Jamie Le Souef

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According to the folks over at MacRumours, Adobe will be holding a webcast to announce Creative Suite 4, there next-generation graphic design, video editing, and web development application package, on September 23rd.

There has been no details released about the webcast, only a sign up form that can be viewed here.

It is expected at the webcast that Adobe will be announcing the release date, package options, and pricing for Creative Suite 4.

Post Tags : Adobe, Creative Suite, Design, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop
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I stumbled upon Dieter Rams 10 design principles of good design a while ago and I constantly refer to back to them so i thought I would share them with the you. If you don’t know who Dieter Rams is a quick Google search will amaze you and defiantly bring you up to speed on one of the pioneers of modern design.

Here are the

01. Good design is innovative.
It does not copy existing product forms, nor does it produce any kind of novelty just for the sake of it. The essence of innovation must be clearly seen in all of a product’s functions. Current technological development keeps offering new chances for innovative solutions.

02. Good design makes a product useful.
The product is bought or used in order to be used. It must serve a defined purpose — in both primary and additional functions. The most important task of design is to optimize the utility of a product’s usability.

03. Good design is aesthetic.
The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful.

04. Good design helps us to understand a product.
It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.

05. Good design is unobtrusive.
Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user’s self-expression.

06. Good design is honest.
It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it normally is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

07. Good design has longevity.
It does not follow trends that become outdated after a short time. Well designed products differ significantly from short-lived trivial products in today’s throwaway society.

08. Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Nothing must be arbitrary. Thoroughness and accuracy in the design process shows respect toward the user.

09. Good design is concerned with the environment.
Design must make contributions toward a stable environment and sensible raw material situation. This does not only include actual pollution, but also visual pollution and destruction of our environment.

10. Good design is as little design as possible.
Less is better — because it concentrates on the essential aspects and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity!

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Forms have always been the way you interact with a website and they are often overlooked when it comes to deisgn. Windows designers forgetting to think how a form might look in OS X, and OS X users might forget to think about how a form might look in XP or Vista.

Styling your forms can be a great way to overcome this and many other issues (including just dam ugly forms!). Noupe has put together a list of over 40 CSS and Javascript techniques for creating beautiful and functional web forms.

[Read : Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques]

Post Tags : CSS, Design, Forms, JavaScript, Web
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Dzineblog has put together a great list of inspirational logos - 54 to be exact! Below I’ve posted my the 6 that i think really stand out. Hit the link after the logos for the full 54 list.

Logo Design Inspiration: 54 Creative Logos Hand-picked From Logopond

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If you haven’t already seen this then I’m sure you’ll be amazed! Marco Weskamp’s algorithm behind it creates a constantly changing mosaic of what the word is talking about.

Addictive and defiantly worth checking out!

newsmap.

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Visit the Unique Gifts Experience website

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Learning a new technology can be a daunting task and working out where to begin can be a nitemare. I’ve been considering learning AJAX and using a Javascript library, such as Prototype, jQuery or Mootools.

At this stage I’ve decided to use jQuery for not many reasons apart from that fact that I know it’s used within Wordpress.

In my search for somewhere to start I found a great article on Nettues.

If your interested check the article out at Nettuens

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Post Tags : CSS, Design, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Wordpress, xhtml
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LOVEPIXEL

This just has to been seen to believe! It’s like “Where’s Wally” for pixel art!

There is no artist name that I can find, so if you know who’s made this amazing artwork, please comment so I can post the artists name.

WARNING: Will take quite a while to load, on dial-up? Don’t bother - 25 x 2000px x 2000x PNG’s

Post Tags : Art, Design, Image, PNG
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