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Design deals for the week
Post pobrano z: Design deals for the week
Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals.
10+ Best-Selling Premium Fonts
Make room in your typeface toolbox! It’s time to grab this sweet deal full of more than 10 premium best-selling font families. From Charlie to Sweetie to Sharpeye Type, you’ll get a wonderful variety of fun, curvy fonts that will work perfectly with your latest designs. Use them on everything from T-shirts to logos.
$14 instead of $114 – Get it now!
Create Amazing Hero Images with WuHoo! Scene Generator
Attract attention to your website with powerful Hero Images. Thanks to the WuHoo! Scene Generator, you can now easily whip up colorful, fun professional Hero Images in no time flat. It couldn’t be easier too, thanks to a simple drag-and-drop feature, along with a variety of text editing tools.
$15 instead of $39 – Get it now!
120+ Unique, Premium Typefaces – 31 Font Families
It’s time to fall into a fantastic font sale! This Autumn Font Sale is overloaded with more than 120 gorgeous typefaces, culled from 31 different font families. You’ll be privy to a wide variety of styles ranging from vintage to cartoony, not to mention a slew of extras like alternates. No matter your latest project, you’re bound to find the perfect font in this collection.
$9 instead of $1550 – Get it now!
Laura Worthington’s Industrial Typeface Voltage
Reach back to the Industrial Age, full of big, bold words and cars! The Voltage Font Family by Laura Worthington offers up a practical typeface that’s both assertive yet down to earth. Loaded with hundreds of OpenType Features from swashes to ligatures, this is one charged-up font family that you won’t want to miss out on.
$9 instead of $35 – Get it now!
80 Beautiful, Liquid Style Brushes
Want to add a bit of motion to your designs? Consider a Fast Style approach using this collection of 80 Liquid Style Brushes. These brushes feature a modern-yet-retro digital style that creates round-ended lines giving off an almost dripping appearance. Use the handy reference guide to quickly choose the right brush to whip up a clean illustration or icon.
$9 instead of $15 – Get it now!
Essential design subreddits you have to check out
Post pobrano z: Essential design subreddits you have to check out
When working in the world of design, you often need to call upon a pool of different resources. Whether it’s to find the correct tool or maybe for some inspiration, the internet is a wonderful place to find these resources. However, given the breadth and depth of everything that’s out there on the web, finding what you’re looking for can be a challenge, to say the least. A salvation and a massive time saver can be found within the subsections of Reddit – called subreddits to those who lurk its pages daily. These subreddits are filled with thousands of active users who either work within or admire the design industry.
Whether you’re designing a logo or laying out a user interface, there exists within a specific subreddit those with the knowledge and wherewithal to help you out or put you in the correct direction. Don’t end up on one of these lists, instead, peruse some of the best subreddits for designers.
/r/design
The granddaddy of everything to do with design, /r/design boasts almost 200,000 users. The content features everything from graphic design to comic book sketching all the way to furniture and architecture. It’s a very general subreddit that is a good starting point if you’re looking for more niche design-related content, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for, merely create your own post and wait for someone in the know to correct your course.
/r/graphic_design
For anything and everything related to graphic design. It’s the perfect subreddit for those who are looking for news, theory, resources and inspirations for their respective projects. This includes anything that has to do with quality design such as logos, magazines, posters and illustrations.
/r/photoshopbattles
The place where the internet dukes it out, not with words or bullets, but with Photoshop edits. A lot of people prefer using other programs in lieu of Adobe’s popular software, but the concept remains the same: make something funny and sharable. You’ll need to have a good sense of humor and an eye for the uncanny and ridiculous, but when people start commenting, liking and sharing your work, you know you’ve hit the big time.
/r/designthought
For more in-depth academic posts that delve into the how and why of design, /r/designthoughts is the place for you. It’s a much smaller community than the other subreddits listed here, but the topics discussed tend to be much deeper, more thoughtful conversations than you would find listed elsewhere. Expect links to longer articles discussing the context of design, the societies that it reflects and how terminology can be used to shape the culture surrounding design.
