Creative Juice

A designers’ weekly feed, presented by Kickstock.com

New Images: Urban Stock Photos August 15, 2008

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Images recently added to our built environment category under urban

hongkong tower blocks

tall buildings, tokyo

balmain warehouse

 

New Images: Rainforest Stock August 10, 2008

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Following on our nature theme, new images added to nature > rainforests

sub-tropical palms

sub-tropical palms

rainforest look down

 

Wordle August 6, 2008

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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

kickstock tagadelic design

kickstock wordle

 

New Images: Oceans and Coast August 3, 2008

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Recent new images added to nature > ocean

stair hole

lone walker on the beach

coastal abstract

 

New Images: Lomo Style July 25, 2008

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Recent images added to the Lomo Style Category

rural victoria

snorkeller underwater

motorboat

 

Focus on: Color July 20, 2008

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Or ‘colour’ if you prefer…

custrard factory

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

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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:

downpour

tidal rocks

abstract ice formation

 

New Images: Transport > Rail July 15, 2008

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New topic index ‘rail‘ and new images added:

railway signals

train transport

rusty railway tracks

 

Focus on: Ajax July 12, 2008

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More of a tip for web developers and programmers this week opposed to our usual design and style ideas.

happy mac

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)

> freeajaxscripts.net

> bestajaxscripts.com

 

New Images: Iceland Landscapes July 10, 2008

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We’ve added a new series of stock images featuring the rugged landscape of Iceland.

steaming ground

cairn

remote iceland roads

 

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