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Filter Forge - Features

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:12:00 +0800

giving you the pass to Adobe Photoshop Program backstage.

On the surface, Filter Forge is just a Photoshop plugin, a pack of filters that generate textures, create visual effects, enhance photos, process images. However, there are 3 things that make Filter Forge unique:

1. You can create your own filters. Filter Forge comes with a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames, you name it. All filters automatically support 16- and 32-bit modes in Photoshop, real-world HDRI lighting, bump and normal maps, huge resolutions, and most filters can be seamlessly tiled.
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Weekend 3-Hour-Workshop: This is Concrete.My Idea: Plant Waterer...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:15:00 +0800

Weekend 3-Hour-Workshop: This is Concrete.

My Idea: Plant Waterer - recycled glass bottle with concrete handles.

pic1. rough sketch of a concrete handle.
pic2. Poly foam mould (taped together and ugly)

next week we will open the mould and see our results! (fingers-crossed)

Workshops held by Open Design City

"Seek Excellence and Success Will Follow"

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:31:49 +0800

“Seek Excellence and Success Will Follow”

- unknown

andbamnan: Braun electrical - Audio - PCS 45 record player

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:15:25 +0800

andbamnan:

Braun electrical - Audio - PCS 45 record player

natgeofound: Club members on the ocean front are shaded by...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:17:59 +0800

natgeofound:

Club members on the ocean front are shaded by decorative parasols, 1930.
Photograph by Clifton R. Adams, National Geographic

#7 of 100 Best Typefaces of all times by Font shop

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:14:00 +0800

The great German corporate designer Anton Stankowski (1906–1998) announced in an advertisement in 1989: “I only accept functional typefaces. The one you are reading right now is the one I preferred for 60 years now. It isAkzidenz-Grotesk.” What makes a font so desirable that a confident designer would restrict himself to it for his entire career?

Akzidenz-Grotesk has no known date of birth. In fact, several people can claim to be the father of “AG”, as insiders like to call it. As early as 1880, the German typographer and hieroglyphics expert Ferdinand Theinhardt (1820–1909) designed four sans-serif fonts which he called “Royal Grotesk” for the publications of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1908,Hermann Berthold took over the Theinhardt Type Foundry and integrated “Royal”, which by then had gained considerable popularity, into his Akzidenz-Grotesk family, giving it the name “AG Mager”.

Günter Gerhard Lange, a later patron of Akzidenz-Grotesk, refers to sources which suggest that its regular font originated at Bauer & Co. in Stuttgart in 1899, a short time after which Bauer was bought by H. Berthold AG. Berthold itself had presented an Accidenz-Grotesk typeface in an advertisement not long before.

The signage for the New York subway system was designed by Massimo Vignelli in 1972 using a typeface called “Standard”, a follower of Akzidenz-Grotesk available in the USA at the time. (Helvetica is currently used.)

It was a great achievement of GG Lange that, during his time as artistic director at H. Berthold AG between 1966 and 1972, he managed to bring the differing branches of Akzidenz-Grotesk together into one harmonious family for use in phototypesetting. This brought AG enthusiastic new devotees. And for many it remains their one true typographical love, against which no other typeface stands a chance.

Günter Gerhard Lange at TYPO Berlin in 1999 (Photo: Marc Eckardt)

NY MOMA art data base

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:33:20 +0800

a great online database for search on modern art theories and activities.

Video

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:37:27 +0800

Video

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:52:32 +0800

The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One)

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:00:19 +0800

The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One)

Practicing What We Preach : Leading with Empathy

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:07:00 +0800

Practicing What We Preach : Leading with Empathy

A New Tool for UI prototype: Maquetta

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:11:19 +0800

Interesting new tool to try for making UI mock-ups after Adobe Muse trial version expired.

Maqetta is an open source technology initiative at Dojo Foundation that provides WYSIWYG tooling in the cloud for HTML5 (desktop and mobile). Maqetta allows User Experience Designers (UXD) to perform drag/drop assembly of live UI mockups.

One of Maqetta’s key design goals is to create developer-ready UI mockups that promote efficient hand-off from designers to developers. The user interfaces created by Maqetta are real-life web applications that can be handed off to developers, who can then transform the application incrementally from UI mockup into final shipping application. While we expect the Maqetta-created mockups often will go through major code changes, Maqetta is designed to promote preservation of visual assets, particularly the CSS style sheets, across the development life cycle. As a result, the careful pixel-level styling efforts by the UI team will carry through into the final shipping application. To help with the designer/developer hand-off, Maqetta includes a “download into ZIP” feature to create a ZIP image that can be imported into a developer tool workspace (e.g., Eclipse IDE).
Maqetta includes:

Skeuomorphism in app design

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:26:37 +0800

Skeuomorphic design is a controversial topic amongst designers with one side arguing it is merely decoration and a trend with a high potential to date, whilst the other side argue it adds a level of comfort and results in a more user-friendly and engaging design.

但是蘋果自己的 calendar app 上頭的那一排縫線，真的是很多餘，既沒有增加主標題的辨識度，也與內容沒有任何關係，感覺就像是拿一條花紋紙膠帶無故的貼在那裡。

Chinese Typographic design: Start of Winter...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:16:52 +0800

Chinese Typographic design:

Start of Winter 「立冬」。

moretong:

typo design for voicer.me

michalva: Cute coffee gif by Steffen Lyhne.

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:16:10 +0800

michalva:

Cute coffee gif by Steffen Lyhne.

“good design …is innovative…makes a product useful…is...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:29:11 +0800

“good design

…is innovative
…makes a product useful
…is aesthetic
…helps a product to be understood
…is unobtrusive
…is honest
…is durable
…is thorough to the last detail
…is concerned with the environment
…is as little design as possible”

-Dieter Rams

"and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:32:02 +0800

“and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

- R. Forst

minimalmovieposters: 100 Years of Paramount Pictures by...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:05:17 +0800

minimalmovieposters:

100 Years of Paramount Pictures by Gallery1988

Follow the click-through link to see close-up. See how many films you can recognise!

enochliew: Kowloon Walled City A Japanese team was able to...

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:42:21 +0800

enochliew:

Kowloon Walled City

A Japanese team was able to document the city in cross-section before it was demolished in 1993.

Design Bookstore: Gestalten Space

Tue, 08 May 2012 06:12:57 +0800

Gestalten Space

Sophie-Gips-Höfe
Sophienstraße 21

10178 Berlin

一間設計出版社，

店裡一部分陳列書籍與設計商品，

另一部分則擴為藝廊空間。

今日展出日本Tokyo ADC Award，

新穎的手法，

衝擊參觀者視覺感官，
隔日，影像仍然在腦中繚繞著。