Are you a print designer, photographer, fine-artist, or general creative person? Do you have a shitty website that you slapped together yourself in Dreamweaver in that ONE web design class that you took in college? Do you not have a site at all because you’ve been waiting two years for your cousin to put it together for you? Well, we’re here to help. We know that you have little to no desire to do web design professionally, but that doesn’t mean that you want an ugly cookie-cutter site or to settle for one that hasn't been updated since Hackers was in theaters. Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic wordpress blog and manipulate the css, html (and even some php!) to match your aesthetic. You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet and worst case scenario you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

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A collection containing hundreds of main titles from feature films from classic and recent films

The goal of the Fluid Interfaces research group is to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive we are changing the human-machine relationship and creating systems that are more responsive to people's needs and actions, and that become true "accessories" for expanding our minds.

Too often I notice designers and non-designers alike equating creativity with design. I find this assumption disturbing because it is one of the many fallacies that allow unskilled but creative pretenders to consider themselves capable design professionals when they’re nothing of the sort.

Creativity is not design. Creativity has nothing to do with design. Creativity is bound by no laws, rules, or strictures. Design, on the other hand, is based entirely on math, psychology, human perception, and a host of rigid rules and laws that can be broken by only a highly skilled few. Those unfamiliar with these laws and rules, and the associated sciences are by no definition designers.

To help illustrate the difference between creativity and design, I’ve put together a little quiz that references some of the fundamentals of design—and not creativity. Those steeped in creativity, but not design, will be lost. Those competent in design fundamentals will find this stuff to be elementary.

Bestiario is a small Barcelona/Lisbon based company, which was founded two years ago. We are dedicated to data dynamic representation and to the creation of digital spaces for the collective creation of knowledge. Our slogan is: 'making the complex comprehensible.' We combine art and science to design and create interactive information spaces. We developed a powerful framework based on graph theory, topological algorithms, physic models, geometrical and geographical representations. [via dgray]

Space is important in layout. Space can be created by content, such as text, images, lists, logos etc, or it can be created by the space in-between content, called negative space, or whitespace. Space can be passive; a by-product of the layout process. Or, it can be active; there for a reason, to guide the user’s eye, or help them make a decision.

Nicholas Felton:Graphic designer Nicholas Felton spends much of his time thinking about data, charts and our daily routines. He is the author of several personal annual reports (2007, 2006, 2005) that collate countless measurements of his year into a rich collection of graphs and maps reflecting the travel, photography, music, food, drink and reading contained in the year.

SocialDesignSite.com is a non-profit organization that aims to foster a discourse on social design through our international online platform and the organization of and participation in projects, exhibitions, conferences, lectures, etc.

Yanko Design is a web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design, covering from industrial design, concepts, technology, interior design, architecture, exhibition and fashion. It’s about the cutting edge and the classic, the new and the rediscovered. It’s all about the best.

Welcome to PureAustrianDesign – Austria's window to the international and national design community

In this tutorial you'll learn some helpful tricks and methods to improve your design techniques and modeling skills using Pro/ENGINEER.

We'll cover Advanced Geometry topics ranging from variable section sweeps to advanced patterns and warp features.

Let us start at the beginning – UXD starts with experience – experience of the users. And so I will talk about the users first.

(Ph.D. Dissertation)

In order to create a product that works, there are seven questions you should keep in mind about the product you’re designing, who will be using it, and how they’ll be using it.

As I learned these rules, I began to think about how many of these would be useful to keep in mind when building and designing a product.

No matter what you call them; ebook, white paper, or resource they all contain information that no designer should go without. (In actuality there are more than 30 files however it was a good round number for the title…)

The Art of Insight and Action

about the role of futures in our experience design work. Design is an inherently futurist activity — planning and sketching things that don’t yet exist. We’ve begun to engage directly with futurist notions in our work, whether it’s tangible future

The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design

create your own crest and show the world what are you are made of.

When infant eyes absorb a world of virgin visions, colors are processed purely, in a pre-linguistic parts of the brain. As adults, colors are processed in the brain's language centers, refracted by the concepts we have for them.

Read about the different types of logo designs here and learn what principles and techniques are used to create them. Discover what the future holds for logo design!

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Sometimes it’s needed to go look in odd places to find inspiration. Take patterns for example, often used for backgrounds etc.

ssuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, documents, and stuff you'd normally find on print. It's the place where YOU become the publisher. Upload a document, it's fast, easy, and totally FREE.

Edward Tufte video about iPhone

Information graphics reveal the hidden, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure. Constructing visual representation of information is not mere translation of what can be read to what can be seen.

Victor Lomabrdi keynote talk at the 2007 IA Konferenz in Stuttgart, Germany

Журнал для дизайнеров. Online magazine for designers.

AIGA, the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.

children design their laptop

design, writing, pictures

In an economy where style is king, we all need to start thinking and acting more like design.

COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. The COLOURlovers™ community is regularly updated with information and examples of the way colors are used in the real world

Tufte principle: "Simple design, intense content."

This is an outline of Edward Tufte's pioneering work on the use of graphics to display quantitative information

The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.

This paper suggests ways to design management reports that are clear, beautiful, and useful. I