Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
10 Colorful Right-Brain & Left-Brain Interpretations
A few weeks ago, we wrote an article entitled How We Use Our Brains. It contained a beautiful infographic which suggested we only use 20% of our brain. I've always heard we use 10% of our brain. So what is the other 80% or 90% made of? Richard suggested that it might be possible that the universe eq ...
Delicious New Trend: Websites Created Out Of Chocolate
I have a trend alert for you, and it tastes delicious! Have you ever seen a chocolate website? I'm not referring to a website that sells chocolates or that is designed to look like chocolate. I'm talking about a website that is actually made out of chocolate. It seems like a bizarrely wonderful conc ...
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The Evolution Of Graphic Design [Infographic]
As with almost anything nowadays, there is a history that goes back a long way when it comes to graphic design. Some people may think that this whole thing we call graphics is just something we made up when we first started using computers, and it became possible to draw simple pictures on them. Of ...
How To: Determine If You Need A Professional Designer
Last weekend when I was on the flight back from Shanghai to Atlanta there was a man sitting across the aisle who started talking to me. He asked me about myself, and whenever anyone does that, I always get excited because it's an excuse to talk about Twitter and social media. Since Twitter and Faceb ...
How To: Draw Creative Caricatures
Caricatures are such a fun style of drawing and illustrating. We've written about talented caricature artists many times on Bit Rebels. Just last week, I wrote about the very well done caricature art of Denis Zilber. When I look at caricatures, I have a lot of questions. How does the artist know whi ...
20 Simplistic Typography Movie Posters: Pure Genius
Once again, I want to visit the realm of movie posters. Yeah I know, I am quite a fanatic. The fact is that as long as people try to send a message through them, I will always check them out. We have touched on the subject of simplifying the meaning of movie posters before, and the more I look for t ...
Edible RFID Technology: Changing Our Perception Of Food
If you keep up with the latest evolving technologies, you are probably aware that RFID technology is huge right now. RFID is simply a tracking system that gives the reader information stored on a tag, which is attached to the object. If you are like me, you wondered exactly what the differences betw ...
Photography: Rainbow Ghosts Inside The Bronson Caves
I remember a few weeks ago when I wrote to you that I was going to try to write one photography post per day through the end of the month. Although a few days have gone by when I haven't done that, for the most part, I've written about a collection of fabulous photographs or a creative photography t ...
Recycled Floppy Disk Art: Retro Technology Gets A New Life
Of all the creative artwork I've written about on Bit Rebels over the past two years, this is definitely one of my favorites. It combines technology, painting, recycling and a human touch, all flavored with that retro feeling we love so much. I remember when I first saw the works of Nick Gentry. It ...
LED Eyeshadow: Now You Can Look Like A Cyborg
I remember back in the days when LED lights were mostly just used as a tool to enhance technology. Whether it was an interactive billboard, a super geeky mod or even a fabulous light installation, LED lights were everywhere a few years ago.
Then something interesting happened. Someone somewhere d ...
High Speed Photographs Taken At The Moment Of Impact
High speed photography and video seem to be hot right now. Every day I see new collections of photographs making the rounds on Twitter. Just like with any trend that becomes popular, the competition is fierce, and we are getting very picky about what impresses us when it comes to this photography te ...
New World Record: Largest Comic Strip Ever Created
Just this past weekend, a group of students in France decided they were going to snag the new world record for the largest comic strip ever created. However, if you know about the Guinness Book of World Records, you know it's no joke. There are very specific rules each person or group in that book h ...
Stuff Nobody Tells Us About Life Illustrated
I love it when artists find a way to incorporate the life lessons they've learned through their experiences into creative illustrations and visuals. An example of this is in the article In A Perfect World: Life's Daily Annoyances Illustrated.
Another artist who creates "life illustrations" is Ale ...
In A Perfect World: Life’s Daily Annoyances Illustrated
Have you ever had a day when you woke up at the wrong time because the AM/PM got mixed up on your alarm, then you walked to the kitchen only to realize there was no milk to put in your cereal? You reached for your iPhone, but it was out of battery. I haven't had a day that started out that rocky in ...
For Music Lovers: The Handmade Guitar String Bracelet
This is creativity at its best. Who would ever think to hand roll vintage sheet music and carefully coil steel guitar strings to create a beautiful bracelet? Tanith Rohe, a jewelry maker from the San Fransico Bay area, did. She is a self-proclaimed urban archaeologist and thrift store shopper.
Ac ...