Whether you are working on a web or print project, chances are you will be in need of accurate CMYK or RGB color palettes/schemes. If you are looking for good free color scheme programs or apps on the internet, you might find my article 6 amazing color palette tools for digital designers useful.
Now there is a very interesting product that places an abundance of color options on your desktop. ColorSchemer Studio 2 for MAC is not free but is powerful enough to be a commercial product. The program integrates the existing million+ color palettes found on COLOURlovers.com and can be easily accessed without leaving your desktop. You can build, edit, manage, download, create, and search color palettes from one location. The licensing remains at $49.99 and discounted upgrade licenses are also available for registered users of ColorSchemer Studio v1.x for $29.99. [click to continue…]
Vint Cerf talks about cloud computing, interplanetary internet, and controversial privacy issues in a video from FORA.tv. What was science fiction ten years ago is now reality today. More mobile devices are connecting to the internet than ever before. Cloud computing is the next great thing as we learn how to teach clouds to communicate with each other. Vint discuses how the new Obama administration is effecting the overall outcome of the internet. Will it benefit from the new administration? Privacy and regulation of internet service providers is talked about in great detail. [click to continue…]
Chances are, you have probably heard of or use Pandora.com. I use Pandora monthly because I ran out of interesting music. Pandora is a great tool for discovering new music as well. Tim Westergren is the founder of Pandora and in this video Tim talks about the future of music on the internet and how the music industry is changing. He also talks about Pandora’s place in the evolving world of music and technology. The video below is from CNNMoney.
As most designers, I have a huge collection of music that I play over and over to help motivate me when designing and blogging. I was watching television yesterday when I saw a new Nike commercial. The song used in it had awesome lyrics and I had to find out what song it was. The commercial is called “The Human Chain” and you can watch it here. I did some searching for the song and found it too on youtube. I have embedded the music video below. Let me know if you enjoy it as much as me
Looking for inspiration I found several videos via youtube that demonstrate the capabilities of programs like Photoshop and Corel Painter to create stunning illustrations and realistic portraits. Most of the artists are using some type of drawing tablet like a Wacom Pen Tablet. A lot of effort went into these drawings and it definitely shows. Each video is fairly short in duration and worth the view! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! [click to continue…]
I am getting ready to do some logo re-designs for current and future web projects and the first thing I am starting with is my personal logo. What makes a succesful logo? How can a logo help brand your company or blog? There are a lot of critical steps involved in designing a logo and with those steps come a great deal of questions to consider before designing one. The bottom line is you need to do a great deal of research and brainstorming before starting. Read further as I go into basic strategies and list some excellent resources you can get started with. [click to continue…]
Managing all of your twitter accounts for multiple blogs can be a challenge. Fortunately there are a lot of applications available to make life easier. I have searched the web to find a list of the best resources for managing multiple twitter accounts for your multiple blogs or web sites. If you are trying to brand multiple companies or blogs then these tools will help you organize your tweets and followers: [click to continue…]
Searching for a way to keep track of your twitter statistics, gain future predictions on followers, or view your twitter rank? Then you need to check out the free service called Twitter Counter. This free service offers a great way to track all of your tweets, followers, and creates a nice graph that displays all the data you need. My favorite feature is the “Prediction” statistic. Based on your current twitter stats, it tells you how many followers you might have in the next week or month. In fact, you can input any amount of days to see the result. [click to continue…]
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to create stunning illustrations and realistic portraits. Most of the artists are using some type of drawing tablet like a 
. A lot of effort went into these drawings and it definitely shows. Each video is fairly short in duration and worth the view! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! 
