Designing for the future web — from SmashingMagazine.com by James Gardner
Design tips — from blog.99designs.com
- What Separates Good From Great? – http://bit.ly/fLztMk
- 100 Principles for Designing Logos and Building Brands – http://bit.ly/ewI24G
- The Difference Between Pixel and Vector-Based Graphics – http://bit.ly/f16Ne7
- Web Design Tips & Advice from A to Z – http://bit.ly/fbOhyI
- Why whitespace matters – http://bit.ly/g1ILJf
- A Simpler and Faster Alternative to Wireframes – http://bit.ly/hPpLou
- 35 Websites with Outstanding Use of Textures – http://bit.ly/fIV3xu
- Top 10 Dos and Don’ts of Web Typography – http://bit.ly/hKlcb0
- The 100 Best Fonts – http://bit.ly/gRc4e3
- How to Create Brochure Mockups in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/ebGVWy
- How Nationality Reflects In Artworks – http://bit.ly/ihVzOa
Adobe Museum of Digital Media announces new exhibition: John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC) — from finance.yahoo.com
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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (www.adobemuseum.com) is pleased to announce its second exhibition, John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC), on view March 23 to Dec. 31, 2011. The exhibition is a digital representation of Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), leading an interactive lecture on how artists are connecting the worlds of digital creativity and analog (or handcrafted) creativity. Titled Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC), the lecture underscores the mission of the AMDM to provide an interactive venue for presenting digital media works as well as providing a forum for expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society.
According to Maeda, “Computers let us imagine digitally what we once could only validate by handcraft in physical form – the infinite malleability and reusability of bits have forever changed the creative process. But just as it took Icarus to first imagine human flight by carefully observing how birds can fly, digital tools have relied on many of the original tools and media used by artists in the pre-digital world.” Maeda sees the thread that runs between the tools of physical art making – such as pens, brushes and pigment – and the way new media has co-opted many of the same tools to manipulate bits in digital art. Through the exhibition, he examines the history of linking analog and digital creativity within his own work and the works of others.
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Addendum 3/14/11:
- 60% reached on kickstarter – new videos online!Yesterday, 60% of the funding goal for the Wormworld Saga App was reached on kickstarter.com and like I promised, here’s the next batch of videos in the “Art of the Wormworld Saga” series.
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[Adobe] Photoshop vs Illustrator: Raster vs Vector — from macprovideo.com
20 sets of free and awesome watercolor textures — from webdesigncore.com
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30 Amazing Examples of Camera Toss Photography — from webdesigncore.com
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An e-Learning Tool Revolution — from Allen Interactions by Ethan Edwards, chief instructional strategist
Allen Interactions had a highly visible presence at the [DevLearn 2010] conference, announcing the official Private Beta Program for a new authoring system, currently under development and code-named Zebra.
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The experience of using it has really illustrated for me in a fresh way why current authoring systems always fall so short. The challenge of designing instruction for computer delivery is how to craft an experience that engages the learner and creates unique opportunities for that learner to solve challenges. Instructional interactivity is at the core of this design process. Ideally, an authoring tool ought to put the designer at the center of manipulating interactivity.
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What is so exciting to me about the possibilities that Zebra suggests is that for the first time in my recollection designers will be able to directly and easily manipulate those design elements that define instructional interactivity–Context, Challenge, Activity, and Feedback–in a seamless design environment. Of course, we’re just beginning this journey and there is much unknown about the significance that Zebra might have, but for the first time in a long time, I feel optimistic about authoring potential, which has been rather stalled in its tracks for almost 15 years. I can imagine this dramatically increasing the influence that instructional designers can have in the overall creating of outstanding e-learning applications.
What’s new in Adobe Illustrator CS5 – [Terry White’s] Complete Walkthrough — from Terry White
