The 2009 Good Design awards have been presented. Have a look at them.
They’re great and all, but none of them are as interesting as the ones that Pink Tentacle’s camera wielder snapped. Like this one with the urinals.
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Adobe Kuler
I’m terrible with color. Terrible. So I intend to try to improve a little by coloring the cover images for the next season of Q-Burger. And one of the tools I’m going to use is Adobe’s free web-based Kuler (they pronounce it “cooler”).
Designers can browse thousands of color themes created by the Kuler community; including the ability to search for color themes by tags, themes, hex color, and more. So searching for spring will likely bring up a list of bright and cheery color combos appropriate for that flower landscaping brochure you’re working on.
But it doesn’t stop there. Users can also create new themes based on colors in an existing image you upload from your desktop. Once you’ve found a color scheme you like, you can rate it, add it to your favorites, export it as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file for use in any Adobe Creative Suite app, or add it directly to your CS4 app Swatches panel. You do so with a simple drop-down menu in the Kuler panel next to the swatch name.
I’ve already used it a bit on some web projects, but not extensively. I think it might be a pretty useful crutch for we color-confused folk.
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Baseline: Because I need all the design help I can get
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a website and grew up to become a full typographic framework for the web using “real” baseline grid as its foundation.
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Baseline (via 43 Folders Clips)
