Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Good Fonts for Grapic Designers

A great resource listing 300 good fonts for graphic designers. A nice way of wading through the enormous list of fonts available on the web nicely organized.

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Bill Maher set design 'forgets' to pay photo-blogger

More evidence of just how main-stream photoblogging is -- looks like the set designer for Real Time with Bill Maher 'forgot' to pay a photo-blogger for using a composite of his images as the background of a skit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lbstone/44076689/

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Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design

As Google and Yahoo! continue their volley of product offerings, this guy thought it would be useful to compare the interface design solutions each company employed to solve similar user needs. In other words: how does Yahoo’s version of a product (Maps, Local Search, Image Search, etc.) compare to Google’s? Really neat side bu side comparision

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Amazing Collection of Design Resources

Blue Vertigo is an excellent site to have in your bookmarks. It boasts a huge collection of design resources. Including vector logotypes, stock photography, fonts, brushes, sounds and more!

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Heathrow gets world's first Personal Rapid Transport system

Driverless pods will ferry business class passengers from car to check-in beginning by the end of 2009. Could this be a new model for public transport the world over?

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Computer Inspired Architecture - Pixel House [Pics]

The Pixel House is an interesting project designed by Mass Studies and has an innovative design and a curve like geometry. It just looks like each pixel of stone jelled together to create this astonishing building, which apparently gives you an effect similar to that of a 3-dimensional picture.

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20 Pieces of Ingenious 'Flat Pack' Urban Furniture [PICS]

Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard. In addition to being clever and simply aesthetically awesome, flat pack furniture is also eco-friendly and highly creative. Check out these 20 awesome examples!

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7 of the Best CSS Resources on the Web

Design professionals once ignored CSS, chalking it up to nothing more than a fad that would eventually fade into the background. Over time, its ease of use and wealth of design applications have made it the new favorite of media designers everywhere. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for?

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Design a Logo - The Ultimate Guide

Logo design is arguably one of the most important and valued areas of design. A quality logo design combined with the branding of an organization or company can become one of the most powerful forces in today’s society. If you love logo design as much as I do, then I am sure you will enjoy these logo design tips and resources.

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

An overview of professional step-by-step tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works.

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Happy Blue Year: 2008 Color Trends

According to color supplier Pantone®, the color of 2008 is Blue Iris. The blue is a radiant, calming hue, dark, but not dark enough to be in the realm of navy, and is a sharp contrast to the 2007 choice, Chili Pepper Red.

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Coolest Foliage Covered Botanical Building Ever

If you’re a fan of botanical architecture, this might just be the coolest building ever. Architects Minsuk Cho and Kisu Park of Mass Studies designed this flora-clothed multi-level building to house Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester’s store in Seoul, South Korea.

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Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

In this tutorial I will show you some very easy techniques, using gradients and layer styles, that we can use to produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

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Geek Trends: 15 Cool Website Footers with Great Usability

Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

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