Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Car Design Sketches | Time Lapse
It doesn't come as a surprise to anyone I guess that I truly love design in every conceivable form. It also doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that I love time lapses as well, right? Put them together and you got me glued to the screen like my daughter in front of Cartoon Network every morning bef ...
Typographic Time Piece
Having just moved to a new small apartment in Oslo, I have rediscovered my interest for details and cool interior object to make the place more like home.
I just came over this really cool watch (that I bought right away) which is really cool - designwise. It’s called Qlocktwo - and is a clock th ...
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 Remove Red Eye using GIMP
Don't you just hate it when you take pictures and then when you upload them you see that the photo you took has the red eye problem? Don't fret there is a solution to that and here is a video tutorial on how one can correct the image via Gimp.
What is Gimp? GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipul ...
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 ...
Foofbag or Foofpod?!
Yes you read it right! Foofbag and Foofpod.  Welcome to foof. Where they make the stylish 'foofbag' Apple laptop sleeve for the MacBook range and the soft 'foofpod' iPod cover for use with Apple iPod, Touch & iPhone. They also sell cable turtles to complement their foof products.  H ...
Paper Craft – Twitter, FailWhale, Steve Jobs etc.
Paper is one very flexible material when it comes to creating fun designs. Papercraft has grown to become a great hobby. So many fascinating things one can create. Just check out some of the cool finds that I was able to dig up for our bitrebels fans. Fail Whale, Colorful Bird, Twitter Bird, ...
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 ...
I Love You Even If You Piss Me Off Sometimes…
Don't you agree? Even if we are in the digital age, it is still nice to get some greeting cards from our loved ones. It somehow makes you feel special. The ecard revolution is still great as it eliminates the use of paper but this card is awesome as it is also eco -friendly.
This is an origin ...
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 ...
Is This Really Made of Paper?!?
The first time a saw this art work my question was, is this really made of paper? Paper art is one form of art that is getting a lot of attention. I find it very fascinating. I discovered a site that specializes in paper sculpting while doing my research and just had to share his work. The a ...