Author: Richard Darell
Technique | Proportional Design
There are many ways you can conceptualize an idea. To design if you will. One particular way is to do it the mathematical way. There's a technique called "Proportional Design" that is based on...yup you guessed it...proportions. It delivers a clean and quite interesting result that really pleases th ...
Typography | 5000 Eggs to Say Happy Holiday
Typography has always been a great way to design unique and interesting pieces of art. As a designer you can't but appreciate the time someone puts down into creating things that are made out of hundreds of fonts or just a few used in ways never before attempted. The quality of a typography piece is ...
Logo Design | Time Lapse Study
Creating a logo for a company is quite a task to undertake each time. It's important to know that it's not just to push some pixels into a design and then call it a logo. There is much more that goes in to it and it is usually taking a long time to come up with the right design that speaks to the co ...
How to Design/Print your own T-Shirts
This has become a huge topic nowadays. What could be cooler than having your own printed t-shirt with your own graphic on it. I thought I'd check up on this topic to stay updated with it and I actually found 2 different ways of doing it. While some really want that rough, grungy, home made kind of r ...
A Day in The Life of a Web Designer
Ok, so it's been official for quite some time and somehow it has escaped clients that creating a website doesn't just take a few hours as some may think. It's actually hard work, long hours and usually head locking to try and come up with new great ideas for a cool theme or feature. Time is usually ...
How to Get Video Wallpapers on the iPhone
The iPhone has a fleet of cool applications to get through the App Store and there never seems to be any void in the presenting of new and cool features you can create on it. This one in particular captured my interest. As I watched it I started to see some cool features and some great implementatio ...
iPhone’s Secret Application
It's like every cell phone has some way of checking your firmware and user information. Nokia has it, Ericsson has it etc. So, does the iPhone have a way of checking this out? Yes it does. With just a few keystrokes you can get in to this secret application and check yours. It's used by iPhone techn ...
Fold a Record Breaking Paper Airplane | Nu Kool
I recently saw a clip where a contestant at the Red Bull Paper Airplane competition broke the record of the longest flight which lasted 76 seconds (!). The secret, the record holder says (no name found), is how high you can throw the plane. Throwing paper planes has become such a huge sport that th ...
“New Writer” Contest | The 3 Finalists
After 2 weeks and a lot of interest we have gone through the contestants one by one looking at their individual qualities. We have bent, flipped and rolled through them comparing them to each other as well as individually. We have had our thought period and it is now time to reveal the result. It's ...
How to Create Tileable Textures | Photoshop
I use a ton of textures when I design a website or a more elaborate design. Even when I am working in 3D (Lightwave) I am of course using a boatload of textures to wrap my models in. Creating the right kind of texture usually takes a lot of time if you don't know the trade or the secrets behind some ...
Celebrity Twitter Overkill | Sequel to Twouble
When "Twouble" first came out on YouTube it was of course an instant hit. With over 2.000.000 views the first cartoon based on Twitter has surely been seen by most people that use Twitter. The first time I had a look at it I laughed just like everyone else. It's so down to the point and still not. M ...
How to Create a Flash Cartoon Animation
Working in Flash can be a real joy sometimes but also very time consuming if you don't know the basic tools well enough to make the work flow progress smoothly. There are lots of benefits in working with Flash and one of them is the simplicity of creating complex animations, There are a ton of Carto ...
How to Calibrate Your Monitors
Calibrating your monitors is quite necessary when working with graphics. As a designer you can't leave this one to chance. Nor do you have to as there are several ways to achieve a great calibration. Some like to download or even buy some fancy software to help them do it. However, calibrating your ...
How to Professionally Retouch a Photo
As a designer we often get the question if we can enhance the photo's that we sometimes have to add to the "About" section on a new website. The process sometimes seems tedious and unnecessary for us but make all the difference to the client that of course wants to look her/his best on a photo that ...
WiTricity | Wireless Electricity The New Standard
So, we are finally there! And I can't tell you how happy this clip made me from the second I saw the title of it. It's environmentally safe, it's non hazardous as it's not radio waves but magnetic fields that power up your gadgets. And the best thing of it all is that it's cordless. YES! I bet almos ...