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- How agile thinking leads to better branding
Simon Ward, chief executive of brand consultancy Holmes & Marchant explains why an agile approach is as important for branding as it is for development
- The Ultimate Guide to Flat Design
“So are you ready to try it out as well? Not sure how to get started? WebdesignerDepot is here to help with a guide of flat design resources. We’ve put together a giant list of everything flat design, from free UI kits to color palettes to typography options.
If you want to test the flat design waters or swim out a little deeper, we have everything you need to get started, from ready-made tools to tutorials for the do-it-yourselfer.” - The Worst Photoshop Disasters. Part 2 (40 pics)
“The average Photoshop user can be excused for making mistakes when trying to Photoshop an image, but commercial organizations with experienced users cannot. See another installment of the most embarrassing Photoshop blunders.”
- How Schools Kill Creativity, Ken Robinson TED Video
“Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.”
- How to Make Your Monitor Display Colours Accurately
“Read this simple guide to setting up colour management on your monitor.”
- The Paperless Book
“I have been hesitant to call “Every Book Is A Startup” a book because of the expectations people hold for a book: a finished work, written from a position of singular authority, available in some way in a physical form. What I never expected was how strongly the qualities of a book would be brought forward from the physical to the digital. Digital books have been designed to carry forward the same atomic quality of immutability of physical books. As I reached out to my colleagues working in the world of eBooks, the consensus was that no one had considered a reality in which an author, given the ability to distribute directly and virtually cost free, would consider updating their work and the consequences that might have.”
- Eye-Catching Mobile App Interfaces with Sleek Gradient Effect
“A present-day’s dominant trend is a smooth and gentle neon-like gradient that is usually paired with a light, almost luminous, text and simple, easy-to-understand glyphs that are regularly bolstered by low opacity layers. Such an exquisite combination naturally adds a note of refinement and subtlety to any UI.
” - Why Microsoft Is in it for the Long Haul With Surface
“Even if Surface gets vastly better, outshining Apple and Google’s Android is unlikely. The best that Microsoft can hope for in the near future is to be a strong No. 3 in tablets. “It’s still going to be tough,” says Milanesi, “though the marke…
- Inspiration: Digital Art by Oliver Wetter
“Born in March 1978, in Trier, Germany, Oliver Wetter of Fantabulous Visions has painted anything and everything possible. He specializes in cover artworks for editorials, book cover art, magazines, concept & genre art, preferably figure and portrait related. As usual, you may look forward over 40 quality and inspiring artworks. Enjoy!”
- Design: Seeing Without Thinking — Visual Perception and Pattern Detection for Designers
“One of the most potent questions designers should be asking themselves in the creative process is:
What jumps out?”
- 30 Creative Advertising Examples
“Advertising is very good mean of interacting with the public. First impression for any ad important. Make it different, make it creative are two main fundas of advertising. For any kind of ads whether television ads or print market ads, if the…
- The Myth of the Brainstorming Session
“From my experience working at an agency, as a designer, and at ooomf, coming up with ideas from a single brainstorming session like this one is usually not the most effective way. Many people I’ve come across, including the most creative ones, need individual time to let ideas marinate before the best concept reveals itself (even if it’s something that seems as simple as naming a website).”
- How to Whiten Teeth and Eyes in Photoshop (And Why You Always Should) by Pariah Burke
Unfortunately, teeth in photographs often render as less than pure white due to a combination of lighting, the shadows cast by lips, the refractory properties of dental enamel, and the fact that the raw teeth beneath the enamel are ivory rather…
- The real figures behind alarmist UK children’s reading reports
“The Bowker survey’s baseline findings were that the children’s book market is very stable; changes are incremental, not exponential; and that kids are omnivorous media consumers. As of January-February 2013, the survey showed a 12 percent increase in ebook purchase of children’s books, and an 8 percent slide in hardcover purchases, but even though this is the highest share for ebooks since early 2011 at 23 percent overall, it looks like gradual change more than any need for crisis talk. For one thing, the importance placed on print books has remained fairly constant since 2011, and other media, with the single exception of mobile apps, have all declined. And the proportion of parents who prefer their kids to read in print has remained pretty constant too, at almost 70 percent.”
- John Nack: AppSeed Turns Sketches into HTML, PSDs, Integrates with Photoshop
“Lean startup methodology strongly emphasizes paper prototypes: What’s the simplest, fastest, lowest-cost thing you could do to increase learning & decrease risk? To that end, AppSeed aims to let you sketch on paper, then turn the results into functioning, HTML-based app prototypes:”
- 10 Wildly-Unconventional Web Designs
“There’s a big difference between following best practices and following conventions. Best practices align your design work with business and branding goals while still allowing for distinctiveness and creativity. Following conventions, however, often yields ordinary results that fail to provide unique appeal — the designer’s main responsibility.”