Posts Tagged ‘Design’

18/12/2008 - susana

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“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”

Ivan Chermayeff

11/06/2008 - susana

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Bomomo, a simple way of creating art

Lately we’ve seen several online applications which allow modifying images or creating them from scratch. This is not Bomomo’s case. When we first see Bomomo we might think of it as a Flash application, but the truth is, Bomomo is a JavaScript app where you can select some brushes and create abstract drawings.

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09/06/2008 - susana

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Free Patterns and Palettes

Finding nice color combinations that express what you’re looking for can be quite complicated. Yet, ColourLovers can help us out when we have doubts.

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06/06/2008 - susana

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What do you need to take into account in order to create an icon?

Despite what it seems, creating an icon is not an easy job. There is a long and complicated process behind every single icon, where every designer has to follow some basic rules in order to have excellent results. There is no right or wrong way to get started in the Icon Design industry, but there are some steps you shouldn’t miss in order to get better results.
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04/06/2008 - susana

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When does Photoshop use become an abuse?

Several tools for designers and developers are available in the market in order to make better products, however, some of this designers tend to abuse this tools, converting what could have been a great image into a disaster.

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04/06/2008 - susana
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Should icon designers use bitmaps or Vector Graphics when creating icon sets?

Doing some research about all the different topics related to design, specifically icon design, I read a lot about the two most common icon formats: Bitmaps and Vector Graphics.
Bitmap is an image file format which stores in an array the color information for each pixel. This type of images have a fixed resolution and resizing causes quality lost. File sizes of bitmap images tend to be quite big compared to vector size, that’s why they are usually compressed, causing us to sacrifice quality in order to get a lower size of the file. On the other hand, Vector Graphics are images composed by points, lines and primitive shapes, also known as paths, which can be filled by colors or patterns. Differently from Bitmaps, information of how should the image must be drawn is stored when a Vector Graphic is created, instead of how should it look. When working with Vector Graphics we find several qualities such as, lower size of files and better quality of images. We can also re size our graphics and have the exact same quality we had in the resolution we created it, unlike bitmaps, which tend to loose quality and blur when we scale them. So, if Vector Graphics work so well, why are there still professionals who rather create they’re icons in a bitmap format?
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