Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Image Resizing Made Easy!
Image selection is important for bloggers. The image you choose for a particular post can bring so much more appeal to your article. That is a lesson I learned from @Minervity. I also learned that image resizing is really important as it has a bearing on how fast it will load once you have published ...
Memories of Grandfather | Beautiful Cigarette Smoke Art
I’ve always thought smoke is beautiful. It’s memorizing to watch when it innocently floats through the air and then dissipates into nothingness.
I remember being a child and seeing my Grandfather’s cigarette smoke make unique designs when he exhaled. He never even noticed those designs, but I s ...
How To: Draw A Cartoon Character
Watching cartoons was one of my favorite past times when I was younger. Every weekend, we were allowed to wake up, have breakfast and then have our entire morning just for watching cartoons. I started doodling at the age of 8 by drawing cartoon characters that I watched on TV. I think it is great ...
Tools To Aid In Setting Up Your Site!
I started out my blog site using a free blogging platform and after I was comfortable in knowing that I could sustain it, I decided to get my own hosting and had my blog migrated. I am just so lucky I have friends who helped me out! The things you need to consider are the design of your site, the ...
Debbie Does Cakes | Food Inspiration
I know what you’re thinking, and I’m not talking about that Debbie *wink*. This article is about Debbie Goard, the owner of a cake bakery in San Francisco called “Debbie Does Cakes.” I've had some pretty fabulously decorated cakes over the years, but I’ve never seen cakes like these before!
To ...
The Lost Art of Handwriting | Embroidered Email Designs
I’ve noticed that many of us seem to be grieving the death of traditional handwriting and the lost art of mailing handwritten letters. I can’t even remember the last time I sat down and wrote a letter and mailed it with a stamp.
When I was a child, my mother would make me write handwritten thank ...
The Geeky QWERTY Notebooks Are Sure To Inspire
Notebooks are considered computers nowadays and every time we refer to something called a notebook it is without hesitation a picture of a laptop of some kind that pops up in our heads. Even when querying "Notebook" on Google the results are in great favor of the small laptop. What has become of the ...
This Diet Coke Can Is Showing Us Some Love
I love this new limited edition Diet Coke can! I really liked the sleek and sexy Coke can Richard wrote about, but I think I like this one even better because it could save lives.
According to http://www.colorbynumbers.co.uk, “Comic artist Tom Gauld has produced some rather lovely work for a new ...
How To: Create Mosaic Effect On Your Pictures
Taking photos is a fun way for us to keep memories. People usually take their photos with their digital cameras or the cameras on their phones. It has now become a way of life for people to always take their camera with them wherever they go. Just like with some of my friends, they even take pict ...
What Can You Do With A Bic Biro?
Well I can't really credit myself with even being able to write very well. I have terrible handwriting, the keyboard is my friend. I do remember doodling with my Bic though, in school - and found out things like it was really nice and smooth to write on those polystyrene cups.
Anyway, the Bic ...
Create A Web Page With A Personal Touch!
We saw so much influx in the social media realm in 2009 and it is still growing. Just in my country, according to iHub, 10,000,000 people are already on FaceBook as of this time. Just last February, we were only at 9,300,000 users. That growth really is so evident. Even blogging is getting a lot ...
How To Create Animated and Talking Pictures!
After we take pictures, we either make a scrap book or upload them to our favorite social networking sites so we can share them with all our friends and family.
Did you know that you can actually add some effects to your photos to create a unique and fun new way to share them? What if you can ma ...
Cool Cupcake Creations | Food Inspiration
I really don't have much of a sweet tooth, but one thing is for sure, I love cup cakes. I can't seem to say no when someone offers me one! Especially the chocolate flavored ones. Nom Nom! When I was younger I remember my mom baking dozens of them every week and we would have them as snacks, but t ...
Free Online Image Editors!
If you blog or write articles that require precise image sizes or if you love image manipulation of your personal photos or works, then you obviously already have Adobe Photoshop installed on your computers.
But if you are still new to image manipulation and do not want to buy the software just y ...
16 Unusual Alice In Wonderland Inspired Designs
The countdown has begun. There are only four days left until Disney’s much anticipated Alice in Wonderland hits movie theaters (along with Johnny Depp, nom nom).
I am so excited to see this movie; it feels like we’ve been waiting for so long. I love the wackiness and weirdness of the whole stor ...