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- 14/10/2007: Web 2.0 how-to design guide
- 22/09/2007: Niche Blogging Tutorials by doshdosh
- 22/09/2007: Internet Marketing articles by doshdosh
- 22/09/2007: D&AD: The best advertising and design in the world! Urbis, Manchester
- 22/09/2007: Hacienda 25 The Exhibition: Fac 491
- 22/09/2007: Design Process - Personal logo design sketches
- 22/09/2007: Popular Articles on Dosh Dosh: August 2007
- 22/09/2007: How to run a brainstorming meeting
- 22/09/2007: TinyURL
- 22/09/2007: Designing Design - by Kenya Hara
Archive for March 2007
Web2.0 Badges
23/03/2007 by admin.
You’ve seen them everywhere. No self-respecting Web2.0 site would be without them; those little splashes of color that jump out at you and scream “HEY LOOK AT ME! OVER HERE!” Yes, that’s right. We’re talking about perhaps the most over-used trendy little design fad to come out of the two-oh movement-the badge!
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The Glossy TEXT web2.0 style
23/03/2007 by admin.
Remember - reading and doing is the best way to learn…anyways…Today I will be talking about and even giving some tips about the “way too famous” Glossy text EFFECT - something like this:
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Web 2.0 style logo gallery
23/03/2007 by admin.
A gallery of web 2.0 style logos.
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Web Design | Logo
23/03/2007 by admin.
Here is another web 2.0 logo design tutorial! Here is another popular style with a shiny box. A good tip with doing web 2.0 designs, and logos is try to keep the shiny/3d/etc effects on one to two elements of the page. Over doing it wont be good for usability and it will make it look very cluttered. There is a general rule to use about one or two shiney elements and leave the rest not so done up. With light shadows here and there to create the realistic effect. Adding subtle drop shadows will give the polished effect, and will make your designs look great. Well, lets get started!
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Photoshop Tutorial- Polished Text
23/03/2007 by admin.
Make your text seem as if it is spankin’ new, right out of the package.
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Gradient Styles & How To Make Dashes - Photoshop Tutorial
23/03/2007 by admin.
Shapes & Styles Redux
Another small batch of tips for those that are knee deep in creating graphics through custom shapes and layer styles.
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Semantics and Structure
23/03/2007 by admin.
I’m currently working on improving nefariousdesigns.co.uk - both in design and in technology. I’ve continued to learn lots of great web development “stuff” over the past year, and it’s time I updated my personal site to reflect that burgeoning knowledge.
My first port of call is the underlying structure of my HTML - it’s ok, but it could definitely be improved.
I recently had a fantastic conversation with Mike Pearce - an old colleague (who’s now a good friend) - regarding document structure in HTML. Whilst peer-reviewing some of his code, I noticed some not-uncommon structural characteristics that, although not wrong, definitely didn’t convey the best semantics within the document. For this reason I thought I’d document some of the stuff I’ve learned about structured HTML and open it up for comment.
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UNDESIGN - glimpses of Tibor Kalman
23/03/2007 by admin.
“Undesign” is a concept whose time has finally come. Creative individuals can harness the power and accessibility of the Internet to make media to their own standards and promote social change in the world around them. But how many are actually doing it? How many good designers (and writers and artists) are, in the words of the late Tibor Kalman, out there “making trouble?” Over the coming months, we’ve made it our mission to find them: The creative lunatics. The authentic voices. The community activists. The visionary entrepreneurs. The designers reaching out beyond their own ego. The culture jammers. The madmen and madwomen with a mission. The people that give something back. The ones making a difference…
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Design Schools: Please Start Teaching Design Again
23/03/2007 by admin.
by Dan
Frankly, it isn’t.
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PAPRIKA - A Film by Satoshi Kon
18/03/2007 by admin.
SATOSHI KON
(director)
Born on October 12, 1963 in Hokkaido, Satoshi Kon went to Musashino Art University and studied Visual Communication Design. While at the University, he made his debut as a comic artist at Young Magazine (published by Kodansha, Japan). His detailed illustration and composition became highly regarded, and he went on to work on Kaikisen (Regression Line) and World Apartment Horror. His work includes: Rojin Z, as a background artist; Run, Meros as a layout artist; Patlabor 2 as a background and layout artist, and Memories as a background and layout artist and screenwriter. His unique composition where everything within the frame is clearly defined and cleverly laid out attracted the industry’s attention. In 1998, he made his directorial debut with Perfect Blue which gained him international attention. 2002 saw the release of his second film Millennium Actress and in 2003, Tokyo Godfathers debuted. All of his feature films have been screened at the top international film festivals around the world. In 2004, he directed his first television series, Paranoia Agent. Paprika is his latest anime feature.
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