Building Radiohead’s House of Cards This is the story of how the Grammy-nominated music video for Radiohead's "House of Cards" was created entirely with data.
Interview: Troika Design Studios The London-based Troika design studio works with graphic design, product design, technology development, sculptural projects and interactive installations.
James Joyce: From Spark to Phoenish The authors of the recently released Everyman’s Joyce provide a highly visual way to engage the work of James Joyce.
Create a Natural Media Brush in Photoshop Learn how to build a brush in Photoshop, with a natural media-type tip that simulates watercolor, complete with “wet” edges.
Social Media: Fostering Creativity Online Tamar Weinberg provides six viral strategies to create authentic online relationships and succeed in the social media marketplace.
Creative Print Styles with Photoshop Digital coloring in Photoshop means you can have infinite control over the toning process of your images. Tim Daly shows us how.
My.BarackObama.com: Keep it Local. Keep it Real Rahaf Harfoush provides an inside view of Obama's official social network, my.barackobama.com, which was at the heart of the campaign’s new media strategy.
Gary Baseman's Sketchbook Timothy O'Donnell takes a look at the sketchbooks of Gary Baseman, which teem with writings and drawings of his trademark characters.
How to Get Paid for Your Flickr Photos A little bit of care can go a very long way towards standing out on Flickr and putting your images in front of buyers.
Creativity on a Budget Steve Gordon Jr. points out that freelance designers offer potential clients the very real bonus of great creative work at affordable prices.
Print Production Fundamentals: Trapping Sandee Cohen provides the basic facts of trapping, along with a couple of suggestions for how to avoid the need for it.
The Wide Open Brief This is about the rare occasion when a design studio is free to write its own brief, and solve a problem according to its own rules.
The Designful Company: Take-Home Lessons
According to Marty Neumeier, good design does not depend so much on the eye of the beholder, but on a combination of aesthetics and ethics.
Masking Translucent Objects in Photoshop As Deke McClelland demonstrates, unlike masking hair and most details, masking glass is a matter not of selecting edges but of balancing highlights and shadows.
Create a Simple Water Reflection in Photoshop There's the hard way and then there's the simple way. Scott Kelby shows how to create a convincing reflection effect in just a few clicks.
Twitter for Business: Special Considerations and Ideas The biggest mistake companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information. Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein show how to do Twitter right.
Effective Web Site Design Briefs To receive a detailed brief from a client, you need to help them out a little. Elliot Jay Stock provides some essential pointers.
Creating Patterns with the Deco Tool in Flash The Deco tool is several tools in one; Vine Fill, Grid Fill and Symmetry Brush, all providing ways to quickly create patterns that would otherwise be too time consuming to design manually.
Add Life to Your Static Web Pages Want to bring dynamic life to your static web pages? Lynn Beighley and Michael Morrison show how using PHP and MySQL.
The Top Ten Photography Tips of All Time There’s a lot to learn about photography. To make things easier, David Pogue provides a collection of the top tricks from his recent book.
The Scent of Information and Landing Pages Shari Thurow and Nick Musica show how a site's landing page can contribute to a great user experience, more sales and conversions, and a positive brand impact.
Illustrator Fundamentals: Live Paint David Karlins provides the fundamentals of Live Paint, which presents another mode for creating and editing objects in Illustrator.
Creating Retro Art Effects in Photoshop In this tutorial, Derek Lea provides a series of advanced Photoshop techniques for evoking the golden age of vintage commercial artwork.
Improving Midtone Contrast with Photoshop Normal contrast adjustments affect the image globally. Martin Evening provides two alternative techniques to add presence to your images.
One- and Two-color Package Design John Drew and Sarah Meyer point out that as an underutilized marketing strategy for high-end design, one- and two-color package design can create striking visual separation on the shelf.
Choosing and Using Paper: Pushing the Boundaries Keith Stephenson and Mark Hampshire demonstrate the versatility of paper and breadth of materials and paper-finishing techniques available to today’s designer.
Lighting Enhancement in Photoshop Dan Moughamian and Scott Valentine provide techniques to control visual focus and balance, and add drama to photographs.
Photoshop Sharpening Essentials Scott Kelby hasn't met a digital camera (or scanned) photo that he didn’t think needed a little sharpening, and accordingly shares his techniques.
Replacing a Sky in Photoshop Mark Galer and Philip Andrews show how a sky can be adapted to fit the landscape so the montage is not immediately obvious.
Bringing New Grids to Web Design Andy Clarke points out that grids can inspire a wide variety of site designs that present information in a structured way.
