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- How Color Impacts Your Purchases [infographic]
“A lot of factors are taken into account when a company prepares to sell their items. Things like color, look, feel, and tone all come into play. Many times we don’t realize how significant the role of color plays when it comes to our purchases…
- Adobe Announces PDF Print Engine 3
“Announcing Adobe PDF Print Engine 3, the next-generation rendering platform, optimized for end-to-end PDF workflows. Print Engine 3 combines performance optimizations with a new scalability framework to power high-speed digital presses, large …
- Redesigned Google Logo Gets Updated With Flatter Look
“Yahoo may have received all of the attention lately for it’s boring new logo change, but it appears that Google might be changing the design of it’s logo as well.”
- 18 inspiring quotes from leading designers and artists at Reasons to be Creative
“Wisdom from Jon Burgerman, Mr Bingo, Hellicar & Lewis, Erik Spiekermann and others captured at the Reasons to be Creative conference.”
- How to Create a Portrait in the Pop Art Style using Adobe Illustrator
“In this tutorial we will learn how to create a vector portrait in Pop Art style. We will try to reproduce the style of Roy Lichtenstein, one of the best representatives of this trend. To create the raster effect and fine-tune it, the Phantasm CS vector Halftone tool was applied. To perform this tutorial, you can use any photo, so why not make a self-portrait in the Pop Art style? Let’s get started!
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) is one of the most famous American artists working in the Pop Art style. We will be reproducing his style, and I think it would be appropriate to show you some of his works.”
- Study: To the Human Brain ‘Me’ is ‘We’
“This would seem the neural basis for empathy—the ability to feel what others feel—but it goes even deeper than that. Results from the latest study suggest that our brains don’t differentiate between what happens to someone emotionally close to us and ourselves, and also that we seem neurally incapable of generating anything close to that level of empathy for strangers.”
- 50 Great Gifts for Designers and Color Lovers
” If you’ve got a friend with a personalized license plate that reads ROYGBIV,* finding a suitable holiday gift will be a relatively easy task. From candy-colored iPad sleeves to a kelly-green espresso maker, I’ve rounded up some of the best (a…
- Average Salaries Of Web Developers And Designers Across The Globe [infographic]
“Check out this interesting infographic by Staff.com comparing annual salaries (in USD) of graphic designers, web designers, web developers, software developers and medical transcriptionists in India, Canada, UK, USA, Australia and other countries across the globe.”
- 2,500 Kick Ass Photographers on Google+
“I’ve met more photography friends on Google+, than any other social network.
As I’ve gotten involved with Google+ I’ve shared my circles of photographers. When Google+ first started out and I built my photographers circle up to 500, I shared it, then 1,000, then 1,500, then 2,000. Last week my photographers circle on Google+ hit 2,500 and I shared it again.”
- What digital publishers could be doing with metadata
“Digital publishers are finally cluing in to the fact that they could (and should) be using data to better market their digital publications to their audiences.”
- Apple Toilet Designed by Milos Paripovic
“Designed by Milos Paripovic under the code name “iPoo”, Apple toilet is made out of the same aluminum that is used in Apple notebooks.”
- Gamifying Your Life
“Designing Digitally, Inc. uses Gamification and Game Based Learning methodologies to create engaging, educational, and entertaining corporate training solutions.”
- The Power of a Hand-written Note
“One of the easiest ways to separate yourself from the competition is also one of the most forgotten, a handwritten note. Seriously, most of us can barely write a check without making a mistake, simply because we’re so used to typing and textin…
- The Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs and Investors
From my experience listening to pitches, I’ve seen two sets of top 10 lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors and I wanted to share them with you so that you know what not to say and what not to believe.
- Digitize Your Large-Format Film At A Fraction Of The Price With This DIY Scanner
“With a bit of elbow grease and a DSLR, a few large-format-film-buff hackers have built a rig to scan in photos at a much higher resolution than your average desktop scanner.”
- Clip-On Device Lets You Read eBooks While You Run
“Consisting of a tiny clip-on device that can be attached to a headband or the collar of your shirt, the system works with an e‑reader app on your tablet to track the movements of your head and shoulders. Keeping the text bouncing in sync with your eyes, the system essentially makes reading while running in a stationary position as easy as reading while standing motionless.”
- 4‑Dimensional Photography: Artistic Time-Lapse Collages
“Motion pictures aside, the nature of photographic representation implies freezing space in time – a moment captured and preserved, independent of what comes before or after.”