Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Pen Stroke Faces: Famous Movie Stars Epically Drawn
How can you not be ultimately impressed when you see people take the most common things and create mind blowing art out of them? We have featured a lot of incredible art here on Bit Rebels, and usually it's things that you couldn't even imagine being created. When it comes to traditional art, like w ...
Office Plant Made Of Green Pens For Workaholics Without A Green Thumb
There are many benefits to having plants in your office. Studies show that they help reduce stress, enhance employee attitudes, increase productivity and even improve air quality. If you look at a desk with plants and one without plants, the one with plants will always feel more cozy and inviting. A ...
Summer BBQ Papercraft: A Grill & All The Fixins Made From Paper
This is the time of year for summer BBQs and creating special memories with friends and family. One of the best parts of summer BBQs is cooking on the grill. We've featured a lot of intricate papercraft on Bit Rebels over the years, but this is one I haven't seen before. This is basically a BBQ gril ...
8-Bit Space Invaders Inspired Micro House Design
Micro houses are all the rage these days, and I could see myself living in one of them easily. I might not want to live in a house as small as the house that fits on the back of a tricycle (you can see that here in Portable House), but this 8-bit Space Invaders inspired micro house would be perfect. ...
French Door Refrigerator Design Can Serve Hot Tea Anytime
Sometimes an invention comes along that is such a brilliant idea that it makes our old style way of doing things look silly. It's nothing new to access cold water from a refrigerator door, but why not hot water? Does it make any sense that if we want hot water we have to put it in a teapot or kettle ...
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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Graphic Designer? [Flowchart]
With each article we publish about becoming a graphic designer, there is always a thought in the back of my mind that's asking, "How does a person know if he or she is fit to be a graphic designer in the first place?" It's a tricky question, and one that probably takes experience to answer, if you k ...
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The Impact Of Choosing The Right Logo Color [Infographic]
When you come up with an idea or concept that you think could become successful, the last thing you probably think about is the actual logo color you want to you use for your brand. It's important to understand that every decision you make around your brand is an important one. Sometimes it will tak ...
Sticker Lamp Design: Just Peel & Stick It To Your Wall For Light
This is one of the simplest yet stylish lighting options I've seen. These sticker lamps would be perfect for single people living in tiny apartments where space is valuable and convenience is imperative. These lamps look like stickers, and you can stick them wherever you need light. The packaging th ...
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What You Need To Know About The Graphic Design Industry [Infographic]
There are plenty of perceptions that people have when they hear the words ‘graphic design’ or ‘graphic designer.’ Most are perceptions that don’t depict the profession very well. According to Globalgraphics, anyone who’s ever wanted to become a graphic designer knows that the way you look at it, in ...
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5 Things Designers Should Know When Dealing With Clients [Infographic]
As a web designer, developer and programmer, I have come across all kinds of clients throughout the years. You never know how a client will react to your work until the work has actually been started and sometimes completed. It's always the same thing. It's a known fact that you can create your most ...
Sandwich Bag Lunchbox Doodles From A Father With Love
For many kids, school is a boring way to spend 6 hours a day. They look forward to the weekend all week, and then they are met with Monday morning all too soon. I remember those days, and I remember how excited I was when my mother put a surprise in my lunchbox. Sometimes it was just a simple note o ...
10 Hyper-Real Fantastical Animal Sculptures That Represent Life
Ellen Jewett is an animal sculpture artist with a unique vision, and profound skill, when it comes to mixing animal forms with surreal and fantastical elements. She graduated from McMaster University in 2007, but she started her "Creatures from El" series of work in 2005. Upon graduating, she's cont ...
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8 Types Of Infographics & Which One To Use When [Infographic]
Whether you love them or hate them, infographics are still one of the most effective ways to present a lot of information in an interesting, concise and easily digestible way. It's much faster to get the gist of something by scanning an infographic than reading several paragraphs of text. There have ...
Wash Clothes In Style: A Modernistic Laundromat That Looks Like A Club
There are certain things that mark the transition from university student to adulthood, and one of those is buying a washing machine. The day you do that is the day you know you aren't a kid anymore. I still miss going to the laundromat every once in a while. There is something about a rusty coin-op ...
Hot Tea Slingshot: The Most Fun You’ll Have With A Used Tea Bag
If you drink hot tea all day long like a good friend of mine does, you probably have a big stack of used tea bags to get rid of by the end of the day. What do you do with them? You could just throw them in the trash, but it seems like it might be a creative way to reuse or upcycle them into somethin ...