Tag Archives: design

YouTube Unveils New Look and Format

You may have noticed that YouTube changed things up quite a bit yesterday. It’s all part of a plan by Google to make the site to be easier to navigate overall and turn it into an even more compelling alternative to cable television than it’s already become over the past few years.

The changes are part of the biggest renovation that YouTube has undergone since Google’s acquisition of the brand for $1.76 billion five years ago.

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The TAÇA Cookie Dunking Mug

(Note: This is the first post in Epic, one of our new content categories.)

Designer Entresuelo1a came up with a concept for a mug crafted exclusively for the task of dunking large cookies in milk.

It’s just a prototype at this point but there’s no question in my mind that this guy would make millions if he decided to bring this thing to market. I mean, if people are willing to buy a fucking blanket with sleeves sewn to it, why wouldn’t they want something as epic as this?

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The Typeface Selection Chart

You’ll appreciate this if you’re a designer of any kind.

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HTML5

What is HTML5? Why should you give a damn? This infographic explains.

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Firefly Interactive Lighting

From the video description on Vimeo:

Commissioned for Shanghai World Expo 2010, as a part of lighting design of the Urban Best Practices Area, Firefly is an interactive environment displaying behavior that is similar to a cloud of glowing insects.

Sensitive to movements around, fireflies wriggle, light up and scatter when visitors get in touch with them. The cloud alternately disperses and merges… and its shape evolves to take a different appearance, again and again.

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So, You Need a Typeface?

This is one of the most useful infographics, yet.

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70 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Perfect Typography

Creative Nerds rounded up seventy of the best Photoshop tutorials on creating beautiful typography and published them in one awesome article. If you’ve ever wondered how graphic designers come up with some of the amazing text visuals you see in print advertising, then this is your chance to learn a few of the tricks!

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Become a Photoshop Guru

If you have even a passing interest in learning more about the arts of graphic design using Photoshop, then you really need to bookmark this post on Creative Nerds. It’s a list of 40 of the web’s best PS-centric design blogs. I check several of the sites listed on a daily basis.

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35 Awesome Fonts From instantShift

instantShift posted up a great collection of 35 high quality fonts for designers. I know that there are quite a few of you out there who enjoy these links, because font-related posts always seem to have a high click count. Enjoy!

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How to Drastically Improve Your Designs

Design Informer recently published one of the best articles I’ve ever read on the topic of “good” website design. If you have even a passing interest in learning the principles of good design, then this is an absolute must read. There are a ton of links to other resources in this article, too. It’s worth bookmarking.

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