Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
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. How do ...
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, St ...
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 original ...
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, ...