10 great off-white websites
Okay wait a minute, something’s not white here. This post showcases clean websites that use off-white designs to create a subtle, unsaturated background effect.
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Creating stunning, detailed typography with Illustrator
Looking to make hand-drawn, detailed typography? Here’s a how-to for creating it and a walkthrough of my “Justice” typographic illustration.
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Jun
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Google Wave: The next wave of social media?
As the next major tool in the internet world, Google Wave will combine social media, email, instant messaging, and more into a single platform. Will this affect the traffic of social media sites if Wave extensions offer as much flexibility as the sites themselves?
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Designing a logo from scratch part 2: drawing and illustrating
Ah, it’s finally here! The follow-up article to “Designing a Logo: Creative Brainstorming”. This tutorial goes over the visual process of designing a logo with your hand and giving it the vector treatment using Illustrator or another vector pen-based graphic program that you have.
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Apr
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Making a perfect grid-aligned website using Gridfox and Firebug
Have you ever sliced a layout, only for it not to be grid-aligned once it’s scripted? This post explains what to do in this situation to restore the appearance of the website. Thanks to Eric Puidokas, there is a program that adds a grid overlay in Firefox itself, and in combination with Firebug, you receive [...]
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Apr
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Designing a logo from scratch part 1: Creative Brainstorming
This is the beginning of a new blog series I’m started based on doing brand identity design / a website from start to finish. Stay tuned for additions! Brainstorming! I’m going to introduce a two-step process for generating ideas effectively to further your skills in creating a brand. Given that you are working for a [...]
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Apr
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Why content should become your baby
I was sitting in the office today and heard about a phone call, inspiring me to write this post. The client wanted us to write the company history. Now, not only did we not know the history, but the content of your website is the reason the website exists and should be written with care, [...]
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Apr
42009
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Ocular Harmony has a new design
So I have finally switched to the new Ocular Harmony skin. Seems like change really is “in” this year. The aim was to have a more sleek, professional website feel so it can appeal to a large audience while making it easier to navigate. Here’s some of the things I’ve done: Changed the background to [...]
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Great cigarette package design
Alright, so seeing someone having a drag at a bus stop may not be the most appealing sight in the world; however, some of their package design can be. It’s rare that you see cigarette advertising because of the legality issues, but through packaging, many tobacco companies managed to make profit because of their design. [...]
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Mar
192009
192009
Twitter’s new premium accounts? Fake!
Rumor had it that Twitter was going to charge for premium accounts. But those new “Sparrow”, “Dove”, “Owl”, etc… subscriptions have been proven to be fake. Way to get false publicity. But what if twitter did charge? How would people react? The original micro-blogging platform isn’t ad-supported, has no donation box, and has no ‘premium’ [...]
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