Sunday 10 January 2010

New Year - Good times!

Happy New Year and That!

Second years, see you at the end of the week. Be impressive.

Here be links -

Full of design resources - Lorem Ipsum generator, binding information, web banner sizes and browser safe areas, and so on. Mad useful, yo.

Lovely time-saving keyboard shortcut 'cheat sheets'.

This season's colours, according to Pantone.

Using the internet for fun and games - there's the odd design-related bit, but it's the vengeful creativity that gets me. Happy days.

Animated goodness - 3D cell-shaded dystopian nightmare with pencil marks as texture detail.

And finally:
This has been bugging me for years, and might possibly be the most useful Illustrator thing you'll read all year. Or week. Or day.

I liked it.

Monday 4 January 2010

TODAY




TODAY is a weekly jewel box of seemingly random, yet thoughtfully selected, images. At times tender, wicked, nostalgic, amusing, and dazzling, each edition is presented without narration, editing or explanation by its author, designer Eric Baker. "It all began as a goof. One day I sent a good friend about 50 random pictures of cheese. I don't know why, but to me cheese is funny, perhaps it is the word itself and its various connotations. Eventually I began looking closer, or should I say broader at 'things'. Things lost on the fringes...ordinary, odd, beautiful things. Esoteric images, old diagrams, typography, cartography — visions of a once promising but now extinct future."