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Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Design Resource

Freebies | Dezinerfolio

Huge free design resource.


Monday, December 08, 2008

10 Common Typography Mistakes

From The Design Cubicle

The goal of this post is to help designers and clients understand the importance of good type skills, while avoiding some common mistakes. Please keep in mind that most of these mistakes are subjective and can be changed varying on the project, goals or circumstances.
Read the full article here.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Color Cop - A free nice color picker

Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a 42 color complementary palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, and Visual C++ Hex. Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for windows.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008

CSS Techniques for Charting Data

From Six Revisions:

There are many ways you can present numerical, chartable data by styling elements using CSS. Using CSS to style your data prevents you from relying on static images and increases your content’s accessibility.

Below, you’ll read about 8 excellent techniques for styling elements into beautiful, accessible charts and graphs.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Icons

http://www.iconarchive.com/

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Improving Interface Design

A very insightful presentation on interface design:

Improving Interface Design
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: interface design)

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008

42 Resources of Inspiration for Graphic Designers and Lovers of Design

Free Icon Sets

96 of the Best Ever Free Icon Sets - For Web Designers, Developers and Bloggers

Good collection of Vector Tutorials

13 Amazing Sites to find all the Vector Tutorials you could ever need. All of these sites are listed here by the quality of the tutorials that they offer, and not by quantity.

Adobe Fireworks Extensions

Adobe Fireworks is almost as powerful as Photoshop. Here are the best 75 Adobe Fireworks Extensions (MXP), nearly all are compatabile with Fireworks MX, 8 and CS3 (and quite a few with Fireworks 3 and 4).

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Design and Typography Resource

A very nice design and typography resource: www.veer.com

Friday, August 15, 2008

Word Clouds

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Some great free icons

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Design Stencil Kits from Yahoo

Yahoo has very useful design stencil kits for Visio and in PDF and PNG format to create mockups and wireframes of all kinds.

Freely available here: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/

The components they have include:

  • Ad Units
  • Calendars
  • Carousels
  • Charts and Tables
  • UI Controls
  • Form Elements




  • Grids
  • Menus and Buttons
  • Mobile - General
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Navigation and Pagination
  • OS Elements




  • Placeholder Text
  • Screen Resolutions
  • Tabs
  • Windows and Containers


Friday, July 25, 2008

80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without

From the Outlaw Design Blog

80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without

A nice collection of graphic design links and web design links. A list every designer should check out.