Responsive web design tricks and tips

Designing for multiple devices requires an obsessive focus on details, clear information architecture, and new layout methods.

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Seven Digital Design Resources

Great list of design resources.

1: Canva – Canva is a one-and-done web app that removes the complicated parts from digital design. The drag and drop interface makes it easy to improve images or photos and the extensive range of templates makes it easy for anyone to create anything from magazine covers to hero images in a matter of minutes. Canva may not make you a design expert overnight, but you’ll certainly be able to fool (almost) everyone.

2: Screenpatterns – Good luck trying to find inspiration for apps or responsive designs without maxing out your cell phone’s data plan! Screenpatterns is the mobile designer’s dream site, aggregating mobile interfaces from almost every app and organizing them by type and style. Want to know how Pokémon Go details maps without having to actually search for Pokémon? Look no further.

3: Sketch Tricks – Sketch is an essential wireframing tool for UX designers, great for building interfaces, websites, icons, and plenty more. Naturally, Sketch Tricks’ newsletter serves up a weekly batch of essential plugins, advance techniques, and shortcuts that will make you a Sketch power user in no time.

4: Font Awesome – Need scalable vector icons that are easy to tweak? Font Awesome includes over 600 icons in its font base, all scalable, all customizable in CSS. Even more amazing: Installing the whole package takes only a single line of code.

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14-Foot Sculpture Displays Larger-Than-Life Selfies

The time and effort that goes into making a single umbrella is breathtaking.

Adobe Stock | A Bounty of Inspiration Just for You!

Give your projects a seasonal touch with an Adobe Stock collection for fall. With so many images, graphics, videos, templates, and 3D assets available inside your Adobe Creative Cloud apps, you’ll always find the perfect one. Try Adobe Stock now for free.

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Paint swirl our way into creating a vivid universe

Paint-swirl our way into creating a vivid universe for Sherwin Williams in this behind the scenes peek!

Watch the actual commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrNEIika_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcsFrsTI-7g&feature=youtu.be

Think Advertising Is Easy? These Entry-Level Kids Learn the Brutal Truth (NSFW)

Kids getting into advertising are so gung-ho.

They’re ready to win their first Cannes Lion as junior creatives and ride that train to a creative director job within a year. Soon, they’ll be making the big money—and not having to actually work very much at all.

If that’s your plan, Zulu Alpha Kilo would like to have a word with you. A number of words, actually, many of which will be curse words. And they’ll be yelled right in your spoiled, rotten face. Because your untalented ass doesn’t know the reality of advertising.

For the brutal truth, check out the video below. NSFW due to language.

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Eight Design Trends Taking Over 2017

Modern design trends are just as much defined by what has happened as they are by what’s about to happen. Even when the best designs become mainstream, there’s a huge opportunity to take them to the next level.

 2017 has started off by slowly drifting away from the stoic design trends of minimalism, monochromatic layouts, and the omnipresent flat design. Instead, there are bright colors, bold shapes, playful gradients, and unique illustrations that bring some much needed depth and dynamics to designs that have grown all too familiar.  

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Jim Carrey: I Needed Color

James Niehues, the “Michelangelo of snow” – Map Design

His popularity among skiers is as high as the snowcapped mountains he draws. James Niehues’ handpainted images and detailed landscapes have been featured on ski resort maps across the country. If you’ve ever relied on a trail map to get down a mountain, chances are you have Niehues to thank. Serena Altschul visits with the artist at Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado to test his work.