Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
How To: Improve your handwriting!
Have you ever had a friend that you think has that perfect handwriting? I do and I always ask her to write my greetings cards and present tags just because I always usually write in capitals when I write. I know, a really bad habit. I grew a custom to the trade when I was younger and even did it on ...
I “Heart” Typographic Animation!
I love typography and most specially if it's kenetic or animated typography. Kinetic typography—the technical name for "moving text"—is an animation technique mixing motion and text. This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion. It is often ...
Convert Photoshop Design to Webpage in Seconds
Looking for solutions that makes our lives better and a lot more efficient has always been my goal when I do write my articles. Found a cool site named Base Kit. Not all designers are developers so the tool will be a great help. If you are having a hard time coding, then most probably this is the ...
How To: Make Paper Flowers
Origami is one of the popular ways to show your folding skills. And for those who love flowers and just hate to see them wilt or you just want to make a project that involves paper as a medium them Paper Flower Making might be for you.
The more loved type of paper flower is the rose, then the tu ...
Avatar Graffiti Timelapse | Even James Cameron is in AWE!
Everything around us is all about the new and released Avatar movie. Since it's announcement it has been one of the most talked about happenings of 2009. It sure wasn't going to go by unnoticed and the word of mouth even brought the expectations even higher. When time came for the Cameron camp to la ...
Photoshop | Professional Color Correction
Sometimes when we take a photo it doesn't really come out the way that we want it to. Lighting might obscure the details in a picture or the colors in the photo is just not eye catching enough. This is usually the factor that makes a photo look professional and expensive. All those photos you see in ...
For Your Inspiration: Magnificent Fractals
Since I love both math and art, I’ve always been fascinated with fractals. The Mandelbrot set is one of the most popular ways to play with fractals, and if you search on the internet, you’ll be able to find a Mandelbrot generator which will allow you to create some mind blowing mathematical picture ...
Magical Foam Artwork Made with a Sharpie
What can you do with a sharpie and a styrofoam cup? If you ask Cheeming Boey, you can do a lot. He started doodling on these cups with a sharpie in 2006. Long story short, he is now selling these cups around the world for hundreds of dollars each.
Many people raise an eyebrow when they see thi ...
10 Twitter Avatar Creators | Image Yourself
There has been quite a lot of talk going around whether to stick to your profile picture throughout your "career" on Twitter for people to be able to recognize you easier. But there is always that other camp that says that changing it up, perhaps to a Twitter avatar, every once in a while is a good ...
Melting Men | The Art That Melts Away
Recently, artist Nele Azevedo carved 1,000 little men out of ice. She strategically placed these frozen figures on the steps in Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt Square. On the day she did this, the temperature was 73 F degrees (23 C) and the cold ice men started melting very quickly.
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Get Inspired! | Fascinating Flickr Favs
Creative people are always looking for new sources of inspiration. I have a ritual that inspires me every day, and if I may, I would like to share it with you. I usually wake up very early in the morning. I sit in the darkness, at my computer, with a blanket draped over my legs. My dog is usuall ...
Water Babies, a dreamy tale
Zena Holloway is best known for her dreamy underwater photographs of celebs, supermodels and athletes. Her images are highly sought after by magazines, ad campaigns and editorials. She recently completed a 2 year project of "The Water Babies," a book inspired by Charles Kingsley's 1863 classic tale ...
Awesome Window Installation!
Here is a brilliant way a designer has incorporated movement and expression with fashion.
Based on a window display he first presented in 2004, the japanese designer tokujin yoshioka has now restructured it using a Japanese actress currently being presented at Maison Hermès, Japan. the installa ...
5 Tips on How to Create an Effective Online Portfolio
Came across a You Tube video a tablet demo where The Wonderfactory collaborated with Times Inc on how best to use this piece of gadget called the SI Tablet. (love this product). What got me interested is the way they presented and how they expressed what they feel makes them excel in their field. ...
Flock Draw | Collaborative Drawing Tool
Brainstorming online is made possible thanks to the passionate developers who come up with tools that everyone can use to collaborate. Here is one cool tool that I hope you can use in your next brainstorming session, Flock Draw.
Paint a simple masterpiece. Make a point visually. Do whatever you w ...