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World Without Photoshop

TechDept — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:02:35 +0000

By choppingblockcom on YouTube, September 1 2010

Vintage Facebook, Skype & Youtube posters

TechDept — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:13:04 +0000

by Moma Agency 2010

Icons of the web poster

TechDept — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:16:16 +0000

A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine.

We retrieved each site’s icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. The remaining 39,482 were error strings and other non-image files. Our original goal was just to improve our http-favicon.nse script, but we had enough fun browsing so many icons that we used them to create the visualization below.

By David Field and Brandon Enright for nmap.org

The evolution of cell phone design between 1983-2009

TechDept — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:58:23 +0000

Cell phones have evolved immensely since 1983, both in design and function.From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie “Wall Street”, to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the thousands applications available from the Apple Store. There are thousands of models of cell phones that have hit the streets between 1983 and now.
Here are a few of the more popular and unusual ones to take you through the history of this device that most of us consider a part of our everyday lives.

By webdesigndepot, May 22 2010

Color Stream: a Free iPhone App For Web Designers

TechDept — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:18:02 +0000

Color stream lets you create and store color palettes that are either created from scratch or generated from a photo, or even generated automatically using a built-in color schemer. The color schemer supports analogous, monochromatic, triadic and further color schemes. As usual, this iPhone app is released for free.

Download App.

By Vitaly Friedman for Smashing Magazine, 17 Aug 2010

Fluid Images

TechDept — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:06:02 +0000

I’ve always hated publishing. I don’t mean the industry, but the act. Hitting “print,” sending an email, pressing that “Publish” button on the CMS: at some point, you relinquish your ability to smooth down some of the sharper edges, fill in the holes of your argument, and just generally fix whatever’s broken. At some point, you just accept what’s on the page, tousle its hair a bit, and send it off into the world at large to be judged, poked, and prodded. But that doesn’t mean you stop thinking about the article, what you could’ve done differently, and what you wished you’d included.

To wit:

One of the really solid criticisms lobbied against my Fluid Grids article for ALA was that all of my examples were pretty text-heavy. As a result, they all more or less ignored the issue I raised at the end of the essay: that working with non-fixed layouts can be more difficult once you introduce fixed-width elements into them. By default, an image element that’s sized at, say, 500px doesn’t exactly play nicely with an container that can be as large as 800px, but as small as 100px. What’s a designer to do?

By Ethan Marcotte, unstoppablerobotninja.com

What next in Digital?

TechDept — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:17:26 +0000

What do experts from 11 companies think will be the next big thing(s) in digital? Read and listen to what they have to say in essays and short films (via the link below).

So, sexy digital is going all serious and proper. Once flirty and out there for anyone’s taking, digital is going around telling everyone that, nowadays, it’s more like data, don’t you know.
Digital: hot, spunky, appealing to young, forward-thinking, creative types. Data: crunchingly boring, appealing to geeks (but not sexy geeks). So what’s going on? Some of the answers can be found in the write-up (page 4) of the roundtable discussion hosted for the writers of the essays that follow, and in the collection of essays themselves.

By Suzanne Bidlake, www.campaignlive.co.uk, June 28th 2010

50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

TechDept — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:59:20 +0000

50 useful tools and time-savers for web designers and developers.

Among other things, you will find recently released tools, useful reference sheets, articles and further resources. Such posts are prepared over months, each containing resources found, reviewed or bookmarked by the Smashing Editorial Team.

Visit the site

By Vitaly Friedman for www.smashingmagazine.com 26 July 2010

10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design

TechDept — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:12:01 +0000

10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design

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The PEN Story

TechDept — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:53:07 +0000

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. Shot with 60.000 pictures, developed in 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production.

By PENStory, July 2 2009