Mini Sketchbook Paintings Illustrator Matthew Cruikshank has a sharply defined style that includes leaving the edges of his work unfinished, using bold and blocky coloring, and black outlining for details. Photos © Matthew Cruikshank Link via Maya Gohill Playtype | Typographer's Glossary Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). Some of the main classifications of Serif type are: Blackletter, Venetian, Garalde, Modern, Slab Serif, Transitional, and Informal. Fonts in each classfication share certain similiar characteristics including the shape or appearance of their serifs.
KA+A | Blog : #NewTwitter’s Divine Proportions “To anyone curious about #NewTwitter proportions, know that we didn’t leave those ratios to chance,” explains Twitter’s Creative Director, Doug Bowman, referring to the site’s recent revamp. The two-pane layout remains the basis for the redesign, but the new proportions are based on an age-old mathematical constant that – applied correctly – can result in some of the most effective, perfectly balanced, and visually compelling creations. The Golden Ratio – also known as the Divine Proportion – is represented by the calculated number 1.6180339887, and denoted by the Greek letter Phi (Φ). The most common visual representation of the Golden Ratio is the Golden Rectangle. The Golden Ratio is pervasive in graphic design. When it comes to browser resizing, Doug Bowman goes on to explain that that’s where the site loses its ‘Divine Proportions’ – “This, of course, only applies to the narrowest version of the UI.
20 Free Fonts For Beautiful Headline Typography Get our posts emailed to you with our monthly newsletter, subscribe here. I am always on the look out for new good quality free fonts, when I find a font I like I always download it and save it for future projects. I have added 20 of the most recent free fonts I have come across recently to this post, specifically I have focused on free fonts for use in headlines. When choosing the right font for a headline it is absolutely paramount to convey the correct look and feel, having an archive of fonts can really help your broaden your design. Of course we cannot always have expensive paid fonts at hand so hopefully some of these free fonts will provide help you on your future projects. You may also like: 18 Free Stylish Sans-Serif Fonts For Your Collection 20 Minimalist & Typographic Brochure Designs Weston Tallys RBNo2 Quattrocento Null Infinity Glide® Font Excellens Elega Code Pro Cabin Font Broken Records Banda Typeface Arvo Piron Roscoe™ Big Noodle Titling Instrumenta font Telegrafico
Creating the perfect logo design | Conceptstore Design Studio “Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence.” – 1985, NASA researcher Rick Briggs Sanskrit is an ancient language used and documented over 20,000 years ago leading way to the religious belief of Hinduism, the worlds oldest religion. Sanskrit has covered many questions in detail to connect science and spirituality as one. It wasn’t just the formidable top three subjects that it covered (Science, English Maths) it also made great progress in the development of todays industry of graphic design. Around 500 BC a Sanskrit version known as Pingala made notations of natural sounds and sequences that laid a numerical pattern. The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical sequence deriving from nature itself, monitoring and regulating life and death. The equation is If you want to create the perfect logo with the golden ration then heres how:
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21 Amazing Examples of Clean and Minimal Web Designs As a web designer, sometimes it can be tempting to try to incorporate the latest and greatest, trendy eye candy into a design. Or use a complex color palette. Doing this will often result in a web site that looks over designed and distracts from what’s most important – the content. Mindful – Minimal WordPress Theme Daniel Gray Fearon Hay Architects Patrick Algrim Harlo Interactive Evolution Bureau Campaign Monitor Filip Slovacek Olivier Staub open121 Piccsy Hochburg Chris Linden Reaching Quiet Visual Supply Co Frederic Christian displaycreative.it Studio Saus Les Evades About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Related Posts 396 shares 11 Inspiring Examples of Textures and Patterns in Web Design Here at WDL we like to browse the web to find inspiring websites to show our readers. Read More 449 shares Colorful Logos for Your Inspiration We’ve rounded up some examples of logo designs that make excellent use of color.
15 Places to Make Money Creating Your Own Products Creating your own products used to mean a significant up-front investment — purchasing a minimum amount of the product as dictated by the manufacturer, paying for warehousing, packaging, point-of-sale systems, and other overhead costs. And that was all before you even took a single order! Thankfully, for many types of products, print-on-demand technologies have made it possible for anyone to create and sell goods over the Internet with little or no up-front costs. Below is a roundup of 15 great print-on-demand sites that will help you create and sell everything from t-shirts to clocks, from books to skateboards, from board games to fabric. 1. CafePress is one of the oldest print-on-demand services online and they offer one of the largest catalogs of products on which you can print your logo or designs. 2. Like CafePress, Zazzle offers a huge number of customizable products including t-shirts, sweatshirts, bags, ties, and even aprons, jackets, postage stamps, and shoes. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
making money online in your spare time 50 ways150 sites - bighow news I created this simple guide as a handy reference for all creative people who want to make money online - journalists, bloggers, designers, artists, freelancers, photographers and all other creative types I love to admire. There are many sites that will claim to pay users for writing articles, posting in forums, answering in Q&A sites and so on, but mostly these are short-lived, non-reliable affairs. You will find many sites will actually share ad-revenue, which may be too little, in most cases. In fact many of sites in this guide may have stopped paying or have changed their paying policies. So, I strongly urge you to research beforehand. This guide belongs to 100 Ways To Be Being Remarkable Series, a special project that brings you business and self-development advice from The Success Manual. A tip: If it is possiblefor you can allocate your time to do 4-5 out of 50 ways listed below and make some decent money. 1. 48. Related Guides on Bighow