a little customization and the use of plugins, WordPress can easily be transformed into a full-featured content management system. Here are more than 25 sites who have done just that (and done it well).

WordPress is often thought of as little more than a blogging platform. But it's capable of so much more. Through a little customization and the use of plugins,

Structure and navigation must support each other and integrate with search and across subsites. Complexity, inconsistency, hidden options, and clumsy UI mechanics prevent users from finding what they need.

wallpapers nuevos

Fantastic Wallpapers That Will Blow Your Desktop Away

Smashing Magazine

Tutoriais para desenho de Ícones

also an alternative to evite. woo hoo

plan events, send ecards

MyPunchbowl eCard Studio offers hundreds of beautiful, free eCards that can be customized with colors, fonts, images, and videos. Want to share an eCard with your social network? MyPunchbowl eCard Studio provides a simple way to email your friends or share your eCard on Facebook or Twitter. So what are you waiting for? Celebrate life's milestones with a personalized, free eCard by MyPunchbowl today!

Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop

Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop - Psdtuts+ - http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/creating-a-touching-story-scene-in-photoshop/

As you've probably figured out, I love designing with texture. I also love sharing textures here on WDL. When done properly, a texture used as a background can

iconos x rev

man that guys stuff is awesome

Amazing Sculpture. Gothic and macbre, mixed media assemblage

A Creative designers always searching unique and fresh icon sets for there projects . Here is a collection of free High Quality icon sets of over 20 high quality icons . Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like! All icon sets are free to use commercials as well as personal projects . I will appreciate if you can spread the word via Digg, Stumbleupon and other social media websites, Thank you. 1.20 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets : webtoolkit-blogger-icons[5] 2. 35 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets : TRAVELICONPACK_thumb2 3.AIRE ICON PACK : aire_icon_pack_thumb[2] 4.Green Eco-friendly Vector Icons : Green Eco-friendly Vector Icons_thumb[3] 5. Beautiful Education Vector graphics icons : Beautiful Education Vector graphics icons_thumb[3] 6.Beautiful Painting Vector Icons : Beautiful Painting Vector Icons_thumb[3] 7. simple common used Vector icon : simple common used Vector icon_thumb[3] 8. Vect

A few of our friends have been asking us what are some of the best practices we learnt over the last two years designing and implementing RESTful Web Services as the back-end of the feedly service. Here is a quick/high level brain dump: Phase 1 – Defining a simple resource/service | Take a sample resource such as Customer Information, model it as JSON. Build a simple servlet where PUT creates a new customer, GET returns the customer information based on the customer key, DELETE deletes the customer and POST updates the customer information. Make sure that PUT returns the right information regarding the URL of the newly created resource. In our case, we have a framework which maps JSON to our Java Model and use hibernate to persist that model in a MySQL database. The important things for this phase are to the JSON representation right and the base url formatting simple and clean. Phase 2 – Implementing a client | Learn how to build a simple Javascript client which interacts with the s

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pretty cool site iwth nice illustration

OMG! Writings about web design by Meagan Fisher: Designer, XHTML-and-CSS-er, Sketcher, and Owl Obsessor

Web Designer - works with Dan Cederholm at SimpleBits

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My wife and I just moved to an apartment with a great backyard, but neither of us think spatially. Using Google Sketchup, it's been easier than I'd imagined to plan our Ultimate Patio 4000.

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littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.

modular circuit boards

Electronic modules that stick together with magnets to make complete circuits

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Last week I was presented with a design brief. It was to design and build a site to promote our new Stack Overflow DevDays event that’s happening this October. Ryan gave me a rough wireframe detailing the content that needed to be included. The layout and design was down to me. As usual I didn’t have a bloody clue where to start… and I didn’t have long to do it. The initial hope was that I get it all done in just over 2 days. So I thought it might be interesting to share with you the various stages of design the site went through before arriving at the finished design. Here’s the wireframe Ryan put together for me wireframe Ok so here goes. Stage 1 Stage 1 Stack Overflow DevDays is mainly gonna be a US tour + a gig in London. So I want a map or something to show where the dates are gonna be. I was going to use a flat map but decided a globe was cooler. I drew the globe based on one I bought from istockphoto.com (Note: Dates and cities shown in these designs were just provisional

A current trend in design is adding lighting effects to enhance your digital art. In this article, you’ll find 30 dazzling lighting techniques that you can use to add a bit of sparkle into your work. Expressive lighting effects Engulf photo subjects with glowing lights by following along this top-notch tutorial. Expressive lighting effects Adding Light Streaks to A Photo Add light streaks to photos using Photoshop’s Pen Tool and some simple Layer styles. Adding Light Streaks to A Photo Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop Enhance your photos with a surreal light effect via this excellent tutorial. Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop Lighting Effects in Photoshop Enhance your photos by using the Liquify and Gaussian Blur Filters to lighting effects. Lighting Effects in Photoshop How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how introduce light streaks around your artwork’s subjects. How to Create Intense Light Streaks i

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