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The Beauty of London in Design
“There is no specific London style.” At least that's what the ‘Super Contemporary’ show at London’s Design Museum proclaims. During an exploration of London's art and design scene in September 2009, what did emerge was a city with a unique sense of its own personality and history, a fertile hub of international thinkers, and a community working towards a future that is designed to be interactive, environmentally responsible, and prosperous.
Here is a look at the visual personality of London, based on visits to the city's major art museums, attendance at the 2009 London Design Festival, and interviews with artists and designers who call the great city home.
London magazines including The Face, i-D, Blitz, and Arena became major influences on international design during the eighties and nineties. The Face was known as a showcase of London street style and experimental graphic design during Neville Brody’s tenure as Art Director from 1982-86. Brody incorporated hand-drawn typefaces and custom graphic symbols into his page layouts.
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In this lesson I want to illustrate you how to use some useful jQuery methods that allow you to manipulate easily CSS classes. In particular I prepared some examples to explain the following methods: toggleClass(), hasClass(), addClass() and removeClass(). For ...
Today we’re featuring the awesome talent of Niark, a wondrous 34 year old French freelance graphic designer and witty illustrator living in Paris.Niark takes his inspiration from street art, music and graphics.He works in a broad scope of areas such ...
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Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about seamless patterns. Specifically, I’ve been working on various techniques for creating them. Obviously, there are a number of different ways you can go about this, and in this tutorial I’m ...
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The appearance and usability of certain interface elements and functionality are crucial to the success any websites in today’s market. Studies have demonstrated that even a split-second delay in thinking on the user’s part will weaken their perception and interest ...
The use of imagery for websites is a great way of providing your users with information, allowing them to visualize a scenario that words sometimes can’t describe. These images should have an impact, be uncluttered, appropriately sized and elicit desired ...
In this web design tutorial, you’ll see a process for converting a Photoshop mockup to working HTML/CSS template. This is Part 2 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and ...
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When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may ...
Big, bold typography can be very powerful for conveying a message or just for achieving a desired look. In this post we’ll showcase more than 25 items that feature big, bold typography. To see more work from a particular artist/designer, ...
Javascript has a lot of overlooked potential as an object-oriented language, but it deserves a closer look. Today, we’ll be looking at literals, prototyping to extend existing objects, and last creating our own Javascript class. Get ready for some client-side, ...
Twitter fever is upon us and it will going to stay with us for a while. Whether you are a web designer, blogger, or developer, you simply cannot ignore the Twitter phenomenon. Twitter is also no doubt the best way ...
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