Salvator Mundi Viewers awestruck
Post pobrano z: Salvator Mundi Viewers awestruck
Christies, the British auction house, have made sure that members of the public have had a chance to view the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, “Salvator Mundi”, before it heads back into private hands for $450 million. More than 20,000 people from all walks of life have come to gaze at Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. After centuries in the hands of royal and private owners, its return to the public consciousness has resulted in queues wrapping around Christie’s exhibition spaces in London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and New York. The experience of setting eyes on a work described as the ‘Divine Mona Lisa’ — one of fewer than 20 paintings acknowledged as being from the Renaissance master’s hand — is one that has moved people in many different ways, with those experiences being shared myriad times via social media. But what if the tables were turned and the Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) could share with us what he has seen these last few weeks? Having witnessed the most intimate details in the lives of successive French and English kings, what would the figure of Christ, depicted holding the well-being of the world in the palm of his left hand, now make of us?
Within the beautifully lit Christie’s exhibition space in Rockefeller Center, a camera was set up beneath the Salvator Mundi to record a video portrait of those who came to spend time with it. Using the wide range of responses to the masterpiece, a single piece of film has been created that shows the divine moment of connection between this powerful, mysterious, enigmatic portrayal of Christ and those who have felt compelled to observe it.
The Salvator Mundi World Is Watching film is cut to four minutes and 14 seconds to reflect the fact that in his painting, Leonardo presents Christ as he is characterised in the Gospel of John 4:14: ‘And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the World.’
Salvator Mundi World Is Watching Credits
The World Is Watching campaign was developed at Droga5, New York, by creative directors Toby Treyer-Evans and Laurie Howell, senior copywriter George McQueen, senior art director Tom McQueen, senior producer Jen Chen, and producer Isabella Lebovitz.
Filming was shot by director Nadav Kander via Chelsea Pictures, executive producer Pat McGoldrick.
Editor was Gary Knight at Cut + Run, with assistant editor Natalie Kasling, executive producer Lauren Hertzberg, producer Eytan Gutman. Post production was done at Jogger Studios by online producer Yoko Lytle and editor Joey Grosso.
Colourist was James Bamford at The Mill.
Sound was mixed at Sonic Union by David Papa. Music, “On the Nature of Daylight”, was composed by Max Richter.
FREITAG
Post pobrano z: FREITAG
14 free Android apps for designers
Post pobrano z: 14 free Android apps for designers
Android devices may not be as trendy as iPhones, but they are very popular too. If you are looking for buying latest android mobiles, you can check out Theandroidportal.com to find your dream smartphones. Developers enjoy creating apps for Android too and the market gets tons of free applications to choose from. If you are a designer with a phone or a tablet with the Android OS, you may be interested by the following cool (and free) apps.
1. Sketchbook Mobile Express
Drawing and painting application that allows you to create quick sketches from your mobile device.
2. Fontest
A typography tool for developpers that lets you preview how fonts display on Android devices.
3. Adobe Photoshop Express
Of course this version of Photoshop is not exhaustive, but it can be a practical tool for editing your images.
4. AndFTP
Very complete FTP client for Android devices, supports FTP, SFTP, SCP and FTPS. Lets you manage several FTP servers.
5. Thinking space
One task that you can easily work on from pretty much anywhere is looking for ideas. Mind mapping helps you to organize those ideas, Thinking space is perfect if you get an Android device.
6. Magic Color picker
Color selection tool suitable for designers, artists and programmers for selecting colors using different color models. Supports 7 different modes and RGB, HSV, HSL and YUV color models.
7. SilverEdit
Web files editor for Android with syntax highlighting, a simple FTP client and more functionalities.
8. Typography Junkies
Stay up to date with the very latest in typography and font news on your Android Phone.
9. Color Dictionary
A reference of colors, provides RGB/HEX/CMYK/Lab values and detailed color analysis.
10. View web source
Check out the source of any web page, you will also be able to select text, search for text as well as copy and paste the HTML.
