Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
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 artis ...
Paint with Words
There are so many creative ways in which one can use fonts or various typeface to produce works of art. Its really painting with words. Found several different examples to illustrate what paining with words mean, or how they can be implemented.
For "I love NY" -Describes the city of New York vi ...
Cool Screensaver
Found a screensaver that Brand Studio created for Toyota. Its actually a very simple interactive screen saver that gives emphasis that every 5 seconds one more Toyota car appears in the world. It opens with a car being pushed to the right side of the screen, looks rather normal but after the car ...
Cool Free Favicon Generators
What is a Favicon? A favicon (short for "favorites icon"), also known as a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display t ...
Amazing Kinetic Typography Examples
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 studied in Communication Design and Interaction Design courses. Some commonly s ...
Snow Leopard Wallpapers
For all you mac lovers out there, this post has been written, with love, to you. Looking for some gorgeous Snow Leopard wallpapers?
Here at Bitrebels.com, we are celebrating the new release of Apple's new operating system 'Snow Leopard' this week. We have put together some fantastic snow leopard ...
New York City Street Artist: Swoon
Since I express my artistic creativity through writing and not art in the traditional sense, I am always fascinated by artists who draw, paint and create with different mediums. This article is about one of those very intriguing artists.
Swoon is a 31 year old female graffiti artist based in New ...
Geeky Salt and Pepper Shakers
Do you like adding seasoning to your food? Here is one way to add a new meaning to the phrase "Please pass the salt". Who says that the salt and pepper shaker need to be boring. Found some really fun geeky and cool salt and pepper shakers. Hope you like them.
First up is the Keyboard Salt and ...
The Art of Brick
Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.
With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms.
Sawaya’s art is ...
It’s All About The Packaging
The mix tape or in some countries it was called the cassette tape is a device that was used to record anything from sound bites to music. When I see one of these I just can't stop being nostalgic.
So if you miss the 80's and making mix tapes, this product will inspire you again! A great concept, ...
Go Ahead and Just Doodle!
Doodling is one of my favorite past times. It doesn't have to be anything structured just draw anything that you feel like in random topics. Sometimes I create stories but most of the time, I take my favorite pen and doodle. i think its a great way to practice sketching.
A doodle is a type of s ...
RSS Feed Inspired Design
RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web fe ...
“Typography Everywhere”
Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users. Since digitization, typography has spread to a wider ranger of applications, appearing on web pages, LCD mobile phone screens, and hand-held video ...
Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Designing and programming a website is a time consuming process that sometime gets unbalanced depending on how much influence the sole designer has on its creation. Too much freedom for the designer can sometimes create a website that doesn't have much in common with the actual brand and/or company ...