If you do any web design, interior design, painting, graphic arts you know the importance of using complimentary color schemes. For many this is as simple as eying a color. For others it always seems an exercise in futility. Thankfully there are applications out there to help you out with your color schemes. These tools [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 22nd, 2009
- Comments: 6
Create a 3D logo with The GIMP
Any of you that do any graphic design or web development know how important it is to have tools at your disposal to handle just about any task that might come your way. And even if you don’t have graphic design skills you will, someday, have to create something quickly to use for a web [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 30th, 2008
- Comments: 16
Get professional Logo designs for free
I’m not a huge fan of free web design stuff, mostly because its either hard to modify, or low quality, or if you can tailor it to your needs, you can probably do whatever you need yourself. I also prefer not to use others’ designs since it takes away my sense of identity, but in [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Nov 16th, 2008
- Comments: 3
9 high quality free fonts
Sometimes I find a free resource wich is just so much higher quality than most paid sources it’s astounding. I mean if someone can design 9 free fonts that look this good, how does his commercial work look like? Judging from the webpage and the fonts, this person truly loves typography, and the free fonts [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Nov 14th, 2008
- Comments: 2
The most awesome datacenter ever!
I came across the coolest looking datacenter today, and probably the coolest looking place, bar none, ever built (thanks to Royal Pingdom). It was built by one of Sweedens largest ISP’s as a new high profile datacenter, and yes, it’s under ground, made to look like Dr. Evil’s mountain of extreme doom, with fog machines [...]
New Microsoft Design Direction
Operating Systems and web design took a turn for the better around the beginning of this century, Apple introduced OSX 10, Microsoft brought out Windows XP and CSS began to be increasingly adopted.
It would be fair to say that Google and Apple have provided the most unique design directions over the last 10 years, Google [...]
Colour Schemes
I have spent this week struggling with colour schemes for my blog.
I found deciding on a colour scheme to be an incredibly frustrating process, and what I finally settled on was fairly safe but not very original or exciting either. However here are a few of the tools that I used to help me locate [...]
