Creative Community Bulletin 06 February 2010 Through 18 February 2010

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 06 February 2010 through 18 February 2010:

  • T‑Shirt Design Template in 40 Colors – If you want to get in on the t‑shirt design action, read the CreativePro​.com arti­cle How to Break into T‑Shirt Design, then down­load this free men’s t‑shirt tem­plate in Photoshop PSD for­mat from ColorOverload​.com. The tem­plate is a photo-realistic tee per­fect for visu­al­iz­ing or comp­ing mod­ern graph­ic tees or plain old client logo treat­ments, and it includes copies of the shirt in 40 stan­dard American Apparel col­ors. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.creativepro.com%2Farticle%2Ffree-all-and-so-it-begins
  • Free For All: Web Design Resources (by Pariah Burke) – These free­bies are for all stages of Web site cre­ation, from sketch­es through wire­frames to check­ing for cross-browser compatibility.
  • Arina Komarova’s Egg Shower Concept Redefines Hygiene – A rain style show­er is cen­tered over­head, along with the LED light­ing sys­tem, mak­ing both the inter­nal and exter­nal expe­ri­ence more enter­tain­ing – its user can enjoy a show­er with ambi­ence while a spec­ta­tor will appre­ci­ate the enter­tain­ment. When (and if) Komarova’s design accel­er­ates from con­cept to real­i­ty – you could be bathing in new ways (assum­ing your bath­room is quite size­able). Despite its rather gen­er­ous scale of the Egg Shower (also referred to as Cocoon Shower), it was prob­a­bly not designed with claus­tro­pho­bia in mind. So if you in fact suf­fer from an abnor­mal fear of being enclosed spaces, steer clear.
  • Short Skirts And The Politics Of Sexual Assault – It does­n’t explain why there were five peo­ple in the room when the rape occurred, who could have stopped it, but chose not to.

    It does­n’t explain why one boy felt so uncom­fort­able with the sit­u­a­tion that he left – but he did­n’t tell any­one else, he just pre­ferred not to be involved.

  • How to Solve Typographic Widows and Orphans – Short and mis­placed lines – known as wid­ows and orphans – are lay­out prob­lems, but they have typo­graph­ic solutions.
  • Just Say No! to Automatic Leading – This could be a very short arti­cle: Never use auto­mat­ic lead­ing. Period. End of col­umn. But of course this isn’t the end of the col­umn. It’s not that I’m paid by the word, but I think you deserve a fuller explanation.
  • InDesign: Set Type on a Circle, a Square, an S‑Curve, Whatever – Here’s how to use InDesign to make your type fol­low just about any path you can cre­ate. And if you’re feel­ing real­ly wild, you can apply Effects to those twists and turns!
  • New, Cooler Edition of the Bible – Did you know that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles helped save Noah’s Ark dur­ing the Flood?! Or that Jesus rode a veloci­rap­tor into Jerusalem!? Or that robots from the future tried to stop David from defeat­ing Goliath!? Well, it’s all right here, in the New Cooler Edition of the Holy Bible!
  • Avoid design burn-out by lim­it­ing client revi­sions – Don’t ask how many revi­sions are includ­ed in the cost
    This is my most hat­ed phrase in the design indus­try. It seems to have stemmed from those cheap logo design web­sites that offer a ‘5 for $50 deal’ with ‘3 free revi­sions’. It gives me the impres­sion thatthe work the design­er cre­ates is ‘wrong’, and then needs ‘cor­rect­ing’. I always cre­ate designs with­rea­son­ing behind the graph­ics, there­fore I don’t tend to work on a revi­sion basis. If a change needs to be made that’s not a prob­lem, if I feel dif­fer­ent­ly I’ll always offer my view, but as long as it fits with­in the pro­posed time quo­ta it’s no trou­ble. However if the change cre­ates addi­tion­al work beyond the ini­tial bud­get, advice will be giv­en on any addi­tion­al costs. (tak­en from spoon​graph​ics​.co​.uk by Chris Spooner)
  • Adobe Photoshop (CS5?) Selections Sneak Peek [HD Video] – Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, gives you a glimpse of new selec­tion tech­nol­o­gy that offers bet­ter edge detec­tion and mask­ing results in less time—even with the trick­i­est images, like hair. What tools do you cur­rent­ly use to make chal­leng­ing selections?
  • Movie Computer Interfaces and UX by Designer Mark Coleran – Graphic inter­face design­er Mark Coleran has cre­at­ed com­put­er screens for block­buster hits like The Bourne Identity and Mission Impossible III. He says his screens are designed to tell a sto­ry in two sec­onds or less.