Bookmarked! Best readings of the week #20
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.
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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!
As a collective digital artist, it is important to understand the fundamental science behind color theory. It?s a popular topic with a vast spread of information to retain and digest. Not only does this topic focus on arts and design, it also involve jist of optics science.
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This case study will be published in the upcoming Logo Nest 01 book, a limited edition publication featuring inspiring logo designs, articles & case studies.
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Nowadays some may say Photoshop i really overrated, since everyone knows a bit about it and there's a lot of tutorials on the web explaining how to use this tool. Well, I would say there's a ton of guys using it nowadays, however only a few really can make perfect retouchings and montages as Christophe Heut.
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Although CSS isn?t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don?t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this round-up is to share with you a goldmine of new techniques which you will hopefully find very useful and valuable. We also hope that these tutorials and articles will help you solve common design problems and find new ways of approaching tricky CSS issues.
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Little CSS3 rotate-y loading graphic thing made by Chris Coyier just for kicks.
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Showcase of high quality and professionally designed html5 websites.
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Basics Behind Color Theory For Web Designer
- written by Jake Rocheleau
- topics: Color theory
- hongkiat.com
As a collective digital artist, it is important to understand the fundamental science behind color theory. It?s a popular topic with a vast spread of information to retain and digest. Not only does this topic focus on arts and design, it also involve jist of optics science.
Read the article
Redwave Systems Brand Identity Design Process
- written by Jacob Cass
- topics: Logo design
- justcreativedesign.com
This case study will be published in the upcoming Logo Nest 01 book, a limited edition publication featuring inspiring logo designs, articles & case studies.
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Step-by-step Pieces by Christophe Heut
- written by Marcos Torres
- topics: Inspiration
- abduzeedo.com
Nowadays some may say Photoshop i really overrated, since everyone knows a bit about it and there's a lot of tutorials on the web explaining how to use this tool. Well, I would say there's a ton of guys using it nowadays, however only a few really can make perfect retouchings and montages as Christophe Heut.
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CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions
- written by Vitaly Friedman
- topics: CSS
- smashingmagazine.com
Although CSS isn?t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don?t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this round-up is to share with you a goldmine of new techniques which you will hopefully find very useful and valuable. We also hope that these tutorials and articles will help you solve common design problems and find new ways of approaching tricky CSS issues.
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CSS3 Loading Spinner
- written by Chris Coyier
- topics: CSS
- css-tricks.com
Little CSS3 rotate-y loading graphic thing made by Chris Coyier just for kicks.
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HTML5 Mania
- topics: HTML5
- html5mania.com
Showcase of high quality and professionally designed html5 websites.
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