Here’s one thing that never made sense to me: people make websites so others can find out more about them, but most “About Us” pages absolutely suck. They’re either really long and boring or really short and mysterious. Not many people understand the best way to go about these pages.
Mobile Design is an area of design that started to develop and evolve a couple of years ago. With the launch of the iPhone and the App Store in 2008, the development of mobile applications started to become a more interesting market, since there was finally good mobile hardware and ecosystem. With the development of more and more mobile apps, the design of such apps started to become increasingly more important, to create a good experience to the user, while creating powerful applications.
Nowadays the design and development of mobile applications is a reality, and you already know that. But if you haven’t yet hopped on the mobile design wagon, in this article you’ll be able to find what are the most important things you have to do to start designing mobile apps right away.
In this tutorial, we are going to shoot some beautiful abstract images, using some cheap and basic equipment. We are going to break down what you need to shoot the images and cover the best way to do it.
Before the release of adobe Photoshop cs6, many designers have suffered from the 3d conception in the program, something that pushes adobe improve these functionalities in its latest version, they have made a handful of tweaks that will significantly improve your workflow and enhance your tool set. Theses new features include a way to generate bump map textures from flat artwork, smoother previewing of soft shadows and more. Fortunately, there are already a number of online tutorials that will help you to learn more about 3d features. Today, we will take you through some of the exciting Photoshop CS6 tutorials that illustrate how to use these brand new tools to create an amazings 3D effects.
Logo design is often seen as a quick and easy job; you create a small graphic, stick it next to some text and the job is done! In reality there’s a lot more to it, which makes the whole process of creating a logo or identity a challenging task. Let’s take a look at some of the general rules of logo design, see what guidelines we should stick to in order to build high quality logos, and see how they can all be put into practice to create a professional business logo design that works in the real world.
A tuning fork vibrates at a particular pitch when you strike it against a hard surface. It emits a pure tone that musicians can use to tune their instruments (like violins and guitars).
One job you have as a content marketer is to think of your reader as a tuning fork. You need to publish great content in order to create resonance with that reader — to get that person to emit a particular tone that gets them to know, like, and trust you.
But creating posts that resonate with your readers is an often-overlooked part of what we do. It’s one of those touchy-feely things no one talks about. But it’s incredibly important — and it can be difficult to do.
Flipboard takes the news you want to read and organizes it into a wonderfully designed magazine format. And now, with an update to its iOS apps, it lets you create your own magazines for specific themes, topics, events, and so on.
Want to create a magazine about, say, New York City public transit? It's fairly simple. You just hit the plus button on anything you see in Flipboard—whether it's a story about cab drivers, a photo of abandoned train stations, or a relevant video or sound clip—then select "create magazine" and add a title and description. The process a similar to adding items to a Pinterest board, but the auto-generated design of your Flipboard magazine is so much prettier. Once you're done, anyone can search for and subscribe to your digital 'zine, and you can look for ones that interest you, too.
Photoshop is one of most well-liked application software to design anything you want as it support both vector-base design and raster-base designs. However it doesn’t pack everything you need to use in your design and this is the reason a lot of people love to invent third-party elements to use in various designs, the summer season is just around the corner where people love to celebrate so many events with different posters, cards, tee shirts, etc. Even most of us prefer Tee Shirts than casual shirts, in order to design a T-Shirt, website header, website footer, facebook timeline, twitter background, wordpress theme designs or anything else you want to more realistic and catchy, you need third party elements for your designs such as pattern, brushes, gradients and more. How to create a third party custom Photoshop element?
“Creativity” isn’t the first word you’d associate with the average business presentation. The phrase “Death by PowerPoint” has been a cliché for years, but sadly the same clichés are being perpetuated day in day out – slides “designed” using hideous templates, crawling with bullet points and paragraphs in tiny fonts, which presenters then read out in a monotone (turning their backs to the audience), using interchangeable meaningless corporate jargon.
I managed to transform myself from someone who was terrified of standing up in front of an audience to an in-demand public speaker and workshop leader. Not only that, preparing and delivering presentations is now one of the things I enjoy most about my work. Here’s how I did it – and how you can do the same...
After brainstorming your brand new idea it is time to put this company into action. The tech industry loves to refer to these new innovative business ideas as “startups” when they are in a heavy growth phase. Marketing is a huge proponent to the success of any startup, regardless of the idea or market base.
