4 Strategies for Working With Designers Without Killing Each Other Fourteen years ago, in my first job where my title was “Information Architect,” I clashed with a designer. We were working at a large advertising agency that was known for stunning design work. The art directors wielded a level of power at the agency that I have never seen anywhere else, and the result over the decades was a portfolio of gorgeous print and TV ads. The design-first method had worked well for this agency, winning them awards and a long roster of Fortune 500 clients, so they naturally decided to use this approach in their newly launched web department, too. Things went well for a while, until I attended a kickoff meeting for a new website project. The designer came to the meeting with an already completed graphic design, before any information had been provided about who the site was for or what it would do.
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Themed Teen Rooms (For Artist, Dancer, Rockstar and Scientist!) When we combed Carre’s site a few days back for some neat wardrobe designs, we couldn’t help but notice the set of themed teen room concepts they had for youngsters. Their teen room collection is broken down into four sets: Artist, Dancer, Rockstar and Scientist. Each set comes with its own set of props.
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Bunk Beds and Lofts for Kids and Teens' Room We had already featured furniture from Tumidei before in our post on Contemporary Teen Rooms, but the Tiramolla series from them emphasises on maximising space utilization and is ideal for a shared kids or teens room. Take a look at some of their lofted bedrooms: We have a featured a lot of teen room ideas before. See them here: Teen Room Designs Top 50 Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials from 2011 We all know that Photoshop is the best computer software program for editing digital photos and images.But it is also excellent for web designers.Most of the web designers use Photoshop to design web layouts. Today we have compiled really high quality photoshop layout tutorials from 2011.I’m sure that you will learn many new photoshop techniques from these tutorials. Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout in Photoshop View Tutorial Create a Modern Lab Theme Web Design in Photoshop View Tutorial
Ideas for Teen Rooms with Small Space We have gotten a lot of feedback from readers that they require ideas for rooms that are a bit short on space. Here is a set of space saving furniture for teen rooms from Italian maker Clei. The highlight of these space saving teen room designs are their foldable beds which can be folded to conserve floor space when not in use. The good part is that it still doesn’t look like a make shift arrangement and the finish looks brilliant. The images that follow show lovely arrangements for teen bedrooms with folding beds. If you come across some other cool space saving teen rooms that you think need to be featured here at Home-Designing, please mention that in the comments.
Designers Know Your Code: Web Design Tutorials Oct 03 2011 As almost any web designer worth their salt, and a large percentage of web developers will tell you, to be fully considered a web designer you have to have some background in code. Not to the depth that full on developers must, but it really is unfair to the rest of those working on a website with us if we do not have some knowledge in a handful of key areas. Which is where these web design tutorials come in. Free Icons - Download Samoled: icon set 4 For your Software And Web Project In 2009 we’ve witnessed many talented and generous designers creating tons of amazing stuff and giving it away for us to use. We’ve already shown you all of the best free fonts from this past year. Now we’re going to show you the best free icon sets. There were plenty of free sets created this year, but these stand above the rest in terms of quality and usefulness.
Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3 This tutorial describes one of my favorite techniques for ‘spicing’ up a photograph. This method is adapted from the color darkroom of old. In those days, innovative photographers often processed film in a chemical solution intended for another type of film.