is Useful

Tag: Design

  • When Stock Photography Goes Wrong

    —

    by

    Matt
    in

    Birmingham City? These days many companies use stock photography for their website and print needs rather than spend a small fortune on having their own, unique photos taken by a professional. This can save you a lot of money, and allows graphic designers to be more innovative and creative within their design brief using their…

  • "To Clarify, Add Detail" – Edward Tufte’s Review of the iPhone

    —

    by

    Matt
    in

    Edward Tufte, information design master, has released an insightful and educational video review of the iPhone on his website. It’s a large movie shot in clear, Apple style black background with Tufte talking through his observations as he goes. Delivered in calm, soothing tones are such wonderful phrases such as “To clarify, add detail” and…

  • Design Critique of US Presidential Candidate Logos

    —

    by

    Matt
    in

    The New York Times has a fun cartoon analysing the designs of this year’s slew of Presidential wannabes. Oh, and a belated Happy New Year to you all. Hope you have a splendid 2008.

  • Intelligent Image Resizing

    —

    by

    Matt
    in ,

    Thanks to researchers who recently presented at SIGGRAPH, we may soon have intelligent image resizing in Photoshop to help fit photos into any size and scale area. The technology looks at an image and tries to work out where the important parts are – so that when you re-size the image, it knows which parts…

  • Today’s Design Sites: Dysturb + Atypk

    —

    by

    Matt
    in

    Today’s design sites that caught my eye are Dysturb.net and Atypyk, both fun spellings with great selections of design related info. Atypyk is more humourous, Dysturb is more informative. Make sure you check out Atypyk’s re-designed ideas such as Coke bottle sugar dispensers or cut up soft toys – clever enough for me to forgive…