In what is essentially a fancy science fair sponsored by Intel, over 1,700 high school seniors enter projects each year in order to not only be crowned the country’s youngest mad scientists, but have a chance to win $100,000. This year, Sara Volz claimed that crown and a $100,000 four-year scholarship, thanks to her efficient algae-based biofuel lab — that she created under her bed.
The Science Talent Search has been running for 70 years, and Intel hopped on board as the sponsor back in 1998. Since the competition’s beginning, seven participants have won the Nobel Prize, and 11 have won MacArthur Foundation Genius grants. So, the competition has a bit of pedigree. Up to 30 finalists receive a monetary scholarship, with first place bringing home $100,000, second place bringing home $75,000, and third place raking in $50,000. This year, 17-year-old Colorado Springs student Sara Volz took explored if algae can become an economically viable form of biofuel. Like any good high school or college project, she developed the majority of the system in her room, under her loft bed.
Photoshop is a fantastic application because it allows you to create just about anything your imagination can dream up. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a science fiction environment using digital painting and illustration techniques. While working on this piece, you will learn how to set up your color scheme, set your perspective, and even how to create a monster robot. Let’s get started.
When it comes to content marketing there is no doubt that visuals are an important component for increasing your reach. If visuals are not equally as important as the quality of the content they represent, visuals are certainly the next largest priority.
Of course, depending on the network in which you are promoting your content, the visual itself may be the entire piece of content, thus making it equally as important as the content it contains.
This is largely the case when it comes to social networks like Instagram, Pinterest and Vine. While all three allow for the option to link to more information in the comments, caption or description sections, the visual is the content for all intents and purposes since you can’t depend on someone clicking for more information.
When it comes to creating graphics for visual social networks, there are a few key ideas you should keep in mind to increase your reach.
Infographics are popular. They help reduce complex coherences to simplified illustrations. Information gets visualized. The best infographics are self-explanatory, needing almost no text at all. A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. And it’s true. In this collection, we share with you 40 entertaining infographics on popular topics from around the net. If you are a programmer, illustrator, designer or nerd of any other type, you’ll most likely find at least the majority of these informative pieces interesting. If you don’t like the content, probably you’ll be inspired by the way, the graphic has been done.
One of the greatest benefits of a home office is the freedom to decorate and design your home office as you wish, but without letting either space lose their distinct identity. In other words, we shouldn’t blend the workplace with the rest of our personal space, aka home.
Whether you call your ‘home office’ a blessing or a curse, one thing’s for sure, your mood and your productivity will be affected by how it is set up. Just as a cluttered desk is a cluttered mind, a disorganized home office may be the source of unnecessary mind-blocks to new ideas and solutions.
Think your home office is a mess and is ruining your productivity? Not to worry, because today we’ll be covering 10 great tips to improve the organization of your home office meant to turn you more productive, keep the working mood positive and get back that focus you need to produce top-quality work.
Take a photo and turn it into this amazing retro-style artwork using Photoshop and Illustrator. You'll learn how to create this using very few stock photos and with creative techniques that can also be used in your other designs. To follow this tutorial, you'll need to have some basic experience with Adobe Illustrator.
Press releases are often eclipsed by new and exciting digital tools, but remain a solid way for brands and businesses of all shapes and sizes to get a message out. The dawn of digital has also had a profound effect upon their creation and distribution – effectively lowering the bar for accessibility in creating and distributing releases. However, as a side-effect – the competition to get releases in front of the eyeballs that matter has increased exponentially. So how can you navigate the perils of press releases and prevent yours from being drowned out?
The cover photo on your Facebook timeline is your biggest branding opportunity and the most important piece of imagery for communicating your brand to your followers.
Unfortunately, there are so many business pages out there who just upload regular photos for their cover picture, which are not designed for that space and dimensions. What you end up with is the top and bottom part of the image cut off and it just looks wrong. This is one of the most basic things that you really should get right for your brand.
Most people who need to create an exciting presentation are not design experts. Fortunately, there are a number of really neat tools and websites that can assist you in creating a captivating, professional look for your slides.
In this article, we’re going to take a look at five such tools. While I can’t promise that these tools alone will turn you into a design professional, they will certainly point you in the right direction.
The 3D Environment in Photoshop CS6 is a great way to create amazing 3D text effects without the need for any other 3D software. This tutorial will explain how to use the many tools and settings to create a nice vintage 3D text effect.
