Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Introducing: The Dress You Can Eat!
Is there any limit to how far someone's creativity can take them? I don't think so. After featuring so much unique artwork on this site, I’ve decided that a true artist can create his artwork from anything, anywhere, anytime the inspiration strikes.
I’ve written about designing your own clothe ...
Cacoo | Tool To Create Diagrams Online
Our aim at BitRebels is to always share cool tools that can help you with productivity and efficiency for work and for play. If your work deals with collaborating and project management, site map development, UML, wire frames and network charts then Cacoo is the tool for you.
Cacoo is an online ...
Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop! | Interview with John Knoll
Who would guess that Photoshop, a program that has truly shaped the way we see the world today, is turning 20 years old! I remember the first time I installed Photoshop. I was so excited that I played with it every day for weeks. Now, several years later, I still get lost in the magic of Photosho ...
Do You Want To Create Your Own Animation?
User-generated content is powerful, allows you to share your thoughts and feelings, allows you to showcase your creativity. With the boom of social networking platforms, people are now empowered to speak their minds to so many audience whether to their circle of friends and family or to the world. ...
The Perfect Lie | How Photoshop Distorts our Reality!
Having used Photoshop since almost way in the beginning of it's inception I have seen quite a lot of things and what Photoshop is capable of doing. Not only do we live our daily lives in a pure vacuum of lies we also go beyond our ways to actually make sure we really look like the pictures we get fe ...
A Tribute To The Most Creative City In The World: Seattle
Fast Company magazine named Seattle the most creative city of the year for 2009. I had no idea that the small town of Seattle was such a creative hot spot. I’ve never been there, and up until today, the only things I knew about Seattle are that it rains a lot and many of my favorite musicians hail ...
Pixelcrayons | Setting the Standard for Excellence
I’m a very visual person and I get a lot of inspiration from looking at beautifully designed websites. Since I am not a designer, I often take for granted all the behind the scenes work that has to happen for a website to function properly. To me, it just works. To Pixelcrayons, it is a meticulous p ...
Pablo Picasso Like You’ve Never Seen Before
I was first exposed to Picasso’s famous painting, Guernica, when I was attending University and studying art history. As if the story of the Spanish Civil War in 1937 wasn’t sad enough, seeing Picasso’s interpretation is, to me, pain and suffering (which are the essence of war) personified.
I ...
To Satisfy the Cannibal in You | Baked Body Parts
I’ve written about some pretty bizarre topics on this site, but I think this one is without a doubt the weirdest. I love to feature unusual artists that take creativity and innovation to the next level. I think you will agree that Kittiwat Unarrom fits this description. To describe his art in a n ...
Most Expensive Cupcake!? FTW
I love cupcakes, they are not just yummy to eat but also a great way to show off your creative talent. What do I mean? Example you plan to have a birthday party and you want your guest to have a bit of fun. Try hosting a cupcake decoration party to make it unique. Make batches without icing on t ...
Win $4k Worth of Online Business Services!
2009 was the year of talk. 2010 is the year of DO! Productivity, efficiency, communication, simplicity, resourcefulness and insight: These are all the fancy buzzwords you need to talk about a rock-star business! We’re giving you a chance to win all the tools to stop talking and start doing.
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Get Inspired! | Interview with Designer John O’Nolan
One of the best parts of being a writer at Bit Rebels and the assistant to Richard Darell is that I get to be in the company of some very talented people. When I was asked to interview one of our site’s sponsors, veteran web designer, John O’Nolan, I had no idea what I was in for. I thought this was ...
How To: Draw a Car Using MS Paint
Drawing a car is my biggest frustration same with drawing a horse. It is very difficult considering proportion and color. Just one wrong stroke and your drawing will look like a mess. I found this video on how to draw a car and what i find amazing is that he used the simple software MS Paint to d ...
How To: Write like an Architect!
Typography can be a lot of fun if you really get in to it. Sometimes it can take a lot of time though if you're creating it with a lot of detail and thought behind it. Usually these types of typography is the most appreciated by designers and viewers of any design blog. It is important to understand ...
How To: Make Kinetic Typography
On my last article on Kinetic Typography ( I Heart Typographic Animation). A reader asked if I can put together some tutorials that can help one make his or her own version.
Here are videos and links that I hope would help:
Design Rhythmic Motion Typography in After Effects by ae+tuts
Kine ...