Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Give Your Photos a Punch!
Here is a great way to give your photos a Punch, literally! The PUNCH takes regular digital images but allows its users to physically punch a rasterized image of their photo. The punched image gives information which can connect its users to the digital gallery.
This was designed by Matty Martin ...
Logo Typography | Mixing to be Greater
Creating a nice logo takes time. So does creating great typography. But what happens when you combine the two and put it into motion? Well, I found this small clip and I was actually quite intrigued. Is this something no one has thought about? I tried really hard to see if I could find any other cli ...
I Love Helvetica | Kinetic Typography
As a Creative Director, one aspect of design that fascinate me is Typography. Its one design element that will make or break your design. Here is a cool way of showcasing Typography, found a video that highlights Helvetica, thru Kenetic Typography or Typography in motion. A lot of designers will ...
ABC3D | Next Gen Learning Pop-Up Book
Do you remember the birthday cards you sometimes got when you were a child. Those pop-up cards that if they were really nice had those "Happy Birthday" tunes played in a really annoying kind of sound? Well, I got my share of those and really, for a while just hated them. I did until I got just a lit ...
Typography | The Essence of Inspiration
I usually work until the sun starts rising at the horizon. I can't think of anything better than to just sit and bit by bit add stuff to a progressive design. Have the window open while the silence slowly turns into the busy life of daytime. Smelling that fresh air gently touching my senses and insp ...
Interview | Obox Design – Makers of Inspiration
I am excited to be able to premiere a new section here at Bit Rebels - "Interviews". A section that I think will be full of inspiration and great interviews with some of the Internets most creative, respected and interesting personalities. We will take you behind and beyond the scenes where these pe ...
How To: Draw a Realistic Eye
Did you ever have a nemesis in high school? You know, that person that could always do something better than you no matter how hard you tried? I did. Her name was Liz Elliot.
Since we both knew how to speak Spanish, we were bored in Spanish class. To pass the time, we would draw faces. She c ...
Branding Yourself Through Twitter Backgrounds
For those active on Twitter, one way to make sure that you stand out is via your avatar and your Twitter Background. Your Twitter Background is the first image they will see when they view your profile and can be their source of information in deciding whether to follow you or not. And here is a s ...
HOW TO:Create Luscious Lips in Photoshop
We once again hit the self refining tutorials with this "Luscious Lips" tutorial. This one is a technique used by retouchers to enhance the models lips so they look more "sexy" if they don't have those luscious lips that the contractor of the model is looking for. Just like with the "Virtual Weight ...
Check out my Mixtape Wall
I recently spent some time checking out a new creative online gallery for mixtape cover designs called MixtapeWall.com. Its a cool directory of talented disc cover designers.
MixtapeWall.com showcases a wide range of well designed mixtape cover artwork from designers, artists and DJs all over the ...
What Exactly Is #Artwalk?
This is something to really get excited about! I've heard about #Artwalk for a while now, but never really understood what it was until today.
You’ve seen it in the tweets on Twitter, you’ve seen all the buzz about it, but what exactly is #Artwalk and how can you participate in the fun?
Accor ...
HOW TO: Create Non Destructive Reflections in Photoshop
Working in Photoshop is a breeze if you know how to do things. To streamline your work is really important to make sure you save time. It's even more important if you're a freelancer that relies on the work you get and to make the deadlines in order to start on other projects you've managed to acqui ...
Create Your Own Gumby with iKITMovie
I remember when I was very young, one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons wasn’t a cartoon at all. It was Gumby. In case you’ve never seen Gumby, he is a funny green figure animated using stop motion clay animation.
You can understand why I was excited when I found out that iKITMovie, a s ...
Meet the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascots
Meet the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascots.
Miga the Sea Bear : Miga is a snowboarding sea bear inspired by the legends of the Pacific Northwest First Nations tales of orca whales that transform into bears when they arrive on land. Part Spirit Bear, a rare white bear unique to BC, Miga's outgoing ...
Design to WordPress Theme in Seconds
With the blogosphere growing and growing for each day there is an increasing demand for professional as well as free WordPress themes. Sometimes the best ones can be priced pretty high which sometimes works as a rejection for some to start a new blog. Even for seasoned designers the best themes can ...