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Adobe Design Center – Columns and articles from experts on web design and motion graphics
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates [...]
Systematizing the Graphic Design Process | Webdesigner Depot
Unlike other forms of art, graphic design is not just about taking paper and pen and letting the work flow. Graphic designers have to help viewers get the message and help sell a service or product. Creating a design for a client with little or no strategy just doesn’t work. Unlike traditional art, graphic design [...]
Finally finished
I’ve been working hard on an update to the Midsouth SLA website and it’s finally done. I’d love some feedback.
New Toy in the Box
Typography has long been a problem in web design. Technology in new browsers brings a practical solution to custom type.
What is Design?
My thoughts on the nature of design.
What I learned about design from Iron Chef
Yes I am one of the many geeky Iron Chef fans. I loved the original and I love the American version as well. It only hit me tonight though, the may things I had learned from a mere tv show that ca be applied to my own, non-culinary pursuits. Have a plan They may not [...]
Second Life as a design outlet
A number of graphic designers have successfully converted their expertise into Second Life businesses. Everything made in Second Life relies on textures… pictures made in an image program like Photoshop… to not only make it look like what the creator wants it to be but to give it depth and reality. So an orb becomes [...]
Hacking WordPress as an easy updatable link directory
By now WordPress has been bent, folded and mangled in any number of ways to for custom CMSs. One of the most interesting ways I did it was to both manage a website and create a small Yahoo! like link directory within it. The website was part of a grant project for helping senior citizens [...]
Working with Bad Organizational Colors
My first professional website. I was so excited, I had worked so hard to position myself within my department for it. Then I realized, I had to work with our official color: orange. Not a nice warm earth tone, or a bright energizing version either. But what I’m pretty sure is the ugliest web-safe color [...]
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