11. Evernote
Take notes of everything and in every format: photo, text, audio,…
12. Pocket color chart
A Pantone reference in your Android app.
13. Photo enhance
Enhance and correct your photos, crop it or adjust it with this great little app.
14. Astrid
For the productive designer, a great to-do list and task management application.
Notebooks covers with amazing embroidery
Post pobrano z: Notebooks covers with amazing embroidery
Fabulous Cat Papers is an Etsy shop with tons of amazing notebook covers, some of which include gorgeous embroidery that enhance the drawings. We have also found some of the best blouse embroidery designs from embdesigntube.
Happier HTML5 Form Validation
Post pobrano z: Happier HTML5 Form Validation
HTML has given us loads of form validation stuff in the last few years. Dave Rupert puts a point on the UX problems with it:
If you’ve ever experimented with HTML5 Form Validation, you’ve probably been disappointed. The out-of-box experience isn’t quite what you want. Adding the
requiredattribute to inputs works wonderfully. However the styling portion withinput:invalidsorta sucks because empty inputs are trigger the:invalidstate, even before the user has interacted with the page.
Fortunately, there is an invalid DOM event that does fire with useful timing: when the form is submitted. Remember this doesn’t buy you super deep browser support though. If you need that, look into polyfilling. I imagine the future of form validation is either HTML/CSS offering better and more controllable UX, or this.
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Happier HTML5 Form Validation is a post from CSS-Tricks
Airplanes and Ashtrays
Post pobrano z: Airplanes and Ashtrays
Harry Roberts wrote about design systems and how compromise has to be baked into them from the very start. He argues that we can’t be dictatorial about what is and isn’t permitted because design, whether that’s the design of a product, service or system, is always about compromise.
Harry writes:
Whenever you plan or design a system, you need to build in your own ashtrays—a codified way of dealing with the inevitability of somebody doing the wrong thing. Think of what your ideal scenario is—how do you want people to use whatever you’re building—and then try to identify any aspects of it which may be overly opinionated, prescriptive, or restrictive. Then try to preempt how people might try to avoid or circumvent these rules, and work back from there until you can design a safe middle-ground into your framework that can accept these deviations in the safest, least destructive way possible.
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Airplanes and Ashtrays is a post from CSS-Tricks
New Course: Gravit Designer Quick Start
Post pobrano z: New Course: Gravit Designer Quick Start
Introducing Gravit Designer—a completely free vector design application launched earlier this year. It’s available in the browser as well as on Linux, Mac, ChromeOS and Windows, making it arguably the most accessible application of its type in the world.
If you want to get to know all the ins and outs of this exciting new design app, try our new course, Gravit Designer Quick Start.
What You’ll Learn
Gravit is packed with professional-level features that position it as the next big up-and-coming graphics app. Whether you’re a UI designer, an illustrator, or any other kind of digital artist, Gravit could quickly find a regular place in your design workflows.
In this course, instructor Kezz Bracey takes you through all of Gravit’s key features and major strengths, showing you how to get productive fast.
Here are some free lessons from this course, as a preview of what you can expect:
Interface Overview
In this video, you’ll get an overview of the most important elements of the Gravit interface. Discover each main section and some of the key settings you’ll work with in Gravit.
Path Creation
Gravit brings its own collection of path creation tools, offering some functionality uncommon in other applications. In this video you’ll discover the options you have available to you and how to use each one.
Shape Tools Overview
Gravit includes some very powerful shape creation functionality that lets you make all kinds of interesting and complex forms. In this video, you’ll learn about the shape drawing tools included, and how you can work with the modifiers of each one.
Take the Course
You can take our new course straight away with a subscription to Envato Elements. For a single low monthly fee, you get access not only to this course, but also to our growing library of over 1,000 video courses and industry-leading eBooks on Envato Tuts+.
Plus you now get unlimited downloads from the huge Envato Elements library of 400,000+ creative assets. Create with unique fonts, photos, graphics and templates, and deliver better projects faster.
