Whether you want to make writing your career or just want to know how to improve your writing so that you can pass your college courses, there is plenty of reading material out there to help you get inspired and hone your skills. Here’s a collection of titles that will instruct you on just about [...]
Visual communication is a tricky endeavor, because it involves a language that is only partially understood as well as mysterious and complex brain processes. We have a lot of ideas about how visual communication works, but some are assumptions based on intuition, misinformation or lack of it. Here are a few.
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In 101 uses of a quadratic equation: Part I in issue 29 of Plus we took a look at quadratic equations and saw how they arose naturally in various simple problems. In this second part we continue our journey. We shall soon see how the humble quadratic makes its appearance in many different and [...]
Photoshop has been a mainstay of the design software pantheon for over 20 years, and it remains a great tool for pro artists and social media customizers alike.
But the sophisticated image editor has a daunting learning curve. With so many tools, features, and concepts to get a hold of, new users can be discouraged by [...]
From Demi Moore’s pregnant naked picture to Obama in a Muslim attire, meet some of the most shocking magazine covers of all time.
Image editing is a technique widely used by designers everywhere to further enhance the image’s output. Tools in manipulating, enhancing, and transforming images are vastly utilized for designing purposes. One common tool for such a process is, of course, the Photoshop, by which many designers turn to for editing purposes. In this next post, we [...]
Css3 have a capacity to revolutionize the way we design/develop website. css3 is intoducing loads of new and exciting features. Most of the browsers such as Firefox, Safari already support some of the CSS3 properties
It is essential today for a web designer to know about CSS3 and there are many tutorials and resources for the [...]
From speaking to cats, to surviving a robot uprising, you can learn pretty much anything with the proper book.
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As a user nothing can be more frustrating than waiting for a site to load. So when I saw a video near the end of 2009 I was excited to see that Google would be taking site speed into consideration, giving credit to sites that load fast and penalizing those that load slowly. I have [...]
In programming, regular expressions are a very useful tool designed to validate, search, and match text patterns. In this article, I have compiled more than 10 incredibly useful regular expressions, for any language, that will probably be very beneficial to you.
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35 Awesome and Inspiring “Movie-Effect” Photoshop Tutorials
We live in a disposable world, but just because things weren’t meant to last doesn’t mean you can’t make them last. These 10 tips and tricks will help you squeeze more life from your batteries, appliances, flowers, razor blades and more.
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[ Competition: This list contains a competition, see the first comment for details.] This is another list of human endeavors but it covers ten of the most important aspects of human life through all history – it is not specifically modern, or ancient.
