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The slowest snail of the world. #gardening #design – Photo
Posted Apr 26th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
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Blend modes on websites through CSS – we are getting there
Posted Apr 16th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
At least for webkit browsers. I welcome Adobe as the design tool giant it is to their efforts on developing HTML and CSS. They could really bring technical innovations that Designers actually need or want.
One of them are blending modes. Be hones, PNG overlays don’t look the same as a multiplied image. Also we cannot rely on “prerendering” such overlays in Photoshop if we have responsive Design that has different layouts for different devices. Can you immagine preparing you image banners multiple times?
This is just a draft spec and I expect that it will take another year or two to get there, but at least we have something to look forward to.
#html5 #css #spec #draft #filter #photoshop
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Retina Images for you website, 3 solutions – 1 Problem
Posted Apr 15th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
You might consider upgrading your current graphics of your website for retina displays. Here are 3 solutions to do it in a very simple way … but wait before you re-export all your images at a higher resolution.
The new iPad and the iPhone 4S might not display the image at it’s full size – if it is too big it will downsize it, making your efforts in creating a high res web experience a fail.
For more info read the following blog post, 5by5 Hypercritical Podcast and the specification from Apple of the mobile Safari webbrowser.
- http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2012/03/photography_on_retina
- http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/61
- http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006482-SW15#apple #newipad #retina #fail #images #webdesign
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3 Solutions For Serving High-Res Images To Retina-Display Devices
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Google Currents available outside of USA – finally
Posted Apr 11th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
We all hoped that Currents is the Flipboard for Android, and it wasn’t, but more importantly it wasn’t available internationally and lacking content.
Maybe with the increased user base it will get better, and if you are interested in reading what I share on Currents just follow this link:
https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAow9MIp/frankie_surprise_yourself
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Google Currents goes international – Official Google Mobile Blog
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Preview 150,000 Fonts directly in Indesign
Posted Apr 9th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
A new plugin from Fonts.com allows you to try out fonts directly in Indesign before buying them. This could be a great tool for all Designers who do Identities, as they might want to “feel” and “see” if a font suits the design and the client.
My first question is if it allows to create PDFs or to print out Pages to present them to the client – if not they are missing an opportunity, but it is still a great tool and we might not need to use the online previews anymore.
#indesign #plugin #typography #fonts #preview
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FontGazer – Fonts.com Plug-in for Creative Suite
Preview the entire Fonts.com inventory of over 150,000 fonts in your Adobe InDesign document with the free FontGazer plug-in.Google+: View post on Google+
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The words don’t fit the #design as well. I love typographical art.
Posted Apr 8th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
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Wall #design – Birds on wall
Posted Apr 7th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
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Free Open Source Crowdsourced translation service
Posted Apr 6th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
I talked about crowdsourcing translations already a couple of times. Along with the Google Tool, and Getlocalized I found this service which is free for open source projects.
Since I open source my projects I will definitely try this service out, as it looks quite established.
#trasnlation #localization #opensource #free
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Crowdin.net – Collaborative translation tool
Crowdin.net is the on-demand software localization tool that makes translators collaboration efficient and smooth. Our online collaborative tool supports localization of web applications with absolute…Google+: View post on Google+
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Animated Fonts, the next frontier
Posted Apr 6th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
Typography is a beast – everyone uses fonts, they are integral part of every operating system and application, and still in 2012 the art of making type look good is in the hand of the creator.
And here are now animated fonts to make it even harder beyond the new challenges that web fonts bring. Animated fonts make fonts even stronger in character and make them express a style and a story.
This will make it difficult to use these fonts beyond the classic script fonts or as a demo. One of these demos is Typogami. I think zou can just use it for a documentary about origami – at least in the animated form, but still – great idea and execution.
Download it for free on their Facebook page and read more about the font following the link.
#typography #animation #font #free #origami
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Typogami: A Free Animated Typeface Inspired By Origami
If you like typography and origami, this should set your heart ablaze: Typogami has letters that look like they’re made from folded paper. Still not smitten? It’s customizable and animated. Designed b…Google+: View post on Google+
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European Mobile Apps Contest – aka Hackaton
Posted Apr 4th, 2012 By +Frank Neulichedl in Featured for Designers With | Comments Off
Luxembourg has launched some campaigns to gather geeks and talent into the small state. They want to become the Silicon Valley of Europe, next to London and Berlin. This App Contest is part of these campaign.
It’s a 36 hours coding and design challenge attached to a conference. The program looks promising and I will follow up with more news from good old Europe.
#challenge #app #mobile #europe #luxembourg
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Apps Foundry Contest
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