This is an update to my earlier post announcing the launch of FTM. Source provided after the jump.
Archive for the 'Design' Category
A fantastic snapshot of the current web design trends by Smashing Magazine:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/04/web-design-trends-2010/
A nice little brush set containing hand-drawn arrows for that sketchy feel in your design.
http://finner.deviantart.com/art/Sketchy-Arrow-Brushes-59096138
Also in the pack: Sketchy Marks and Sketchy Text
And the mother of them all: Hand-drawn-photoshop-brushes-collection
Not everyone can recognize a font by their distinct cross bar or descender. For the less enlightened – me included – this tool that helps you recognize fonts. Submit an image and it will try to match it to their database of fonts.
http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
If you’re in the mood for a little more on typeface anatomy, check out http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/Anatomy.htm and http://wallpampers.com/misc/2799
update: new version!
Put together a simple transform manager for a friend’s project. Supports dragging and single click scaling and rotating. Source provided after the jump.
Found an interesting pic today with digg, redditm facebook, twitter, myspace, 4chan, deviantart, youtube, google and wikimedia personified. The artist (unknown) is quite a genius.
Love the graphics in this website. You can navigate through the amazingly detailed town and even build your own room. The UI design is intuitive and the transitions between the many context menus are smooth and polished.
A car with flexible skin and movable metal structures beneath. Theoratically, you an better customize the look of your car, it is scratch resistant and it probably costs less to change the entire “cover” too. But the best part is that it also consumes much less energy to manufacture these compared to full metal casings. Safety is not an issue because crash damping and structural integrity is handled by the frame. Love the lights.
The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative. In the beginning, moving chaotically, then evolving to several competing forms that eventually resolve to the finished object, the Kinetic Sculpture creates an artistic visualisation of the process of form-finding in different variations.
via artcom
