Tips on Selecting the Best Color Scheme for your Project

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Whether you’re designing a website for a certain up-and-coming personality or just doing some Photoshop or Illustrator projects for kicks, you can never underestimate the power of color schemes in finding the right colors for your project.

There are so many sources for combination of colors for a specific project. For starters, you can just look out of your window and see which colors look good in your eyes and which ones look revolting when combined; nature can be a good source of inspiration. However, there are more sophisticated tools in choosing the right color combinations, like the products offered by Pantone, where you can easily see which colors look good when juxtaposed. But if you are looking for other places to look for color schemes, here are some tips.

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Windows Blue: everything you need to know

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Microsoft shipped its Windows 8 operating system in October, but the company is planning to update it in a big way with codename Blue. Designed for new hardware, including 7- and 8-inch devices, Windows Blue will be treated as a new version of Windows — an upgrade to Windows 8. Check out all the news below as we follow Windows Blue's progress from milestone to release.

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Marvel Project Gamma: Comic Books Just Got Their Own Soundtracks

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Marvel's new Project Gamma is the answer to a pretty simple question: What if comics had their own soundtracks?

Simply, Project Gamma adds music to comics. But not like a standard soundtrack (Marvel calls it "adaptive audio" and compares it to a score, actually). It adds musical elements and occasionally sound effects as you turn panel to panel or page to page, and it does it dynamically, instead of looping the audio. That means that if you flip to the next panel mid-bar, the software will wait to transition until the next bar. It sounds really smooth as you use it, even as you go backwards through panels and the audio is rolled back. There will be two mix types—for panel viewing and full-page—but we didn't get to hear the full page version.

The goal here is to add emotional resonance to comics—the way you tense up when ominous musical cues come up, or swell as the the-hero-is-winning-now notes hit—and to do it at your own pace, without disrupting your reading (which is why none of the music has lyrics). Audio shifts as you move scene to scene, from character to character. A heavier beat might drop as a big fight starts. Ron Perazza, who came onto Marvel for this project, says, "You might see audio cues that are associated with a specific villain foreshadow his appearance later in an issue."

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Proverbs Typographic Project Michael Masinga

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We have seen some pretty awesome projects here featuring religious matters, such as the Bible books posters by Jim LePage, and we find super great when designers get to translate to design their beliefs.

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Typeface Design Project

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This project is born as a response to a concern about how to pull together the essence of the capitularis monumentalis uppercase alphabet with a subtle brush spirit. The aim was to find each sign morphology to combine carving and stroke in a particular way; clever and subtle.In the same way, structures of more traditional ligatures were capitalized, bringing them to a more contemporary style. The development of lowercase letters was taken as part of the challenge as well. Read more for this Typeface Design Project.

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50 Inspirational Branding & Identity Design Projects

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Print is definitely not dead! No matter how big the web becomes the tactile nature of printed material will always form a crucial part of a brand’s overall identity. This post showcases a huge collection of inspirational branding and identity projects with each example presented in a neat layout, often with clever complementary objects that reinforce the theme or style of the design work.

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EU spends $1.4 billion on flawed, but exciting, brain-in-a-box project

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Big physics has been showered in riches since the World War II era, yet today finds itself in a bit of a crisis as traditional funding priorities are increasingly questioned. While projects like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have enjoyed funding closer to $10 billion, projects in the life sciences which would offer tangible benefit to more people have struggled for survival. A man we will be hearing a bit more about in the future, Henry Markram, has just sold the European Union a brain in a box for €1 billion ($1.4 billion). When his ticket comes due in 10 years, there is one thing that can be counted on — someone is going to have some explaining to do.

In a major announcement this week, Europe has funded two new projects, promising over $3 billion in total. One study will be focused on new applications for graphene, while the other, now being described as the Human Brain Project (HBP), seeks nothing less than a simulation of the human brain.

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Girl Launches Hello Kitty Doll Into Space For Science Fair Project

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It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Hello Kitty.

That’s what a seventh grade student from California had in mind when she came up with her dream science project: sending a Hello Kitty doll her dad brought back from a business trip in Japan into space.

Lauren Rojas, a 12-year-old from Antioch, Calif., got the idea after seeing a television commercial in which a balloon was launched into the sky. She thought she could do the same with her Hello Kitty doll. She would test air pressure and temperature at high altitude for her school’s science fair.

“I said, ‘Wow, are you serious?’” Lauren’s teacher, Annette Cluck of Cornerstone Christian School, told ABCNews.com. “I was kind of blown away because usually students don’t do something that extravagant.”

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12 Crowdfunding Websites to Fund Your Next Project

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Many of us have creative ideas that we would love to see come to life but we typically do not have the funds to back such dreams. The realization is sometimes hard to stomach especially when faced with reality that your big dream might never come to fruition. Fortunately nowadays finding the funds to support your projects isn’t as hard and unobtainable as it once was thanks to the emergence of crowdfunding.

Crowdfunding is a method in which every day people provide funding, with their own money, to projects that they personally want to see come to life. In other words a mass amount of people are donating money to your project in hopes that you will be able to make your dreams come true. There are various methods of crowdfunding from offering rewards and incentives to backers to just having people donate to you without seeking anything in return. Today I’m here to share with you 12 crowdfunding websites that could help you fund your next project. Below you will see a summary of each website along with how it works, the fees levied, acceptable projects and of course the up side and down side of each website so let’s get started.

