Bookmarked! Best readings of the week #11
Every week the design community releases a lot of interesting articles, tutorials and showcases that can charge your creativity in different ways. With this series we want to share high-quality contents from the community to provide interesting information for our readers. It's just a small selection, but we are sure that it can help you to find cool stuff that covers a wide variety of topics. Enjoy it!
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Below a collection of awesome articles and resources that we have found in the last week. We suggest you to bookmark and read them. Take your time, get inspired!
In this Photoshop tutorial, Nikola Lazarevic will show you how to create a striking vintage-style design with awesome ?wear and tear? effects that will reinforce the theme he's aiming to accomplish.
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In this tutorial, you?ll learn how to create a pulsar star inspired digital abstract artwork using Cinema4D and Photoshop, although these techniques are easily applicable to any 3D program.
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Character design might be one of the most fun things that you can do in Photoshop. Today, we will demonstrate how to draw a pirate character in Photoshop.
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Did you know that 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease? Moreover, 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. That?s pretty crazy! To spread the awareness about The Water Crisis, you can create the following Illustrator tutorial and learn more about the crisis at Change.org.
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Hey guys. Quite often with image galleries powered by jQuery, we?re presented with a very similar layout ? one which contains the images or items presented inside a rectangle. This is great for providing an experience users are used to, but there are a few interesting alternatives that you may like to hear about ? how about displaying your images or items around a shape like a circle or an ellipse instead?. In today?s post I?ll be showing you how to do just that with a brand new plugin I?ve written called jQuery Roundrr.
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When discussing real time communication, there aren?t many solutions that can rival the power of a simple webchat. What is even better, is that you already have all the tools you need to create one ? your web browser. This, coupled with the fact that this is also one of the most requested tutorials by Tutorialzine?s readers, means that it is about time to start coding.
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Today we?re pleased to announce the first alpha release of the jQuery Mobile project. jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework, built on top of jQuery, designed to simplify the process of building applications that target mobile devices.
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With all the good intentions in the world, you?re setting yourself up for a big fall if you think that thing you?re in the middle of designing is ever going to be complete.
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Exact sciences don?t really appeal to me. It?s not that I?m not good at them, I am! I?m just not among those people who can admire the neatly derived formula or see the poetry in the theorem proving. With that being said, I never took the architectural photography seriously? until I came across the works of the Danish photographer Kim Høltermand.
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Internet Explorer 9 now supports WOFF, and the Friends of Mighty have joined forces to explore typographic possibilities on the web.
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Create a Surreal Vintage Futuristic Design with Photoshop
- written by Nikola Lazarevic
- topics: Photoshop
- designinstruct.com
In this Photoshop tutorial, Nikola Lazarevic will show you how to create a striking vintage-style design with awesome ?wear and tear? effects that will reinforce the theme he's aiming to accomplish.
Read the article
Create a Pulsar Star Inspired Digital Abstract Artwork
- written by Sarah Lyons
- topics: Photoshop, 3D
- design.creativefan.com
In this tutorial, you?ll learn how to create a pulsar star inspired digital abstract artwork using Cinema4D and Photoshop, although these techniques are easily applicable to any 3D program.
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Draw a Pirate Character in Photoshop
- written by Eric Galand
- topics: Photoshop, painting
- psd.tutsplus.com
Character design might be one of the most fun things that you can do in Photoshop. Today, we will demonstrate how to draw a pirate character in Photoshop.
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Create a Dirty Water Drop Character
- written by Rype
- topics: Illustrator
- vectips.com
Did you know that 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease? Moreover, 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. That?s pretty crazy! To spread the awareness about The Water Crisis, you can create the following Illustrator tutorial and learn more about the crisis at Change.org.
Read the article
jQuery Roundrr ? How To Create Awesome Circular Image Galleries With jQuery & CSS
- written by addyosmani
- topics: web development, jquery, css3
- addyosmani.com
Hey guys. Quite often with image galleries powered by jQuery, we?re presented with a very similar layout ? one which contains the images or items presented inside a rectangle. This is great for providing an experience users are used to, but there are a few interesting alternatives that you may like to hear about ? how about displaying your images or items around a shape like a circle or an ellipse instead?. In today?s post I?ll be showing you how to do just that with a brand new plugin I?ve written called jQuery Roundrr.
Read the article
Making an AJAX Web Chat (Part 1) ? PHP and MySQL
- written by Martin Angelov
- topics: web development, jquery, php
- tutorialzine.com
When discussing real time communication, there aren?t many solutions that can rival the power of a simple webchat. What is even better, is that you already have all the tools you need to create one ? your web browser. This, coupled with the fact that this is also one of the most requested tutorials by Tutorialzine?s readers, means that it is about time to start coding.
Read the article
jQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released
- written by John Resig
- topics: mobile, jquery
- jquerymobile.com
Today we?re pleased to announce the first alpha release of the jQuery Mobile project. jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework, built on top of jQuery, designed to simplify the process of building applications that target mobile devices.
Read the article
Why your design will never be complete?
- written by Gavin Elliott
- topics: design
- gavinelliott.co.uk
With all the good intentions in the world, you?re setting yourself up for a big fall if you think that thing you?re in the middle of designing is ever going to be complete.
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The Architectural Symphonies in the Photography of Kim Høltermand
- written by photointerview
- topics: photography
- photointerview.ru
Exact sciences don?t really appeal to me. It?s not that I?m not good at them, I am! I?m just not among those people who can admire the neatly derived formula or see the poetry in the theorem proving. With that being said, I never took the architectural photography seriously? until I came across the works of the Danish photographer Kim Høltermand.
Read the article
Lost World's Fairs
- created by Jason, Frank, Naz, Trent, and Dave
- topics: design, woff
- lostworldsfairs.com
Internet Explorer 9 now supports WOFF, and the Friends of Mighty have joined forces to explore typographic possibilities on the web.
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