Colorful posts in
the ‘Graphic design’ category

If Aptana is your IDE of choice and you love every single feature forgiving any weakness, but your eyes after 8 hours coding just can’t tolerate the default bright theme, this is your post. These dark color themes for Aptana will bring some rest to your eyes.

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Tags: aptana, development

DepositPhotos.com is a stock photos and illustrations marketplace and started its activities just last November. However, they’ve been doing their homework and gathered an incredible amount of high quality photographs at incredible low prices as well. Today we’re going to start a contest to give away 2 accounts, each one with $30 credit!!

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Tags: contest, illustration

Sascha Timplan is a typographer and graphic designer based in Trier, Germany. Sascha type design encompasses a broad range of styles, from a handwritten style to a geometric slab serif. Sascha is offering two typefaces for free on Behance and Stereotypes on MyFonts.

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Tags: freebie, resources, type foundry, typeface

The most important issues involved in the design of a web site or a web application are how the information is displayed to the user and how the user can interact with this information, whether it is to obtain more information about a particular topic, dismiss irrelevant information or process the information that  he currently has. The rest is purely ornamental. In this post we will review a series of resources to achieve a better interface design.

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Tags: resources, usability, web application

Wood Type has definitely something. It might be the boldness of its letters, the roughness of its printing, the uneven and organic texture created by the inked types pressed against the paper of fabric. Posters, covers, pages, they all look great with a big fat bold wood type printing.

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Tags: typeface

Some weeks ago I stumbled upon the Behance portfolio of Paweł Kamińsky, a polish graphic designer displaying an incredible energy on each piece of his artwork. He has launched his portfolio site and it looks absolutely stunning.
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Tags: showcase

Today is Day 1 of Google I/O, the largest developer conference hosted by Google, focused on Android, Chrome, GWT, and of course, open web technologies. Besides the keynotes, there are more than 80 sessions focusing on specific topics of the afore mentioned Chrome, Android and GWT, but also covering geolocation services, social web, Google Wave, App Engine and others.

But as a designer, you will really get excited with the announcement of the Google Font Directory, a free service where they will be serving high quality open source fonts for web embedding. Let’s see how simple it is to embed your fonts using Google Font Directory.

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Tags: google, open source, type foundry, typeface

Chile awaits all graphic designers at SUDALA 2010, a graphic design congress at Santiago de Chile, with speakers like brazilian graphic artist Nando Costa, spanish graphic designer Laura Alejo, argentinian graphic designer Pablo Alfieri and chilean typographer Francisco Gálvez.

Surfing the web, in one of those endless clicks on related pages, stumbled upon this illustrator. Her name is Chelsea Greene Lewyta and she tagged herself on her Behance portfolio as “illustration, children illustration, children, women, girls, tea, forest, trees, animals, nature”.

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Tags: illustration, showcase

Since Easter is close I thought you might need a couple of free icons to ornate your site, a cute easter bunny and an easter egg.

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Tags: icons, resources