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8 Wonderfully Inspiring Photo Projects

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While taking on any type of creative project can seem quite daunting, when inspired by a cause that hits close to the heart, the results are nothing short of extraordinary. Today, we take a look at eight photo projects that were created with different intentions but all ended up inspiring others. From Bob Carey’s funny Tutu Project that took on a meaningful life of its own to Rachel Hulin’s flying baby series that will soon become a book, these eight projects were chosen for their incredibly touching stories, their sheer creativity and for one all encompassing reason. In all cases, they’re guaranteed to inspire you to go forth and create.

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The Underwater Project of Mark Tipple

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Photography as much as creativity has no limits. This idea was well proven by Australian documentary photographer Mark Tipple, who took photography to the next level. He takes pictures underwater and beneath the waves where some of the most amazing sights are waiting to be captured.

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How to Self-Critique Your Design Projects

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Working on a design is not just as simple as putting lines, colors, shapes and type together. It entails creative thinking and deep understanding of a project’s concept. Hence, one has to give his heart to his work and also use his thinking skills really well along with his design skills. So when one is working on a design, he also has to check it for some flaws. It doesn’t mean that just because you have the skill that your work would always turn out perfectly. Humans are imperfect in nature and there really would be little flaws no matter how one tries to work on a perfect design. But with consistent self-critiquing and improvement of work, you will be able to arrive to the design that you wanted to achieve.

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Brochure Design Ideas: Over 20 Examples For Your Print Projects

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Advertisements plays an important role in marketing a product or service. Advertisement is essential in ensuring that the target market is able to understand its message and eventually motivates them to purchase a product or use a service. Advertising also comes in various shapes and sizes and is often seen in the form of brochures.

In this next post, we’ll take a look at over 20+ brochure designs compiled for designers who are looking for efficient ways of creating your own brochure templates.

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Outstanding Graphic Projects by Atelier Olschinsky

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Anyone who is a great fan of Sci-Fi and illustrations will get really attached to the projects of Atelier Olschinsky, a small studio based in Vienna, Austria. Their projects are just flawless, futuristic and way ahead of our time, hopefully we'll see more graphic inspiration like these in the futur from the community.

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The Insanely Creative Project Pencil Vs Camera

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In terms of creativity and artistic vision Ben Heine is currently with few peers. His unique visual creations have been featured in newspapers, magazines and other publications worldwide and over the last few years his works have begun to populate art galleries and museums from Brussels and London to Turkey, Romania and South Korea. Today, you see his work here. It’s a bit late, I know, but I’ve only recently decided to publish innovative ideas from various designers and try to get for them a little more exposure so that they would be encouraged to create even more interesting projects.

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Urban Calligraphy Project

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Simon says: "My style is a mix of Western, Asian and Arabian calligraphy and I try to find abandoned places and turn them with the calligraphy to a piece of art. I create my works in studio with ink and bamboo pens and when it comes to wall i use materials such as flat brushes and large brooms."

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Microsoft Has Plans For Its Own Project Glass

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A patent application published yesterday reveals that Microsoft is sitting on plans for its own version of Google's Project Glass.

Unlike Google's glasses, which seem to be intended for general all-day wear—if you like that kind of thing—Microsoft's patent appears to describe more specific scenarios for use. Indeed, images in the patent depict how the glasses could be used to augment action at live events, like sports games.

The patent application suggests a pair of glasses would throw up text, images and audio on a head-up display—kind of a second screen, just one that's strapped to your face. That means instant replays at the football, subtitled lyrics at concerts, or instant stats when a player walks onto the pitch.

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More Than Human Project by Tim Flach

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Tim Flach is a photographer best known for his highly conceptual portraits of animals. His images are a departure from traditional wildlife photography and he has been described as “a potent example of a commercially trained photographer who’s now reaching a global audience through the boom in fine art photography.Tim’s recent photography project called “More than Human,“ showcases striking close-up shots of various animals. The idea behind it is to demonstrate how close can animal gestures and poses get to those of the humans. Enjoy!

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15 New Icon Sets for Your Next Web Design Project

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Web Icons are used to improve web design and make it easier for visitors to use websites. They can also improve the overall look of your website. Icon designs can be simple, with flat two-dimensional drawing or a black silhouette, or complex, presenting a combination of graphic design elements. Here we have collated the following 15 new icon sets for your next web design project, and best of all, they are all free for download.

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Here's How Many Kickstarter Projects Are Successfully Funded

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More and more people are posting projects on Kickstarter, hoping to get their business ideas funded by peers.

But that doesn't mean their ideas are finding any more success on the crowdfunding site.
In the past six months, the amount of Kickstarter projects posted has grown 50% to 76,909, GigaOm reports.

Less than half of the projects -- 44% according to a Kickstarter spokesperson -- have successfully meet their monetary goals. And on Kickstarter, it's an all or nothing deal. If posters don't raise the full amount of money they're seeking, they don't see a dime.

When you think about it, 44% is actually a pretty high success rate. The average fundraising on Kickstarter is between $1,000 and $10,000, so it's no small amount of cash that's being swapped between strangers.

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