Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Wield Typography


The ability to wield typography is one of those things that is a clear indication of a talented designer. Being able to craft type well and thoughtfully takes a deep understanding of the inherent complexities and a keen eye for the minute and subtle details. This book contains a collection of 1,000 instances of thoughtful type usage along with credits that note what fonts were used in the design. Like its predecessor, 1,000 Graphic Elements, the photography in this book focuses in on the typography so readers can get an up-close look at the work.

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UU Design!


The UU Challenge is a really interesting contest where 10 chosen artists were asked to create their own vision of the UU, in adition to that, they open the challenge to young designers around the world so the best 40 entries will be competing agaisnt the ten chosen artists and to make it even more interesting, they will have one representative that will create an image as well for the grand final. In the end, the 51 finalists and their works will be compiled into a book.

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Architecture By Guillermo Hevia


The Nestlé Social Block is located in Graneros, Chile. Designed by the Chilean office GH+A / Guillermo Hevia, the building was planned over a variety of climates strategies and racional usage of energy sources. The way that the plans were composed, allowing the air to circulate between the walls, the natural control of lightening and the clean and elegant lines, are only some elements that make the project an example of century 21's architecture.

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Creating Realistic USB Cable Using Photoshop


In the right hands, Photoshop’s pen tool can be a very powerful tool for creating incredible; even photo realistic images. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to draw a photo realistic USB cable in Photoshop.

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3D Tomato Creation Using Illustrator


If you’re reasonably familiar with Illustrator’s Pen tool and other path-drawing, selection, and colour tools, you can use the Gradient Mesh feature to add realistic colouring, lighting, and 3D characteristics to a flat vector object. Ultimately, gradient mesh can give you the effect of photo-realistic painting with all the benefits and freedom of resolution-independent vector artwork.

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21 Professional Break Dancing Steps


Break dancing poses can give energy to any portrait photos. These poses are great for showing the models physical appearance and the clothes they wear. Here are some examples of break dancing poses used in the studio and outdoors.

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JQuery ThickBox


ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

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JQuery Color Picker


Farbtastic is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript. Each widget is then linked to an existing element (e.g. a text field) and will update the element's value when a color is selected.

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JQuery Image Slider


Carousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).

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JQuery Image Cycle


Rather than have transitions occur on a timer you can choose to have transitions occur in response to a click event. The prev and next options are used to identify the elements which should be the triggers for prev/next transitions. When used in conjuction with timeout = 0 the effect is a manual slideshow. The values for prev and next can be a DOM element or any valid jQuery selection string.

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JQuery Inner Fade

InnerFade is a small plugin for the jQuery-JavaScript-Library. It's designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.

These elements could be anything you want, e.g. images, list-items, divs. Simply produce your own slideshow for your portfolio or advertisings. Create a newsticker or do an animation.

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JQuery Image Gallery


The jQuery jqGalView Plugin allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. It allows you to style it how ever you want and add as many images at you want.

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JQuery Image Zoomer

JQZoom allows you to realize a small magnifier window close to the image or images on your web page easily.
I decided to build this jQuery plugin to embed detailed big images in my B2B.
Now in few steps you can have your jQZoom in your website,eCommerce or whatever you want.
The new release of jQZoom has come,full featured and really improved so it has taken the name of:JQZOOM EVOLUTION.

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Basic JQuery Tabs



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CSS and JQuery Drop Down Menu Bar



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CSS and JQuery Navigation Menu Bar


Unordered List with anchors and nested lists. Title 2 also demonstrates how to add a second level list.
Take a look at the source code to see how easy it's done!

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LavaLamp Menu Bar


In a recent web application I was working on, I had a need for the “Ctrl + S” hotkey to save an entry to the database. Being a an avid jquery fan, I immediately searched the plugin repository for any plugin that fits the bill. I was not very surprised to find a very comprehensive jshotkeys plugin. It was feature rich and addressed all the requirements for hotkeys in a jquery powered application and obviously my requirement was fulfilled as well.

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