Posts tagged with "design"
Saturday, 11. April 2009, 14:58:33
logo, corporate, design, styleguide
...
The Smashing Magazine published an interesting collection of logo designs. Well done again!
Check out their older posts too:
*
58 Creative Logos*
Creative Logos
Thursday, 9. April 2009, 20:51:14
print, design, website, grid
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Using a grid for your design is one way to keep it smooth and clear. The Smashing Magazine wrote interesting articles about
what grid design is and
how to use it.
Meanwhile the standard resolution for web pages is 1024x768px and Nathan Smith developed the perfect
960 Grid System. On his website he shows all the beautiness of it and made templates for various programms available. The
960 Grid System is now available for Inkscape too.
Wednesday, 25. February 2009, 22:14:38
flyer, design, ubuntu, linux
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Last year at the
Ubucon'08 i'm getting involved designing a new flyer for Ubuntu Germany. After
Julius Bloch poked us again and again, end of last year
Thomas Keup and me was thinking about the message. Based on the workshop of the Ubucon'08 and our brainstorming Thomas created a really cool text for it. And so it was now on me creating a really cool design that fits to this superb text.
...and i did well »All work is based on
Inkscape,
Gimp,
Seperate+,
Dejavu Sans &
Ubuntu font,
Moonshiner and
CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp.
Thanks to all the people give us feedback and hunting for typo bugs.
UPDATE:Here is the
web optimized PDF of it.
Tuesday, 24. February 2009, 12:19:52
art, mag, photo, design
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Blanket 14 is out., They described themeself as "a free PDF online magazine that is aimed at uncovering art, design and photography from the talented people who create it". Again interesting stuff at all.
Friday, 20. February 2009, 21:33:04
design, illustration, web, sketches
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Friday, 16. January 2009, 14:59:52
trend, design, 2009, web
A new year start and the web is filled up with forecsts about web and design trends in 2009. Here is a short overview:
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T3N Web Trends 2009 * Smashing Magazin:
Web Design Trends For 2009* Open Source Technology:
2008-2009 Web Trends - WEB 3.0* Baekdal:
Web Trends 2009* Independent.ie:
Tech Trends 2009* Just Creative Design:
Logo Design Trends 2009
Wednesday, 7. January 2009, 18:18:10
data visualisation, chart, design, diagramm
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Andreas Nilsson posted
a very nice ifographics about the Gnome release process in his blog.
A lot more about infographics and data visualisation can be found at the
Smashing Magazine, at the
Design Label blog,
Flowing Data and
Funnel.
Wednesday, 12. November 2008, 15:21:35
design, dtp, typo, font
Looking for a cool nice fonts? Try that:
Sunday, 9. November 2008, 12:36:33
inspiration, design, photo, mag
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Today i discovered
Blanket, they described themeself as "a free PDF online magazine that is aimed at uncovering art, design and photography from the talented people who create it". Interesting stuff at all.
Sunday, 26. October 2008, 15:18:08
wallpapers, design, mag, desktop
Once i posted a link about
two good wallpaper selections of the Smashing Magazine. Today Sebastian, member of the
DEV3 team, droped me a link to
Desktopography. Desktopography offers a really quite amazing collections of wallpapers - check it out!
Saturday, 25. October 2008, 20:21:36
usability, design, inkscape, gui
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There is an interesting
summery and comparison about instant messenger icons by Chris Szeto. If you are interested in icons, GUI design and usability you should definitly check out
GUIdebook and "
10 Mistakes in Icon Design" by Denis Kortunov.
Saturday, 25. October 2008, 19:58:26
design, sketches, print, poster
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For those that loving funny sketches and art:
Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art. Another goody of the
Smashing Magazine.
Wednesday, 15. October 2008, 19:28:03
design, print, poster, mag
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The Smashing Magazine didn't get tired of collecting artwork. This time they collected 50 beautiful movie posters.
My favorites are:
* Walk aline
* The Thing
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Unforgiven
* Man With One Red Shoe
* Perfume
* Mean Streets
* Sweeney Todd
As you see it isn't easy to pick just one in such a good selection
Sunday, 5. October 2008, 14:38:03
ico, tango, icon, vector
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After creating a
new splash for TORCS (using Blender and Gimp) i finished now a new
Tango styled icon for
TORCS. I enjoyed it again working with
Inkscape:
How i did it:* Set up the document (Shift+Ctrl+D) to 48x48px size
* Setup in the same dialogue the grid with 1px space
* Diplay the grid (View > Grid)
* Optional let the paths snap to the grid
* Now create/ design your icon but make sure everything used full pixel sizes/ positions
* Export the images as PNG (File > Bitmap export)
TORCS is available for Windows too and so i have to create a multiformat icon in the Windows ICO format too. Gimp make it possible to save images as the required format.
The bad thing is that Gimp can't create multiformat icons (like Sibcodes plugin for Photoshop). Gimp didn't add resources it always replaces the full icon
I created a bug report for Gimp 2.6.0.Stupid me, GIMP can do!
Creating a multi-format Windows ICO with Gimp:* Open the biggest icon PNG (in my case 48x48)
* drag all smaller resolutions into it
* If you like to create various color depths duplicate the layers often as needed (i duplicated them one time because i'd like to export 24bpp and 32bpp icons)
* Now save the layered image as an *.ico
* At save dialogue assign the color depth to any layer
* Save it, you will get an Ico file with various sizes and color depth
Friday, 19. September 2008, 21:38:30
wallpapers, design, mag, desktop
Saturday, 6. September 2008, 15:38:23
collection, design, mag, inspiration
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If you do illustrations with
Inkscape or
Gimp and looking for inspirations you should check out
Cool Showcase
Tuesday, 29. July 2008, 21:38:04
inspiration, design, collection, illustration
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The Smashing Magazine collected "
50 Beautiful Feminine Illustrations and Artworks" - indeed another interesting collection.
Tuesday, 22. July 2008, 12:02:32
inspiration, design, mag
Wednesday, 16. July 2008, 14:10:58
mag, Photoshop, GIMP, design
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The Smashing Magazine published a new article about
retouching photos with Photoshop. I'm sure you can do that with Gimp too
Wednesday, 9. July 2008, 09:26:16
webdesign, inspiration, design, web development
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The Smashing Magazine wrotes two interesting articles about Web Form Design Patterns:
Sign-Up Forms Part 1Sign-Up Forms Part 2There is an older article about
creative web forms design too.
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