Archive for November, 2009

5 Funny Videos for Designers

It’s Monday, and we’re all looking for a good way to start off the week. Here are 5 funny videos that should kick start your week off the right way.
Design Coding – Rap

South Park – Mac vs. PC

Font Fight – CollegeHumor

How NOT to use PowerPoint

Graphic Designer Baby

Bonus – Your Business Card is Crap

The End of Traditional Media

The CBC documentary, The End (click to watch), discusses how the traditional media of radio, television and print are coming to an end. Despite what many people like to think and argue, print media is going to be around for as long as any of us will be alive. With that said, I will focus [...]

Maytag Misjudges Social Media

Social media can make or break a brand, a lesson Maytag learned the hard way.
Home appliance giant, Maytag, is facing some tough times ahead after Heather Armstrong (a.k.a. Dooce), number 26 on Forbes’ list of Most Influential Women in Media, had a less than satisfying experience.
You do not want to get on the wrong side [...]

Sites of the Week

I have not been posting enough articles that give you readers some inspiration, so here goes.
Fabio Sasso has become one of my online idols over the last year and a bit, mostly because of his fantastic website, Abduzeedo. The site offers countless tutorials based in Photoshop, Illustrator, Pixelmator and more, along with a ton of [...]

When Will CSS3 Be Practical?

HTML5 and CSS3 look incredible. I’m sure some of you have already been doing a few mock up designs using the new code to test it out. No doubt it can do some incredible things, one of my favorites is the ease at which you can make rounded corners, as seen on in this Smashing [...]

.net magazine: That’s how you write!

Please don’t take the title of this article sarcastically.
.net Magazine, a monthly internet magazine based out of the UK, recently issued an apology for some obscene words used in one of its advertisements. You can view the apology here.
I commend .net for its prompt action taken in response to some of the outcries that echoed [...]

Copyrighting Colours?

In a follow up to my previous post regarding the limit on creativity, I came across a great post about colour in the design world.
Can colour be owned?
In one word, yes. If you have ever taken a look at a colour swatch book you will know there are seemingly endless amounts of options, but those [...]

50 Incredible CSS Websites

With all of the content management systems out there today it seems people are losing a bit of their creativity in order to have a site that is easily updateable.
Sprye Studios has complied a list of 50 great websites based on some creative CSS layouts that have been submitted to the CSS Awards this year.
Be [...]

Sleep Box Lets You Nap on the Go

Nothing gets my inspiration going like a new invention, especially one such as elegantly designed as the Sleep Box. Created by Russian architects at the Arch Group, this innovation could be the answer to sleep deprivation we are looking for.
It’s compact design is still spacious enough for a 2×0.6 m bed, a ventilation system, sound [...]

Is Brandstack a Good Design Tool?

Browse. Buy. Download.
That is Brandstack’s idea of a perfect logo design process. People can go to this popular site to browse logos that are for sale by designers. Many people use this site as a place to put up logos that they have completed for fun or on a whim when an idea came into [...]

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