Following on our nature theme, new images added to nature > rainforests
Wordle August 6, 2008
Wordle is a handly little site for creating tagadelic style designs. you can save the designs to their gallery or print them. useful to create either web resolution designs or to generate ideas for a print design.
a couple of examples below. you just paste on a series of words, or enter a url and the site will gather words from that webpage. you can select or define the colour palette and choose from 30 or so built in graphic fonts
visit wordle.net
Focus on: Color July 20, 2008
Or ‘colour’ if you prefer…
Unless like most designers you don’t think the sun shines from adobe’s ass then you will have probably already come across adobes kuler. (which is a great way for the lazy to choose a good looking colour scheme)
this week we have three resources for the colour blind:
worqx.com site of a self confessed ‘colour enthusiast’
www.colormatters.com colour and emotional response
www.colourlovers.com user contributed community of colour palettes and patterns.
colorblender.com simple, but seems to work well, creating a palette of 5 harmonious colours
new images: abstract July 18, 2008
all the directories of photos on kickstock are somewhat abstract and unusual, so it might seem a little odd to have an abstract photo directory with even more… here are some recent additions to the site:
Focus on: Ajax July 12, 2008
More of a tip for web developers and programmers this week opposed to our usual design and style ideas.
What is AJAX?
Ajax (asynchronous javascript and xml) is the combination of several web technologies that allow better user interaction with websites. Ajax allows the content of a page to change dynamically depending on user interactions with the page.
Ajax Resources:
I’ve listed a couple of sites below which offer demos of scripts and access to examples or free downloads. In particular the code editor at ajaxdaddy which allows you to tweak the page live and see the changes is great!
> ajaxdaddy.com (recommended site)
