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Mediaslap
We’ve been working feverishly on our latest Departika project, Mediaslap—A website providing “Photoshop Brushes of the Highest Standard” to designers, scrapbookers, photographers, agencies and do-it-yourselfers. Mediaslap sells Photoshop brushes created by our team and hand-selected artists from around the world. We are launching the first version at the end of June and plan on expanding quickly to include tools that provide value for the contributing artists and community. We plan to listen and learn from the artists and consumers, apply what we learn to the site, and refine it to become the best resource possible for finding and licensing Photoshop brushes.
Please sign up for Mediaslap updates by submitting your email in the form below. We’ll let you know the day it launches. In the meantime, above is a screen from the new site.
Authentic Jobs
Even though we are not hiring at the moment, we enjoy meeting and connecting with like minded individuals so don’t hesitate to give us a ring to chat. If you are looking for a full-time gig, freelance work, or are wanting to hire a rock-star, take notice of the Authentic Jobs listings in the blog sidebar. Authentic Jobs is powered by Cameron Moll, they help employers find top-notch web professionals and web professionals find top notch jobs. If you are job hunting check out the listings. If your company is looking to hire, we recommend posting a job at Authentic Jobs to reach web professionals everywhere. Happy hunting.
Question Your Work
We are big fans of 37 Signals and their philosophy of ”Getting Real” and keeping things simple. It has relevance and value in aspects of planning, strategy, creativity and business beyond on-line product development. Keeping things simple sometimes falls along the wayside, resulting in a long fall into a hole of mediocrity, confusion and the death of a good idea.
Jason Fried reminds us of a few basic and fundamental questions to stay on track and “keep it real”. Ask yourself these questions when making decisions and many times the simple path will reveal itself as the logical option to provide a better outcome for everyone. As Fried says, “At the end of the day it’s all about making the right decisions about the right things at the right time.” Read the full posts for the details. and a full recap of Jason Fried’s SXSW presentation is here.
We are Lightboxing at Veer
Veer asked one lucky Departikan to be a featured fighter in their next round of Lightboxing. What is Lightboxing you ask? “Two designers are invited to create designs based on a particular theme, from products in a lightbox. The lightbox contains images and/or typefaces, chosen by the Veer creative team. The rules are simple: make something great, crop, cut, paste, use filters and fight dirty. Make a knockout design and the judges choose a winner using a completely subjective scoring system.” We say bring it on.
Stay tuned for more info on who’s in our corner, the fight date and the details. In the meantime you can head over and check out past bouts here.
The Web Development Process
Ping Mag points us to a very clever and useful presentation. It is a rather older post but I just discovered it. It’s an overview of the basic web develoment process using a series of toys. Ping May says, “The photo’s are a series of photos shot for a client presentation, detailing the website design and development process in a manner that was easily understandable and also fun to look at.” The article takes you through that process, using the same photos. Check it out, it could come in handy.
Web Design Survey
A List Apart has conducted a fairly large survey of web designers and professionals. I’m just starting to dig through the findings before I make any judgements, but so far it’s fairly impressive. They are providing the raw data as well to make your own conclusions.In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted the first survey of people who make websites.
Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.33,000 responses is a lot of data. To make sense of it, An Event Apart commissioned statisticians Alan Brickman and Larry Yu to translate raw data into meaningful findings. Here we present what they found. Read more and download the findings for yourself.
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Lost and Taken
Free textures to be used on your commercial or personal design.
50 Designers Favorite Typefaces
How Many Designers Does It Take to Choose a Typeface?
Mechatronic Installation by ART+COM
Video is a bit slow at the start, but stick around it's worth it.
Netdiver ToolBox
List of design resources: books, fonts, image stocks, magazines, usability and more.
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Valuable source of wisdom on everything from Photoshop to XML to Dreamweaver.
