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16 Mar
The Art of Painting in Water
Art, Color, Painting
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Suminagashi is the ancient Japanese technique of painting on water to create marbleized effects on paper.
Literally, it means “ink-floating”, which is in reference to the Sumi-e inks that were originally used in the technique.
The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution, and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, such as paper or fabric.
Now, artists use both traditional inks and acrylic paints (usually watered down) to create this beautiful artwork.
What do you think of this technique? Have you ever tried it? Please share your opinion in the comments. Read more
28 Jan
Applying Color Schemes Requires Seeing Them Anew
Color, How to, Photoshop
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Many online resources exist for designers to explore, tweak and download great color combinations.
Playing with complementary, analogous, monochromatic and other combinations opens us to exciting possibilities, and there’s no shortage of freebies.
But there’s a difference between a winning color scheme and a winning design that uses it.
Choosing colors is the first step. Adapting them to fit your design requirements is just as important.
What looks good in a swatch may not work well on a web page—but that doesn’t mean you have to return to square one. We’ll explore here new ways to look at color schemes. Read more
25 Nov
Adding Transparencies and Gradients With CSS
CSS, Code, Color
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The way you handle color in your web designs is about to change. Perhaps you’ve been playing around with hexadecimal color values since you were a wee web-babe; if you were, get ready to to grow up fast. CSS3 has arrived, and your palette is about to get a whole lot bigger.
Compared to what’s coming, it’s sas though designers have been color-blind, working with only a small part of the chromatic spectrum. No, new hues will not be added to the rainbow.
What will happen is that color values will be defined in new ways, the entire spectrum of opacity levels will be added and gradients based on pure CSS rather than images will be thrown in, too.
Some forward-thinking websites, such as the impressive 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends, are already playing around with RGBa for text and background color effects—and the results are great. Read more
26 Apr
How to Calibrate Color for the Web
Color, How to, Web Design
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When is orange more like red? Web designers, even picky ones, sometimes ignore color shift across monitors.
How is a web designer to manage color when the screens of their users could be any size or color or could be viewed under any lighting conditions?
Unlike fixing HTML errors, which affect browsers as the page is loaded, getting accurate color is part of the designer’s work process.
Maintaining colors across projects is possible once the problems are understood. Read on for the challenges—and solutions—to getting consistent color on the web. Read more
30 Mar
A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design
Color, Design, Web Design
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Watercolor is such an old school element. Artists have been using watercolor for hundreds of years, and web designers have adopted the style for good reason.
Watercolor is a great way to add depth, interesting subtle textures and colors. It can really give your site an authentic, natural feel.
The examples compiled in this collection use watercolor in different ways; whether it’s for the main graphic of the site or the more subtle and faint hints that get you to look twice.
Watercolor has been around for a century and I know most of you will say it’s a trend, but you can’t argue with something that has pioneered painting and art. Read more
21 Dec
How to Get a Professional Look With Color
Color, Design, Web Design
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What makes a design look coordinated, planned and professional? The answer is: ‘color’.
Not every project needs bland corporate blue to look professional. Planning color means creating a framework that describes which colors to use and how to use them.
Color is the slipperiest design element. “Good” color is so closely tied to elusive things like personal taste and intuition, as well as technical considerations such as contrast and monitor calibration.
But color is vital to content. If you consider a website important enough to spend time refining, then readers will likely consider it important enough to spend time reading. Good color choices make that happen.
In this article we’ll review some techniques to achieve beautiful color palletes for your web designs. Read more
3 Aug
The Do’s and Don’ts of Dark Web Design
Color, Design, Web Design
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Dark web designs are very popular and can have an elegant and creative appeal.
They are also perfect for many types of client work however, they are not suitable for every website and should be used only when appropriate.
In spite of the striking visual impact that these dark designs can have, many designers don’t know how to effectively pull them off without turning off the visitor.
With a dark design comes less readability, less appeal for most readers and less opportunity for conventional design elements.
In this post, we’ll discuss a few tips to make your next dark website design appeal to a broader audience, while letting you, the designer, express your creativity. Read more
17 Mar
50 Monochromatic Website Designs
Color, Design
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Color choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for using color is to use only shades of a color, which is known as a monochromatic color scheme.
Of all the color schemes, the monochromatic is one of the easiest to pull off successfully. This reason for such ease is that one shade of a color will naturally almost always work with another shade of the same color.
One of the most popular monochromatic color schemes is Blue. This is likely because blue is seen as trustworthy, dependable and committed. Blue, however, is not the only successful color scheme. Greens, Purples, Browns, Reds can also appropriately set a mood.
In this article, we feature 50 monochromatic website designs, categorized based on the predominant color that they use. Read more
26 Feb
50 Beautiful Snowboard Designs
Color, Design, Print
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In this post, we feature 50 outstanding and beautiful snowboard designs. The vertical space creates unique design challenges and interesting compositions, in a multitude of design styles.
Snowboard design is a growing and popular trend among graphic designers. In fact, there’s a number of competitions around the world centered exclusively around snowboard design, such as the Salomon and Artec competitions.
Some of the images provided here are from mock up designs and are not available as actual snowboards, however the majority of these images link to the online stores where you can purchase the actual snowboards.
Judging from the designs, these are as fun to make as snowboarding itself, so let’s get inspired and let the fun begin! Read more
18 Feb
Meet Radim Malinic: The Graphic Artist Behind Webdesigner Depot
Color, Design, Interviews, Webdesign
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When I started crafting the idea for the Webdesigner Depot blog, I was looking for a designer that could create a design for the site demonstrating the fun aspects of design while being colorful, vibrant and using many different design elements. The blog was intended to be a relaxed, fun place to explore the different aspects of design.
I found Radim Malinic and his exceptional work through Webdesigner Magazine. I love the way his designs explode with boldness, color and shapes, truly demonstrating the infinite possibilities of design, being somewhat risky by breaking out of the norm. I wanted WDD to be exactly that, a loose grip on all things related to design.
Here’s an interview that I recently conducted with Radim, in order to gain more insight into his professional work, his personal life and the way that he crafted the memorable design of Webdesigner Depot, which is now featured in countless website galleries. Read more
16 Feb
How to Create a Professional Logo
Color, Design, Logos, Typography
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A professional logo can enhance a company, an organization, or a product. On the other hand, an unprofessional logo can ruin a brand and mar an otherwise good designer’s portfolio.
Many logos in use are unprofessional and carry all the tell-tale marks of an amateur or a beginner. Everyone thinks they can design a great logo, but simply knowing your way around Photoshop is not enough.
Here are some insights into the process and workflow of effective and modern logo design. With these tips and your creativity, you can make your logo designs shine with the very best.
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24 Nov
40 Wallpapers Loaded With Color
Color, Wallpapers
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When was the last time you changed your desktop wallpaper? Odds are it’s been a while. Why not take a break from what you are doing and browse for a new wallpaper? We spent the day browsing the internet for some wallpapers that were super colorful and sure to inspire some great ideas. Check out our collection of colorful wallpapers and let us know what you think.
Which one is your favorite? If you know of any other good ones, please let us know!
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