Being able to design artistically is a gift, no doubt about it. You can learn all the theories and study all the art of the great artists, and it will not make you an artist, it is something you have to have been born with. In today’s news we have collected five recent articles that showcase the art of amazing graphic designers, and I am sure you will agree they are amazing.
The Magnificent Art of Adi Granov
One of the most incredible modern illustrators is the Bosnian Adi Granov. He first came into the spotlight in 2004 when he worked on the Iron Man miniseries Extremis. Since then, he has created the comic book covers for a whole list of Marvel’s comic books. In 2006 he was hired to help ...
Fortune 500 companies are placed in a list compiled and published by Fortune magazine. These companies are ranked within the top 500 U.S. corporations by their gross revenue. The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955. And since then, it has been the dream of most start-ups and established companies to be featured within this list.
A Fortune 500 company has not only expressed success in their ability to rise above the rest, but also in its ability to trade and/or sell flawlessly through specific or various venues. With this being said, we’re going to take a look at a few aspects (mainly user experience related) of top online shopping carts belonging to fortune 500 companies. Although this won’t fuel a company to become known within these warriors ...
In the past week Google debuted its new operating system called Chrome. Have you tried it yet?
In todays news we have some resources to show you were to download and how install Chrome. And then decide for yourselves how good… or bad… it actually is.
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How…
Most people won’t be ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced code and turning that into a bootable computer. So, in this article, they have put together a step-by-step guide to doing this, for free. It should only take about 15 minutes (depending on how long it takes to download the OS itself).
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Letter spacing is essential in commercial graphic design – if you want to look professional. This article will demonstrate some common letter spacing techniques in the context of logo design and branding.
I have started with Helvetica (a sans-serif font) here because it’s very easy to work with (especially in caps) as all the latters are pretty much the same width, it’s also very bold. There may be times when this wide letterspacing works for you but with a logo you should always try less spacing as a general rule.
Bringing letters closer together helps to turn the word into more of an image. Reducing the spacing has also made the word much stronger ...
In this tutorial, we are going to create a dark and atmospheric car scene. The result of it, is something in semblance of Batman’s dark ‘bat mobile.’ The effect attempted, is to give the car image more solidity or weight visually wise.
Step 1
First off, load this picture of the Peoguet Parna. It was downloaded from rocketdock.com. You can also download more free car images from getcarwallpapers.com. The actual size of this picture is 841 by 595 px and so this will be the dimensions we’ll work with in our tutorial.
Step 2
Now select the Pen Tool (P) and trace out the car along with the ground itself. Select the the Layer Mask button (the third button from the left, right below the Layers Palette) to make ...
As you’ve seen in our part one of websites you can visit to learn Photoshop, there is plenty of resources available for the Photoshop expert wanna be. Because you never get enough of knowledge sources, here are a few more places where to get educated about Photoshop.
1. PSD Fan
2. PSD Learning
3. Photoshop Lab
4. PS Wish
5. Photoshop User TV
6. Planet Photoshop
7. PSD Core
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Over 2 billion mobile phone users have access to the web on a global scale. About 700 million of these users have or continue to use their mobile browsers to search the web on a consistent basis. As these numbers increase, the need for crisp, clean, and usable mobile websites are in high demand.
Website owners with a large audience have already seen the benefits of having a mobile platform service their users. Just as many advancements in web development have become the standard, in the near future it’s predicted mobile websites will be at the forefront, and will also become more of a necessity rather than a commodity or luxury.
In order to design a simple, effective, and attractive mobile website, there are a few ingredients that we need to ...
With the speed that the internet and its development are constantly changing, web designers need to keep up by with all these new techniques, technologies and standards. It can be difficult. In todays post we have collected some fresh resources and tutorials around web development, focusing on CSS and HTML.
Coding Clean and Semantic Templates
If you are the guy who uses
tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of
tag. Have you ever edited someone’s templates, don’t those messy tags drive you crazy? Not only writing clean templates can benefit yourself, but your team as well. It will save you time ...
If you are the guy who uses <div> tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of <div> tag. Have you ever edited someone’s templates, don’t those messy tags drive you crazy? Not only writing clean templates can benefit yourself, but your team as well. It will save you time when you have to debug and edit (particularly the large projects).
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Whether you’re talking about weight, height, or the code for a website, the truth is that size really does matter. It isn’t a question of whether or not size matters — in one way or another, our experiences have shown that it does. The real question is how much does size matter? And how much does it matter when it comes to your code?
On the web, size is a major factor in the quality of the user experience. Its a fact — keep visitors waiting and you’re sure to lose them. Every front-end web designer knows there are things we can do to minimize file size and therefore, reduce download times. In short, we recognize size matters.
So, we diligently optimize our images and we use cleaner, leaner code. ...
