Styleneat
Styleneat is a useful tool that "organizes and standardizes your CSS - selectors, sub-selectors and properties - in a structure that makes it easier to define page areas and see how they relate to each other"
Styleneat is a useful tool that "organizes and standardizes your CSS - selectors, sub-selectors and properties - in a structure that makes it easier to define page areas and see how they relate to each other"
Wireframing is the technique of sketching out website and software interface designs. It's often important to understand the complexity of information that needs to fit on-screen. I Love Wireframes is a collection of screenshots and photographs of this technique.
A great short film of Milton Glaser talking about the importance of drawing.
Trademarkia is a large search engine (for U.S. federally registered trademarks). A similar service for the UK can be found at www.ipo.gov.uk although it's not as pretty. Between them there are hundereds of thousands, if not millions of trademarked logos. Always best to get a lawyer to search for you!
Original comic book covers redrawn by other artists.
"Democracy is a challenging new graphic design exhibition forming part of Design Event, the North East's annual design festival [...] we're inviting designers and illustrators to submit their visual interpretation of the theme of Democracy and only those with the most votes will be featured in the exhibition"
This little Photoshop tutorial will have you spurting "I can't believe I didn't know that!". And then you'll remember all those hours you spent fiddling with the magic wand and paths and feel slightly silly. Just goes to show there is always more than one way to achieve an effect in Photoshop.
"The HTML Color Codes exhibition features a selection of internet based artwork that address the topic of digital color". My favourite is Rafaël Rozendaal's seizure inducing piece "RGB".
Flick through the pages in Gregory Wood's blog and you'll see that every one is hand tailored for that specific article and a piece of design in its own right. Puts my left-aligned text to shame.
Well that answered the question. For an expanded answer search for articles on "Graceful Degradation" and "Progressive Enhancement". Shame neither of these two options will helpfully inform clients. We need a middle ground!