By reading one or several of these books I have listed and applying the theoretical or practical advice they contain, you can become more creative, improve your workflow, upgrade your overall skill as a graphic designer, and dramatically increase the quality of your work.
With the recent announcement that Photoshop Express will include FlickR support, Adobe has realized that it missed an opportunity that Picnik quickly took advantage of. Mistakes by one company in business breed success for another and this case is no different. Picnik is a company that build a web application that allowed people to edit [...]
All languages need constant revision, updating and expansion. As we move closer to a unified and cohesive semantic web, HTML is growing by the day to include new things. The latest complete overhaul is currently being developed and many representatives from Apple (Safari), Mozilla (Firefox), Opera and Microsoft (Internet Explorer) are being included …
Adobe has dominated the design software market for close to two decades now. Their kingpin is Photoshop which, in the past decade, has grown to include support for 3D modeling, video and web design. So what can we expect from the next generation of Photoshop? Well, no one is sure yet but the new …
The other day I came across an interesting website with tons of factual information about relatively unknown world-class designers that have created brand identities that have shaped the world around us. It got me thinking about some of my own favorite logos, so I did some research to find out who created them. Joe Kral [...]
The other day a friend came across a Myspace page where her modeling photography was being displayed as someone else’s work. She did a double take and then looked again, yup still there and the person had even gone to to the trouble of cropping out her logo and using his own. The …
One of the most frustrating things on the web is when you think you’ve found what you’re looking for, and after you click on the link to that page, you get an error saying “404 Page not found”. We’ve all seen that too many times, haven’t we? The default style is the error information on [...]
Well, I personally know loooots of developers who want to put other site’s thumbnails on their site. One of my friends wrote an article on his blog a long ago and I gave the link away to the developers. But that never helped because that is based on some 3rd party API, which is not [...]
Software & Support Verlag’s website Create or Die is a very popular informative web portal in Germany. They have arranged a valuable web design award program for the first time called “Webinale 2008.” So far 30 websites has been nominated for Webinale 2008 Most Valuable Website Design Award, under 3 different …
Whenever you’re creating a website, choosing colors randomly often leads to disaster. Webdesign may not be as traditional as painting, but it is an art nonetheless and like all types of art, it requires a lot of careful study. There are several things that you have to consider before selecting final colors for …
