There are certain unwritten rules within web design that have to be adhered to, and good typography is certainly on of them. Good type and a quality web design have to go handed. In todays design news we have resources and tips for good typography practices and a great article on how to make your design standout from the crowd.
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Packaging design is challenging enough with the everyday evolution of products as manufactures constantly search for better ways to make their products smaller and a bit “easier” on the eyes of consumers. More than anything, it can be a hassle having to look for increasingly efficient ways to package your product, especially if your design has to provide a solution for current ecological needs.
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The internet is continually growing, but how big is it really? And what about Twitter, is it as popular or as big as we think? These are a two questions being asked in todays news, oh, we also have 40 free iconsets.
The free transform tool can be daunting if you don’t know how to use it. The tool has a lot of hidden options that make it quite powerful. In this tutorial we will be manipulating a simple square to show you the basics and then we will move on to a real life application.
The popular design community site DesignBump, has undergone a major facelift, read about how the site was redeveloped. Also, we have the most overblown guide to Twitter, 20 pages and using 5382 words, all for a service that limits you to a 140 charcter message!
A clipping mask is a quick way to create masked effects that show and hide parts of images or photos. In this tutorial we will create a clipping mask with text and an image.
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Today we have three great website enhancing news resources for you: Create a vector character for your site with Photoshop and Illustrator, 10 tips and hacks for your WP comment section, and finally, a cool new Lightbox clone called Bumpbox.
In this short tutorial you will learn what layer masks are and how to utilize them for working faster and more efficiently in Photoshop.
Lets consider what masks do: They hide or show things. Masks in photoshop work the same way: they can hide or show parts of images. In general filling a layer mask with black hides a part of the image. Filling a layer mask with white shows a part of an image. Filling the mask with gray will show the part of the image with varying opacity based on how light or dar the gray is.
Illustration and typography are two completely different types of design, just as digital painting and photo manipulation are two very different styles of graphic design. In today’s design news you will see how each can be mixed together effectively.. Oh, and we also have some cool lego fridges.
It’s incredible the amount of sites that have acquired a bad taste for web form design. A good registration form is assertive, and collected, however a great registration page is clean and offers a creative edge that forces you to take a second glance at the design. Some of the pages listed below were chosen for their attention demanding illustrations, while others because of their cleanliness and ease of usability.
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Todays news features a new web service, called card.ly. The idea behind it is very simple, much a-like Twitter, in simplicty terms, you’ll love it. We also have the most outrageous geek furniture that your wife would never allow you to buy and, finally, the “The Battle of the Browsers” results are in, no surprises to be honest.
Learn how to create an interactive photo stack in Flash with no keyframes and just a few lines of ActionScript.
A huge resource of grunge style design elements.
A quick and easy technique for creating light streaks in photoshop.
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